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![](https://image.librarything.com/pics/score-disabled.gif) Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. ▾Conversations (About links) No current Talk conversations about this book. » Add other authors 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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None ▾Book descriptions 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. ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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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.. ![](https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif) | |
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