Masterpieces of Mystery and Suspense PDF Download

Author: Martin Harry Greenberg
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 9780312022518
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 651

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Forty mystery stories include works by Edgar Allan Poe, Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, Ellery Queen, Ross Macdonald, John MacDonald, Ruth Rendell, Dick Francis, P.D. James, Bill Pronzini, Donald Westlake, and Lawrence Block

Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312351489
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 532

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Agatha Christie is the world's most popular fiction writer; her works have been outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Best remembered for her classic crime novels such as Murder on the Orient Express and And Then There Were None, her works have been cherished by generations of readers. Christie, however, was also a master of the short story and this volume collects some of her finest short pieces. With such masterpieces as 'Witness for the Prosecution' (the basis for the classic film) and 'Three Blind Mice' (the basis for her Mousetrap, the longest-running play in history), as well as some of her lesser known works, including all of her supernatural suspense tales, this collection of twenty-eight ingenious tales displays Agatha Christie's full range as an author.

Author: Joseph French
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781456477035
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Languages : en
Pages : 128

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Detective Stories including: The Purloined Letter By Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Hand By Arthur B. Reeve, The Biter Bit By Wilkie Collins, Missing: Page Thirteen By Anna Katherine Green, A Scandal In Bohemia By Arthur Conan Doyle, The Rope Of Fear By Mary E. and Thomas W. Hanshew and Some Scotland Yard Stories By Sir Robert Anderson,

Author: Joseph Lewis French
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1387148389
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 154

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Edited by Joseph Lewis French, this collection of 9 riddle stories includes ""The Mysterious Card"" and its sequel by Cleveland Moffett, ""The Oblong Box"" by Poe, ""A Terribly Strange Bed"" by Wilkie Collins, ""The Lost Room"" by Fitz-James O'Brien and others selected as masterful examples of the genre by the editor. He says in the forward: ""A distinguished American writer of fiction said to me lately: 'Did you ever think of the vital American way we live? We are always going after mental gymnastics.' Now the mystery story is mental gymnastics. ... The stories of this collection cover a wide range and are the choice of reading in several literatures."" Joseph Lewis French (1858-1936) was a novelist, editor, poet and newspaper man. The New York Times noted in 1925 that he may be ""the most industrious anthologist of his time."" He is known for his popular themed collections, and published over twenty-five books between 1918 and his death in 1936.

Author: Joseph Lewis French
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781984949387
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Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Joseph Lewis French (1858-1936) was a novelist, editor, poet and newspaper man. The New York Times noted in 1925 that he may be "the most industrious anthologist of his time." He is known for his popular themed collections, and published over twenty-five books between 1918 and his death in 1936. He founded two magazines, The New West (c. 1887) and The Wave (c. 1890). Afterwards he worked for newspapers "across the country" contributing poetry and articles. He struggled financially, and in 1927 the New York Graphic, a daily tabloid, published an autobiographical article they convinced him to write, entitled "I'm Starving - Yet I'm in Who's Who as the Author of 27 Famous Books."

Author: Joseph Lewis French
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781517080419
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 222

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The honour of founding the modern detective story belongs to an American writer. Such tales as "The Purloined Letter" and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" still stand unrivalled. We in America no more than the world of letters at large, did not readily realize what Poe had done when he created Auguste Dupin-the prototype of Sherlock Holmes et genus omnes, up to the present hour. On Poe's work is built the whole school of French detective story writers. Conan Doyle derived his inspiration from them in turn, and our American writers of today are helped from both French and English sources. It is rare enough to find the detective in fiction even today, however, who is not lacking in one supreme quality, -scientific imagination. Auguste Dupin had it. Dickens, had he lived a short time longer, might have turned his genius in this direction. The last thing he wrote was the "Mystery of Edwin Drood," the mystery of which is still unravelled. I have heard the opinion expressed by an eminent living writer that had Dickens' life been prolonged he would probably have become the greatest master of the detective story, except Poe. The detective story heretofore has been based upon one of two methods: analysis or deduction. The former was Poe's, to take the typical example; the latter is Conan Doyle's. Of late the discoveries of science have been brought into play in this field of fiction with notable results. The most prominent of such innovators, indeed the first one, is Arthur Reeve, an American writer, whose "Black Hand" will be found in this collection; which has endeavoured within its limited space to cover the field from the start-the detective story-wholly the outgrowth of the more highly developed police methods which have sprung into being within little more than half a century, being only so old.

Author: Joseph Lewis French
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781333060503
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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Excerpt from Masterpieces of Mystery: Mystic-Humorous Stories All rights reserved, including that OF translation into foreign languages, including the scandinavianassistance in granting the use of original material, and for helpful advice and suggestion, to Professor Brander Matthew's of Columbia University, to Mrs. Anna Katherine Green Rohlfs, to Cleveland Mofiett, to Arthur Reeve, creator of Craig Kennedy, to Wilbur Daniel Steele, to Ralph Adams Cram, to Chester Bailey Femald, to Brian Brown, to Mrs. Dllian M. Robins gf the publisher's cihoe, and to Charles E. Fanhgton of the Brooklyn Public. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: Various
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 183

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"Masterpieces of Mystery in Four Volumes: Detective Stories" by Various. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author: Joseph Lewis French
Publisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 177541826X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 307

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Joseph Lewis French introduces his edition of detective stories with the statement: "We did not readily realize what Poe had done when he created Auguste Dupin." Detective fiction is indeed a recent literary tradition, and French's collection celebrates it with writers such as Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins and Arthur Conan Doyle.

Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 9780312349387
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 740

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Agatha Christie is the world's most popular writer in modern times and her books have only been outsold by the Bible and Shakespeare. Best remembered for such classic crime novels as Murder on the Orient Express, And Then There Were None, and Death on the Nile, her works have been cherished by generations of readers. Christie, however, was also a master of the shorter crime story and this volume collects some of her finest short stories. Each of these thirty-nine stories features one of Christie's famous detectives - Miss Marple, Hercule Poirot, Parker Pyne, and Harley Quin - in some of their most baffling and intriguing cases, as these ingenious Christie tales show how satisfying and compelling the crime short story can be.