Anthologies
Contributors include Christianna Brand, H.R. F. Keating, Emma Lathen, Julian Symons and nine others. The scoop on Agatha Cristie and her highly regarded mysteries. New York: Holt, Rienhart and Winston, 1977. Second printing. 6.75" x 10" tall; 219 pages with Index and including bio sketches of contributors.
First edition bound in gray cloth with red lettering. About Fine copy, Owner's address label is on the endpapers & his name is stamped to the edge of the page blocks else fine. DJ is VG with small frays to the head of the spine & light rubbing.
The Crime Writers' Association's 1991 short-story collection of macabre, funny, bloodcurdling, tongue-in-cheek, historical and clever tales. Contributors include Robert Barnard, Simon Brett, Antonia Fraser, Reginald Hill, Peter Lovesey, Julian Symons and Margaret Yorke.
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Presenting twenty six tales of seasonal malice, this mystery anthology features the works of Agatha Christie, Woody Allen, Ellery Queen, Rex Stout, Dorothy L. Sayers, Damon, Runyon, O. Henry, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, and many other authors.
Gathers Sherlock Holmes stories by Poul Anderson, Anthony Boucher, John Dickson Carr, Philip Jose Farmer, H.R.F. Keating, Stephen Leacock, John Lennon, and P.G. Wodehouse
Gathers mystery stories by Ruth Rendell, Catherine Aird, Simon Brett, Sara Paretsky, H.R.F. Keating, and Dick Francis
An anthology of crime stories commissioned by the Detection Club in celebration of Julian Symons' 80th birthday. As a tribute to Symons' contribution to the world of crime fiction, Peter Lovesey, Ruth Rendell, Antonia Fraser, Len Deighton and others have written a short story in his honour.
A third collection of crime tales from the Crime Writers' Association includes the writings of Ruth Rendell, Sara Paretsky, William G. Tapply, and Donald E. Westlake, and features tales involving marital addictions, Chinese necromancy, good deeds, and bank vault alarms.
The Crown Crime Companion The Top 100 Mystery Novels Of All Time Selected by the Mystery Writers Of America Annotated by 0tto Penzler and Compiled by Mickey Friedman For The Crown Crime Companion, the Mystery Writers of America have compiled a list of the best 100 mystery novels of all time, as well as a list of favorites in ten categories. Fully annotated and reviewed by Otto Penzler, this list of the top 100 mysteries will be a valuable resource to fans, introducing them to new novels and reminding them about books by favorite writers they may have missed. Each of the ten category lists is introduced by a master of that category: Classics: Suspense: Hardboiled/Private Eye: Police Procedural: Espionage/Thriller: Criminal: Cozy/Traditional: Historical: Humorous: Legal/Courtroom: H.R.F. Keating Mary Higgins Clark Sue Grafton Joseph Wambaugh John Gardner Richard Condon Margaret Maron Peter Lovesey Gregory Mcdonald Scott Turow
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Climb on board the Orion express with Ian Rankin, Ed McBain, Peter Straub, H.R.F. Keating, Peter Lovesey and many more for what promises to be the perfect journey in search of the perfect crime ... Fifteen men and women out for justice. Deception, betrayal, greed, revenge, hate and psychosis: fifteen motives, fifteen brand new novellas from writers at the cutting edge of contemporary crime fiction. In Criminal Records, editor Otto Penzler offers you the chance to catch up on some old friends - and meet several new ones. Whether youre taking driving lessons with Ed McBain, assisting Rankins Inspector Rebus in his search for a missing person, listening to a jazz musicians haunting story with Peter Straub, or solving the mystery of the murder of an English headmaster in the hills above Bombay with H.R.F. Keatings Inspector Ghote, you're already an accessory. Turn the pages and you're an accomplice. This more than generous helping of original crime stories will satisfy every kind of criminal appetite.