The Best Crime Stories

The Best Crime Stories

Genre: to-read, own-but-haven-t-read, books-i-have, backlog, did-not-finish, 1-habsburg-spain, mysteries, to-be-read, on-hand-unread, mystery-anthology-collection, owned, c5, fik, my-books, owned-books, mystery-thriller-horror, at-home, habsburg-spain, dnf

Published: 1977

Pages: 749

Rating: 3.33

Language: en

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Publisher: Hamlyn

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Description

A banquet of thrills, chills, questions and arrests from the classic crime authors.

In this volume: The Purloined Letter, Edgar Allan Poe; The Angler’s Story of the Lady of Glenwith Grange, Wilkie Collins; The New Catacomb, Arthur Conan Doyle; The Hammer of God, G.K. Chesterton; The Interruption, W.W. Jacobs; The Gioconda Smile, Aldous Huxley; The Almost Perfect Crime, Henry Holt; The Letter, W. Somerset Maugham; The Farewell Murder, Dashiell Hammett; They Never Get Caught, Margery Allingham; The Siamese Cat, George Goodchild; The Avenging Chance, Anthony Berkeley; The Necklace of Pearls and The Man Who Knew How, Dorothy L. Sayers; The Poetical Policeman, Edgar Wallace; S.O.S. and Wireless, Agatha Christie; The Mallet, James Hilton; Dusk to Dawn, Cornell Woolrich; The Murder, John Steinbeck; Eyewitness, Robert Arthur; Puzzle for Poppy, Patrick Quentin; The Homesick Buick, John D. MacDonald; The Enemy, Charlotte Armstrong; The Conspirators, Michael Gilbert; Double Image, Roy Vickers; Lamb to The Slaughter and The Way Up to Heaven, Roald Dahl; The Necessity of His Condition, Avram Davidson; The Unsuspected, Jay Wilson; You Can’t Be A Little Girl All Your Life, Stanley Ellin; A Day of Encounters, Anthony Gilbert; Foxer, Brian Cleeve; Special Release, Eric Parr; Love Affair, Julian Symons; Scatter His Ashes, Elizabeth Ferrars; Jericho and the Two Ways to Die, Hugh Pentecost; The Niece from Scotland, Christianna Brand; Carrot For A Chestnut, Dick Francis; This One’s A Beauty, Patricia McGerr; The Perfect Servant, Helen Neilsen; Judgement, Mary Kelly; Fixation, Miles Tripp; A Quite Conventional Death, John Garford; The Victim, P.D. James; Suicide or Murder? Jane Aiken Hodge; Accommodation Vacant, Celia Fremlin; Scandal at Sandkop, James McClure; The Man From The White Mountains, Ted Willis.