The 50 Greatest Mysteries of All Time
By: compiled by Otto Penzler.
Contributors: Penzler, Otto.
Edition: First Printing (1)
Publisher: Dove Books
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Los Angeles, California, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 567
ISBN-13: 9780787109639
Copyright date: 1998
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories.
Other titles: Fifty Greatest Mysteries of all Time; Greatest mysteries of all time
First sentence: Attempting to compile a list of the best of anything is inevitably an exercise doomed to failure.
Notes: First Printing: May 1998; 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
$25.00; C$30.00
Table of contents: title: Introduction
pagenum: Otto Penzler	|	viii; label: 1844
title: The Purloined Letter
pagenum: Edgar Allan Poe	|	1; label: 1852
title: A Terribly Strange Bed
pagenum: Wilkie Collins	|	13; label: 1883
title: The Three Strangers
pagenum: Thomas Hardy	|	23; label: 1891
title: The Red-Headed League
pagenum: Arthur Conan Doyle	|	37; label: 1896
title: The Corpus Delecti
pagenum: Melville Davisson Post	|	53; label: 1898
title: Gentlemen and Players
pagenum: E.W. Hornung	|	71; label: 1899
title: A Journey
pagenum: Edith Wharton	|	83; label: 1903
title: The Leopard Man's Story
pagenum: Jack London	|	91; label: 1903
title: A Retrieved Reformation
pagenum: O. Henry	|	95; label: 1905
title: The Problem of Cell 13
pagenum: Jacques Futrelle	|	101; label: 1906
title: The Absent-Minded Coterie
pagenum: Robert Barr	|	123; label: 1911
title: The Invisible Man
pagenum: G.K. Chesterton	|	145; label: 1913
title: The Infallible Godahl
pagenum: Frederick Irving Anderson	|	159; label: 1920
title: The Adventure of the Unique "Hamlet"
pagenum: Vincent Starrett	|	179; label: 1921
title: The Gioconda Smile
pagenum: Aldous Huxley	|	191; label: 1925
title: Haircut
pagenum: Ring Lardner	|	211; label: 1927
title: The Killers
pagenum: Ernest Hemingway	|	219; label: 1931
title: The Hands of Mr. Ottermole
pagenum: Thomas Burke	|	227; label: 1932
title: The Little House at Croix-Rousse
pagenum: Georges Simenon	|	239; label: 1934
title: The Case Of The Missing Patriarchs
pagenum: Logan Clendening	|	243; label: 1935
title: Clerical Error
pagenum: James Gould Cozzens	|	245; label: 1936
title: The Two Bottles of Relish
pagenum: Lord Dunsany	|	249; label: 1940
title: The Chaser
pagenum: John Collier	|	259; label: 1941
title: The Perfect Crime
pagenum: Ben Ray Redman	|	263; label: 1943
title: Yours Truly, Jack The Ripper
pagenum: Robert Bloch	|	275; label: 1945
title: The Blind Spot
pagenum: Barry Perowne	|	289; label: 1945
title: The Catbird Seat
pagenum: James Thurber	|	297; label: 1946
title: Recipe for Murder
pagenum: C.P. Donnel Jr.	|	303; label: 1947
title: The Nine Mile Walk
pagenum: Harry Kemelman	|	307; label: 1947
title: Kill or be Killed
pagenum: Ogden Nash	|	313; label: 1948
title: The Specialty of the House
pagenum: Stanley Ellin	|	315; label: 1950
title: Nearly Perfect
pagenum: A.A. Milne	|	327; label: 1951
title: The Gettysburg Bugle
pagenum: Ellery Queen	|	333; label: 1956
title: The Last Spin
pagenum: Evan Hunter	|	347; label: 1958
title: Stand Up and Die!
pagenum: Mickey Spillane	|	353; label: 1963
title: A New Leaf
pagenum: Jack Ritchie	|	391; label: 1964
title: The Snail-Watcher
pagenum: Patricia Highsmith	|	405; label: 1965
title: The Long Way Down
pagenum: Edward D. Hoch	|	411; label: 1972
title: The Man Who Never Told a Lie
pagenum: Isaac Asimov	|	425; label: 1974
title: I Have
pagenum: John Gardner	|	433; label: 1978
title: Quitters, Inc.
pagenum: Stephen King	|	439; label: 1980
title: Horn Man
pagenum: Clark Howard	|	453; label: 1983
title: The New Girl Friend
pagenum: Ruth Rendell	|	463; label: 1984
title: By the Dawn's Early Light
pagenum: Lawrence Block	|	471; label: 1984
title: Iris
pagenum: Stephen Greenleaf	|	485; label: 1986
title: High Darktown
pagenum: James Ellroy	|	499; label: 1988
title: The Pietro Andromache
pagenum: Sara Paretsky	|	513; label: 1988
title: Soft Monkey
pagenum: Harlan Ellison	|	529; label: 1992
title: The Hand of Carlos
pagenum: Charles Mccarry	|	539; label: 1996
title: Karen Makes Out
pagenum: Elmore Leonard	|	557