A Century of Great Suspense Stories (2001) Anthology

✍ Scribed by Various, Jeffery Deaver (editor)

• Book ID: 111881350
• Publisher: Berkley Hardcover
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 461 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780425181928

✦ Synopsis

"... Make a cup of tea or pour a glass of whisky, sit yourself down comfortably in your favorite chair, and enjoy the highlights of a hundred years of writing by men and women who love nothing more than to take their readers on a brief, but delightful, literary roller coaster ride..."

Includes the following 36 stories:

THE GENTLEMAN IN THE LAKE—Robert Barnard

LIFE IN OUR TIME—Robert Bloch

BATMAN’S HELPERS—Lawrence Block

THE GIRL WHO MARRIED A MONSTER—Anthony Boucher

THE WENCH IS DEAD—Fredric Brown

CIGARETTE GIRL—James M. Cain

A MATTER OF PRINCIPAL—Max Allan Collins

THE WEEKENDER—Jeffery Deaver

REASONS UNKNOWN—Stanley Ellin

KILLING BERNSTEIN—Harlan Ellison

LEG MAN—Erle Stanley Gardner

ONE OF THOSE DAYS, ONE OF THOSE NIGHTS—Ed Gorman

MISSING: PAGE THIRTEEN—Anna Katharine Green

VOIR DIRE—Jeremiah Healy

CHEE’S WITCH—Tony Hillerman

INTERPOL: THE CASE OF THE MODERN MEDUSA—Edward D. Hoch

QUITTERS, INC.—Stephen King

SO YOUNG, SO FAIR, SO DEAD—John Lutz

NOR IRON BARS—John D. MacDonald

GUILT-EDGED BLONDE—Ross Macdonald

RED CLAY—Michael Malone

POETIC JUSTICE—Steve Martini

A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS—Ed McBain

AMONG MY SOUVENIRS—Snaryn McCrumb

THE PEOPLE ACROSS THE CANYON—Margaret Millar

BENNY’S SPACE—Marcia Muller

HEARTBREAK HOUSE—Sara Paretsky

STACKED DECK—Bill Pronzini

THE ADVENTURE OF THE DAUPHIN DOLL—Ellery Queen

BURNING END—Ruth Rendell

CARRYING CONCEALED—Lisa Scottoline

THE LITTLE HOUSE AT CROIX-ROUSSE—Georges Simenon

THE GIRL BEHIND THE HEDGE—Mickey Spillane

FOURTH OF JULY PICNIC—Rex Stout

LADY HILLARY—Janwillem van de Wetering

THIS IS DEATH—Donald E. Westlake