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Title:

City sleuths and tough guys / edited by David Willis McCullough.

Publisher:

Houghton Mifflin,

Copyright Date:

1989

Description:

xvi, 586 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Detective and mystery stories.

Other Authors:

McCullough, David W.

Notes:

Bibliography: p. [584].

Contents:

Double indemnity, the screenplay / Raymond Chandler and Billy Wilder The simple art of murder / Raymond Chandler -- The clue of the yellow curtains / Francois Eugene Vidocq -- The mystery of Marie Roget / Edgar Allen Poe -- The lodger / Marie Belloc Lowndes -- Princess Sonia's bath / Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre -- The investors / Edgar Wallace -- The tenth clew / Dashiell Hammett -- The rubber trumpet / Roy Vickers -- No proof / Yoh Sano -- Dead-end for Delia / William Campbell Gault -- At the Etoile du Nord / Georges Simenon -- I always get the cuties / John D. MacDonald -- This world, then the fireworks / Jim Thompson -- The gold fever tapes / Mickey Spillane -- Wild goose chase / Ross MacDonald -- The nine-to-five man / Stanley Ellin -- Small homocide / Ed McBain -- Blind man with a pistol / Chester Himes -- Pigeon blood / Paul Cain -- Just one of those days / Donald E. Westlake -- Election day / Joseph Hansen -- The Parker shotgun / Sue Grafton -- The Johore murders / Paul Theroux -- Sure, blue, and dead, too / Janwillem van de Wetering -- Skin deep / Sara Paretsky -- Death by water / William Marshall -- Flake piece / Carolyn Wheat -- Dead soldier / Loren D. Estleman -- Double indemnity, the screenplay / Raymond Chandler and Billy Wilder

ISBN:

9780395513187
0395513189

LCCN:

89001960

Locations:

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

S1PD771 -- Johnston Public Library (Johnston)

ZNPA437 -- Mondamin Public Library (Mondamin)

UJPE911 -- Norwalk Easter Public Library (Norwalk)