ISBN: 0787109630

Description: viii, 567 pages ; 24 cm

Other Title:

• Fifty greatest mysteries of all time
• Greatest mysteries of all time

Contents:

• The purloined letter / Edgar Allan Poe
• A terribly strange bed / Wilkie Collins
• The three strangers / Thomas Hardy
• The red-headed league / Arthur Conan Doyle
• The corpus delecti / Melville Davisson Post
• Gentlemen and players / E.W. Hornung
• A journey / Edith Wharton
• The leopard man's story / Jack London
• A retrieved reformation / O. Henry
• The problem of Cell 13 / Jacques Futrelle
• The absent-minded coterie / Robert Barr
• The invisible man / G.K. Chesterton
• The infallible Godahl / Frederick Irving Anderson
• The adventure of the unique "Hamlet" / Vincent Starrett
• The Gioconda smile / Aldous Huxley
• Haircut / Ring Lardner
• The killers / Ernest Hemingway
• The hands of Mr. Ottermole / Thomas Burke
• The little house at Croix-Rousse / Georges Simenon
• The case of the missing patriarchs / Logan Clendening
• Clerical error / James Gould Cozzens
• The two bottles of relish / Lord Dunsany

• The chaser / John Collier
• The perfect crime / Ben Ray Redman
• Yours truly, Jack the Ripper / Robert Bloch
• The blind spot / Barry Perowne
• The catbird seat / James Thurber
• Recipe for murder / C.P. Donnel Jr.
• The nine mile walk / Harry Kemelman
• Kill or be killed / Ogden Nash
• The specialty of the house / Stanley Ellin
• Nearly perfect / A.A. Milne
• The Gettysburg Bugle / Ellery Queen
• The last spin / Evan Hunter
• Stand up and die! / Mickey Spillane
• A new leaf / Jack Ritchie
• The snail-watcher / Patricia Highsmith
• The long way down / Edward D. Hoch
• The man who never told a lie / Isaac Asimov
• I have / John Gardner
• Quitters, Inc. / Stephen King
• Horn man / Clark Howard
• The new girl friend / Ruth Rendell
• By the dawn's early light / Lawrence Block
• Iris / Stephen Greenleaf
• High Darktown / James Ellroy
• The Pietro Andromache / Sara Paretsky
• Soft monkey / Harlan Ellison
• The hand of Carlos / Charles McCarry
• Karen makes out / Elmore Leonard.

LCCN: 98182750

Control Number: 746851

Subjects: Detective and mystery stories.

Genre: Fiction.

Other Authors: Penzler, Otto.