A Century of Mystery 1980-1989: The Great Stories of the Decade

Expect the unexpected.

A man vacationing in Greece, who loves his children to distraction (“Father’s Day*). A couple living out an alternative lifestyle overseas, only to find it coming home to haunt them (“As Good as a Rest"). Rumors of witchcraft on a Navajo reservation (“Chee’s Witch"). An apparently ordinary accident in San Francisco (“Hit-and-Run”)...

All over the world, small mysteries unfold from the seeds of ordinary human emotions—envy, anger, worry, lust, even love. Small mysteries in which are wrapped small crimes, that emerge when solved, to burst into plain sight like poison pollen.

The 1980’s were a heady decade for the mystery story. Here art; the best of that decade.