"Pocket Book edition published August, 1942. 1st printing: June, 1942"--Title page verso. "Help win the war!": page [364]; "Did you like this book?": page [365]; publisher's advertisements (dated August, 1942) on pages [367]-[374]; pages [366] blank. "172"--Spine. XCOL copy #1: Removed from the Dr. Richard Caplan Sherlock Holmes Collection (MsC1154). IaU
Contents:
Answers. by John Keats -- How well do you know your famous detectives? -- by Dashiell Hammett -- The House of Three Candles / by Erle Stanley Gardner -- The adventurous exploit of the cave of Ali Baba / by Dorothy Sayers -- The man who liked Dickens / by Evelyn Waugh -- The absent minded coterie / by Robert Barr -- The hounds of fate / by Saki -- The price of the head / by John Russell -- Cocaine / by Cornell Woolrich -- Twenty cents' worth of murder / by Stephen Leacock -- Watson was a woman / by Rex Stout -- Whodunit / by Elliot Paul -- About these mystery stories / by P.G. Wodehouse -- The perfect murder / by Edmond Pearson -- Dictators, Democrats, and detectives / by Howard Haycraft -- Katharine Nairn / by William Roughead -- The adventure of the mark of Cain / by Ellery Queen -- Brahma / by Ralph Waldo Emerson -- The jackdaw of Rheims / by Thomas Ingoldsby -- What the bullet sang / by Bret Harte -- Lord Randal / Anonymous -- Ballad of the gibbet / by Francois Villon -- My last duchess / by Robert Browning -- The city in the sea / by Edgar Allen Poe -- Faustine / by Algernon Charles Swinburne -- On the eve of his execution / by Chidiock Tichborne -- The Bridge of Sighs / by Thomas Hood -- La belle dame sans merci / by John Keats -- The problem of the amnesia case -- The abandoned picnic -- The one armed soldier -- How well do you know your famous detectives? -- Answers.
Series:
[Pocket book] ; 172
Indexed by:
Reginald, R. Cumulative paperback index, 1939-1959, page 227
OCLC:
(OCoLC)13934915
LCCN:
43001346
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
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