The Best Crime Stories: Introduction by Michael Stapleton

A banquet of thrills, chills, questions and arrests from the classic crime authors. In this volume: The Purloined Letter, Edgar Allan Poe; The Angler's Story of the Lady of Glenwith Grange, Wilkie Collins; The New Catacomb, Arthur Conan Doyle; The Hammer ofGod, G.K. Chesterton; The Interruption, W.W. Jacobs; The Gioconda Smile, Aldous Huxley; The Almost Perfect Crime, Henry Holt; The Letter, W. Somerset Maugham; The Farewell Murder, Dashiell Hammett; They Never Get Caught, Margery Allingham; TheSiamese Cat, George Goodchild; The Avenging Chance, Anthony Berkeley; The Necklace of Pearls and The Man Who Knew How, Dorothy L. Sayers; The Poetical Policeman, Edgar Wallace; S.O.S. and Wireless, Agatha Christie; The Mallet, James Hilton; Dusk toDawn, Cornell Woolrich; The Murder, John Steinbeck; Eyewitness, Robert Arthur; Puzzle for Poppy, Patrick Quentin; TheHomesick Buick, John D. MacDonald; The Enemy, Charlotte Armstrong; The Conspirators, Michael Gilbert; Double Image, Roy Vickers; Lamb to The Slaughter and The Way Up to Heaven, Roald Dahl; The Necessity of His Condition, Avram Davidson; TheUnsuspected, Jay Wilson; You Can't Be A Little Girl All Your Life, Stanley Ellin; A Day of Encounters, Anthony Gilbert; Foxer, Brian Cleeve; Special Release, Eric Parr; Love Affair, Julian Symons; Scatter His Ashes, Elizabeth Ferrars; Jericho and the Two Ways toDie, Hugh Pentecost; The Niece from Scotland, Christianna Brand; Carrot For A Chestnut, Dick Francis; This One's A Beauty, Patricia McGerr; The Perfect Servant, Helen Neilsen; Judgement, Mary Kelly; Fixation, Miles Tripp; A Quite Conventional Death, John Garford; The Victim, P.D. James; Suicide or Murder? Jane Aiken Hodge; Accommodation Vacant, Celia Fremlin; Scandal atSandkop, James McClure; The Man From The White Mountains, Ted Willis.