The World of Mystery Fiction
By: edited by Elliot L. Gilbert
Publisher: Bowling Green State University Popular Press
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Bowling Green, OH
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 441
ISBN-13: 9780879722258
Copyright date: 1983
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories
Notes: On title page: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, Bowling Green, Ohio.

Includes bibliographical references (p. xxx-xxxi).
Table of contents: title: Victims of my graft / Vidocq; title: The prison mazas / William Russell; title: Confession found in a prison / Charles Dickens; title: Three detective anecdotes / Charles Dickens; title: Murders in the rue morgue / Edgar Allan Poe; title: The purloined letter / Edgar Allan Poe / The tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe; title: A scandal in Bohemia / Arthur Conan Doyle; title: The red-headed league / Arthur Conan Doyle; title: The adventure of the speckled band / Arthur Conan Doyle; title: The problem of cell 13 / Jacques Futrelle; title: The oracle of the dog / G.K. Chesterson; title: The doomdorf mystery / Melville Davisson Post; title: The coin of Dionysius / Ernest Bramah; title: Uncle Meleger's will / Dorothy L. Sayers; title: The mad tea party / Ellery Queen; title: Crime in the rue Sainte-Catherine / Georges Simenon; title: The house in Turk Street / Dashiell Hammett; title: I'll be waiting / Raymond Chandler; title: Murder a the automat / Cornell Woolrich; title: The sleeping dog / Ross Macdonald; title: The absent-minded coterie / Robert Barr; title: The chocolate box / Agatha Christie; title: Death and the compass / Jorge Luis Borges.