Authors: Patricia Craig
ISBN-13: 9780192803719, ISBN-10: 0192803719
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: December 2002
Edition: New Edition
Patricia Craig was born and educated in Belfast before moving to London, where she now lives. She is a freelance critic and reviewer, and has edited several anthologies, including Oxford Books of Detective Stories, Ireland, English Detective Stories, and Modern Women's Stories.
The Oxford Book of Detective Stories is a thorough, broad, and representative collection of short stories intended to reflect the best of detective fiction from around the world. Drawing on works dating from the middle 1800s up to the present, editor Patricia Craig shows us how different nationalities have imposed their own stamp on this highly popular and relatively young literary genre. Alongside English and American fiction by such acknowledged masters as Ellery Queen, Dashiell Hammett, Erle Stanley Gardner, and Agatha Christie, we find stories by Georges Simenon, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sarah Paretsky, and Ian Rankin. The anthology roams across Europe and further afield to embrace Japan, Denmark, Holland, Italy, Argentina, Czechoslovakia, and other countries. This is a book that will delight any fan or student of detective fiction. Women detectives, police procedurals, the amateur sleuth, locked-room mysteries, and the classic or pioneering models of the genre are all represented hereand in her perceptive and inclusive introduction Craig examines the figure of the detective in international literature.
Introduction | ||
Missing! | 3 | |
The Gerrard Street Mystery | 20 | |
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle | 43 | |
A Mystery of the Sand-Hills | 62 | |
The Bridge that Broke | 80 | |
A Sensible Course of Action | 99 | |
Murder Makes it Worse | 110 | |
The Stolen Rubens | 118 | |
The Marshall Murder | 128 | |
No Crime in the Mountains | 147 | |
The Case of the Irate Witness | 199 | |
The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb | 215 | |
Death & Company | 228 | |
The Macbeth Murder Mystery | 235 | |
Death and the Compass | 239 | |
from Maigret's Memoirs | 250 | |
'My Queer Dean!' | 263 | |
The Cooperative Defendant | 269 | |
The Murder on the Lotus Pond | 294 | |
The Ravine | 312 | |
Bloody Windsor | 328 | |
The Classic Semerak Case | 346 | |
Arrie and Jasper | 362 | |
The Deadly Egg | 378 | |
Ted Wood | 394 | |
Santa-San Solves It | 409 | |
Find Miriam | 418 | |
Divine Punishment | 435 | |
An Acquaintance with Mr. Collins | 453 | |
A Little Missionary Work | 465 | |
Body Count | 483 | |
Father Brown in Muncie, Indiana | 492 | |
Dealer's Choice | 495 | |
Brown Eyes and Green Hair | 510 | |
My Brother Jack | 529 | |
Summer Rain | 543 | |
The Dean Curse | 560 | |
Biographical Notes | 581 | |
Acknowledgements | 585 |