“Something for every mystery taste. An excellent value for the money.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“The first 50 pages of this giant volume are packed with valuable and fascinating material–and you haven’t even gotten to the stories yet. . . . As for the stories, they literally provide something for every mystery taste.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) on The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: Second Annual Collection

“Veteran anthologists Gorman and Greenberg have pulled out all the stops in an ambitious attempt to produce the definitive yearbook of the short mystery. . . . Indeed the biggest mystery is how a single year could have produced a bumper crop of so many outstanding tales.” —Kirkus Reviews on The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: Second Annual Collection