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1. The Arbor House Treasury of Mystery and Suspense
by Martin Harry Greenberg (Editor), Barry N. Malzberg (Editor), Bill Pronzini (Editor)
An anthology of mystery and suspense tales includes works by Doyle, Ambler, Steinbeck, Buck, Shaw, McBain, Oates, Malamud, Spillane, Garfield, and ... More
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2. Motherhood Is Murder
by Mary Daheim
A collection of four mini-mysteries from the Queens of Cozy includes stories--all spectacularly seasoned with a mother's loving touch--by Mary Dahiem ... More
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3. The Shamus Game: 14 New Stories of Detective Fiction
by Robert J Randisi (Editor)
From the Private Eye Writers of America comes this collection of all-new stories by an all-star lineup of Shamus Award winners, edited by the ... More
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4. Three Complete Novels: The Timothy Files, Timothy's Game, Sullivan's Sting
by Lawrence Sanders
Three novels staring Archy McNally's South Florida sleuthing.
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5. Murder for Revenge
by Otto Penzler (Editor)
This is a collection of 12 original stories by such crime writers as Lawrence Block, Mary Higgins Clark, Thomas H. Cook, Eric Lustbader, Philip ... More
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6. When the Women Come Out to Dance: Stories
by Elmore Leonard
In this first collection of short pieces, including two novella-length works, the unrivaled master of crime demonstrates the superb characterization, ... More
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7. The Dain Curse, the Glass Key, and Selected Stories
by Dashiell Hammett, James Ellroy (Introduction by)
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) One of the most popular American writers of the twentieth century, Dashiell Hammett gave us crime fiction stripped ... More
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8. Great Detectives
by David W McCullough (Editor)
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9. The Best American Mystery Stories
by Scott Turow (Editor), Otto Penzler (Editor)
"[Most of] these stories are portraits, in styles ranging from sly to harrowing, of how crimes occurred ... If you like all your characters living at ... More
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11. Great Stories of Suspense
by Ross MacDonald
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12. Hammett Crime Stories and Other Writings
by Dashiell Hammett, Steven Marcus (Selected by)
In scores of stories written for Black Mask and other pulp magazines in the 1920s and 1930s, Dashiell Hammett used the vernacular adventure tale to ... More
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13. An Officer and a Lady and Other Stories
The sexes battle, the head feuds with emotions it cannot control, and crime extorts, strikes, and kills but does not pay, in this collection of 16 ... More
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14. A Century of Detection: Twenty Great Mystery Stories, 1841-1940
by John Cullen Gruesser (Editor)
"Appropriate for the general reader and the student, this wide-ranging anthology of mystery stories provides a chronological and thematic survey of ... More
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16. The Deadly Arts
by Bill Pronzini, Marcia Muller
This collection of mystery and suspense stories that involve artistic endeavors and backdrops includes works by such notable authors as Dashiell ... More
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18. Long Live the Dead: Tales from the Black Mask
by Hugh B Cave
Cave is the last living writer to contribute to Black Mask, which created the private-eye story with tales by Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. ... More
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23. The Velvet Touch
by Edward D Hoch
Edward D. Hoch's latest collection contains 14 stories about Nick Velvet, the choosey crook who steals only the seemingly valueless -- a bald man's ... More
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24. Learning to Kill: Stories
These are the 25 stories that prepared Evan Hunter to become Ed McBain, and that prepared McBain to write the beloved 87th Precinct novels. In ... More
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25. Murder Past, Murder Present
by R Barri Flowers (Editor), Jan Grape (Editor)
Murder Past, Murder Present is a superb collection of historical and contemporary tales of mystery and suspense by bestselling, award-winning authors ... More
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