"Ellery Queen Presents Great Mystery Novellas"

Janet Hutchings edits "Ellery Queen Presents Great Mystery Novellas" with stories from five mystery novelists.  A couple of the stories were a little too strange for me but Robert Barnard's "The Lost Boy" caught me totally unawares with the ending as well as Ed Gorman's "Out There in The Darkness" and that's what I like in a mystery -- the challenge of figuring it out and sometimes being surprised when I haven't!  This was the perfect book for nighttime reading before bed!    Other authors included Ruth Rendell , Joyce Carol Oates, and Clark Howard.  pazt