Murderous Schemes: An Anthology of Classic Detective Stories
These 32 classic crime stories illuminate the genre's best-known plot constructions--including "the locked room", "the caper", "hoist on their own petards", and…
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Contents: Introduction / Donald E. Westlake — The shadow of the goat / John Dickson Carr — What, no butler? / Damon Runyon — The Leopold locked room / Edward D. Hoch — The man who read John Dickson Carr / William Brittain — The secret garden / G. K. Chesterton — The necklace of pearls / Dorothy L. Sayers — They can only hang you once / Dashiell Hammett — Busted Blossoms / Stuart M. Kaminsky — A costume piece / E. W. Hornung — The impossible theft / John F. Suter — Don’t know much about art / Simon Brett — The ultimate caper / Donald E. Westlake — The mysterious death on the underground railway / Baroness Emmuska Orczy — The blue geranium / Agatha Christie — The adventure of Abraham Lincoln’s clue / Ellery Queen — The affair of the twisted scarf / Rex Stout — The landlady / Roald Dahl — The orderly world of Mr. Appleby / Stanley Ellin — Bless this house / Christianna Brand — Someday I’ll plant more walnut trees / Lawrence Block — “Thou art the man” / Edgar Allan Poe — The adventure of the dying detective / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle — The master of mystery / Jack London — The fat man / Isak Dinesen — Midnight in Beauchamp Row / Anna Katharine Green — I’ll be waiting / Raymond Chandler — The possibility of evil / Shirley Jackson — The secret lover / Peter Lovesey — A jury of her peers / Susan Glaspell — The hands of Mr. Ottermole / Thomas Burke — Tang / Chester Himes — Little apple hard to peel / Fredric Brown
ISBN: 0195103211, 978-0195103212
Год издания: 1996
Язык: Английский
Тип обложки: твёрдая; страниц: 519
Hardcover, 519 pages
Published October 31st 1996 by Oxford University Press, USA (first published January 29th 1996)
Original TitleMurderous Schemes: An Anthology of Classic Detective Stories
ISBN 0195103211 (ISBN13: 9780195103212)
Edition LanguageEnglish
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