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An edition of Fourteen Great Detective Stories (1949)

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A revised edition of the work of the same title edited by Vincent Starrett in 1928.
Contents:
Purloined Letter / by Edgar Allan Poe --
The red-headed league / by Arthur Conan Doyle --
The problem of cell 13 / by Jacques Futrelle --
The case of Oscar Brodski / by R. Austin Freeman --
The blue cross / by G.K. Chesterton --
The age of miracles / by Melville Davisson Post --
The little mystery / by E.C. Bentley --
The third-floor flat / by Agatha Christie --
The yellow slugs / by H.C. Bailey --
The bone of contention / by Dorothy L. Sayers --
The adventure of the African traveler / by Ellery Queen --
Instead of evidence / by Rex Stout --
The house in Goblin Wood / by Carter Dickson --
The dancing detective / by Cornell Woolrich.

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Publisher
Modern Library
Language
English
Pages
464

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Subjects
Detective and mystery stories, Short stories, Anthology

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1949-01-01, Modern Library, c 1949 (1960)

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Edition Notes

A rev. ed. of the work of the same title edited by Vincent Starrett in 1928.

Published in
New York
Series
The Modern library of the world's best books [144]

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
808.3
Library of Congress
PZ1.H32 Fo2, PN3448.D4 H3 1949

Contributors

Editor
Howard Haycraft

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiv, 464 p.
Number of pages
464

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24752403M
LCCN
49006111
OCLC/WorldCat
964358

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