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The Vintage Book of Classic Crime (1993)

by Michael Dibdin (Editor)

Other authors: Alex Abella (Contributor), Simon Armitage (Contributor), Paul Benjamin (Contributor), Robert Browning (Contributor), James M. Cain (Contributor) — 46 more, Raymond Chandler (Contributor), Anton Chekhov (Contributor), G. D. H. Cole (Contributor), M. Cole (Contributor), T.A. Critchley (Contributor), Andre Dubus (Contributor), Carol Ann Duffy (Contributor), William Faulkner (Contributor), James Fenton (Contributor), C. S. Forester (Contributor), Roy Fuller (Contributor), André Gide (Contributor), Edward Grierson (Contributor), Dashiell Hammett (Contributor), Ernest Hemingway (Contributor), George V. Higgins (Contributor), Patricia Highsmith (Contributor), Dorothy B. Hughes (Contributor), Francis Iles (Contributor), William Irish (Contributor), P.D. James (Contributor), F. Tennyson Jesse (Contributor), Franz Kafka (Contributor), Francis King (Contributor), Elmore Leonard (Contributor), Ira Levin (Contributor), Marie Belloc Lowndes (Contributor), Cameron McCabe (Contributor), James McClure (Contributor), Walter Mosley (Contributor), G.F. Newman (Contributor), Edgar Allan Poe (Contributor), Raymond Postgate (Contributor), Ernest Raymond (Contributor), Alain Robbe-Grillet (Contributor), Georges Simenon (Contributor), Isaac B. Singer (Contributor), Maj Sjöwall (Contributor), C.P. Snow (Contributor), Julian Symons (Contributor), Hunter S. Thompson (Contributor), Masako Togawa (Contributor), Barbara Vine (Contributor), Per Wahlöö (Contributor), Oscar Wilde (Contributor), Émile Zola (Contributor)

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From Edgar Allan Poe to elmore Leonard, and from W H Auden to Walter Mosley - a briliant, groundbreaking omnibus of crime writing that tests the limits of the genre.
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Collection of extracts of stories from over 50 authors:
  • Serious Business / Michael Dibdin
  • The Man Who Killed Himself / Julian Symons
  • The Shooting Party / Anton Chekhov
  • The Postman Always Rings Twice / James M. Cain
  • Thérèse Raquin / Émile Zola
  • A Kiss Before Dying / Ira Levin
  • Under the Knife / Isaac B. Singer
  • The Maul and the Pear Tree / P.D. James and T. A. Critchley
  • A Case of Fratricide / Franz Kafka
  • Killings / Andre Dubus
  • Hitcher / Simon Armitage
  • Smoke / William Faulkner
  • Pick-up on Noon Street / Raymond Chandler
  • The Killing of the Saints / Alex Abella
  • The Police in Different Voices / Michael Dibdin
  • Sir, You Bastard / G. F. Newman
  • The Steam Pig / James McClure
  • Act of Darkness / Francis King
  • Cop Killer / Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo
  • Murder at the Munition Works / G. D. H. and M. Cole
  • A Coat of Varnish / C. P.Snow
  • The Erasers / Alain Robbe-Grillet
  • Maigret's Memoirs / Georges Simenon
  • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas / Hunter Thompson
  • Freaky Deaky / Elmore Leonard
  • Uncommon Murderers / Michael Dibdin
  • The Tell-Tale Heart / Edgar Allan Poe
  • Porphyria's Lover / Robert Browning
  • The Man Who Watched the Trains Go / by Georges Simenon
  • The Vatican Cellars / André Gide
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray / Oscar Wilde
  • A Kiss of Fire / Masako Togawa
  • Reputation for a Song / Edward Grierson
  • Verdict of Twelve / Raymond Postgate
  • A Pin to See the Peepshow / F. Tennyson Jesse
  • The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor / Cameron McCabe
  • Model Village / Carol Ann Duffy
  • The Thirty-First of February / Julian Symons
  • A Staffordshire Murderer / James Fenton
  • Malice Aforethought / Francis Iles
  • The Dangerous Edge of Things / Michael Dibdin
  • The Lodger / Marie Belloc Lowndes
  • The Killers / Ernest Hemingway
  • The Glass Key / Dashiell Hammett
  • Squeeze Play / Paul Benjamin
  • Trust / George V. Higgins
  • The Lady in the Lake / Raymond Chandler
  • A Red Death / Walter Mosley
  • The Second Curtain / Roy Fuller
  • Plain Murder / C. S. Forester
  • We, the Accused / Ernest Raymond
  • A Dark-Adapted Eye / Barbara Vine
  • In a Lonely Place / Dorothy B. Hughes
  • Strangers on a Train / Patricia Highsmith
  • Phantom Lady / William Irish
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808.83Literature › By Topic › Rhetoric and anthologies › Anthologies & Collections › Fiction

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