✍ Scribed by Joan Aiken; Suzanne Blanc; Robert Bloch; Michael Butterworth; Rod Amateau; David Davis; Miriam Allen deFord; Stanley Ellin; Robert L. Fish; Celia Fremlin; Elsin Ann Gardner; Ron Goulart; Patricia Highsmith; Ross MacDonald; Al Nussbaum; Ellery Queen; Fred S. Tobey; Lawrence Treat; Don Von Elsner; Donald E. Westlake; Cornell Woolrich
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CRIME AND MYSTERY STORIES BY
20 VENDORS OF VILLAINY
Mystery Writers of America is pleased to present this sinister volume of larceny, deception, and murder, brought to you by the very finest purveyors of perfidy.
Donald E. Westlake tells a tale of a cheating wife who tries to turn the tables on her blackmailer, only to find herself caught in a bigger web of lies than she could have imagined. From Robert Bloch comes a story of a man whose very best friend has the very worst plans for his wife. Miriam Allen deFord tells the mystery of a family that is disappearing off the face of the Earth, one by one. And master of suspense Cornell Woolrich takes us south of the border for a sultry tale of jealousy, death, and revenge from beyond the grave.
And now that the transaction is complete, there is nothing left but to open the book and lose yourself in any one of these twenty suspenseful stories, each written by a true merchant of menace.<br...
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