Mystery and detection

Author(s)

• Alarcón, Pedro Antonio de

Bibliographic Information

Mystery and detection

stories by Alarcón ... [et al.]

（The world's best series, . The World's best short stories : anthology & criticism ; v. 5）

Roth Pub., c1991

• set

Note

Includes index

Contents of Works

• The nail / Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
• The three strangers / Thomas Hardy
• A terribly strange bed / Wilkie Collins
• Lamb to the slaughter / Roald Dahl
• Don't look behind you / Frederic Brown
• Exactly what happened / Jim Thompson
• First offence / Ed Mcbein
• A needle for the Devil / Ruth Rendell
• The murder in the Rue Morgue / Edgar Allan Poe
• The adventure of the Norwood Builder / Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Dublin mistery / Baroness Orczy
• The eye of Apollo / G. K. Chesterton
• The superfluous finger / Jacques Futrelle
• The four suspects / Agatha Christie
• The entertaining episode of the article in question / Dorothy L. Sayers
• Death and company / Dashiell Hammett
• The inner circle / Ellery Queen
• Squeez play / Richard Prather
• Sleeping dog / Ross Macdonald
• At the old swimming hole / Salah Paretsky
• Contributions of Edgar Allan Poe / Robert A. W. Lowndes
• The simple art of murder / Raymond Chandler
• The detective story as a historical source / William Aydelotte

Details

• NCID: BA13917725
• ISBN:
  • 0896094006
  • 0896093077
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Great Neck, N.Y.
• Pages/Volumes: xv, 393 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Short stories
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA10381902