Fifty Best Mysteries
Edited by Eleanor Sullivan.
Published by Da Capo Press.
Paperback.
Published in 2004.
ISBN-10: 078671347X
ISBN-13: 978-0786713479
Description:
Fifty Best Mysteries is a Who’s Who of mystery from the pages of the leading magazine in the field. Showcasing the best short fiction published in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine over a range of fifty years, this book is a treasure trove for mystery lovers everywhere. As editor Eleanor Sullivan writes, “I took the task by decades and decided to go after solid and entertaining stories by regular and significant contributors, stories that reflected the time in which they were written and the best work being produced in that decade.” To this end, Sullivan has collected an astounding array of talent, from early works by John Dickson Carr, Margery Allingham, Anthony Boucher, and Ngaio Marsh in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, to later selections by Patricia Highsmith, Robert Bloch, Ruth Rendell, Donald E. Westlake, and Simon Brett that appeared over the next two decades.
Contents: The clue of the red wig / John
Dickson Carr — Lost star / C. Daly King — The Bloomsbury wonder / Thomas Burke
— Dressing-up / W. R. Burnett — Malice domestic / Philip MacDonald — I can find
my way out / Ngaio Marsh — The fourth degree / Hugh Pentecost — Midnight
adventure / Michael Arlen — A study in white / Nicholas Blake — The phantom
guest / Frederick Irving Anderson — As simple as ABC / Ellery Queen — Money to
burn / Margery Allingham — The gentlest of brothers / David Alexander — One-way
street / Anthony Armstrong — Murder at the dog show / Mignon G. Eberhart —
Always trust a cop / Octavus Roy Cohen — The withered heart / Jean Potts — The
girl who married a monster / Anthony Boucher — Between eight and eight / C. S.
Forester — Knowing what I know now / Barry Perowne — Change of climate / Ursula
Curtiss — Life in our time / Robert Bloch — The special gift / Celia Fremlin —
A neat and tidy job / George Harmon Coxe — Run—if you can / Charlotte Armstrong
— Line of communication / Andrew Garve — Danger at Deerfawn / Dorothy B. Hughes
— The man who understood women / A. H. Z. Carr — Revolver / Avram Davidson —
The eternal chase / Anthony Gilbert — Reasons unknown / Stanley Ellin — Three
ways to rob a bank / Harold R. Daniels — The perfect servant / Helen Nielsen —
The marked man / David Ely — Flowers that bloom in the spring / Julian Symons —
A nice place to stay / Nedra Tyre — Paul Broderick’s man / Thomas Walsh — When
nothing matters / Florence V. Mayberry — This is death / Donald E. Westlake — Woodrow
Wilson’s necktie / Patricia Highsmith — The jackal and the tiger / Michael
Gilbert — The fix / Robert Twohy — One moment of madness / Edward D. Hoch —
Loopy / Ruth Rendell — The plateau / Clark Howard — The butchers / Peter
Lovesey — Burning bridges / James Powell — A good turn / Robert Barnard — Clap
hands, there goes Charlie / George Baxt — Big boy, little boy / Simon Brett.