1 option
Detective stories / chosen by Philip Pullman ; illustrated by Nick Hardcastle.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Red Hot reads.
- Red Hot reads
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Detective and mystery stories.
- Children's stories.
- Short stories.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 223 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Kingfisher, 1998.
- Summary:
- Enjoy a dazzling display of deductive skills and bravery as the most puzzling cases are solved by the likes of Sam Spade, Hercule Poirot, and Sherlock Holmes.
- Contents:
- The speckled band / Arthur Conan Doyle
- Cold money / Ellery Queen
- The adventure of the Egyptian tomb / Agatha Christie
- Emil and the detectives (an extract) / Erich Kastner
- The inspiration of Mr. Budd / Dorothy L. Sayers
- From the files of Inspector Craig / Raymond Smullyan
- Butch minds the baby / Damon Runyon
- Murder at St. Oswald's / Michael Underwood
- The cross of Lorraine / Isaac Asimov
- The newdick helicopter / Leslie Charteris
- More from the files of Inspector Craig / Raymond Smullyan
- The one-handed murderer / Italo Calvino
- The little mystery / E.C. Bentley
- Fingerprinting a ghost / Tony Fletcher (from "Memories of murder")
- It's a hard world / Andrew Vacchs
- Maddened by mystery / Stephen Leacock.
- ISBN:
- 0753456362
- OCLC:
- 37663519
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.