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Fifty Best Mysteries
Edited by Eleanor
Sullivan.
Published in 2004.
Published by Da Capo
Press.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 078671347X
ISBN-13: 978-0786713479
Description:
Fifty Best Mysteries is a Who’s Who of mystery from the pages of the leading
magazine in the field. Showcasing the best short fiction published in Ellery
Queen’s Mystery Magazine over a range of fifty years, this book is a
treasure trove for mystery lovers everywhere. As editor Eleanor Sullivan
writes, “I took the task by decades and decided to go after solid and
entertaining stories by regular and significant contributors, stories that
reflected the time in which they were written and the best work being produced
in that decade.” To this end, Sullivan has collected an astounding array of
talent, from early works by John Dickson Carr, Margery Allingham, Anthony
Boucher, and Ngaio Marsh in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, to later selections by
Patricia Highsmith, Robert Bloch, Ruth Rendell, Donald E. Westlake, and Simon
Brett that appeared over the next two decades.
Contents:
The clue of the red wig / John Dickson Carr — Lost star / C. Daly King — The
Bloomsbury wonder / Thomas Burke — Dressing-up / W. R. Burnett — Malice
domestic / Philip MacDonald — I can find my way out / Ngaio Marsh — The fourth
degree / Hugh Pentecost — Midnight adventure / Michael Arlen — A study in white
/ Nicholas Blake — The phantom guest / Frederick Irving Anderson — As simple as
ABC / Ellery Queen — Money to burn / Margery Allingham — The gentlest of
brothers / David Alexander — One-way street / Anthony Armstrong — Murder at the
dog show / Mignon G. Eberhart — Always trust a cop / Octavus Roy Cohen — The
withered heart / Jean Potts — The girl who married a monster / Anthony Boucher
— Between eight and eight / C. S. Forester — Knowing what I know now / Barry
Perowne — Change of climate / Ursula Curtiss — Life in our time / Robert Bloch
— The special gift / Celia Fremlin — A neat and tidy job / George Harmon Coxe —
Run—if you can / Charlotte Armstrong — Line of communication / Andrew Garve —
Danger at Deerfawn / Dorothy B. Hughes — The man who understood women / A. H.
Z. Carr — Revolver / Avram Davidson — The eternal chase / Anthony Gilbert —
Reasons unknown / Stanley Ellin — Three ways to rob a bank / Harold R. Daniels
— The perfect servant / Helen Nielsen — The marked man / David Ely — Flowers
that bloom in the spring / Julian Symons — A nice place to stay / Nedra Tyre —
Paul Broderick’s man / Thomas Walsh — When nothing matters / Florence V.
Mayberry — This is death / Donald E. Westlake — Woodrow Wilson’s necktie /
Patricia Highsmith — The jackal and the tiger / Michael Gilbert — The fix /
Robert Twohy — One moment of madness / Edward D. Hoch — Loopy / Ruth Rendell —
The plateau / Clark Howard — The butchers / Peter Lovesey — Burning bridges /
James Powell — A good turn / Robert Barnard — Clap hands, there goes Charlie /
George Baxt — Big boy, little boy / Simon Brett.
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