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2) Master's choice, volume II: mystery stories by today's top writers and the masters who inspired them
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1969 [©1934-41]
Language
English
Description
THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE: Cain's first novel - the subject of an obscenity trial in Boston and the inspiration for Camus's The Stranger - is the fever-pitched tale of a drifter who stumbles into a job, into an erotic obsession, and into a murder; MILDRED PIERCE: Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness and determination. She used those attributes to survive a divorce in 1940s America with two...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This anthology boasts three terrific tales of yuletide murder in coastal Maine...sparkly writing and emotional depth."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
With the fireplace crackling, the tree twinkling, and the carols humming, few things in life are as picture perfect as Christmas in Maine—until murder dampens the holiday spirit. It must be something in the eggnog...
Eggnog Murder...
With the fireplace crackling, the tree twinkling, and the carols humming, few things in life are as picture perfect as Christmas in Maine—until murder dampens the holiday spirit. It must be something in the eggnog...
Eggnog Murder...
13) L' île du tigre
Author
Series
Noir volume 3940
Publisher
Presses Pocket
Pub. Date
1992
Language
Français
Author
Series
Library of America volume 125
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
©2001
Language
English
Description
In the stories and novellas he wrote for Black Mask and other pulp magazines in the 1920s and 1930s, Dashiell Hammett took the detective story and turned it into a medium for capturing the jarring textures and revved-up cadences of modern American life. In this volume, The Library of America collects the finest of these stories: 24 in all, along with some revealing essays and an earlier version of his novel The Thin Man. Mixing melodramatic panache...
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