Best American Mystery Stories

I was wandering through Borders Book Store this evening and stumbled upon the 2004 edition of The Best American Mystery Stories. This has been a series which I have enjoyed very much. Otto Penzler is the Series Editor and each year he asks a different author to edit the year's edition. I can always expect to find some of my favorite mystery short story writers therein. Hoch, DuBois, Clark Howard and others. This year Otto chose Nelson DeMille as editor. I looked at the table of contents and blanched. I knew only three or four of the authors contained in the volume. No Hoch, DuBois, Clark Howard. No Pronzini, Estleman. Ah, there is a story by Joyce Carol Oates. Dick Lochte and Richard Lupoff, but I've already read the Lupoff story. Stephen King, but I am not a big Stephen King fan. And Jack O'Connell. Read one novel by him and thought it very strange. Well, this is going to be fun. Twenty stories and I only know five authors. This is either going to be really interesting or totally unsatisfactory. Time will tell. I may return to this topic at some future date. I'll let you know how it turned out. Will DeMille satisfy my taste or not?