The Best Crime Stories Ever Told
by Dorothy L. Sayers, Ambrose Bierce, Herman Melville, and Edgar Allan Poe
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When acclaimed mystery writer Dorothy L. Sayers first began compiling anthologies of the best crime stories in the 1920s and ’30s, the genre was in the flush of its first golden age. While it is hard to imagine today—after every possible mystery plot has been told, retold, subverted, and played straight again by hundreds of writers over nearly a century—in Sayers’s day there were still twists that had never been seen, and machinations of crime that would shock even jaded Jazz Age readers.
Now today’s fans of mystery and crime can experience a handpicked collection featuring 26 outstanding stories from this era, originally chosen by Sayers and newly introduced by Otto Penzler. As a prolific writer of the genre, Sayers understood the balance between solvability and obfuscation that is the defining feature of great crime stories—and these are some of the greatest.
This is a treasure trove for fans of classic mystery stories!
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short stories, horror stories, obsessive-compulsive disorder, monomania, fixation, catalepsy, American Detective and mystery stories, English Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Crime, fiction, horror tales, horror, inquests, coroners, mountain lionsPeople
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Best Crime Stories Ever Told
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Introduction by Otto Penzler
Detection and mystery. Lord Chizelrigg's missing fortune / Robert Barr
The ordinary hair-pins / E.C. Bentley
The biter bit / William Wilkie Collins
The mystery of the sleeping-car express / Freeman Wills Crofts
Blind gap moor / J. S. Fletcher
The Regent's Park murder / Baroness Orczy
Mystery and horror. Miss Bracegirdle does her duty / Stacy Aumonier
The leech of Folkestone / R. H. Barham
A.V. Laider / Max Beerbohm
Cut-throat farm / J. D. Beresford
Damned Thing / Ambrose Bierce
Secret worship / Algernon Blackwood
No. 17 / Mrs. E. Bland
The open boat / Stephan Crane
Riesenberg / Ford Madox Ford
The prayer / Violet Hunt
The well / W. W.Jacobs
Mr. Justice Harbottle / J. S. Le Fanu
The haunted and the haunters / Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Lytton
The great return / Arthur Machen
The story of the Greek slave / Frederick Marryat
Anty Bligh /John Masefield
The bell-tower / Herman Melville
The library window / Mrs. Oliphant
Rose Rose / Barry Pain
Berenice / Edgar Allan Poe
The roll-call of the reef / Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
Sredni vashtar "saki"/ (H. H. Munro)
Called to the rescue / Henry Spicer
The inexperienced ghost / H. G. W. Wells.
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