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Material Type: | Fiction |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Tony Hillerman; Rosemary Herbert |
ISBN: | 0195085817 9780195085815 0195117921 9780195117929 |
OCLC Number: | 912183167 |
Description: | 686 p. ; 21 cm |
Contents: | Murders in the Rue Morgue / Edgar Allan Poe. Stolen cigar case / Bret Harte. Problem of cell 13 / Jacques Futrelle. Doomdorf mystery / Melville Davisson Post. Missing: page thirteen / Anna Katharine Green. Beauty mask / Arthur B. Reeve. Jury of her peers / Susan Glaspell. False Burton Combs / Carroll John Daly. Keyboard of silence / Clinton H. Stagg. Nose for news / Richard Sale. Spider / Mignon G. Eberhart. Leg man / Erle Stanley Gardner. I'll be waiting / Raymond Chandler. Footprint in the sky / John Dickson Carr. Rear window / Cornell Woolrich. Lipstick / Mary Roberts Rinehart. Homicide highball / Robert Leslie Bellem. Error in chemistry / William Faulkner. From another world / Clayton Rawson. Daylight adventure / T.S. Stribling. See no evil / William Campbell Gault. Crime must have a stop / Anthony Boucher. Small homicide / Ed McBain. Guilt-edged blonde / Ross Macdonald. Christmas party / Rex Stout. Matter of public notice / Dorothy Salisbury Davis. Adventure of Abraham Lincoln's clue / Ellery Queen. Words do not a book make / Bill Pronzini. Christmas is for cops / Edward D. Hoch. Lucky penny / Linda Barnes. Parker shotgun / Sue Grafton. Chee's witch / Tony Hillerman. Benny's space / Marcia Muller. |
Responsibility: | edited by Tony Hillerman, Rosemary Herbert. |
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A must for any library; a brilliant introduction to American crime fiction. From Edgar Allan Poe to Ed McBain and Sue Grafton. This splendid anthology covers the waterfront. Lucretia Stewart, The Guardian An admirable, intelligently compiled anthology Marcel Berlins, The Times Read more...
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