Best detective stories of the year

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