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(2.8) | None | Match wits with great detectives, devious criminals, and some of the finest minds in the all-time annals of detective literature. From crime-suspense (Tom Curry's "The Sign") to hard-boiled fiction ("A Hand of Pinochle") to modern noir ("Soul's Burning" by Bill Pronzini), the scope of these 100 detective stories is as wide as the tales are short. They're the brainchildren of such top names as James M. Barrie ("The Adventure of the Two Collaborators"), O. Henry ("The Mystery of the Rue de Peychaud"), Charles Dickens ("An Artful Touch"), Bret Harte ("The Stolen Cigar-Case"), Jack London ("The Leopard Man's Story"), R.L. Stevens ("The Carnival Caper"), Stephen Deninger ("Damsel with a Derringer"), Nick Spain ("Duck Behind that Eight-Ball!"), and countless others. There's even one by Abraham Lincoln, "The Trailor Murder Mystery," which appeared in 1843. Prison breakouts, grand larceny, homicide: trying to solve these tricky cases will be a treat for all mystery fans.… (more) |
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▾References References to this work on external resources. Wikipedia in EnglishNone ▾Book descriptions Match wits with great detectives, devious criminals, and some of the finest minds in the all-time annals of detective literature. From crime-suspense (Tom Curry's "The Sign") to hard-boiled fiction ("A Hand of Pinochle") to modern noir ("Soul's Burning" by Bill Pronzini), the scope of these 100 detective stories is as wide as the tales are short. They're the brainchildren of such top names as James M. Barrie ("The Adventure of the Two Collaborators"), O. Henry ("The Mystery of the Rue de Peychaud"), Charles Dickens ("An Artful Touch"), Bret Harte ("The Stolen Cigar-Case"), Jack London ("The Leopard Man's Story"), R.L. Stevens ("The Carnival Caper"), Stephen Deninger ("Damsel with a Derringer"), Nick Spain ("Duck Behind that Eight-Ball!"), and countless others. There's even one by Abraham Lincoln, "The Trailor Murder Mystery," which appeared in 1843. Prison breakouts, grand larceny, homicide: trying to solve these tricky cases will be a treat for all mystery fans. ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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Contains: - According to Plan / Ray Darby
- Adventure of the Baritone Singer / George Barton
- Adventure of the Table Foot / Zero
- Adventure of the Two Collaborators / James M. Barrie
- Adventures of Shamrock Jones / O. Henry
- Affirmative Action / Jon L. Breen
- Anchor the Stiff / Dan Gordon
- Artful Touch / Charles Dickens
- Axe to Grind / Curt Hamlin
- Behind Murder's Eight-Ball / Don James
- Better Hands / Dale Clark
- Bloodless Corpse / O.R. Dale
- Bread Ahead / C.J. Henderson
- Cache and Carry / Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini
- Calling Dr. Death / C. William Harrison
- Cap'n Sleeps / John Earl Davis
- Carnival Caper / R.L. Stevens
- Case of the Barking Beagle / R.L. Stevens
- Checkmated! / Coretta Slavska
- Clarion Call / O. Henry
- Clincher / Jack Foxx
- Cop and the Lady / Booton Herndon
- Cop Maker / Ronald Henderson
- Course of Justice / Hugh B. Cave
- Curtains for Kelly / John Randolph Phillips
- Cut Glass / Frederick Arnold Kummer, Jr.
- Damsel with a Derringer / Stephen Dentinger
- Dead Go Overboard / Fenton W. Earnshaw
- Death Racket / Frederick Arnold Kummer, Jr.
- Deer That Ate a Diamond / Edward D. Hoch
- Detective for a Day / Walt Sheldon
- Die Before Bedtime / Walt Sheldon
- Dogs Know / Gary Lovisi
- Duck Behind That Eight-Ball! / Nick Spain
- Dust / James W. Holden
- Escape / Jack Foxx
- Exhibit D / John Maclay
- Extra Service / John Mallory
- Eye-Witness / Donald S. Aitken
- Eye Witness / David X. Manners
- Friend of Davy Jones' / Dan Gordon
- Granny Gumption Solves a Murder / C.J. Henderson and Charles Hoffman
- Hand of Pinochle / Theodore Tinsley
- Harsh Light of Day / Wayne D. Dundee
- Heir-in-a-Hurry / Morris Cooper
- Higher Education / Sidney Waldo
- Hip and Thigh / H.H. Matteson
- If the Body Fits — / Larry Holden
- Ignorance of Art / Vincent Hall
- Incident in a Neighborhood Tavern / Bill Pronzini
- In the Library / W.W. Jacobs
- Ink's Jinx / Anthony Clemens
- Irreducible Detective Story / Stephen Leacock
- Kansas City Connection / Wayne McMillan
- Knit One – Kill Two / Fergus Truslow
- Leopard Man's Story / Jack London
- Man Who Collected "The Shadow" / J.V. Drexel
- Man Who Died Too Often / David Crewe
- Mann Act / Michael A. Black
- Memento Mori / Alex Saxon
- Mrs. Belcourt Draws a Bier / Alan Ritner Anderson
- Murder at Rose Cottage / Edward D. Hoch
- Murderer's Handicap / Alex Barber
- Murder Offstage / R.L. Stevens
- Murder on the Limited / Howard Finney
- Mystery of the Rue de Peychaud / O. Henry
- Naked in Darkness / Hugh B. Cave
- Night Watch / Scott O'Hara
- Night Work / Gerald Tollesfrud
- Novel Forgery / Rodrigues Ottolengui
- Old Calamity's Stick-Up / Joseph Fulling Fishman
- Old Guy / Maitland Leroy Osborne
- Outside Ledge / L.T. Meade and Robert Eustace
- Packed House / Robert Zacks
- Pattern / Alex Saxon
- Point of Honor / Larry Segriff
- Rosary / Michael A. Black
- Safety Deposit / B.B. Fowler
- Seventieth Number / Stephen Dentinger
- Shroud with a Silver Lining / Marion Lineaweaver
- Sign / Tom Curry
- Sign of the "400" / R.K. Munkittrick
- Smoke Sign / Dale Clark
- Smothered Mate / Stephen Dentinger
- Snapping Out of It / Bruce Holland Rogers
- Something Green / Edward D. Hoch
- Something Wrong / Bill Pronzini
- Souls Burning / Bill Pronzini
- Spell of the Black Siren / Dick Donovan
- Stolen Cigar-Case / Bret Harte
- Summer's End / William Manners
- Terrarium Principle / J.V. Drexel
- Three Men and a Corpse / Victor K. Ray
- Today's Special – Poison! / V.E. Thiessen
- Trailor Murder Mystery / Abraham Lincoln
- Tulip in the Snow / John McCurnin
- Umbrosa Burglary / R.C. Lebmann
- Waiting / Jim Knapp
- While the Cat's Away / Dorothy Dunn
- Wire-Pullers / Morris Cooper
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Once you've dredged the history of mystery for short short stories--and I bet the complete set exhausted pretty much all of them--you really start to hit the dregs, and there's too many of these stories that flop completely. Not all of them; it pretty much covers the range from top to bottom.
Besides the contents, an anthology also rises or fails based on its structure, and this one fails. The stories are alphabetical order, which is as bad as random, breaking one pair of stories with the same characters up, and reversing their chronologically order. There's no biography on the author, not even birth & death dates, nor dates of writing or first publication. It leaves everything a little context-less and hard to place.
Okay, so it will continue to sit by my bedstand until I'll read the last 50 stories. It has value to me as a large collection of short-short stories in one volume. But I feel after I've read every last sentence, I will still be mildly disappointed. ( )