Her stories crackle like few others on the mystery landscape.-San Francisco Chronicle One of the treasures of the genre.-Chicago Tribune A new collection of Marcia Mullers best short fiction from the past twenty years, including hardboiled private-eye, horror, western, and psychological suspense stories. Marcia Muller, a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master, is the author of more than twenty novels. She has been awarded the Private Eye Writers of America Life Achievement Award her books have been nominated for Best Crime Novel at the Edgars, and she has won the Anthony Boucher Award. She lives in California.,
