The World of Mystery Fiction
by Elliot L. Gilbert, Elliott Gilbert, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, and Jorge Luis Borges
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Victims of my graft / Vidocq --
The prison mazas / William Russell --
Confession found in a prison / Charles Dickens --
Three detective anecdotes / Charles Dickens --
Murders in the rue morgue / Edgar Allan Poe --
Purloined Letter / Edgar Allan Poe / Tell-tale Heart / Edgar Allan Poe --
A scandal in Bohemia / Arthur Conan Doyle --
The red-headed league / Arthur Conan Doyle --
The adventure of the speckled band / Arthur Conan Doyle --
The problem of cell 13 / Jacques Futrelle --
The oracle of the dog / G.K. Chesterson --
The doomdorf mystery / Melville Davisson Post --
The coin of Dionysius / Ernest Bramah --
Uncle Meleger's will / Dorothy L. Sayers --
The mad tea party / Ellery Queen --
Crime in the rue Sainte-Catherine / Georges Simenon --
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 absent-minded coterie / Robert Barr --
The chocolate box / Agatha Christie --
Death and the compass / Jorge Luis Borges.
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American Horror tales, American literature, Children's fiction, Classic Literature, Crime, Crime fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, first-person narrative, Gothic fiction, Homicide, Horror, Horror fiction, Horror stories, Horror tales, Hyperesthesia, Juvenile fiction, Murder, short stories, Mystery and detective stories, monograms, cabinet cards, Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, prima donnas, smoke bombs, banks, detective fiction, Encyclopædia Britannica, pawnbrokers, police inspectors, red hair, amorality, Anglo-Saxons, aristocracy, Juvenile audience, locked-room mysteries, Drama, Private investigators, History and criticism, Detective and mystery fiction, Mystery fictionPeople
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The World of Mystery Fiction
1990, Bowling Green State University Popular Press
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1990, Bowling Green State University Popular Press
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The World of mystery fiction
1983, Bowling Green State University Popular Press
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The world of mystery fiction: a guide
1978, University Extension, University of California, San Diego, Publisher's Inc., Publisher's Inc, Brand: Publisher's Inc
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The World of mystery fiction
1978, University Extension, University of California, San Diego, in cooperation with Publisher's Inc.
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On title page: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, Bowling Green, Ohio.
Includes bibliographical references (p. xxx-xxxi).
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