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The mammoth book of comic crime / edited by Maxim Jakubowski.
Van Pelt Library PN6071.D45 M273 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Detective and mystery stories, English.
- Detective and mystery stories, American.
- Humorous stories, English.
- Humorous stories, American.
- Genre:
- Detective and mystery stories, English.
- Detective and mystery stories, American.
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 580 pages ; 20 cm
- Other Title:
- Comic crime
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2002.
- Summary:
- Bungling burglars, hit-or-miss hitmen, and not-so-wise guys conspire for hilarity and misadventure in stories from today's best writers, from Donald E. Westlake to Terry Pratchett.
- Contents:
- My mother was a bank robber / Nicholas Blincoe
- Liz Peters, PI / Elizabeth Peters
- A double-barreled detective story / Mark Twain
- The Pomeranian poisoning / Peter Lovesey
- The man who shot Kennedy / Mark Blake
- Here comes Santa Claus / Bill Pronzini
- The strange tale of Hector's angel / Mike Phillips
- Chapter the last / Alex Atkinson
- The lion of Draksville / Julian Rathbone
- The absolute and utter impossibility of the facts in the case of the vanishing of Henning Vok / Jack Adrian
- The great detective / Peter Guttridge
- Smeltdown / Mike Ripley
- Taking care of Frank / Antony Mann
- And the buttocks gleamed by night / Mat Coward
- The last snow-flake in Texas / Liz Evans
- A sort of Miss Marple? / H R F Keating
- The story-bag / Philip Gooden
- Slaughter in the Strand / Keith Miles
- The chicken / Jurgen Ehlers
- The postman only rings when he can be bothered / Peter Guttridge
- Father Brown in Muncie, Indiana / Ruth Dudley Edwards
- Tickled to death / Simon Brett
- The Dettweiler solution / Lawrence Block
- Big survivor / Peter T Garratt
- Dr Bud, CA / Michael Z Lewin
- Malice in Blunderland / Kevin Goldstein-Jackson
- Driving forces / Carol Anne Davis
- Hopper and Pink / Barry Fantoni
- Where do you find your ideas? / Martin Edwards
- Death by a thousand cuts / Rebecca Tope
- The trouble and the strife / Catherine Aird
- Brotherly love / Mike Ripley
- An acquaintance with Mr. Collins
- Come again? / Donald E Westlake
- Cry wolf / Hilary Bonner
- "It's clever, but is it art?" / M J Trow
- One for the Monet / David Stuart Davies
- Who killed Pyramus? / Amy Myers
- The Hampstead vegetable heist / Mat Coward
- The eleventh labour / David Wishart
- The stolen white elephant / Mark Twain
- Bampot Central / Christopher Brookmyre.
- Notes:
- Comic crime.
- ISBN:
- 0786710020
- OCLC:
- 50047302
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