Sleuths of the Century
Sleuths of the Century
Edited by Ed Gorman and John L. Breen.
Published in 2000.
Published by Carroll & Graf.
First Edition.
Hardcover.
ISBN-10: 0786707097
ISBN-13: 978-0786707096
Description:
Edited by Ed Gorman and John L. Breen.
Published by Carroll & Graf.
First Edition.
Hardcover.
ISBN-13: 978-0786707096
Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe, Lord Peter
Wimsey and Hercule Poirot, Matt Scudder and Easy Rawlins, Spenser and Dalgliesh
- they stand among the most popular of twentieth-century heroes. And now the
award-winning mystery novelist Ed Gorman and novelist-critic Jon L. Breen
present a full century of the world's favorite sleuths in tales by such classic
writers as G. K. Chesterton, Ellery Queen, Dorothy Sayers, and Agatha Christie
as well as contemporary giants like Sharyn McCrumb, Walter Mosley, Ed McBain,
Lawrence Block, P. D. James, and Ruth Rendell. A hefty, handsome volume,
Sleuths of the Century also offers serious suspense from Dashiell Hammett,
Patricia Highsmith, Tony Hillerman, Rex Stout, Donald E. Westlake, and John D.
MacDonald. Crossing the decades with a gallery of sleuths impeccably styled for
every generation, this collection provides exciting, literate tales of
detection and danger that will keep the reader on tenterhooks well into the
next century.