FICTION · DETECTIVE AND MYSTERY
Charles Ardai
Most acclaimed
The return of the Black Widowers
The Acquisitive Chuckle - short story by Isaac Asimov Ph As in Phony - short story by Isaac Asimov Early Sunday Morning - short story by Isaac Asimov The Obvious Factor - short story by Isaac Asimov The Iron Gem - short story by Isaac Asimov To the Barest - short story by Isaac Asimov Sixty Million Trillion Combinations - short story by Isaac Asimov The Redhead - short story by Isaac Asimov The Wrong House - short story by Isaac Asimov Triple Devil - short story by Isaac Asimov The Men Who Read Isaac Asimov - short story by Bill Brittain [as by William Brittain] Northwestward - short story by Isaac Asimov Yes, but Why? - short story by Isaac Asimov Lost in a Space Warp - short story by Isaac Asimov Police at the Door - short story by Isaac Asimov The Haunted Cabin - short story by Isaac Asimov The Guest's Guest - short story by Isaac Asimov The Woman in the Bar - short story by Isaac Asimov The Last Story - short story by Charles Ardai
Great Tales of Crime and Detection
1993
A collection of the most popular and entertaining short stories about the world's most famous detectives. Sherlock Holmes... Miss Marple ... Hercule Poirot ... Maigret ... Albert Campion ... Morse ... Inspector Wexford... Perry Mason... Father Brown... Philip Marlowe... Mike Hammer ... Detective stories are among the most popular reading of today. Famous sleuths trying to match wits in solving cases of crime and murder. The crime-solvers themselves have become household names: amateur detectives like Sherlock Homes, Hercule Poirot and Albert Campion alongside the thorough-going professionals such as the Police Inspectors Van der Valk, Maigret and Morse. Crime stories which have proved an enduring and popular feature for readers on both sides of the Atlantic. In this magnificent omnibus, Peter Haining has brought together the cream of short stories featuring famous sleuths ranging from British institutions such as Lord Peter Wimsey, Father Brown and Miss Marple, to the equally distinguished Americans like Perry Mason, Ellery Queen and Charlie Chan, not forgetting their hardboiled colleagues, Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe and Mike Hammer. Half a century of the best tales of crime and detection is found in these pages complete with details of television series they have inspired, and the actors they have made famous. Here are cases of mystery and murder that no armchair detective will be able to resist...
High Adventure
An anthology of prose and poetry for young adults selected from such authors as Agatha Christie, Robert Browning, Herman Melville, and Charles Dickens. Includes capsule biographies of the authors.