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CANADA AUTHOR · DETECTIVE AND MYSTERY · FICTION

Vincent Starrett

Also known as: Vincent (introduction by Michael Murphy) (re: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) Starrett, Vincent Starrett Arthur Machen

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Attempting to compile a list of the best of anything is inevitably an exercise doomed to failure.

— from The 50 Greatest Mysteries of All Time

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Stephen Crane

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Description: xiv, 703 p. : port. ; 22 cm. Contents: pt. I. Bowery Tales: On the New Jersey Coast -- The men in the storm -- An experiment in misery -- Maggie: a girl of the streets -- George's mother -- Howells fears realists must wait -- pt. II. War tales [A]: The red badge of courage -- pt. II. War tales [B]: A mystery of heroism -- The upturned face -- An episode of war -- Stephen Crane's vivid story of the Battle of San Juan -- pt. III. A tale of the sea: The open boat -- The wreck of the Commodore -- Stephen Crane's own story -- pt. IV. Western tales: The bride comes to Yellow Sky -- The blue hotel -- pt. VI. Whilomville stories: The knife -- His new mittens -- pt. VI. Poems: poems -- pt. VII. Letters: letters. Responsibility: edited, with introd. and notes, by Robert Wooster Stallman.

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The 50 Greatest Mysteries of All Time

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[Purloined Letter]( / Edgar Allan Poe A terribly strange bed / Wilkie Collins The three strangers / Thomas Hardy T[he red-headed league]( / Arthur Conan Doyle The corpus delecti / Melville Davisson Post Gentlemen and players / E.W. Hornung A journey / Edith Wharton The leopard man's story / Jack London A retrieved reformation / O. Henry The problem of Cell 13 / Jacques Futrelle The absent-minded coterie / Robert Barr The invisible man / G.K. Chesterton The infallible Godahl / Frederick Irving Anderson The adventure of the unique "Hamlet" / Vincent Starrett The Gioconda smile / Aldous Huxley Haircut / Ring Lardner The killers / Ernest Hemingway The hands of Mr. Ottermole / Thomas Burke The little house at Croix-Rousse / Georges Simenon The case of the missing patriarchs / Logan Clendening Clerical error / James Gould Cozzens The two bottles of relish / Lord Dunsany The chaser / John Collier The perfect crime / Ben Ray Redman Yours truly, Jack the Ripper / Robert Bloch The blind spot / Barry Perowne The catbird seat / James Thurber Recipe for murder / C.P. Donnel Jr. The nine mile walk / Harry Kemelman Kill or be killed / Ogden Nash The specialty of the house / Stanley Ellin Nearly perfect / A.A. Milne The Gettysburg Bugle / Ellery Queen The last spin / Evan Hunter Stand up and die! / Mickey Spillane A new leaf / Jack Ritchie The snail-watcher / Patricia Highsmith The long way down / Edward D. Hoch The man who never told a lie / Isaac Asimov I have / John Gardner [Quitters, Inc.]( / Stephen King Horn man / Clark Howard The new girl friend / Ruth Rendell By the dawn's early light / Lawrence Block Iris / Stephen Greenleaf High Darktown / James Ellroy The Pietro Andromache / Sara Paretsky Soft monkey / Harlan Ellison The hand of Carlos / Charles McCarry Karen makes out / Elmore Leonard

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The Great Hotel Murder

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