Publisher's Synopsis
"...wickedly entertaining..." BOOKLIST In this star-studded collection of previously unpublished short mysteries, award-winning editor Otto Penzler has gathered the best of the best - bestselling authors who dare to explore a deliciously chilling subject: obsession at its most insidious...Edna Buchanan's story, THE RED SHOES, is about a foot fetishist who steps into the middle of a murder...In Philip Friedman's DOG DAYS, a minor annoyance mushrooms into a major crime...An academic obsessed by a priceless artefact plots a deadly course of seduction in Elizabeth George's historical mystery 'I, RICHARD'...
