- Thou shalt not kill, biblical mystery stories, edited by Anne Perry
- The hardboiled dicks, an anthology and study of pulp detective fiction, edited by Ron Goulart
- Manhattan mayhem, edited by Mary Higgins Clark
- Little boxes of bewilderment, suspense comedies, by Jack Ritchie ; edited by Francis M. Nevins, Jr
- Crimes by moonlight, edited by Charlaine Harris
- Small felonies, fifty mystery short shorts, Bill Pronzini
- Those who fight monsters, tales of occult detectives, edited by Justin Gustainis
- Cat crimes for the holidays, edited by Martin H. Greenberg, Ed Gorman, and Larry Segriff
- Alfred Hitchcock's tales to make your hair stand on end, edited by Eleanor Sullivan
- Midnight at the Camposanto, a Taos festival mystery, Mari Ulmer
- The Best of Manhunt, a collection of the best stories from Manhunt Magazine, foreword by Lawrence Block ; afterword by Barry N. Malzberg ; edited and introduction by Jeff Vorzimmer
- Ellery Queen's scenes of the crime, edited by Ellery Queen
- Crime wave, reportage and fiction from the underside of L.A., James Ellroy
- The door to doom, John Dickson Carr ; edited and with an introduction by Douglas G. Greene
- Pure pulp, edited by Ed Gorman, Martin H. Greenberg, and Bill Pronzini
- Murder most Celtic, tall tales of Irish mayhem, edited by Martin H. Greenberg
- Deadly hunger and other tales, Joe L. Hensley
- The curious Mr. Tarrant, by C. Daly King
- Hound dunnit, edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Carol-Lynn Rössel Waugh
- Alfred Hitchcock's mortal errors, edited by Cathleen Jordan
- Destination, morgue!, L.A. tales, James Ellroy
- The Garden of Eden and other criminal delights, Faye Kellerman
- The adventure of the dancing men ; The three Garridebs, adapted by Murray Shaw from the original stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ; illustrated by George Overlie
- Encyclopedia Brown and the case of the secret pitch, by Donald J. Sobol ; illustrated by Leonard Shortall
- Three of a kind, by James M. Cain
- Tales of mystery & imagination., With an introduction by Vincent Starrett & photogravures of the original aquatints by William Sharp
- Alt.sherlock.holmes
- The Highway kind, tales of fast cars, desperate drivers, and dark roads, edited by Patrick Millikin
- Encyclopedia Brown shows the way, by Donald J. Sobol ; illustrated by Leonard Shortall
- New Haven noir, edited by Amy Bloom
- Thurber on crime, by James Thurber ; edited by Robert Lopresti
- Duo, by Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini
- Palm Springs noir, edited by Barbara Demarco-Barrett
- The Arbor House treasury of detective and mystery stories from the great pulps, edited by Bill Pronzini
- Death dines in, edited by Claudia Bishop and Dean James
- Murder and obsession, edited by Otto Penzler
- The best American mystery stories of the century, Tony Hillerman, editor ; Otto Penzler, series editor ; with an introduction by Tony Hillerman
- Windy City blues, Sara Paretsky
- Ellery Queen's magicians of mystery, edited by "Ellery Queen"
- The lady in the lake ;, The little sister ; The long goodbye ; Playback, Raymond Chandler ; with an introduction by Tom Hiney
- Deal with the Devil and other stories, Maxine O'Callaghan
- An Eye for justice, the third Private Eye Writers of America anthology, edited by Robert J. Randisi
- Mystery Writers of America presents Vengeance, [stories], edited by Lee Child
- Murder at the foul line, edited by Otto Penzler
- With malice toward all, an anthology of mystery stories, by the Mystery Writers of America ; edited and with a foreword by Robert L. Fish
- Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, forty stories of crime and detection from original illustrated magazines, by Grant Allen ... [et al.] ; selected and introduced by Alan K. Russell
- Creature cozies, edited by Jill Morgan
- Murder on the menu, edited by Carol-Lynn Rössel Waugh, Martin Harry Greenberg and Isaac Asimov ; with an introduction by Isaac Asimov
- Final doors, Joe L. Hensley
- Cop cade, edited by John Ball