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City Sleuths and Tough Guys: Crime Stories from Poe to the Present
Edited by David Willis
McCullough.
Published by Houghton
Mifflin Harcourt.
Published 1989.
Hardcover.
ISBN-10: 0395513189
ISBN-13: 978-0395513187
Description:
Trace the hard-boiled
mystery back to its roots with this collection of twenty-eight detective
stories set in tough, urban settings. From classics by Poe and Vidocq to
contemporary favorites such as Hammett and Spillane, this is a literary feast
for all mystery fans.
Contents:
Introduction, by David Willis McCullough; The simple art of murder, by Raymond
Chandler; The clue of the yellow curtains, by Francois Eugene Vidocq; The
mystery of Marie Roget, by Edgar Allen Poe; The lodger, by Marie Belloc Lowndes;
Princess Sonia's bath, by Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre; The investors, by
Edgar Wallace; The tenth clew, by Dashiell Hammett; The rubber trumpet, by Roy
Vickers; No proof, by Yoh Sano; Dead-end for Delia, by William Campbell Gault; At
the Etoile du Nord, by Georges Simenon; I always get the cuties, by John D.
MacDonald; This world, then the fireworks, by Jim Thompson; The gold fever
tapes, by Mickey Spillane; Wild goose chase, by Ross MacDonald; The
nine-to-five man, by Stanley Ellin; Small homocide, by Ed McBain; Blind man
with a pistol, by Chester Himes; Pigeon blood, by Paul Cain; Just one of those
days, by Donald E. Westlake; Election day, by Joseph Hansen; The Parker shotgun,
by Sue Grafton; The Johore murders, by Paul Theroux; Sure, blue, and dead, too,
by Janwillem van de Wetering; Skin deep, by Sara Paretsky; Death by water, by William
Marshall; Flake piece, by Carolyn Wheat; Dead soldier, by Loren D. Estleman; Double
indemnity, the screenplay, by Raymond Chandler and Billy Wilder.
