Twentieth century detective stories : fourteen modern detective stories never before published in book form in the United States including "unknown" stories about G.K. Chesterton's Father Brown, Dashiell Hammett's Contiental Op, Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot, T.S. Stribling's Professor Poggioli, together with Queen's quorum, a readers' and collectors' guide to the 101 most important books of detective-crime short stories / edited by Ellery Queen ; illustrated by Seymour Nydorf.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Queen, Ellery.

Nydorf, Seymour, 1914-2001.

Series:

Living library

The living library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories.

Detective and mystery stories--History and criticism.

Detective and mystery stories.

Detective and mystery stories--Bibliography.

Genre:

Bibliographies.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

288 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.

Other Title:

20th century detective stories

Fourteen modern detective stories

Place of Publication:

Cleveland ; New York : World Pub. Co., [1948]

Contents:

Vampire of the village / G.K. Chesterton

Tom, Dick or Harry / Dashiell Hammett

The double clue / Agatha Christie

The Shadow / T.S. Stribling

Greedy night / E.C. Bentley

The coin of Dionysius / Ernest Bramah

Cabin B-13 / John Dickson Carr

Some kinds of bad luck / C.S. Forester

The inner circle / Ellery Queen

The stripper / Anthony Boucher

The perfect maid / Agatha Christie

The missing Shakespeare Ms. / Lillian de la Torre

The man who murdered in public / Roy Vickers

Squeeze play / Leonard Thompson

Queen's quorum: the 101 most important books of detective-crime short stories / Ellery Queen

Check list of Queen's quorum.

Notes:

Chiefly short stories.

Includes bibliographical references.

Contains:

Queen, Ellery. Queen's quorum.

Queen's quorum.

OCLC:

1487164