num_pages: 586
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.Introduction / David Willis McCullough --The simple art of murder / Raymond Chandler --The clue of the yellow curtains / Francois Eugene Vidocq --The mystery of Marie Roget / Edgar Allen Poe --The lodger / Marie Belloc Lowndes --Princess Sonia's bath / Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre --The investors / Edgar Wallace --The tenth clew / Dashiell Hammett --The rubber trumpet / Roy Vickers --No proof / Yoh Sano --Dead-end for Delia / William Campbell Gault --At the Etoile du Nord / Georges Simenon --I always get the cuties / John D. MacDonald --This world, then the fireworks / Jim Thompson --The gold fever tapes / Mickey Spillane --Wild goose chase / Ross MacDonald --The nine-to-five man / Stanley Ellin --Small homocide / Ed McBain --Blind man with a pistol / Chester Himes --Pigeon blood / Paul Cain --Just one of those days / Donald E. Westlake --Election day / Joseph Hansen --The Parker shotgun / Sue Grafton --The Johore murders / Paul Theroux --Sure, blue, and dead, too / Janwillem van de Wetering --Skin deep / Sara Paretsky --Death by water / William Marshall --Flake piece / Carolyn Wheat --Dead soldier / Loren D. Estleman --Double indemnity, the screenplay / Raymond Chandler and Billy Wilder
language: English
title: City Sleuths and Tough Guys: Crime Stories from Poe to the Present
titlecomplete: City Sleuths and Tough Guys: Crime Stories from Poe to the Present
ratings_count: 15
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt