Murderous Schemes (1996)

by Donald E. Westlake (Editor, Introduction & Contributor), J. Madison Davis (Consulting Editor), International Association of Crime Writers

Other authors: Lawrence Block (Contributor), Christianna Brand (Contributor), Simon Brett (Contributor), William Brittain (Contributor), Fredric Brown (Contributor) — 24 more, Thomas Burke (Contributor), John Dickson Carr (Contributor), Raymond Chandler (Contributor), G.K. Chesterton (Contributor), Agatha Christie (Contributor), Roald Dahl (Contributor), Isak Dinesen (Contributor), Arthur Conan Doyle (Contributor), Stanley Ellin (Contributor), Susan Glaspell (Contributor), Anna Katharine Green (Contributor), Dashiell Hammett (Contributor), Chester Himes (Contributor), Edward D. Hoch (Contributor), Shirley Jackson (Contributor), Stuart M. Kaminsky (Contributor), Jack London (Contributor), Peter Lovesey (Contributor), Baroness Emmuska Orczy (Contributor), Edgar Allan Poe (Contributor), Ellery Queen (Contributor), Damon Runyon (Contributor), Dorothy L. Sayers (Contributor), Rex Stout (Contributor)

Series: International Association of Crime Writers (1996)

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An anthology of detective fiction with examples of its sub-genres, armchair detective, the locked room and so on. The first is represented by Agatha Christie's In Blue Geranium, where the detective solves a crime from a conversation, the second by The Leopold Locked Room, in which a policeman is found in a locked room with his wife killed by his gun, but he didn't do it.… (more)

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Westlake, Donald E.	Editor, Introduction & Contributor	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Davis, J. Madison	Consulting Editor	main author	all editions	confirmed
Writers, International Association of Crime	—	main author	all editions	confirmed
Block, Lawrence	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Brand, Christianna	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Brett, Simon	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Brittain, William	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Brown, Fredric	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Burke, Thomas	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Carr, John Dickson	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Chandler, Raymond	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Chesterton, G.K.	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Christie, Agatha	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Dahl, Roald	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Dinesen, Isak	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Doyle, Arthur Conan	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Ellin, Stanley	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Glaspell, Susan	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Green, Anna Katharine	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Hammett, Dashiell	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Himes, Chester	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Hoch, Edward D.	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Jackson, Shirley	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Kaminsky, Stuart M.	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
London, Jack	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Lovesey, Peter	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Orczy, Baroness Emmuska	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Poe, Edgar Allan	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Queen, Ellery	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Runyon, Damon	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Sayers, Dorothy L.	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Stout, Rex	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed

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Murderous Schemes

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1996

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An anthology of detective fiction with examples of its sub-genres, armchair detective, the locked room and so on. The first is represented by Agatha Christie's In Blue Geranium, where the detective solves a crime from a conversation, the second by The Leopold Locked Room, in which a policeman is found in a locked room with his wife killed by his gun, but he didn't do it.

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This anthology examines eight venerable mystery conventions such as the locked-room, unbreakable alibi, double bluff, and mistaken identity. Features 32 stories from writers including Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, G. K. Chesterton, and Raymond Chandler..

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