Detective Fiction: Crime and Compromise ed. Dick Allen & David Chacko (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974, 0-15-517408-8, $5.95, 481pp, hc, an)
Text book.
- · Preface · Dick Allen & David Chacko · pr
- 1 · Introduction · Dick Allen & David Chacko · in
- 7 · Manifestations · [uncredited] · si
- 11 · Design · Robert Frost · pm A Further Range by Robert Frost, Henry Holt, 1936
- 12 · The Killers [Nick Adams] · Ernest Hemingway · ss Scribner’s Magazine March 1927
- 21 · The Possibility of Evil · Shirley Jackson · ss The Saturday Evening Post December 18 1965
- 30 · Markheim · Robert Louis Stevenson · ss Unwin’s Annual 1886, 1885
- 44 · My Last Duchess · Robert Browning · pm Dramatic Lyrics by Robert Browning, Edward Moxon, 1842, as “Italy”
- 47 · The Destructors · Graham Greene · ss Picture Post July 24 1954 (+1)
- 60 · The Dressmaker’s Doll · Agatha Christie · ss Woman’s Journal December 1958
- 77 · The Detective · [uncredited] · si
- 79 · The Murders in the Rue Morgue [C. Auguste Dupin] · Edgar Allan Poe · nv Graham’s Lady’s and Gentleman’s Magazine April 1841
- 86 · The Purloined Letter [C. Auguste Dupin] · Edgar Allan Poe · nv The Gift: a Christmas and New Year’s Present for 1845, Carey & Hart, 1844
- 101 · The Adventure of the Speckled Band [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Magazine February 1892
- 122 · The Problem of Cell 13 [Prof. Augustus S.F.X. Van Dusen (The Thinking Machine)] · Jacques Futrelle · nv Boston American October 30 1905 - November 5 1905, as “The Mystery of Cell 13”
- 151 · The Blue Cross [Father Brown] · G. K. Chesterton · ss The Saturday Evening Post July 23 1910, as “Valentin Follows a Curious Trail”
- 167 · Fly Paper [The Continental Op] · Dashiell Hammett · nv Black Mask August 1929
- 194 · The Curtain [Carmady] · Raymond Chandler · nv Black Mask September 1936
- 226 · Find the Woman [Lew Archer] · Ross Macdonald · nv The Name Is Archer by John Ross Macdonald, Bantam, 1955, as by Kenneth Millar
- 246 · Inspector Maigret Pursues [Insp. Jules Maigret] · Georges Simenon; translated by J. E. Malcolm · ss Argosy (UK) January 1962, as “The Man on the Run”
translated from the French “L’Homme dans la rue”, Maigret et les petits cochons sans queue, Presses de la Cité, 1950).
- 258 · The Cold Winds of Adesta [Major Tennente] · Thomas Flanagan · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #101, April 1952
- 272 · The Stolen White Elephant · Mark Twain · nv The Stolen White Elephant by Mark Twain, Webster, 1882
- 291 · The Genre Extended · [uncredited] · si
- 293 · The Tree of Knowledge · Henry James · ss The Soft Side by Henry James, Methuen, 1900
- 306 · Death and the Compass · Jorge Luís Borges; translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni · ss The Aleph and Other Stories by Jorge Luís Borges, Dutton, 1970
translated from the Spanish (“La Muerte y la Brújula”, Sur, May 1942).
- 316 · They Do Not Always Remember · William S. Burroughs · vi Esquire May 1966
- 319 · Views of My Father Weeping · Donald Barthelme · ss The New Yorker December 6 1969
- 328 · from The Far Side of the Dollar, Chapters 16 & 17 [Lew Archer] · Ross Macdonald · ex Knopf, 1964
- 342 · G in the Air [Sam Spade] · Dashiell Hammett · ex from The Maltese Falcon, Knopf, 1930; chapter 7.
- 347 · Theories · [uncredited] · si
- 351 · The Omnibus of Crime · Dorothy L. Sayers · in Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery, and Horror Vol. 1 ed. Dorothy L. Sayers, Gollancz, 1928, as “Introduction”
- 384 · A Defence of Detective Stories · G. K. Chesterton · ar The Speaker June 22 1901, as “The Value of Detective Stories”
- 387 · The Simple Art of Murder · Raymond Chandler · ar The Atlantic Monthly December 1944
- 400 · The Guilty Vicarage · W. H. Auden · ar Harper’s Magazine May 1948
- 411 · Murder and the Mean Streets: The Hard-Boiled Detective Novel · George Grella · ar Contempora March 1970
- 430 · Police Report on the TV Cop Shows · Robert Daley · ar The New York Times 1972
- 446 · A Contemporary History of American Crime · Fred P. Graham · ar 1970
- 465 · Topics for Writing and Research · [uncredited] · ms (r)
- 471 · Suggestions for Further Reading · [uncredited] · ms (r)
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