Detective stories

Philip Pullman Arthur Conan Doyle Agatha Christie Isaac Asimov E. C. Bentley Erich Kästner Dorothy L. Sayers Raymond M. Smullyan Damon Runyon Michael Underwood Ellery Queen Italo Calvino Tony Fletcher Andrew Vachss Stephen Leacock First published 1998

About this book

Adventure of the Speckled Band / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The little mystery / E.C. Bentley The adventure of the Egyptian tomb / Agatha Christie Emil and the detectives (an extract) / Erich Kästner The inspiration of Mr. Budd / Dorothy L. Sayers From the files of Inspector Craig / Raymond Smullyan Butch minds the baby / Damon Runyon Murder at St. Oswald's / Michael Underwood The cross of Lorraine / Isaac Asimov The Newdick helicopter / Leslie Charteris Cold money / Ellery Queen More from the files of Inspector Craig / Raymond Smullyan The one-handed murderer / Italo Calvino (an Italian folktale) Fingerprinting a ghost / Tony Fletcher (from Memories of murder) It's a hard world / Andrew Vachss Maddened by mystery / Stephen Leacock

Subjects

  • amorality
  • anglo-saxons
  • aristocracy
  • children's fiction
  • children's stories
  • detective and mystery stories
  • detective fiction
  • drama
  • fiction
  • histoires pour enfants
  • juvenile audience
  • locked-room mysteries
  • mystery and detective stories
  • private investigators
  • puzzles
  • puzzles, juvenile literature
  • short stories