Detective stories
By: edited by Peter Washington.
Contributors: Washington, Peter.
Series: Everyman's pocket classics; Everyman's pocket classics
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780307272713; 9781841596044
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories, English; Detective and mystery stories, American
Description: Collects sixteen short detective stories featuring works by Agatha Christie, Ian Rankin, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Edgar Allen Poe.
Table of contents: title: The Takamoku joseki  -- Sara Paretsky; title: Window of opportunity  -- Ian Rankin; title: People don't do such things  -- Ruth Rendell; title: Inspector Ghote and the miracle baby  -- H. R. F. Keating; title: Mademoiselle Berthe and her lover  -- Georges Simenon; title: Death and the compass  -- J . L. Borges; title: Leg man  -- Erle Stanley Gardner; title: I'll be waiting  -- Raymond Chandler; title: The Gatewood caper  -- Dashiell Hammett; title: The blue geranium  -- Agatha Christie; title: A jury of her peers  -- Susan Glaspell; title: The blue cross  -- G. K. Chesterton; title: Silver blaze  -- Arthur Conan Doyle; title: The stolen cigar case  -- Bret Harte; title: Long looked-for, come at last  -- James Mclevy; title: The purloined letter -- Edgar Allan Poe.