Edited with an introduction by Bill Pronzini and Martin H. Greenberg.
New York: Walker and Company, (1987).
First edition, first printing.
"First published in the United States of America in 1987 by the Walker Publishing Company, Inc." statement and first printing number code sequence 10 through 1 to the copyright page.
Fourteen mystery stories by the selected authors--previously only printed in pulps, digests, and magazines, are collected here for the first time in an anthology.
Contributing authors comprise Stuart Palmer, Dorothy B. Hughes, James M. Cain, Ed McBain, Loren Estleman, John Jakes, John D. MacDonald, Michael Collins, Edward D. Hoch, John Lutz, Helen Nielsen, Jack Ritchie, William Campbell Gault, and Bill Pronzini.