The World of Mystery Fiction (1983) Anthology

✍ Scribed by Elliott Gilbert (editor)

• Book ID: 111880838
• Publisher: Popular Pr of Bowling Green State
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 598 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780879722258

✦ Synopsis

What and why is a mystery story? Who is a detective and where did he (or she) come from? In this collection of mystery classics, Elliot Gilbert maps the geography of the world of mystery fiction from England to France to Belgium to the United States.

Includes the following 24 stories:

IN THE BEGINNING:

VICTIMS OF MY CRAFT—Vidocq

THE PRISON MAZAS—William Russell

CONFESSION FOUND IN A PRISON—Charles Dickens

THREE ‘DETECTIVE’ ANECDOTES—Charles Dickens

POE AND THE FIRST GREAT DETECTIVE:

MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE—Edgar Allan Poe

THE PURLOINED LETTER—Edgar Allan Poe

THE TELL-TALE HEART—Edgar Allan Poe

THE GAME’S AFOOT:

A SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA—Arthur Conan Doyle

THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE—Arthur Conan Doyle

THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND—Arthur Conan Doyle

MORE GREAT DETECTIVES:

THE PROBLEM OF CELL 13—Jacques Futrelle

THE ORACLE OF THE DOG—G.K. Chesterton

THE DOOMDORF MYSTERY—Melville Davisson Post

THE COIN OF DIONYSIUS—Ernest Bramah

THE GOLDEN AGE:

UNCLE MELEAGER’S WILL—Dorothy L. Sayers

THE MAD TEA PARTY—Ellery Queen

CRIME IN THE RUE SAINTE-CATHERINE—Georges Simenon

THE BLACK MASK SCHOOL:

THE HOUSE IN TURK STREET—Dashiell Hammett

I’LL BE WAITING—Raymond Chandler

MURDER AT THE AUTOMAT—Cornell Woolrich

THE SLEEPING DOG—Ross Macdonald

THE LIMITS OF DETECTION:

THE ABSENT-MINDED COTERIE—Robert Barr

THE CHOCOLATE BOX—Agatha Christie

DEATH AND THE COMPASS—Jorge Luis Borges