This collection of charismatic cat stories gives that wayward animal even more mystery. Sixteen tales of enigmatic tabbies and stealthy Siamese are guaranteed to deliver a fur-raising scare. Contributors include Lilian Jackson Braun, Patricia Highsmith, Edward D. Hoch, and 14 others.
The Ripper of Storyville is the first collection about one of Hoch's most imaginative creations, Ben Snow, the 19th-century gunman who is often confused with Billy the Kid. The book contains 14 stories, including 7 rare adventures published more than 30 years ago in The Saint Mystery Magazine. Introduction by the author; Ben Snow chronology and ...
This collection of 15 short stories, 14 of which are drawn from the pages of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine between 1985 and 2000, focus on Michael Vlado, a horse breeder by trade and an amateur detective in his spare time.
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 comb, an overdue library book, a faded flag, a playing card, and so on. And in order to pull off a successful robbery, Nick often has to solve a crime as well -- sometimes the crimes committed by ...
This fabulous collection of mysteries features a blockbuster lineup of writers and sleuths, including Agatha Christie, Ruth Rendell, G.K. Chesterton, Eudora Welty, Henry Slesar, Donald Olsen, William Bunce, Frances Usher, Edward D. Hoch, Sherita Saffer Campbell, Frances and Richard Lockridge, Lord Dunsany, K.D. Wentworth, Dan Crawford, Wye Toole, ...
Murder, kidnapping, and theft are the principal crimes committed in these 12 American detective stories. The victim may be an innocent baby or a double-crossing mobster, the setting a department store or death cell at the state prison, but the detective's intellectual or intuitive powers must be unfailing, whether the important clue is a single ...
Included in this selection of crime and myst ery short stories are pieces written by Marcia Muller, John Harvey and Bill Pronzini. The stories cover every kind of mo dern crime setting. '
This collection is set in New England during the 1920's and the 1930's, and features country doctor Sam Hawthorne who specializes in locked room and other impossible crimes. Among the 12 stories is the classic tale of a horse and buggy that enter a covered bridge -- and vanish. Introduction by the author; Sam Hawthorne chronology and bibliography ...
Following the first two CWA anthologies from Severn House, Perfectly Criminal, whose story Herbert in Motion by lan Rankin won the 1996 CWA Short Story Dagger, and Whydunit?: Perfectly Criminal II, whose story On the Psychiatrist's Couch by Reginald Hill won the 1997 CWA Short Story Dagger, this thrilling collection focuses on historic crimes, ...
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Great British Detectives
by
Martin Harry Greenberg (Editor), Edward D Hoch (Editor)
