The world's most devious minds deliver killer mysteries.

Ed McBain spins a tale of Prohibition, gangsters and love on the run

Marcia Muller unravels the startling secrets of a bag lady's past

Sara Paretsky sets up her popular heroine V.I. Warshawski to be a fall guy

Anne Perry stages a prison break and a double cross during the French Revolution

Nancy Pickard pits a female shamus with a pistol in her DD cup against a rapist

Ruth Rendell shows how clothes can make, or break, a woman

Psychological thrillers...baffling whodunits...chilling suspense - this superb collection by today's leading mystery writers delves deep into dark hearts and twisted minds for some of the best crime stories ever. If you love mysteries, it would be a crime to miss it.