Greatest Hits: Original Stories of Assassins, Hitmen, and Hired Guns

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Robert J. Randisi
Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2006 - Fiction - 318 pages
Featuring standout writers of mystery and suspense like Lawrence Block, Jeffery Deaver, James W. Hall, Jeff Abbott, Max Allan Collins, and Lee Child -- all of them best-selling authors, most of them winners of Edgar or Shamus awards (or both) -- this anthology comes with a chamberful of surefire stories. Loaded with tension, charged with uncertainty, these taut tales bring their unsuspecting or hunted and fearful marks into the deadly sight of a hired killer's gun. The hit men, or women, meanwhile match their criminal wits with police detectives, seasoned private eyes, the resolute everyguy, or amateur sleuths to often unexpected and frequently startling ends.
Every one of the stories here is a hit. Each of them is craftily calibrated and written expressly for this collection, They include new work by the popular, award-winning Ed Gorman, the versatile writer-editor Robert J. Randisi, and the recipient of the first-ever Sherlock Award for best detective, John Harvey. Cunning inventive hit-list authors such as Christine Matthews, Barbara Seranella, Marcus Pelagrimas, and Kevin Wignall further ratchet up the suspense to keep "Greatest Hits" true to its name, and aim.

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About the author (2006)

Robert J. Randisi is the author of several mystery series that have appeared between 1980 and 2004. He is also the editor of more than twenty-five anthologies, including Signet collections The Shamus Game (2000), Mystery Street (2001), Most Wanted (2002), High Stakes (2003) and Murder...And All That Jazz(2004). He was also the editor of the Deadly Allies anthologies (Bantam), the Lethal Ladies anthologies (Berkeley), and the First Cases anthologies (Signet). He is the founder of the Private Eye Writers of America, the creator of the Shamus Award, and the co-founder of Mystery Scene Magazine.

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