The Watts Lions / Walter Mosley -- How I contemplated the world from the Detroit House of Correction and began my life over again / Joyce Carol Oates -- The snail watcher / Patricia Highsmith -- Just say no / Roger L. Simon -- In the Bronx / Don DeLillo -- Goldfish / Didier Daeninckx -- Cathedral / Raymond Carver -- Dealer's choice / Sara Paretsky -- The summer of '37 / Julian Semionov -- No radio / Mickey Friedman -- Mafia western / Leonardo Sciascia -- Manufacture of a legend / Paco Ignacio Tabio II -- The king / Isaac Babel -- The law of the eye / Pieke Biermann -- The merciful angel of death / Lawrence Block -- Ishmael / Joe Gores -- The last voyage of the ghost ship / Gabriel García Márquez -- Cain / Andrew Vachss -- The ultimate caper / Donald E. Westlake -- Chee's witch / Tony Hillerman -- Little Leo / Jerome Charyn -- Cities & the dead / Italo Calvino -- Gravy train / James Ellroy -- Death and the compass / Jorge Luis Borges -- Nicholas in exile / Herbert Gold -- Captain Blood / Donald Barthelme -- Mirror girl / William Bayer -- The man who hated books / Stuart M. Kaminsky -- Pig Latin / Clarice Lispector -- Devices and desires / P. D. James -- Martyrdom / Yukio Mishima -- Fathers and daughters / Laura Grimaldi -- The werewolf / Angela Carter -- Missionary stew / Ross Thomas -- The moment before the gun went off / Nadine Gordimer -- Soft monkey / Harlan Ellison -- The casebook of Dr. Billingsgate / Eric Wright -- Imagine this / George C. Chesbro -- A boy and his dog / Manuel Vásquez Montalbán -- A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor -- The Parker shotgun / Sue Grafton -- I spy / Graham Greene.