The 50 Greatest Mysteries of All Time Author:Otto Penzler (Editor) Savor the delights in this fine collection, a must for every home library, in which multi-award winning mystery connoisseur Otto Penzler presents the fifty most exquisite tales of mystery and suspense from fifty master writers. With classic tales from masters such as Edgar Allen Poe, Wilkie Collins, Aldous Huxley, Ring Lardner, Stephen King, Jam... more »es Ellroy, Patricia Highsmith, Sara Paretsky, Lawrence Block, Elmore Leonard and dozens of others!!
The purloined letter / Edgar Allan Poe --
A terribly strange bed / Wilkie Collins --
The three strangers / Thomas Hardy --
The 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 --