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686

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Cover of: The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories
The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories
1997, Oxford University Press
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1996, Oxford University Press
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Table of Contents

Containing 34 stories, this anthology explores the historical development of American detective fiction over a span of 150 years - from Edgar Allan Poe in the 1840s to Marcia Muller in the 1990s. The selections represent variety in chronological period, narrative voice, geography, and milieu
Description: 686 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Murders in the Rue Morgue / Edgar Allan Poe --
Stolen cigar case / Bret Harte --
Problem of cell 13 / Jacques Futrelle --
Doomdorf mystery / Melville Davisson Post --
Missing: page thirteen / Anna Katharine Green --
Beauty mask / Arthur B. Reeve --
A jury of her peers / Susan Glaspell --
False Burton Combs / Carroll John Daly --
Keyboard of silence / Clinton H. Stagg --
A nose for news / Richard Sale --
Spider / Mignon G. Eberhart --
Leg man / Erle Stanley Gardner --
I'll be waiting / Raymond Chandler --
Footprint in the sky / John Dickson Carr --
Rear window / Cornell Woolrich --
Lipstick / Mary Roberts Rinehart --
Homicide highball / Robert Leslie Bellem --
An error in chemistry / William Faulkner --
From another world / Clayton Rawson --
A daylight adventure / T. S. Stribling --
See no evil / William Campbell Gault --
Crime must have a stop / Anthony Boucher --
Small homicide / Ed McBain --
Guilt-edged blonde / Ross Macdonald --
Christmas party / Rex Stout --
A matter of public notice / Dorothy Salisbury Davis --
Adventure of Abraham Lincoln's clue / Ellery Queen --
Words do not a book make / Bill Pronzini --
Christmas is for cops / Edward D. Hoch --
Lucky penny / Linda Barnes --
Parker shotgun / Sue Grafton --
Chee's witch / Tony Hillerman --
Benny's space / Marcia Muller.
Other Titles: American detective stories
Responsibility: edited by Tony Hillerman, Rosemary Herbert.

Edition Notes

Includes index.

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New York
Other Titles
American detective stories

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.087208
Library of Congress
PS648.D4 O98 1996, PS648.D4O98 1996

The Physical Object

Pagination
686 p. ;
Number of pages
686

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1273146M
ISBN 10
0195085817
LCCN
95004504
Library Thing
483236
Goodreads
510991

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