Perfect Crimes: My Favorite Mystery Stories

✍ Scribed by Elliott Roosevelt

• Book ID: 104507235
• Publisher: St Martins Press
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 7 MB
• Edition: 1
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780312034115

✦ Synopsis

Elliott Roosevelt, the author of the widely acclaimed series starring his mother, Eleanor, as a fictional detective (Murder in the Rose Garden, Murder in the Oval Office) is a collector and connoisseur of the work of his fellow crime writers. In this superb collection, he shares with readers the pick of his short story library. Discovering that many readers are not aware of the stories included here, stories Roosevelt regards as classics, he has compiled Perfect Crimes to share his pleasure in them.

Each story is prefaced by the editor’s personal comment, worth reading for itself as well as a brief sidelight on the tale. Authors from tum-of-the-century R. Bretnor, Thomas Burke, and Lord Dunsany are here, all the way to the very contemporary Stanley Ellin and Harry Kemelman. There are, as well, stories from authors who, in the thirties and forties, produced some of their best work: Jack Ritchie, that not-enough-appreciated master of the short crime story; the almost legendary Cornell Wtxilrich; a Department of Dead Ends tale by Roy Vickers.

Here also is one of Craig Rice’s popular Private Eye Malone adventures, and humorist Russell Maloney’s famous but too-long-unavailable story of the typing monkeys, “Inflexible Logic,” and Steve Fisher’s “Goodbye, Hannah." Each one is a gem; every one itself worth having the book, for the ten together are a treasure to read and reread with increasing pleasure.