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Saturday, September 14, 2024

Recommended reading - Great Tales of Crime and Detection


Great Tales of Crime and Detection


Great Tales of Crime and Detection
Edited by Charles Ardai.
 
Published by Bbs Pub Corp.
Published in 1995.
Hardcover.
 
ISBN-10: 0883657716
ISBN-13: 978-0883657713
 
Description:
 
A collection of mysteries from a host of best-selling mystery writers features tales by Dick Francis, Graham Greene, Lawrence Bloch, Sarah Paretsky, Loren D. Estleman, John Lutz, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, and others.
 
Contents:
 
Introduction, by Robert Bloch; Foreword, by John Lutz; Out the window, by Lawrence Block; Major crimes, by Loren D. Estleman; Silent warning, by William J. Carroll, Jr.; The Third Man, by Graham Greene; The Cross of Lorraine, by Isaac Asimov; Nameless Enemy, by Miriam Allen DeFord; Tragedy of a Handkerchief, by Michael Innes; UNC Foils Show Foe, by John Jakes; Dangerows Widows, by Mignon G. Eberhardt; Ride the Lightning, by John Lutz; Till Tuesday, by Jeremiah Healy; The Day of the Losers, by Dick Francis; The Case of the Pietro Andromache, by Sara Paretsky; Susu and the 8:30 Ghost, by Lillian Jackson Braun; The Investigation of Things, by Charles Aardai; The Trailor Murder Mystery, by Abraham Lincoln; The Importance of Trifles, by Avram Davidson; The Double-Barrelled Detective Story, by Mark Twain; The Adventure of the Oval Window, by John H. Ddirckx; Your Appointment is Cancelled, by Antonia Fraser; Le Chateau de L'Arsenic, by Georges Simenon; The Nine Mile Walk, by Harry Kemelman; Crime in Rhyme, by Robert Bloch; The Purloined Letter, by Edgar Allan Poe; The Man with the Twisted Lip, by Arthur Conan Doyle.