Classic Crime Stories
Subtitle: 13 Tales from Edgar Allan Poe to Lawrence Block
Edition: Dover Edition
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Mineola, NY
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9780486456829
Copyright date: 2007
Subjects: Mystery & Detective - General; Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General; Fiction; Fiction - Mystery/ Detective; Detective and mystery stories, American; Detective and mystery stories, English; Mystery/Suspense
Description: Prepare for sleuthful suspense at its very best! This anthology of tantalizing tales includes thirteen of literature's finest crime stories. Enjoy the genre's most glittering jewels, including the first detective story ever written, Edgar Allan Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue," and G. K. Chesterton's "The Blue Cross," the mystery that introduced the world-famous Father Brown. This collection also boasts such crime classics as:
• "A Scandal in Bohemia" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
• "The Gutting of Couffignal" (Dashiell Hammett)
• "I'll Be Waiting" (Raymond Chandler)
• "The Problem of Cell 13" (Jacques Futrelle)
• "By the Dawn's Early Light" (Lawrence Block)
and six more thrill-filled masterpieces.
A short-story collection of unforgettable plots, murder methods, clues, and characters, Classic Crime Stories will satisfy readers' appetites for the expertly crafted whodunit!
Table of contents: title: The murders in the Rue Morgue / Edgar Allan Poe; title: A scandal in Bohemia / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; title: A costume piece / E. W. Hornung; title: The case of Miss Elliott / Baroness Orczy; title: The problem of Cell 13 / Jacques Futrelle; title: The blue cross / G. K. Chesterton; title: The case of Oscar Brodski / R. Austin Freeman; title: The staircase at heart's delight / Anna Katharine Green; title: The gutting of Couffignal / Dashiell Hammett; title: Pastorale / James M. Cain; title: I'll be waiting / Raymond Chandler; title: Slowly, slowly in the wind / Patricia Highsmith; title: By the dawn's early light / Lawrence Block