The pocket mystery reader
By: edited by Lee Wright
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 1942
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 363
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories
Other titles: Mystery reader
Notes: "Short stories, articles, plays, poems, true crime, puzzles"--Page [1] of paper wrappers.

"Published August 1942"--Title page verso.

Forms part of the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection.

Deposit, Julio Santo Domingo III, April 2012.

Bookplate of the Fitz Hugh Ludlow Memorial Library.

"6th printing: September, 1943" -- title page verso
Table of contents: title: The farewell murder / by Dashiell Hammett; title: The House of Three Candles / by Erle Stanley Gardner; title: The adventurous exploit of the cave of Ali Baba / by Dorothy Sayers; title: The man who liked Dickens / by Evelyn Waugh; title: The absent minded coterie / by Robert Barr; title: The hounds of fate / by Saki; title: The price of the head / by John Russell; title: Cocaine / by Cornell Woolrich; title: Twenty cents' worth of murder / by Stephen Leacock; title: Watson was a woman / by Rex Stout; title: Whodunit / by Elliot Paul; title: About these mystery stories / by P.G. Wodehouse; title: The perfect murder / by Edmond Pearson; title: Dictators, Democrats, and detectives / by Howard Haycraft; title: Katharine Nairn / by William Roughead; title: The adventure of the mark of Cain / by Ellery Queen; title: Brahma / by Ralph Waldo Emerson; title: The jackdaw of Rheims / by Thomas Ingoldsby; title: What the bullet sang / by Bret Harte; title: Lord Randal / Anonymous; title: Ballad of the gibbet / by Francois Villon; title: My last duchess / by Robert Browning; title: The city in the sea / by Edgar Allen Poe; title: Faustine / by Algernon Charles Swinburne; title: On the eve of his execution / by Chidiock Tichborne; title: The Bridge of Sighs / by Thomas Hood; title: La belle dame sans merci / by John Keats; title: The problem of the amnesia case; title: The abandoned picnic; title: The one armed soldier; title: How well do you know your famous detectives?