Betty Ren Wright

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Contents: The oval portrait / Edgar Allan Poe -- There hangs death! / John D. Macdonald -- Town wanted / Fredric Brown -- The sweetest man in the world / Donald E. Westlake -- Every fifth man / Edward D. Hoch -- Vendetta / Guy de Maupassant -- The leakage / Frank Sisk -- The gesture / Gil Brewer -- The little house at Croix-Rousse / Georges Simenon -- Punishment to fit the crime / Robert L. Fish -- The plan of the snake / Edward Wellen -- Two-way street / Brian Garfield -- The pair of gloves / Charles Dickens -- After twenty years / O. Henry -- The export trade / Leslie Charteris -- Problems solved / Bill Pronzini and Barry N. Malzberg -- The release / Cornell Woolrich -- We spy / Clark Howard -- The leopard man's story / Jack London -- The little things / Isaac Asimov -- The reindeer clue / Ellery Queen -- Top man / Jonathan Craig -- Creature of habit / William Campbell Gault -- Weeds / Charlene Weir -- Something very special / Fletcher Flora -- Shatterproof / Jack Ritchie -- Project Mushroom / Julie Smith -- Terror in the night / Robert Bloch -- Drum beat / Stephen Marlowe -- Invited witness / George Harmon Coxe -- Poison / Katherine Mansfield -- The scientist and the vanished weapon / Arthur Porges -- Night walker / Robert J. Randisi -- The innocent one / Evan Hunter -- Funny you should ask / Lawrence Block -- Castle in Spain / Julian Symons -- Proposal perilous / Morris Hershman -- The crooked picture / John Lutz -- The lady, or the tiger / Frank R. Stockton -- This one's on me / Edward Hunsburger -- To strike a match / Erle Stanley Gardner -- Hush-a-bye, my baby / Anton Chekhov -- Because the constable blundered / Francis M. Nevins, Jr. -- Cloak and digger / John Jakes -- To avoid a scandal / Talmage Powell -- The prevalence of monsters / Thomas B. Dewey -- The nine mile walk / Harry Kemelman -- The pulque vendor / Hal Ellson -- Death threat / Susan Dunlap -- By the sea, by the sea / Hal Dresner -- The night runner / Nedra Tyre -- The little old lady from Cricket Creek / Len Gray -- Happy birthday, darling / Joyce Harrington -- One will to many / Joe L. Hensley -- The dispatching of George Ferris / Jack Foxx -- The joker / Betty Ren Wright -- Schedule for an assassination / Robert Edmond Alter -- A taste for murder / Jack Ritchie -- The girl who jumped in the river / Arthur Moore -- The diamond of Kali / O. Henry -- The perfect time for the perfect crime / R. L. Stevens -- "You listen!" / Norbert Davis and Dwight V. Babcock -- The mystery of chance / Melville Davisson Post -- The man who swallowed a horse / Craig Rice -- The promise / Marilyn Granbeck -- Diamonds in paradise / Ellery Queen -- The art of deduction / Robert L. Fish -- Cattails/ Marcia Muller -- An exercise in insurance / James Holding -- The secret of Fort Bayard / Georges Simenon -- Sweet, sweet murder / H. A. DeRosso -- One down / Ed McBain -- A home away from home / Robert Bloch -- The blue wash mystery / Anna Katharine Green -- The candidate / Henry Slesar -- The booster / Percy Spurlark Parker -- Who has seen the wind? / Michael Gilbert -- Deathbed / Frank Sisk -- The devil behind you / Richard A. Moore -- Counterplot / Francis M. Nevins, Jr. -- Ransom demand / Jeffry M. Wallmann -- Letter to the editor / Morris Hershman -- First man at the funeral / Dion Henderson -- An illusion in red and white / Stephen Crane -- Gentlemen's agreement / Lawrence Block -- The terrarium principle / Bill Pronzini -- Doctor's orders / John F. Suter -- Never trust a woman / Helen Nielsen -- Somebody on the phone / Cornell Woolrich -- The peppermint-striped goodby / Ron Goulart -- The man of the knife / Alexandre Dumas -- A cool swim on a hot day / Fletcher Flora -- Inside out / Barry N. Malzberg -- Who? / Michael Collins -- the odor of melting / Edward D. Hoch -- Shell game / William Jeffrey -- Queasy does it not / Jack Ritchie -- The explosives expert / John Lutz -- Not the running type / Henry Slesar -- E=murder / Ellery Queen -- Homicidal hiccup / John D. MacDonald. Other Titles: One hundred and one mystery stories. One hundred one mystery stories. Responsibility: edited by Bill Pronzini and Martin H. Greenberg. Abstract: A collection of suspense stories, puzzle stories, whodunits and tricky whydunits involving police detectives, private eyes, talented and sometimes lucky amateurs, armchair detectives, and ethnic detectives. Description: xiv, 610 p. ; 24 cm

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A sweet, innocent, funny story about a tom cat named JOHNNY GO ROUND. Excellent book.