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RE: Murderous Schemes - Donald E Westlake - 0dayddl - 2023-07-14

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epub | 1.5 MB | English | Isbn:0195103211 | Author: Donald E Westlake | Year: 1996

Description:

Idézet:These 32 classic crime stories illuminate the genre's best-known plot constructions--including "the locked room", "the caper", "hoist on their own petards", and "over the edge". Covering over 150 years of crime and detective fiction, featuring styles from the hard-boiled to the cozy, Murderous Schemes profiles the writing of Agatha Christie, Ellery Queen, Rex Stout, Dorothy L. Sayers, Edgar Allan Poe, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and many others.

Contents: Introduction / Donald E. Westlake - The shadow of the goat / John Dickson Carr - What, no butler? / Damon Runyon - The Leopold locked room / Edward D. Hoch - The man who read John Dickson Carr / William Brittain - The secret garden / G. K. Chesterton - The necklace of pearls / Dorothy L. Sayers - They can only hang you once / Dashiell Hammett - Busted Blossoms / Stuart M. Kaminsky - A costume piece / E. W. Hornung - The impossible theft / John F. Suter - Don't know much about art / Simon Brett - The ultimate caper / Donald E. Westlake - The mysterious death on the underground railway / Baroness Emmuska Orczy - The blue geranium / Agatha Christie - The adventure of Abraham Lincoln's clue / Ellery Queen - The affair of the twisted scarf / Rex Stout - The landlady / Roald Dahl - The orderly world of Mr. Appleby / Stanley Ellin - Bless this house / Christianna Brand - Someday I'll plant more walnut trees / Lawrence Block - "Thou art the man" / Edgar Allan Poe - The adventure of the dying detective / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The master of mystery / Jack London - The fat man / Isak Dinesen - Midnight in Beauchamp Row / Anna Katharine Green - I'll be waiting / Raymond Chandler - The possibility of evil / Shirley Jackson - The secret lover / Peter Lovesey - A jury of her peers / Susan Glaspell - The hands of Mr. Ottermole / Thomas Burke - Tang / Chester Himes - Little apple hard to peel / Fredric Brown

Category:Mystery, Fiction, Short Stories, Anthologies, Crime, Detective