Merchants of Menace

✍ Scribed by Hilary Waugh (ed)

• Book ID: 111518821
• Publisher: Mystery Writers of America
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 565 KB
• Series: Mystery Writers of America #5
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

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.

Contents:
Foreword - Lawrence Block
Introduction - Hilary Waugh
H as in Homicide - Lawrence Treat
Domestic Intrigue - Donald E. Westlake
The Front Room - Michael Butterworth
The Real Bad Friend - Robert Bloch
Wide O— - Elsin Ann Gardner
Death on Christmas Eve - Ellery Queen
Gone Girl - Ross Macdonald
The President’s Half Disme - Ellery Queen
Amateur Standing Suzanne Blanc
The Peppermint-Striped Goodbye - Ron Goulart
Marmalade Wine - Joan Aiken
Counter Intelligence - Robert L. Fish
The Man Who Played Too Well - Don Von Elsner
Never Hit a Lady - Fred S. Tobey
Farewell to the Faulkners - Miriam Allen deFord
The Dead Past - Al Nussbaum
The Cries of Love - Patricia Highsmith
Something Evil in the House - Celia Fremlin
The Tilt of Death - Rod Amateau and David Davis
The Moon of Montezuma - Cornell Woolrich