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Saturday, September 14, 2024

Recommended reading - Great Tales of Crime and Detection (1995):


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.