The best American mystery stories of the century / Tony Hillerman, editor ; Otto Penzler, series editor ; with an introduction by Tony Hillerman

Contributor(s): Hillerman, Tony [edt] | Penzler, Otto [edt]Material type: TextTextSeries: Best American seriesPublication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2000Description: xviii, 813 pages ; 24 cmISBN: 0618012672; 9780618012671; 0618012710; 9780618012718Subject(s): Detective and mystery stories, American | Short stories, AmericanAdditional physical formats: Online version:: Best American mystery stories of the century.LOC classification: PS648.D4 | B468 2000Also issued online
Contents:
Retrieved reformation / O. Henry -- Paul's case / Willa Cather -- Problem of cell 13 / Jacques Futrelle -- Blind man's buff / Frederick Irving Anderson -- Naboth's vineyard / Melville Davisson Post -- Jury of her peers / Susan Glaspell -- Gutting of Couffignal / Dashiell Hammett -- Haircut / Ring Lardner -- Blue murder / Wilbur Daniel Steele -- Perfect crime / Ben Ray Redman -- Baby in the icebox / James M. Cain -- Murder / John Steinbeck -- Sense of humor / Damon Runyan -- Ransom / Pearl S. Buck -- Red wind / Raymond Chandler -- Catbird seat / James Thurber -- Rear window / Cornell Woolrich -- Error in chemistry / William Faulkner -- Nine mile walk / Harry Kemelman -- Adventure of the president's half disme / Ellery Queen -- Homesick Buick / John D. MacDonald -- Gone girl / Ross Macdonald -- Moment of decision / Stanley Ellin -- First offense / Evan Hunter -- Couple next door / Margaret Millar -- Day of the execution / Henry Slesar -- Terrapin / Patricia Highsmith -- Possibility of evil / Shirley Jackson -- Comforts of home / Flannery O'Connor -- Good man, bad man / Jerome Weidman -- Goodbye, Pops / Joe Gores -- Whimper of whipped dogs / Harlan Ellison -- Wager / Robert L. Fish -- Do with me what you will / Joyce Carol Oates -- Quitters, Inc. / Stephen King -- Absence of Emily / Jack Ritchie -- By the dawn's early light / Lawrence Block -- Iris / Stephen Greenleaf -- Three-Dot Po / Sara Paretsky -- Parker shotgun / Sue Grafton -- Too many crooks / Donald E. Westlake -- Hot springs / James Crumley -- Dark snow / Brendan DuBois -- Red clay / Michael Malone -- Poachers / Tom Franklin -- Running out of dog / Dennis Lehane
Summary: A collection of the best in mystery writing includes contributions by O. Henry, Dashiell Hammett, Ring Lardner, Ernest Hemingway, Ellery Queen, James Thurber, Sue Grafton, Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, Sara Paretsky, John Steinbeck, and Mickey Spillane
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Retrieved reformation / O. Henry -- Paul's case / Willa Cather -- Problem of cell 13 / Jacques Futrelle -- Blind man's buff / Frederick Irving Anderson -- Naboth's vineyard / Melville Davisson Post -- Jury of her peers / Susan Glaspell -- Gutting of Couffignal / Dashiell Hammett -- Haircut / Ring Lardner -- Blue murder / Wilbur Daniel Steele -- Perfect crime / Ben Ray Redman -- Baby in the icebox / James M. Cain -- Murder / John Steinbeck -- Sense of humor / Damon Runyan -- Ransom / Pearl S. Buck -- Red wind / Raymond Chandler -- Catbird seat / James Thurber -- Rear window / Cornell Woolrich -- Error in chemistry / William Faulkner -- Nine mile walk / Harry Kemelman -- Adventure of the president's half disme / Ellery Queen -- Homesick Buick / John D. MacDonald -- Gone girl / Ross Macdonald -- Moment of decision / Stanley Ellin -- First offense / Evan Hunter -- Couple next door / Margaret Millar -- Day of the execution / Henry Slesar -- Terrapin / Patricia Highsmith -- Possibility of evil / Shirley Jackson -- Comforts of home / Flannery O'Connor -- Good man, bad man / Jerome Weidman -- Goodbye, Pops / Joe Gores -- Whimper of whipped dogs / Harlan Ellison -- Wager / Robert L. Fish -- Do with me what you will / Joyce Carol Oates -- Quitters, Inc. / Stephen King -- Absence of Emily / Jack Ritchie -- By the dawn's early light / Lawrence Block -- Iris / Stephen Greenleaf -- Three-Dot Po / Sara Paretsky -- Parker shotgun / Sue Grafton -- Too many crooks / Donald E. Westlake -- Hot springs / James Crumley -- Dark snow / Brendan DuBois -- Red clay / Michael Malone -- Poachers / Tom Franklin -- Running out of dog / Dennis Lehane

A collection of the best in mystery writing includes contributions by O. Henry, Dashiell Hammett, Ring Lardner, Ernest Hemingway, Ellery Queen, James Thurber, Sue Grafton, Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, Sara Paretsky, John Steinbeck, and Mickey Spillane

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