New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An annual anthology which collects stories by some of today's best crime writers - including Michael Connelly, Sean Doolittle, Brendan Du Bois, Joe Gores Joe R. Lansdale and Robert B. Parker, Stuart Kaminsky, Joyce Carol Oates, Annette Meyers, Thomas H. Cook, Howard Clark, and many others. SIGNED by TWO authors at their stories: Lansdale at "The Mule Rustlers" and Oates at "The High School Sweetheart." Introduction by Ellroy. Notes on contributors and list of other distinguished stories of the year. xv, 405 pp. ISBN: 0-618124942.