No one tells the story of how to elegantly turn people into corpses with more finesse and wit than he does. Here they are, the best crime stories from the unique Henry Slesar, who teaches even hardened men to feel a chill. These tales, which life never quite manages to replicate, are narrated with a wink by a peaceful man with an unusual talent for crime—of course, only in the literary sense. Wicked, sharp, and always surprising, because with Henry Slesar's short crime stories, one thing is certain: they end very differently than you might expect.