Sleuths of the Century ed. Jon L. Breen & Ed Gorman (Carroll & Graf, April 2000, 0-7867-0709-7, $26.00, 579pp, hc, an)
Anthology of 25 detective stories.
- 1 · Introduction · Jon L. Breen · in
- 4 · The Phantom Motor [Prof. Augustus S.F.X. Van Dusen (The Thinking Machine)] · Jacques Futrelle · ss Associated Sunday Magazine November 11 1906, as “Problem of the Phantom Auto”
- 18 · The Secret Garden [Father Brown] · G. K. Chesterton · ss The Saturday Evening Post September 3 1910, as “The Secret of the Sealed Garden”
- 36 · Problem at Sea [Hercule Poirot] · Agatha Christie · ss This Week January 12 1936
- 50 · The Piscatorial Farce of the Stolen Stomach [Lord Peter Wimsey] · Dorothy L. Sayers · ss Lord Peter Views the Body by Dorothy L. Sayers, Gollancz, 1928
- 69 · The Adventure of the Glass-Domed Clock [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · ss Mystery League October 1933, as “The Glass-Domed Clock”
- 87 · Madame Maigret’s Admirer [Insp. Jules Maigret] · Georges Simenon; translated by Jean Stewart · nv Maigret’s Pipe by Georges Simenon, tr. Jean Stewart, Hamish Hamilton, 1977
translated from the French (“L’Amoureux de Madame Maigret”, Police-Roman, July 28, 1939).
- 116 · The Wrong Problem [Dr. Gideon Fell] · John Dickson Carr · ss The Evening Standard August 13 1936
- 129 · The Next Witness [Nero Wolfe & Archie Goodwin] · Rex Stout · na The American Magazine May 1955, as “The Last Witness”
- 178 · The Case of the Irate Witness [Perry Mason] · Erle Stanley Gardner · ss Collier’s January 17 1953
- 193 · The King in Yellow · Raymond Chandler · na Dime Detective Magazine March 1938
- 238 · The Pink Caterpillar [Fergus O’Breen] · Anthony Boucher · ss Adventure February 1945
- 248 · The Suicide [Lew Archer] · Ross Macdonald · nv Manhunt October 1953, as “The Beat-Up Sister” by John Ross Macdonald
- 282 · The Empty Hours [87th Precinct] · Ed McBain · na Ed McBain’s Mystery Book #1, 1960
- 336 · The Heroine · Patricia Highsmith · ss Harper’s Bazaar August 1945
- 350 · The Death of a Bum [Abe Levine] · Donald E. Westlake · nv Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine June 1965
- 373 · Breathe No More · John D. MacDonald · nv Detective Tales May 1950
- 394 · When the Wedding Was Over [Chief Insp. Wexford] · Ruth Rendell · nv Means of Evil by Ruth Rendell, Hutchinson, 1979
- 417 · Like a Lamb to the Slaughter [Matt Scudder] · Lawrence Block · nv Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine November 1977, as “A Candle for the Bag Lady”
- 444 · The Witch, Yazzie, and the Nine of Clubs · Tony Hillerman · ss Crime Wave, Collins, 1981
- 457 · Cat’s-Paw [Nameless Private Eye] · Bill Pronzini · nv Waves Press, 1983
- 476 · Somewhere in the City [Sharon McCone] · Marcia Muller · ss The Armchair Detective Spring 1990
- 492 · Old Rattler [Sheriff Spencer Arrowood] · Sharyn McCrumb · ss Partners in Crime ed. Elaine Raco Chase, Signet, 1994
- 506 · Dalziel’s Ghost [Supt. Andrew Dalziel] · Reginald Hill · nv Pascoe’s Ghost and Other Brief Chronicles of Crime by Reginald Hill, Collins, 1979
- 530 · The Watts Lions [Easy Rawlins] · Walter Mosley · ss The New Mystery ed. Jerome Charyn, Dutton, 1993
- 543 · Grace Notes [V.I. Warshawski] · Sara Paretsky · na Windy City Blues by Sara Paretsky, Delacorte, 1995
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