This is a first printing of The Best American Mystery Stories 2000, edited by Donald E. Westlake and published by Houghton Mifflin in 2000.  It has been signed on the front free end page by story contributor Edward D. Hoch, and signed on the title page by editor Donald E. Westlake, series editor Otto Penzler, and story contributor Barbara D'Amato.

Contents:

Miracles! Happen! by Doug Allyn
Ghosts by David Beaty
Spring Rite by Tom Berdine
Annie's Dream by Bentley Dadmun
Motel 66 by Barbara D'Amato
Jumping With Jim by Geary Danihy
Triangle by Jeffrey Deaver
The Instruments of Peace by Edward Falco
Grit by Tom Franklin
Compass Rose by David Edgerley Gates
The Defenestration of Aba Sid by Robert Girardi
The Island in the River by Chad Holley
ICU by Edward Lee
Running Out of Dog by Dennis Lehane
Sheep by Thomas H. McNeely
Dead Rock Singer by Martha Moffett
Wrong Numbers by Josh Pryor
The Guilty Party by Shel Silverstein
Forgetting the Girl by Peter Moore Smith
Water Dog God by Brad Watson

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