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The 50 greatest mysteries of all time
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Distributed by Penguin USA
Publication Date
c1998
Language
English
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The purloined letter / Edgar Allan Poe A terribly strange bed / Wilkie Collins The three strangers / Thomas Hardy The red-headed league / Arthur Conan Doyle The corpus delecti / Melville Davisson Post Gentlemen and players / E.W. Hornung A journey / Edith Wharton The leopard man's story / Jack London A retrieved reformation / O. Henry The problem of Cell 13 / Jacques Futrelle The absent-minded coterie / Robert Barr The invisible man / G.K. Chesterton The infallible Godahl / Frederick Irving Anderson The adventure of the unique "Hamlet" / Vincent Starrett The Gioconda smile / Aldous Huxley Haircut / Ring Lardner The killers / Ernest Hemingway The hands of Mr. Ottermole / Thomas Burke The little house at Croix-Rousse / Georges Simenon The case of the missing patriarchs / Logan Clendening Clerical error / James Gould Cozzens The two bottles of relish / Lord Dunsany
The chaser / John Collier
The perfect crime / Ben Ray Redman
Yours truly, Jack the Ripper / Robert Bloch
The blind spot / Barry Perowne
The catbird seat / James Thurber
Recipe for murder / C.P. Donnel Jr.
The nine mile walk / Harry Kemelman
Kill or be killed / Ogden Nash
The specialty of the house / Stanley Ellin
Nearly perfect / A.A. Milne
The Gettysburg Bugle / Ellery Queen
The last spin / Evan Hunter
Stand up and die! / Mickey Spillane
A new leaf / Jack Ritchie
The snail-watcher / Patricia Highsmith
The long way down / Edward D. Hoch
The man who never told a lie / Isaac Asimov
I have / John Gardner
Quitters, Inc. / Stephen King
Horn man / Clark Howard
The new girl friend / Ruth Rendell
By the dawn's early light / Lawrence Block
Iris / Stephen Greenleaf
High Darktown / James Ellroy
The Pietro Andromache / Sara Paretsky
Soft monkey / Harlan Ellison
The hand of Carlos / Charles McCarry
Karen makes out / Elmore Leonard.
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9780787109639
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