Fourteen great detective stories

Author(s)

• Haycraft, Howard
• Starrett, Vincent
• Poe, Edgar Allan
• Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
• Futrelle, Jacques
• Freeman, R. Austin (Richard Austin)
• Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
• Post, M. D.
• Bentley, E. C. (Edmund Clerihew)
• Christie, Agatha
• Bailey, H. C.
• Sayers, Dorothy L. (Dorothy Leigh)
• Queen, Ellery
• Stout, Rex
• Carr, John Dickson
• Woolrich, Cornell

Bibliographic Information

Fourteen great detective stories

（The modern library of the world's best books, [144]）

Modern Library, [1949]

Rev. ed

Note

A rev. ed. of the work of the same title edited by Vincent Starrett in 1928

Contents of Works

• The purloined letter / by E.A. Poe
• The red-headed league / by A.C. Doyle
• The problem of cell 13 / by Jacques Futrelle
• The case of Oscar Brodski / by R.A. Freeman
• The blue cross / by G.K. Chesterton
• The age of miracles / by M.D. Post
• The little mystery / by E.C. Bentley
• The third-floor flat / by Agatha Christie
• The yellow slugs / by H.C. Bailey
• The bone of contention / by D.L. Sayers
• The adventure of the African traveler / by Ellery Queen
• Instead of evidence / by Rex Stout
• The house in Goblin Wood / by Carter Dickson
• The dancing detective / by Cornell Woolrich

Details

• NCID: BA25385882
• LCCN: 49006111
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xiv, 464 p.
• Size: 19 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PZ1.H32
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Detective and mystery stories
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA01058327