Synopses & Reviews
Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe, Lord Peter Wimsey and Hercule Poirot, Matt Scudder and Easy Rawlins, Spenser and Dalgliesh - they stand among the most popular of twentieth-century heroes. And now the award-winning mystery novelist Ed Gorman and novelist-critic Jon L. Breen present a full century of the world's favorite sleuths in tales by such classic writers as G. K. Chesterton, Ellery Queen, Dorothy Sayers, and Agatha Christie as well as contemporary giants like Sharyn McCrumb, Walter Mosley, Ed McBain, Lawrence Block, P. D. James, and Ruth Rendell. A hefty, handsome volume, Sleuths of the Century also offers serious suspense from Dashiell Hammett, Patricia Highsmith, Tony Hillerman, Rex Stout, Donald E. Westlake, and John D. MacDonald. Crossing the decades with a gallery of sleuths impeccably styled for every generation, this collection provides exciting, literate tales of detection and danger that will keep the reader on tenterhooks well into the next century.
Synopsis
Crossing the decades with a gallery of sleuths impeccably styled for every generation, this collection provides exciting, literate tales of detection and danger that will keep the reader on tenterhooks well into the next century.
Table of Contents
Phantom motor /Jacques Futrelle --Secret garden /G.K. Chesterton --Problem at sea /Agatha Christie --Piscatorial farce of the stolen stomach /Dorothy L. Sayers --Adventure of the glass-domed clock /Ellery Queen --Madame Maigret's admirer /Georges Simenon --Wrong problem /John Dickson Carr --Next witness /Rex Stout --Case of the irate witness /Erle Stanley Gardner --King in yellow /Raymond Chandler --Pink caterpillar /Anthony Boucher --Suicide /Ross Macdonald --Empty hours /Ed McBain --Heroine /Patricia Highsmith --Death of a bum /Donald E. Westlake --Breathe no more /John D. MacDonald --When the wedding was over /Ruth Rendell --Like a lamb to slaughter /Lawrence Block --Witch, yazzie, and the nine of clubs /Tony Hillerman --Cat's-paw /Bill Pronzini --Somewhere in the city /Marcia Muller --Old rattler /Sharyn McCrumb --Dalziel's ghost /Reginald Hill --Watts lions /Walter Mosley --Grace notes /Sara Paretsky.