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Crime classics : the mystery story from Poe to the present / edited by Rex Burns and Mary Rose Sullivan.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating PS648.D4 C75 1990
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Detective and mystery stories, American.
- Detective and mystery stories, English.
- Genre:
- Detective and mystery stories, American.
- Detective and mystery stories, English.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 390 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Viking, 1990.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- "The murders in the rue morgue" (1841) by Edgar Allan Poe
- "The purloined letter" (1844) by Edgar Allan Poe
- "A scandal in Bohemia" (1892) by Arthur Conan Doyle
- The adventure of the speckled band" (1892) by Arthur Conan Doyle
- "The problem of cell 13" (1905) by Jacques Futrelle
- "The invisible man" (1911) by G. K. Chesterton
- "A jury of her peers" (1917) by Susan Glaspell
- "The house in Turk Street" (1923) by Dashiell Hammett
- "The adventurous exploit of the cave of Ali Baba" (1928) by Dorothy L. Sayers
- "The blue geranium" (1932) by Agatha Christie
- "Murder at the automat" (1937) by Cornell Woolrich
- "Hand upon the waters" (1939) by William Faulkner
- "Death and the compass" (1942) by Jorge Luis Borges
- "The adventure of Abraham Lincoln's clue" (1965) by Ellery Queen
- "The comforts of home" (1965) by Flannery O'Connor
- "The sleeping dog" (1965) by Ross Macdonald
- "Sadie when she died" (1972) by Ed McBain
- Suggestions for further reading.
- ISBN:
- 0670832073
- OCLC:
- 21335832
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