Better
Corpses (1940); Man in the Shadows (1928); Mr. Strang (1936); Murder at Our
House (1950); Murder from the East (1935); Murder Won’t Wait (1933); Ready to
Burn (1951); Tainted Power (1931); The Amateur Murderer (1933); The Emperor of
Evil (1937); The Hidden Hand (1929); The Mystery of the Smoking Gun (1936); The
Snarl of the Beast (1927); The Tag Murders (1930); The Third Murderer (1931); The
White Circle (1926).
Absent
Minded Blues; Alabama Blues; Down on Pennsylvania Avenue; Everybody Wants to Go
to Heaven (But Nobody Wants to Die); Follow the Deal on Down; Graveyard Love; I
Wanna Jazz Some More; If I Lose, Let Me Lose (Mamma Don't Mind); I'm a Back
Bitin' Mama; Jazz It Blues; Jazz Me Blues; Log Cabin Blues; Move It On Out of
Here; Never Drive a Beggar from Your Door; Nobody Knows the Way I Feel This
Mornin'; Police Blues; Sinful Blues; Slow and Steady; Somethin' Goin' On Wrong;
Southbound Blues; The Down Home Blues; Troublesome Blues; Walk That Broad; You
May Go but You'll Come Back Some Day.
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.