Anthologies

Pocket Book No. 117. 1941 anthology of 18 mystery stories. -Manner, Thomas Beer -Back for Christmas, John Collier (1939) -The Body of the Crime, Wilbur Daniel Steele (1930) -The Dancing Stones, Edgar Wallace (1910) -Seaton’s Aunt, Walter De La Mare (1923) -A Jungle Graduate, James Francis Dwyer (1932) -How Love Came to Professor Guildea, Robert Hitchens (1900) -Casting the Runes, M. R. James (1911) -The Inexperienced Ghost, H. G. Wells (1902) -Lukundoo, Edward Lukas White (1927) -The Ghost at Massingham Mansions, Ernest Bramah (1914) -The Case of Jacob Heylyn, Leonard R. Gribble (1937) -The Motive, Ronald Knox (1937) -Prince Charlie’s Dirk, Eden Phillpotts (1926) -The Fool’s Heart, Eugene Manlove Rhodes (1909) -A. V. Laider, Max Beerbohm (1919) -The Open Window, Saki (1911) -Gemini, G. B. Stern (1929)

American and English Masterpiece mysteries by Faulkner, Christie, Doyle, Charles Dickens, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edgar Wallace, H G Wells, Edgar Allan Poe and others

Trace the hard-boiled mystery back to its roots with this collection of twenty-eight detective stories set in tough, urban settings. From classics by Poe and Vidocq to contemporary favorites such as Hammett and Spillane, this is a literary feast for all mystery fans. Introduction / David Willis McCullough -- The simple art of murder / Raymond Chandler -- The clue of the yellow curtains / Francois Eugene Vidocq -- The mystery of Marie Roget / Edgar Allen Poe -- The lodger / Marie Belloc Lowndes -- Princess Sonia's bath / Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre -- The investors / Edgar Wallace -- The tenth clew / Dashiell Hammett -- The rubber trumpet / Roy Vickers -- No proof / Yoh Sano -- Dead-end for Delia / William Campbell Gault -- At the Etoile du Nord / Georges Simenon -- I always get the cuties / John D. MacDonald -- This world, then the fireworks / Jim Thompson -- The gold fever tapes / Mickey Spillane -- Wild goose chase / Ross MacDonald -- The nine-to-five man / Stanley Ellin -- Small homocide / Ed McBain -- Blind man with a pistol / Chester Himes -- Pigeon blood / Paul Cain -- Just one of those days / Donald E. Westlake -- Election day / Joseph Hansen -- The Parker shotgun / Sue Grafton -- The Johore murders / Paul Theroux -- Sure, blue, and dead, too / Janwillem van de Wetering -- Skin deep / Sara Paretsky -- Death by water / William Marshall -- Flake piece / Carolyn Wheat -- Dead soldier / Loren D. Estleman -- Double indemnity, the screenplay / Raymond Chandler and Billy Wilder

From the puzzle tale in Alexandre Dumas' "The Man of the Knife" to Gerald Tollesfrud's police procedural "Switch," this richly varied collection spans more than 200 years and encompasses virtually every kind of crime story. Ernest Leong's "Incense Sticks" offers a taste of noir thriller. Allen Beack's "Always Together" features dark, bloody fratricide. Ferenc Molnar's "The Best Policy" tells a fasinating tale of embezzlement, while Gary Lovisi's "New Blood" stars a compelling serial killer. There's kidnapping in Edgar Wallace's "The Slavemaker," bigamy in Joyce Kilmer's "Whitemail," drive-by shootings in Dane Gregory's "Jackie Won't Be Home," and a crime so bizarre in Geoggrey Vace's "The Hard-Luck Kid" that it simply defies classification. Each one will get the blood racing and the mind working in overdrive.