Recommended reading - City Sleuths and Tough Guys: Crime Stories from Poe to the Present

 

City Sleuths and Tough Guys: Crime Stories from Poe to the Present

Edited by David Willis McCullough.
 
Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Published 1989.
Hardcover.

ISBN-10: 0395513189
ISBN-13: 978-0395513187
 
Description:
 
Trace the hard-boiled mystery back to its roots with this collection of twenty-eight detective stories set in tough, urban settings. From classics by Poe and Vidocq to contemporary favorites such as Hammett and Spillane, this is a literary feast for all mystery fans.

Contents:

Introduction, by David Willis McCullough

The simple art of murder, by Raymond Chandler;

The clue of the yellow curtains, by Francois Eugene Vidocq

The mystery of Marie Roget, by Edgar Allen Poe

The lodger, by Marie Belloc Lowndes

Princess Sonia's bath, by Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre

The investors, by Edgar Wallace

The tenth clew, by Dashiell Hammett

The rubber trumpet, by Roy Vickers

No proof, by Yoh Sano

Dead-end for Delia, by William Campbell Gault

At the Etoile du Nord, by Georges Simenon

I always get the cuties, by John D. MacDonald

This world, then the fireworks, by Jim Thompson

The gold fever tapes, by Mickey Spillane

Wild goose chase, by Ross MacDonald

The nine-to-five man, by Stanley Ellin

Small homocide, by Ed McBain

Blind man with a pistol, by Chester Himes

Pigeon blood, by Paul Cain

Just one of those days, by Donald E. Westlake

Election day, by Joseph Hansen

The Parker shotgun, by Sue Grafton

The Johore murders, by Paul Theroux

Sure, blue, and dead, too, by Janwillem van de Wetering

Skin deep, by Sara Paretsky

Death by water, by William Marshall

Flake piece, by Carolyn Wheat

Dead soldier, by Loren D. Estleman

Double indemnity, the screenplay, by Raymond Chandler and Billy Wilder.