| Publication |
New York, Dover Publications, Inc., 2007.
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| Description |
viii, 294pBlue Spine
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| Summary/Abstract |
Sleuthful suspense at its very best! Thirteen tantalizing tales including the first real detective story, Edgar Allan Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue"; "The Blue Cross," the first Father Brown tale by G. K. Chesterton; "A Scandal in Bohemia" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; plus stories by Hammett, Chandler, and Lawrence Block.
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| Contents |
The murders in the Rue Morgue / Edgar Allan Poe
A scandal in Bohemia / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A costume piece / E. W. Hornung
The case of Miss Elliott / Baroness Orczy
The problem of Cell 13 / Jacques Futrelle
The blue cross / G. K. Chesterton
The case of Oscar Brodski / R. Austin Freeman
The staircase at heart's delight / Anna Katharine Green
The gutting of Couffignal / Dashiell Hammett
Pastorale / James M. Cain
I'll be waiting / Raymond Chandler
Slowly, slowly in the wind / Patricia Highsmith
By the dawn's early light / Lawrence Block
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| Standard Number |
9780486456829 Pb.
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