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The Oxford book of American detective stories / edited by Tony Hillerman, Rosemary Herbert.

Hillerman, Tony. (Added Author). Herbert, Rosemary. (Added Author).

Summary:

A collection of 34 detective stories, tracing the development of the genre from Edgar Allan Poe's The Murder in the Rue Morgue, through William Faulkner's An Error in Chemistry, up to the present.

Record details

ISBN: 9780195085815
Physical Description: 686 pages ; 23 cm
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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.