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Great Tales of Crime and Detection
Introduction / Robert Bloch --
Foreword / John Lutz --
Out the window / Lawrence Block --
Major crimes / Loren D. Estleman --
Silent warning / William J. Carroll, Jr. --
The third man / Graham Greene --
The cross of Lorraine / Isaac Asimov --
Nameless enemy / Miriam Allen DeFord --
Tragedy of a handkerchief / Michael Innes --
UNC foils show foe / John Jakes --
Dangerows widows / Mignon G. Eberhardt --
Ride the lightning / John Lutz --
Till Tuesday / Jeremiah Healy --
The day of the losers / Dick Francis --
The case of the Pietro Andromache / Sara Paretsky --
Susu and the 8:30 ghost / Lillian Jackson Braun --
The investigation of things / Charles Aardai --
The trailor murder mystery / Abraham Lincoln --
The importance of trifles / Avram Davidson --
The double-barrelled detective story / Mark Twain --
The adventure of the oval window / John H. Ddirckx --
Your appointment is cancelled / Antonia Fraser --
Le Chateau de L'Arsenic / Georges Simenon --
The nine mile walk / Harry Kemelman --
Crime in rhyme / Robert Bloch --
The purloined letter / Edgar Allan Poe --
The man with the twisted lip / Arthur Conan Doyle
Foreword / John Lutz --
Out the window / Lawrence Block --
Major crimes / Loren D. Estleman --
Silent warning / William J. Carroll, Jr. --
The third man / Graham Greene --
The cross of Lorraine / Isaac Asimov --
Nameless enemy / Miriam Allen DeFord --
Tragedy of a handkerchief / Michael Innes --
UNC foils show foe / John Jakes --
Dangerows widows / Mignon G. Eberhardt --
Ride the lightning / John Lutz --
Till Tuesday / Jeremiah Healy --
The day of the losers / Dick Francis --
The case of the Pietro Andromache / Sara Paretsky --
Susu and the 8:30 ghost / Lillian Jackson Braun --
The investigation of things / Charles Aardai --
The trailor murder mystery / Abraham Lincoln --
The importance of trifles / Avram Davidson --
The double-barrelled detective story / Mark Twain --
The adventure of the oval window / John H. Ddirckx --
Your appointment is cancelled / Antonia Fraser --
Le Chateau de L'Arsenic / Georges Simenon --
The nine mile walk / Harry Kemelman --
Crime in rhyme / Robert Bloch --
The purloined letter / Edgar Allan Poe --
The man with the twisted lip / Arthur Conan Doyle
512 pages, Hardcover
First published May 1, 1995
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About the author
Charles Ardai
75 books110 followersCharles Ardai is a founder of Hard Case Crime, a pulp crime novel publisher, as well as an editor and author. In 1991 he received the Pearlman Prize for his fiction. He also writes under the pen name Richard Aleas.
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January 31, 2023
This book, actually edited by Charles Ardai, is a decent anthology of crime stories, although rather deceptively most of the better stories are stacked towards the beginning. None of the stories were excellent, while some were decidedly mediocre.
4s - "Out of the Window", Lawrence Block; "Major Crimes", Loren D. Estleman; "The Cross of Lorraine", Isaac Asimov (a nice surprise, since I was prepared to dislike this one); and "Till Tuesday", Jeremiah Healy.
There were five stories I rated as 3.5 - readable but nothing special. Everything else scored below even this. The average score of all the stories is a 2.6.
4s - "Out of the Window", Lawrence Block; "Major Crimes", Loren D. Estleman; "The Cross of Lorraine", Isaac Asimov (a nice surprise, since I was prepared to dislike this one); and "Till Tuesday", Jeremiah Healy.
There were five stories I rated as 3.5 - readable but nothing special. Everything else scored below even this. The average score of all the stories is a 2.6.
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