The Detective Story
Subtitle: An Introduction to the World's Greatest Whodunit Sleuths and Their Creators
By: Saul Schwartz
Publisher: National Textbook Company
Published: 1975
Place of publication: Lincolnwood, IL, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 441
ISBN-13: 9780844256139
Copyright date: 1975
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers; Mystery And Suspense Fiction; Juvenile Nonfiction; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Textbooks; Language Arts - General; Juvenile Nonfiction / Language Arts / General; Detective and mystery stories, American; Detective and mystery stories, English
Table of contents: title: Whodunit?; title: Edgar Allan Poe; title: The murders in the Rue Morgue --; title: The purloined letter --; title: The gold bug --; title: A tale of two doctors:; title: Arthur Conan Doyle; title: Study in scarlet (excerpts) --; title: The final problem --; title: The adventure of the empty house --; title: The American Sherlock Holmes:; title: Ellery Queen; title: The telltale bottle --; title: My queer dean! --; title: The adventure of the president's half dome --; title: The others:; title: The problem of cell 13 by Jacques Futrelle --; title: The invisible man by G.K. Chesterton --; title: The mystery of Hunter's Lodge by Agatha Christie --; title: The adventurous exploit of the cave of Ali Baba by Dorothy Sayers --; title: Mr. Strang performs an experiment by William Brittain --; title: There were female sleuths before women's liberation:; title: Locked doors by Mary Roberts Rinehart --; title: Village murders by Agatha Christie --; title: You bet your life by Stuart Palmer --; title: Mom and the haunted mink by James Yaffe --; title: Variations:; title: In the heat of the night (excerpts) by John [Dudley] Ball --; title: The world series murder by Rex Stout --; title: The day the children vanished by Hugh Pentecost --; title: The stolen cigar case by Bret Harte.