The Longman anthology of detective fiction /

Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Critical Essay and Commentary
John Ball, "Murder at Large"
Part I: The Amateur Detective
Critical Essays and Commentaries
Patricia D. Maida and Nicholas B. Spornick, From "The Puzzle-Game"
Nancy Ellen Talburt and Juana R. Young, "The Many Guises of the Contemporary Amateur Detective"
Stories
Edgar Allan Poe "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "Silver Blaze"
Agatha Christie "The Witness for the Prosecution"
Dorothy L. Sayers "The Haunted Policeman"
Ellery Queen " 'My Queer Dean' "
John Dickson Carr "The House in Goblin Wood"
Margaret Maron "Deborah's Judgment"
Sharyn McCrumb "Nine Lives to Live"
Diane Mott Davidson "Cold Turkey"
Jan Burke "Revised Endings"
Part II: The Private Investigator
Critical Essays and Commentaries
Raymond Chandler, "The Simple Art of Murder"
Natalie Hevener Kaufman and Carol McGinnis Kay, From "Grafton's Place in the Development of the Detective Novel"
Stories
Dashiell Hammett"The Gutting of Couffignal"
Raymond Chandler"Trouble Is My Business"
Sue Grafton"The Parker Shotgun"
Sara Paretsky"Skin Deep"
Gar Anthony Haywood"And Pray Nobody Sees You"
S. J. Rozan"Going Home"
Part III: The Police
Critical Essays and Commentaries
LeRoy Lad Panek, From "The Police Novel"
Ed McBain, "The 87th Precinct"
Stories
Freeman Wills Crofts "The Hunt Ball"
Georges Simenon "Inspector Maigret Deduces"
Index



Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Detective and mystery stories, American, Detective and mystery stories, American History and criticism, Detective and mystery stories, English, Detective and mystery stories, English History and criticism, Popular literature English-speaking countries History and criticism