| Description |
xiii, 506 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
The yellow wall-paper / Charlotte Curtis Stetson Gilman -- A man from Glasgow / W. Somerset Maugham -- The daemon lover / Shirley Jackson -- Pen, pencil and poison / Oscar Wilde -- A place of one's own / Osbert Sitwell -- The fortunes of Martin Waldeck / Sir Walter Scott -- Murder in solitude / Alister Kershaw -- The mole / Gerald Bullet -- The man who missed the 'bus / Stella Benson -- Elvira Barney / Edgar Lustgarten -- The toll-house / W.W. Jacobs -- A theme for Hyacinth / Julian Symons -- Miss Parsons / Henry Wilson -- Stay of execution / Michael Gilbert -- The Squire's story / Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell -- The beast with five fingers / William Fryer Harvey -- Steinie Morrison / Maurice Moisewitsch -- Death and the compass / Jorge Luis Borges -- Mrs. Amworth / E.F. Benson -- Last visit / Christopher Lazare -- Murder among the lovebirds / Janet Flanner -- The coach / Violet Hunt -- The spider / Jan Gerhard Toonder -- "Eleven days' wonder" / Lenore Glen Offord -- Sensational occurance at a poetry reading / P.G. Wodehouse. |
| Subject |
Detective and mystery stories, English.
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Detective and mystery stories, American.
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| Added Author |
Kahn, Joan.
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| ISBN |
0395207185 |
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