The World's Finest Mystery... (137 page)

Magnolias and Mayhem
.

 

 

"The Third Manny" by Terrence Faherty,
EQMM,
February.

 

 

"The Fading Woman" by Ed Hoch,
EQMM,
April.

 

 

"Blue Wolf" by John M. Floyd,
AHMM,
February.

 

 

"The Christmas Mitzvah" by Doug Allyn,
EQMM,
December.

 

 

"My Best Fred McMurray" by Rob Kantner,
AHMM,
October.

 

 

"Widow's Peak" by Rochelle Krich,
Unholy Orders
.

 

 

"The Unborn" by Serita Stevens,
Nefarious
.

 

 

"The Consul's Wife" by Steven Saylor,
Crime Through Time 3
.

 

 

"Porkpie Hat" by Peter Straub,
Magic Terror
.

 

 

"Missolonghi" by Walter Satterthwait,
AHMM,
October.

 

 

"Booger" by Beverly Brackett,
Handheld Crime
.

 

 

"Lark in the Morning" by Sharyn McCrumb,
Crime Through Time 3
.

 

 

"Smoke" by William Sanders,
Crime Through Time 3
.

 

 

 

About the Editors

Ed Gorman has been called "one of suspense fiction's best storytellers" by
Ellery Queen
, and "one of the most original voices in today's crime fiction" by the
San Diego Union
.

 

 

Gorman has been published in magazines as various as
Redbook, Ellery Queen, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
, and
Poetry Today
.

 

 

He has won numerous prizes, including the Shamus, the Spur, and the International Fiction Writer's award. He's been nominated for the Edgar, the Anthony, the Golden Dagger, and the Bram Stoker awards. Former
Los Angeles Times
critic Charles Champlin noted that "Ed Gorman is a powerful storyteller."

 

 

Gorman's work has been taken by the Literary Guild, the Mystery Guild, Doubleday Book Club, and the Science Fiction Book Club.

 

 

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Martin H. Greenberg is the CEO of TEKNO•BOOKS, the book packaging division of Hollywood Media, a publicly traded multi-media entertainment company. With over 900 published anthologies and collections, he is the most prolific anthologist in publishing history. His books have been translated into thirty-three languages and adopted by twenty-five different book clubs. With Ed Gorman, he edits the 5 Star Mystery line of novels and collections for Thorndike Press, and is co-publisher of
Mystery Scene
, the leading trade journal of the mystery genre.

 

 

In the mystery and suspense field, he has worked with at least fifteen best-selling authors, including Dean Koontz, Mickey Spillane, Tony Hillerman, Robert Ludlum, and Tom Clancy.

 

 

He received the Milford Award for lifetime achievement in science fiction editing in 1989, and in April, 1995, he received the Ellery Queen Award for lifetime achievement for editing in the mystery field at the 50th Annual Banquet of the Mystery Writers of America, becoming the only person to win major editorial awards in both genres.

 

 

Dr. Greenberg received his Ph.D in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Connecticut, and was the founding chairperson of those departments at Florida International University in 1972–1975. He retired as Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Literature after a twenty-year teaching and administrative career at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay where he served as the university's first Director of Graduate Studies.