Title:
- Oxford Book of Detective Stories, The (Anthology)
Authors:
- Vincent Banville
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Gwendoline Butler
- Sarah Caudwell
- Raymond Chandler
- Agatha Christie
- Amanda Cross
- John Charles Dent
- Garry Disher
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Ruth Dudley Edwards
- R. Austin Freeman
- Jacques Futrelle
- Erle Stanley Gardner
- Sue Grafton
- Dashiell Hammett
- Stuart M. Kaminsky
- Pentti Kirstila
- Maurice Le Blanc
- Paolo Levi
- William MacHarg
- Seicho Matsumoto
- James Melville
- Shizuko Natsuki
- Harvey J. O'Higgins
- Sara Paretsky
- Manfred B. Lee writing as Ellery Queen
- Frederic Dannay writing as Ellery Queen
- Ian Rankin
- Peter Robinson
- Palle Rosenkrantz
- Georges Simenon
- Josef Skvorecky
- James Thurber
- Janwillem van de Wetering
- Robert van Gulik
- Ted Wood
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Editions:
| # | Date | Publisher | Binding | Cover |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2000-05-00 | Oxford University Press |  |
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- Blurb:
- The Oxford Book of Detective Stories is a thorough, broad, and representative collection of short stories intended to reflect the best of detective fiction from around the world. Drawing on works dating from the middle 1800s up to the present, editor Patricia Craig shows us how different nationalities have imposed their own stamp on this highly popular and relatively young literary genre. Alongside English and American fiction by such acknowledged masters as Ellery Queen, Dashiell Hammett, Erle Stanley Gardner, and Agatha Christie, we find stories by Georges Simenon, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sarah Paretsky, and Ian Rankin. The anthology roams across Europe and further afield to embrace Japan, Denmark, Holland, Italy, Argentina, Czechoslovakia, and other countries. This is a book that will delight any fan or student of detective fiction. Women detectives, police procedurals, the amateur sleuth, locked-room mysteries, and the classic or pioneering models of the genre are all represented here--and in her perceptive and inclusive introduction Craig examines the figure of the detective in international literature.
Contents:
Missing! by Emile Gaboriau
The Gerrard Street Mystery by John Charles Dent
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle by Arthur Conan Doyle
A Mystery of the Sand-Hills by R. Austin Freeman
The Bridge That Broke by Maurice Leblanc
A Sensible Course of Action by Palle Rosenkrantz
Murder Makes It Worse by William MacHarg
The Stolen Rubens by Jacques Futrelle
The Marshall Murder by Harvey J. O'Higgins
No Crime in the Mountains by Raymond Chandler
The Case of the Irate Witness by Erle Stanley Gardner
The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb by Agatha Christie
Death & Company by Dashiell Hammett
The Macbeth Murder Mystery by James Thurber
Death and the Compass by Jorge Luis Borges
Excerpt from Maigret's Memoirs by Georges Simenon
"My Queer Dean!" by Ellery Queen
The Cooperative Defendant by Seicho Matsumoto
The Murder on the Lotus Pond by Robert van Gulik
The Ravine by Paolo Levi
Bloody Windsor by Gwendoline Butler
The Classic Semera Case by Josef Skvorecky
Arrie and Jasper by Amanda Cross
The Deadly Egg by Janwillem van de Wetering
Pit Bull by Ted Wood
Santa-San Solves It by James Melville
Find Miriam by Stuart M. Kaminsky
Divine Punishment by Shizuko Natsuki
An Acquaintance with Mr. Collins by Sarah Caudwell
A Little Missionary Work by Sue Grafton
Body Count by Vincent Banville
Father Brown in Muncie, Indiana by Ruth Dudley Edwards
Dealer's Choice by Sara Paretsky
Brown Eyes and Green Hair by Pentti Kirstila
My Brother Jack by Garry Disher
Summer Rain by Peter Robinson
The Dean Curse by Ian Rankin