Sleuths of the Century

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Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2000-01-01
Publisher(s): Perseus Books Group
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Summary

Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe, Lord Peter Wimsey and Hercule Poirot, Matt Scudder and Easy Rawlins, Spenser and Dalgliesh - they stand among the most popular of twentieth-century heroes. And now the award-winning mystery novelist Ed Gorman and novelist-critic Jon L. Breen present a full century of the world's favorite sleuths in tales by such classic writers as G. K. Chesterton, Ellery Queen, Dorothy Sayers, and Agatha Christie as well as contemporary giants like Sharyn McCrumb, Walter Mosley, Ed McBain, Lawrence Block, P. D. James, and Ruth Rendell. A hefty, handsome volume, Sleuths of the Century also offers serious suspense from Dashiell Hammett, Patricia Highsmith, Tony Hillerman, Rex Stout, Donald E. Westlake, and John D. MacDonald. Crossing the decades with a gallery of sleuths impeccably styled for every generation, this collection provides exciting, literate tales of detection and danger that will keep the reader on tenterhooks well into the next century.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1(4)
Jon L. Breen
The Phantom Motor
4(14)
Jacques Futrelle
The Secret Garden
18(18)
G. K. Chesterton
Problem at Sea
36(14)
Agatha Christie
The Piscatorial Farce of the Stolen Stomach
50(19)
Dorothy L. Sayers
The Adventure of the Glass-Domed Clock
69(18)
Ellery Queen
Madame Maigret's Admirer
87(29)
Georges Simenon
The Wrong Problem
116(13)
John Dickson Carr
The Next Witness
129(49)
Rex Stout
The Case of the Irate Witness
178(15)
Erle Stanley Gardner
The King in Yellow
193(45)
Raymond Chandler
The Pink Caterpillar
238(10)
Anthony Boucher
The Suicide
248(34)
Ross Macdonald
The Empty Hours
282(54)
Ed McBain
The Heroine
336(14)
Patricia Highsmith
The Death of a Bum
350(23)
Donald E. Westlake
Breathe No More
373(21)
John D. MacDonald
When the Wedding Was Over
394(23)
Ruth Rendell
Like a Lamb to Slaughter
417(27)
Lawrence Block
The Witch, Yazzie, and the Nine of Clubs
444(13)
Tony Hillerman
Cat's-Paw
457(19)
Bill Pronzini
Somewhere in the City
476(16)
Marcia Muller
Old Rattler
492(14)
Sharyn McCrumb
Dalziel's Ghost
506(24)
Reginald Hill
The Watts Lions
530(13)
Walter Mosley
Grace Notes
543
Sara Paretsky

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