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PUBLISHED
Los Angeles, CA : Dove Books : distributed by Penguin USA, [1998]
©1998
©1998
DESCRIPTION
viii, 567 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
0787109630 :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
(cont.)
CONTENTS
Purloined letter /
Edgar Allan Poe -- A terribly strange bed /
Wilkie Collins -- Three strangers /
Thomas Hardy -- Red-headed league /
Arthur Conan Doyle -- Corpus delecti /
Melville Davisson Post -- Gentlemen and players /
E.W. Hornung -- A journey /
Edith Wharton -- Leopard man's story /
Jack London -- A retrieved reformation /
O. Henry -- Problem of Cell 13 /
Jacques Futrelle -- Absent-minded coterie /
Robert Barr -- Invisible man /
G.K. Chesterton -- Infallible Godahl /
Frederick Irving Anderson -- Adventure of the unique "Hamlet" /
Vincent Starrett -- Gioconda smile /
Aldous Huxley -- Haircut /
Ring Lardner -- Killers /
Ernest Hemingway -- Hands of Mr. Ottermole /
Thomas Burke -- Little house at Croix-Rousse /
Georges Simenon -- Case of the missing patriarchs /
Logan Clendening -- Clerical error /
James Gould Cozzens -- Two bottles of relish /
Lord Dunsany Chaser /
John Collier -- Perfect crime /
Ben Ray Redman -- Yours truly, Jack the Ripper /
Robert Bloch -- Blind spot /
Barry Perowne -- Catbird seat /
James Thurber -- Recipe for murder /
C.P. Donnel Jr. -- Nine mile walk /
Harry Kemelman -- Kill or be killed /
Ogden Nash -- Specialty of the house /
Stanley Ellin -- Nearly perfect /
A.A. Milne -- Gettysburg Bugle /
Ellery Queen -- Last spin /
Evan Hunter -- Stand up and die! /
Mickey Spillane -- A new leaf /
Jack Ritchie -- Snail-watcher /
Patricia Highsmith -- Long way down /
Edward D. Hoch -- Man who never told a lie /
Isaac Asimov -- I have /
John Gardner -- Quitters, Inc. /
Stephen King -- Horn man /
Clark Howard -- New girl friend /
Ruth Rendell -- By the dawn's early light /
Lawrence Block -- Iris /
Stephen Greenleaf -- High Darktown /
James Ellroy -- Pietro Andromache /
Sara Paretsky -- Soft monkey /
Harlan Ellison -- Hand of Carlos /
Charles McCarry -- Karen makes out /
Elmore Leonard