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Title:
The Best American mystery stories of the 19th century
Author:
Penzler, Otto, editor.
Publication Information:
Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
Physical Description:
xvii, 604 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary:
An unparalleled treasury of crime, mystery, and murder from the genre's founding century With stories by Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum, Edith Wharton, Stephen Crane, and Jack London, The Best American Mystery Stories of the Nineteenth Century is an essential anthology of American letters. It's a unique blend of beloved writers who contributed to the genre and forgotten names that pioneered the form, such as Anna Katharine Green, the godmother of mystery fiction, and the African-American writer Charles W. Chesnutt. Of course, Penzler includes "The Murders in the Rue Morgue, " recognized as the first detective story, and with thirty-three stories spanning the years 1824'1899, nowhere else can readers find such a surprising, comprehensive take on the evolution of the American mystery story.
Language:
English
Contents:
Story of the young robber / Rifle / Mr. Higginbotham's catastrophe / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Purloined letter / Remarkable case of arrest for murder / Fatal secret / Danseuse / A double tragedy: an actor's story / Two sisters; or, The avenger / Lady, or the tiger? and The discourager of hesitancy / A thumb-print and what came of it / My favorite murder / Sheriff's children / Gallegher / 'Round the opium lamp / Lingo Dan / Nameless man and the Montezuma emerald / Doctor, his wife, and the clock / A very strange case / Long arm / Mysterious card and The mysterious card unveiled / Tom Sawyer, detective / Corpus delicti / Suicide of Kiaros / Purple emperor / At Pinney's ranch / Blue hotel / A cup of cold water / Detective's pretty neighbor / A point in morals / A thousand deaths
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ISBN:
9780544302228
Format :
Book