Classic Crime Stories: 13 Tales from Edgar Allan Poe to Lawrence Block
Prepare for sleuthful suspense at its very best! This anthology of tantalizing tales includes thirteen of literature's finest crime stories. Enjoy the genre's most glittering jewels, including the first detective story ever written, Edgar Allan Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue," and G. K. Chesterton's "The Blue Cross," the mystery that introduced the world-famous Father Brown. This collection also boasts such crime classics as:
• "A Scandal in Bohemia" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
• "The Gutting of Couffignal" (Dashiell Hammett)
• "I'll Be Waiting" (Raymond Chandler)
• "The Problem of Cell 13" (Jacques Futrelle)
• "By the Dawn's Early Light" (Lawrence Block)
and six more thrill-filled masterpieces.
A short-story collection of unforgettable plots, murder methods, clues, and characters, Classic Crime Stories will satisfy readers' appetites for the expertly crafted whodunit!
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Classic Crime Stories: 13 Tales from Edgar Allan Poe to Lawrence Block
Prepare for sleuthful suspense at its very best! This anthology of tantalizing tales includes thirteen of literature's finest crime stories. Enjoy the genre's most glittering jewels, including the first detective story ever written, Edgar Allan Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue," and G. K. Chesterton's "The Blue Cross," the mystery that introduced the world-famous Father Brown. This collection also boasts such crime classics as:
• "A Scandal in Bohemia" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
• "The Gutting of Couffignal" (Dashiell Hammett)
• "I'll Be Waiting" (Raymond Chandler)
• "The Problem of Cell 13" (Jacques Futrelle)
• "By the Dawn's Early Light" (Lawrence Block)
and six more thrill-filled masterpieces.
A short-story collection of unforgettable plots, murder methods, clues, and characters, Classic Crime Stories will satisfy readers' appetites for the expertly crafted whodunit!
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Classic Crime Stories: 13 Tales from Edgar Allan Poe to Lawrence Block

Classic Crime Stories: 13 Tales from Edgar Allan Poe to Lawrence Block

Classic Crime Stories: 13 Tales from Edgar Allan Poe to Lawrence Block

Classic Crime Stories: 13 Tales from Edgar Allan Poe to Lawrence Block

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Overview

Prepare for sleuthful suspense at its very best! This anthology of tantalizing tales includes thirteen of literature's finest crime stories. Enjoy the genre's most glittering jewels, including the first detective story ever written, Edgar Allan Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue," and G. K. Chesterton's "The Blue Cross," the mystery that introduced the world-famous Father Brown. This collection also boasts such crime classics as:
• "A Scandal in Bohemia" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
• "The Gutting of Couffignal" (Dashiell Hammett)
• "I'll Be Waiting" (Raymond Chandler)
• "The Problem of Cell 13" (Jacques Futrelle)
• "By the Dawn's Early Light" (Lawrence Block)
and six more thrill-filled masterpieces.
A short-story collection of unforgettable plots, murder methods, clues, and characters, Classic Crime Stories will satisfy readers' appetites for the expertly crafted whodunit!

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780486456829
Publisher: Dover Publications
Publication date: 06/26/2007
Series: Dover Literature: Crime/Mystery/Thriller Short Stories
Pages: 304
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

James Daley is the editor of several Dover editions, including The World's Greatest Short Stories, Favorite Christmas Poems, Great Speeches by African Americans, and Great Writers on the Art of Fiction.

Table of Contents

Edgar Allen Poe
The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A Scandal in Bohemia (1891)
E. W. Hornung
A Costume Piece (1899)
Anna Katharine Green
Midnight in Beauchamp Row (1900)
Baroness Orczy
The Case of Miss Elliot (1905)
Jacques Futrelle
The Problem of Cell 13 (1907)
G. K. Chesterton
The Blue Cross (1911)
R. Austin Freeman
The Case of Oscar Brodski (1911)
Dashiell Hammett
The Gutting of Couffignal (1924)
James M. Cain
Pastorale (1928)
Raymond Chandler
I’ll Be Waiting (1939)
Patricia Highsmith
Slowly, Slowly in the Wind (1972)
Lawrence Block
By the Dawn’s Early Light (1994)
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