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      Hardcover 100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories Book
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      ISBN: 1566191076

      ISBN13: 9781566191074

      100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories

      (Part of the 100 Stories Series and 100 Stories Series)

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      Book Overview

      Match wits with great detectives, devious criminals, and some of the finest minds in the all-time annals of detective literature. From crime-suspense (Tom Curry's "The Sign") to hard-boiled fiction ("A Hand of Pinochle") to modern noir ("Soul's Burning" by Bill Pronzini), the scope of these 100 detective stories is as wide as the tales are short. They're the brainchildren of such top names as James M. Barrie ("The Adventure of the Two Collaborators"), O. Henry ("The Mystery of the Rue de Peychaud"), Charles Dickens ("An Artful Touch"), Bret Harte ("The Stolen Cigar-Case"), Jack London ("The Leopard Man's Story"), R.L. Stevens ("The Carnival Caper"), Stephen Deninger ("Damsel with a Derringer"), Nick Spain ("Duck Behind that Eight-Ball "), and countless others. There's even one by Abraham Lincoln, "The Trailor Murder Mystery," which appeared in 1843. Prison breakouts, grand larceny, homicide: trying to solve these tricky cases will be a treat for all mystery fans.

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      Rated 5 stars
      fun to just pick up and read

      By Thriftbooks.com User,

      "100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories" selected by Robert H. Weinberg, Stefan Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, © 1993 There are so many stories in this book I do not know if I read them all. It was fun to just pick up and read for ten or fifteen minutes a story, sit back and think about what happened in it, and read the next one. The pause to think is important because the stories are so good you want to savor...

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      Rated 4 stars
      Delicious, Dastardly , And Delightful

      By Thriftbooks.com User,

      The 100 stories in this book cover just over 150 years of writing and writing styles. The earliest was written in 1843 by an up and coming young politician. The young mystery writer was named Abraham Lincoln and, I'm afraid, that it was his name, not the quality of his piece of fiction, that warranted its inclusion in this anthology. It's not that bad, but it's more of a story of a near miscarriage of justice than one...

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