by Will -- Ed. Cuppy ‧ RELEASE DATE: July 1, 1946
High level selection for this anthology of real and fictional crime stories which includes top notch fanciers, Roughead and Pearson, accounts from the Newgate Calendar, fiction from Collier, Forester, Chesterton, Huxley, Glaspell, Christie, Sayers, Palmer, Hammett, and a spoof from Leacock. There are essays on a good murder, rules for murderesses, a survey of wholesale murders, and Father Brown, Peter Wimsey and Sam Slade among the sleuths. Among the anthologies- better taste and more smiles.
Pub Date: July 1, 1946
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: -
Publisher: Sheridan House
Review Posted Online: N/A
Kirkus Reviews Issue: July 1, 1946
Categories: FICTION
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