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Amazon.com ReviewEditor of numerous annual collections and an accomplished mystery writer himself, Edward D. Hoch illustrates genres ranging from impossible crime to hard-boiled detective fiction with 12 tales from America's distinguished mystery authors. Hoch's anthology chronicles detective fiction's development from the mid-18th century through the early 1960s. If you're familiar with the classics and are looking for lesser-known selections from such character sleuths as Violet Strange, Uncle Abner, Trevis Tarrant, Sir Henry Merrivale, and Philip Marlowe, this is the book to buy. Twelve American Detective Stories opens appropriately with a more obscure work by the forerunner of mystery, Edgar Allan Poe. In "Thou Art the Man" (1844) a murderer is exposed in a ghastly yet amusing turn of events. Jacques Futrelle's "Thinking Machine," Professor Van Dusen, is master of impossible crime in 'The Stolen Rubens' (1907). C. Daly King's "The Episode of the Nail and the Requiem" (1935), a fair play puzzle, solves the conundrum of a sealed studio with a bloody corpse sprawled inside--the gem of the bunch. Ellery Queen remains faithful to the genre in 1948's "The Dauphin's Doll," a seemingly impossible jewel robbery. Hailed as the first female mystery writer, Anna Katharine Green brings brilliant socialite Violet Strange to center stage in "The Second Bullet" (1915). Craig Rice, née Georgiana Ann Randolph, was briefly one of the best-known female authors of the 1940s. "His Heart Could Break" (1943) features criminal lawyer John J. Malone, who discovers the real motive behind his client's "suicide." Raymond Chandler delivers his famous pulp-fiction gumshoe prose in "The Pencil" (1959) as hard-drinking, womanizing private eye Philip Marlowe thwarts a mob plot, while a desperate murderer thinks he can outwit the cops in "One Drop of Blood" (1962), by the "father of classic noir," Cornell Woolrich. Also featured: Melvill Davisson Post's "The Age of Miracles" (1916); T.S. Stribling's "The Shadow" (1934); "The House in Goblin Wood" (1947) by Carter Dickson (a.k.a. John Dickson Carr); and Mary Roberts Rinehart's "The Splinter" (1955). Introduction and author biographies are included. --Brina Bolanz BBC Television - 78rpm - Dinosaur Discs BBC TV plans for Autumn 1950 Writing in Radio Times Controller of BBC Television Norman Collins outlined their expanded plans. Drama- "as usual well known stage plays." Loot.co.za: Sitemap 9781439109250 1439109257 Diecinueve Minutos Jodi Picoult 9780757504280 0757504280 Music of Many Cultures Dale Olsen 9780918786555 091878655X The Singing Knives ... Spokeo People Search White Pages Find People Spokeo is a people search engine that organizes white pages listings public records and social network information into simple profiles to help you safely find and ... Ideadiez.com is and in to a was not you i of it the be he his but for are this that by on at they with which she or from had we will have an what been one if would who has her ...
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