"Entertaining and authoritative, this alphabetically arranged companion is an indispensable reference guide to crime and mystery writing. Unique in its biographical and critical treatment of major detective writers, it is a comprehensive digest to the gen
This fantastic new collection picks up where Dorothy L. Sayers left off, bringing together monumental, important,and entertaining works of short crime fiction published over eight decades from the era of the Great Depression to the first years of the twenty-first century.
Contents:-The Cast of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe-The Silver Protector by Ellis Parker Butler-A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell-The Other Hangman by Carter Dickson-Murder at the Automat by Cornell Woolrich-Red Wind by Raymond Chandler-The Couple Next Door by Margaret Millar-So Pale, So Cold, So Fair by Leigh Brackett-Take Care of Yourself by William Campbell Gault-The Sailing Club by David Ely-The Oblong Room by Edward D. Hoch-First Lead Gasser by Tony Hillerman
Twenty-five stories on crime at sea. They range from George Simenon's Two Bodies on a Barge to Honeymoon Cruise by Saho Sasazawa. The period covered is from the 1890s to the 1990s.