The Mystery Hall of Fame: An Anthology of Classic Mystery and Suspense Stories Selected by the Mystery Writers of America (1984)

✍ Scribed by Martin H. Greenberg (editor), Charles G. Waugh (editor), Bill Pronzini (editor)

• Book ID: 111881050
• Publisher: William Morrow and Company, Inc.
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 316 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780688022211

✦ Synopsis

The twenty stories collected for The Mystery Hall of Fame offer a satisfying mix of categories and genres, mystery and suspense at their most skillful, most entertaining, most chilling, most moving—a testimony to the vitality of this field of fiction over many long decades.

Includes the following 20 stories:

THE PURLOINED LETTER—Edgar Allan Poe

THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

THE ORACLE OF THE DOG—G. K. Chesterton

THE MONKEY’S PAW—W. W. Jacobs

THE PROBLEM OF CELL 13—Jacques Futrelle

THE HANDS OF MR. OTTERMOLE—Thomas Burke

THE TWO BOTTLES OF RELISH—Lord Dunsany

THE GUTTING OF COUFFIGNAL—Dashiell Hammett

ACCIDENT—Agatha Christie

RED WIND—Raymond Chandler

REAR WINDOW—Cornell Woolrich

THE HOUSE IN GOBLIN WOOD—John Dickson Carr

DON’T LOOK BEHIND YOU—Fredric Brown

THE NINE MILE WALK—Harry Kemelman

THE SPECIALTY OF THE HOUSE—Stanley Ellin

LOVE LIES BLEEDING—Philip MacDonald

LAMB TO THE SLAUGHTER—Roald Dahl

NO PARKING—Ellery Queen

THE OBLONG ROOM—Edward D. Hoch

SWEET FEVER—Bill Pronzini