Best detective stories of the year by Brett Halliday, Theodore Sturgeon, Ross Macdonald, Douglas Farr, Jack Ritchie, Paul M. Fitzsimmons, Richard Deming, Craig Rice, Michael Zuroy, Bruno Fischer, Herbert D. Kastle, Robert Bloch, Miriam Allen deFord, Stephen Marlowe, Steve O'Connell, Mack Reynolds, Henry Slesar, Davis Dresser | Lex | Lex