The Art of the Mystery Story. A Collection of Critical Essays ed. Howard Haycraft (Biblo and Tannen, 1976, hc, oa)
Reprint (Simon & Schuster 1946) collection of critical essays, edited, and with a commentary by, Howard Haycraft.
- v · Foreword · Howard Haycraft · fw
- 1 · 1. Mystery Matures: The Higher Criticism
- 3 · A Defence of Detective Stories · G. K. Chesterton · ar The Speaker June 22 1901, as “The Value of Detective Stories”
- 7 · The Art of the Detective Story · R. Austin Freeman · ar The Nineteenth Century and After May 1924
- 18 · Crime and Detection · E. M. Wrong · in The Oxford University Press, 1926
- 33 · The Great Detective Stories · Willard Huntington Wright · in Scribner's, 1927
- 71 · 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”
- 110 · The Professor and the Detective · Marjorie Nicolson · ar The Atlantic Monthly April 1929
- 128 · Masters of Mystery · H. Douglas Thomson · ex Collins, 1931
- 146 · The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes · Vincent Starrett · ex Macmillan, 1933
- 158 · Murder for Pleasure · Howard Haycraft · ex Murder for Pleasure by Howard Haycraft, D. Appleton-Century, 1941
- 178 · “Only a Detective Story” · Joseph Wood Krutch · ar The Nation November 25 1944
- 187 · 2. The Rules of the Game
- 189 · Twenty Rules for Writing Detective Stories · S. S. Van Dine · ar The American Magazine September 1928
- 194 · A Detective Story Decalogue · Ronald A. Knox · ar from Best Detective Stories of the Year 1928, Faber and Faber, 1929
- 197 · The Detection Club Oath · [uncredited] · ms
- 201 · 3. Care and Feeding of the Whodunit
- 203 · The Case of the Early Beginning · Erle Stanley Gardner · ar
- 208 · Gaudy Night · Dorothy L. Sayers · ar Titles to Fame ed. Denys K. Roberts, Nelson, 1937
- 222 · The Simple Art of Murder · Raymond Chandler · ar The Atlantic Monthly December 1944; revised.
- 238 · Murder Makes Merry · Craig Rice · ar
- 245 · Trojan Horse Opera · Anthony Boucher · ar
- 250 · Dagger of the Mind · James Sandoe · ar Poetry June 1946
- 264 · Clues · Marie F. Rodell · ar from Mystery Fiction: Theory & Technique, Duell, Sloane, Pearce, 1943
- 273 · The Locked-Room Lecture · John Dickson Carr · ar from The Hollow Man, Hamish Hamilton, 1935
- 287 · Command Performance · Lee Wright · ar
- 292 · Mystery Midwife: The Crime Editor’s Job · Isabelle Taylor · ar
- 298 · Hollywoodunit · Richard Mealand · ar
- 304 · There’s Murder in the Air · Ken Crossen · ar
- 309 · 4. The Lighter Side of Crime
- 311 · Watson Was a Woman · Rex Stout · hu The Saturday Review of Literature March 1 1941
- 319 · Don’t Guess, Let Me Tell You · Ogden Nash · pm The New Yorker April 20 1940
- 321 · The Pink Murder Case · S. S. Veendam · ss The Saturday Review of Literature November 2 1929; given as by Christopher Ward in the Table of Contents.
- 327 · Murder at $2.50 a Crime · Stephen Leacock · ar from Here Are My Lectures and Stories, Dodd, Mead, 1937
- 338 · Everything Under Control · Richard Armour · pm The Saturday Review of Literature October 18 1941
- 339 · The Whistling Corpse · Ben Hecht · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #24, September 1945
- 343 · Oh, England! Full of Sin · Robert J. Casey · ar Scribner’s Magazine April 1937
- 352 · Murders and Motives · E. V. Lucas · ss The Fronded Isle and Other Essays by E. V. Lucas, Methuen, 1927
- 355 · Murder on Parnassus · Pierre Véry · ss The Living Age April 1935
translated from the French (Marianne).
- 361 · 5. Critic’s Corner
- 363 · The Life of Riley · Isaac Anderson · ar New York Times Book Review
- 367 · Battle of the Sexes: The Judge and His Wife Look at Mysteries · “Judge Lynch” · ar The Saturday Review of Literature
- 373 · How to Read a Whodunit · Will Cuppy · br Mystery Book Magazine January 1946
- 377 · Four Mystery Reviews · The Editor · gp
- _379 · The Moonstone · [uncredited] · br The Athenaeum July 25 1868
- _381 · The Sign of Four · [uncredited] · br The Athenaeum December 6 1890
- _381 · Trent’s Last Case · [uncredited] · br The Bookman May 1913
- _382 · The Benson Murder Case · Dashiell Hammett · br The Saturday Review of Literature January 15 1927
- 384 · The Ethics of the Mystery Novel · Anthony Boucher · ar Tricolor October 1944
- 390 · Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd? · Edmund Wilson · ar The New Yorker January 20 1945
- 398 · The Detective Story—Why? · Nicholas Blake · ar Murder for Pleasure by Howard Haycraft, D. Appleton-Century, 1941
- 406 · Leaves from the Editors’ Notebook · Ellery Queen · ar (r); seven introductory notes to various stories from Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine.
- 415 · 6. Detective Fiction vs. Real Life
- 417 · From the Memoirs of a Private Detective · Dashiell Hammett · ar The Smart Set March 1923
- 423 · Inquest on Detective Stories · R. Philmore · ar Discovery April 1938 (+1)
- 436 · The Lawyer Looks at Detective Fiction · John Barker Waite · ar The American Bookman August 1929
- 447 · The Crux of a Murder: Disposal of the Body · F. Sherwood Taylor · ar The Spectator April 9 1937
- 451 · 7. Putting Crime on the Shelf
- 453 · Collecting Detective Fiction · John Carter · ar from New Paths in Book-Collecting, Constable, 1934
- 476 · The Detective Short Story: The First Hundred Years · Ellery Queen · in 101 Years’ Entertainment ed. Ellery Queen, Little Brown, 1941, as “Introduction”; revised.
- 492 · Readers’ Guide to Crime · James Sandoe · ar
- 509 · 8. Watchman, What of the Night?
- 511 · The Passing of the Detective in Literature · [uncredited] · ar London Academy December 30 1905
- 513 · A Sober Word on the Detective Story · Harrison R. Steeves · ar Harper’s Magazine April 1941
- 527 · The Case of the Corpse in the Blind Alley · Philip Van Doren Stern · ar The Virginia Quarterly Review Spring 1941
- 536 · The Whodunit in World War II and After · Howard Haycraft · ar New York Times Book Review August 12 1945
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