This collection is a real sensation. Ed McBain included in it the works of the most famous masters of action literature in the United States - the “king of horror” Stephen King, the “living classics” of the detective story - Donald Westlake and Lawrence Block, who has no equal among the authors of the intellectual thriller Joyce Carol Oates...And many other writers, each of whom is a phenomenon in modern detective literature. All works included in the collection were written specifically for the anthology!