Murderous Schemes: An Anthology of Classic Detective StoriesDonald E. Westlake When plotting a murder (figuratively speaking), the mystery writer has at hand any number of M.O.s, including such tried and true conventions as the locked room, the unbreakable alibi, the double bluff, and the mistaken identity. Now, in Murderous Schemes, renowned mystery writers Donald E. Westlake and J. Madison Davis offer an illuminating look at eight such mystery conventions, illustrating each with four short stories written by some of the masters of the form. The resulting collection of thirty-two tales spans a hundred and fifty years of crime fiction and includes virtually every style imaginable, from the hard-boiled detective story to the cozy armchair mystery. the differences between American and British detective fiction, and they illuminate the evolution of crime writing over time. Here is a glorious treasure chest of tales that cover every crime in the book, written by a who's who of crime fiction—Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins, Arthur Conan Doyle, G. K. Chesterton, Raymond Chandler, Dorothy L. Sayers, Chester Himes, Edward D. Hoch, and Lawrence Block, to name but a few. Bringing together a century and a half of superb crime stories, Murderous Schemes is a glorious collection that will inform and delight anyone who loves mystery and mayhem. |
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Contents
Introduction Donald E Westlake | 1 |
THE LOCKED ROOM | 7 |
What No Butler? Damon Runyon | 27 |
The Leopold Locked Room Edward D Hoch | 40 |
The Man Who Read John Dickson Carr William Brittain | 59 |
ONLY ONE AMONG YOU | 67 |
The Necklace of Pearls Dorothy L Sayers | 88 |
They Can Only Hang You Once Dashiell Hammett | 99 |
The Landlady Roald Dahl | 287 |
The Orderly World of Mr Appleby Stanley Ellin | 297 |
Bless This House Christianna Brand | 316 |
Someday Ill Plant More Walnut Trees Lawrence Block | 329 |
CONFESS | 345 |
The Adventure of the Dying Detective | 362 |
The Master of Mystery Jack London | 378 |
The Fat Man Isak Dinesen | 390 |
Busted Blossoms Stuart M Kaminsky | 113 |
THE CAPER | 125 |
The Impossible Theft John F Suter | 143 |
Dont Know Much About Art Simon Brett | 157 |
The Ultimate Caper Donald E Westlake | 182 |
The Mysterious Death On the Underground Railway | 189 |
The Blue Geranium Agatha Christie | 206 |
The Adventure of Abraham Lincolns Clue Ellery Queen | 221 |
The Affair of the Twisted Scarf Rex Stout | 238 |
HOIST ON THEIR OWN PETARDS | 401 |
The Possibility of Evil Shirley Jackson | 432 |
The Secret Lover Peter Lovesey | 443 |
OVER THE Edge | 455 |
The Hands of Mr Ottermole Thomas Burke | 479 |
Tang Chester Himes | 497 |
Little Apple Hard to Peel Fredric Brown | 504 |
Acknowledgments | 517 |
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