The Best American Mystery Stories 2019

  Perry, Jo

  The Kick the Bucket Tour, Retreats from Oblivion: The Journal of Noircon

  Sanders, Scott Loring

  Magic 8 Ball, Unloaded, Vol. II, ed. by Eric Beetner and E. A. Aymer, Down & Out Books

  Sears, Michael

  The Honest End of Sybil Cooper, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, November/December

  Silverman, Brian

  Scotch Bonnet, Down & Out: The Magazine, vol. 1, no. 4

  Townsley, Brian

  Wicked, Wicked Rain, Black Mask, Spring

  Welsh-Huggins, Andrew

  Long Drive Home, Tough, July

  Wilson, Matthew

  Burg’s Hobby Case, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, January/February

  Wink, Callan

  Memorial, Zoetrope, Fall

  York, J. Steven

  The Distant Baying of Hounds, Pulphouse Fiction Magazine, April

  Ziskin, James W.

  Pan Paniscus, Unloaded, Vol. II, ed. by Eric Beetner and E. A. Aymer, Down & Out Books

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  About the Editors

  © Adrian Cook

  Jonathan Lethem, guest editor, is the author of eleven novels, including Motherless Brooklyn, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Macallan Gold Dagger, and his most recent, The Feral Detective. He lives in Los Angeles and Maine.

  Otto Penzler, series editor, is a renowned mystery editor, publisher, columnist, and owner of New York’s The Mysterious Bookshop, the oldest and largest bookstore solely dedicated to mystery fiction. He has edited more than sixty crime-fiction anthologies.

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