Best of Detective Stories
P.B.D. PUBLICATIONS | 2007 | ISBN 81-8213-029-8 | PDF | 352 pages | 13.6 mb
scanned to PDF by me.
This book "The Detective Stories" is an acclaimed sub-genre of crime fiction, important for its high entertainment value, the contributions of its best writers, and its influences on other aspects of popular culture (films, radio and television drama). The private detectives' antecedents may be traced all the way back to Sherlock Holmes. The 17 stories in this book represent some of the finest short detective fiction of the past half century, by most of the writers who have helped define and are in the process of redefining detective literature.
Contents
MAX ALLAN COLLINS The Strawberry Teardrop (Nate Heller)
EDWARD GORMAN The Reason Why (Jack Dwyer)
STUART M. KAMINSKY Busted Blossoms (Toby Peters)
HENRY KANE Suicide is Scandalous (Peter Chambers)
RAYMOND CHANDLER Wrong Pigeon (Philip Marlowe)
STEPHEN MARLOWE Wanted—Dead and Alive (Chester Drum)
ROSS MACDONALD Guilt-Edged Blonde (Lew Archer)
LOREN D. ESTLEMAN Greektown (Amos Walker)
BILL PRONZINI Skeleton Rattle Your Mouldy Leg (Nameless Detective)
LAWRENCE BLOCK Out of the Window (Matt Scudder)
STEPHEN GREENLEAF Iris (John Marshall Tanner)
CARROLL JOHN DALY Not My Corpse (Race Williams)
WILLIAM CAMPBELL GAULT Stolen Star (Joe Puma)
MICHAEL COLLINS A Reason to Die (Dan Fortune) E
DWARD D. HOCH The Other Eye (A/Darlan)
SUE GRAFTON She Didn't Come Home (Kinsey Millhone)
JOHN LUTZ Ride the Lighting (Alo Nudger)
This is the 2nd of my 4 detective story anthologies. I have already scanned & uploaded thr the Oxford Book of Detective Stories earlier. If I get time, I shall scan the remaining 2!
