Thirteen classic detective stories
Subtitle: a critical history of detective fiction.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Series: Masterworks of mystery series
Publisher: Richards Rosen Press; Rosen Publishing Group
Published: 1974
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories, American.; Detective and mystery stories, English.; Detective and mystery stories -- History and criticism.; Popular literature -- English-speaking countries -- History and criticism.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 226-237.
Table of contents: title: Apocryphal Scriptures. Bel and the dragon.; title: Voltaire. The dog and the horse.; title: Poe, E. A. The purloined letter.; title: Dickens, C. The pair of gloves.; title: Doyle, A. C. The Musgrave ritual.; title: Chesterton, G. K. The absence of Mr. Glass.; title: Post, M. D. The Doomdorf mystery.; title: Lord Dunsany. The two bottles of relish.; title: Sayers, D. L. The learned adventure of the dragon's head.; title: Christie, A. The king of clubs.; title: Carr, J. D. The wrong problem.; title: Hammett, D. They can only hang you once.; title: Queen, E. Miracles do happen.; title: Gardner, E. S. The case of the irate witness.