The Orion book of murder
By: edited by Peter Haining.
Contributors: Haining, Peter.
Publisher: Orion; Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Published: 1997
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 759
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories, English.; Detective and mystery stories, American.; English fiction -- 20th century.; American fiction -- 20th century.
Table of contents: title: Crime; title: Detection; title: Punishment.; title: Stories:; title: The Flaw in the System by Jim Thompson; title: Murder Comes Easy by Evan Hunter; title: Blurred View by John D. MacDonald; title: A Flash of White by Andrew Vachss; title: The Sweetest Man in the World by Donald E. Westlake; title: Evidence in Camera by Margery Allingham; title: Blood Brothers by Christianna Brand; title: Auld Lang Syne by Ian Rankin; title: Where the Snow Lay Dinted by Reginald Hill; title: The Smashing of Another Racket by Leslie Charteris; title: The Sleeping Dog by Ross MacDonald; title: Virgil Tibbs and the Fallen Body by John Ball; title: Willing to Kill by Don Pendleton; title: She Didn't Come Home by Sue Grafton; title: The Bottle Dungeon by Antonia Fraser; title: The Takamoku Joseki by Sara Paretsky; title: Man with a Hobby by Robert Bloch; title: Accident by Agatha Christie; title: Round Trip by W. R. Burnett; title: Morning Visit by James Hadley Chase; title: Prediction by Chester Himes; title: Going Through the Motions by Lawrence Block; title: The Corder Figure by Peter Lovesey; title: Gravy Train by James Ellroy; title: Remain Nameless by Lynda La Plante; title: A Case of Christmas Spirit by Nicholas Rhea; title: The Second Skin by Michael Gilbert; title: Duello by Henry Wade; title: The Suitcase by Freeman Wills Crofts; title: Confirmation by John Harvey; title: Sweating it Out with Dover by Joyce Porter; title: Clutching at Straws by Ruth Rendell; title: The Burglar by Colin Dexter; title: The Little Copplestone Mystery by Ngaio Marsh; title: Gideon and the Toughs by John Creasey; title: Before Insulin by J. J. Connington; title: The Memorial Service by Michael Innes; title: Somewhere in the City by Marcia Muller; title: A Classic Forgery by Roy Vickers; title: The Adventure of the Abergavenny Murder by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; title: Raffles and the Dangerous Game by Barry Perowne; title: They Can Only Hang You Once by Dashiell Hammett; title: Black Out by Peter Cheyney; title: Caribbean Clues by Patricia McGerr; title: and Full Moon by George Baxt.