Includes short fictional stories from mystery writers such as Mary Higgins Clark, Lee Child, and Jeffery Deaver featuring crimes in Manhattan. Includes photographs and maps.

"70th anniversary, Mystery Writers of America."

The five-dollar dress / Mary Higgins Clark in Union Square -- White rabbit / Julie Hyzy in Central Park -- The picture of the lonely diner / Lee Child in the Flatiron District -- Three little words / Nancy Pickard on the Upper West Side -- Damage control / Thomas H. Cook in Hell's Kitchen -- The day after victory / Brendan DuBois in Times Square -- Serial benefactor / Jon L. Breen in the Empire State Building -- Trapped! / Ben H. Winters in Chelsea -- Wall Street rodeo / Angela Zeman on Wall Street -- Copycats / N.J. Ayres in Alphabet City -- Red-headed stepchild / Margaret Maron on the Upper East Side -- Sutton death overtime / Judith Kelman on Sutton Place -- Dizzy and Gillespie / Persia Walker in Harlem -- Me and Mikey / T. Jefferson Parker in Little Italy -- Evermore / Justin Scott on the Hudson River -- Chin Yong-Yun makes a shiddach / S.J. Rozan in Chinatown -- The baker of Bleecker Street / Jeffery Deaver in Greenwich Village.