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The Best of Mystery: 63 Short Stories Chosen by the Master of Suspense
The Best of Mystery 63 Short Stories Chosen by the Master of Suspense Author:Alfred Hitchcock (Editor) These 63 spine-tingling stories originally appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery magazine, and in the words of the master himself, they’ll “make your blood run cold.” Hitchcock coolly serves up cool cops, clever gangsters, bodies stuffed in trunks, kidnappings, adulterous affairs, murder, and espionage, and the resulting... more » thrills are positively delicious. The writers include Ed McBain, whose “Sadie When She Died” features a strange cat-and-mouse game between a sharp detective and the husband of a murdered woman whom the police suspect of having committed the crime. Other tales come from Donald E. Westlake, Bill Pronzini, Patricia Highsmith, Henry Slezar, and Richard M. Ellis.
Winter run ; Warrior's farewell ; Melee of diamonds / Edward D. Hoch --
You can't blame me / Henry Slesar --
Flower in her hair ; Linda is gone / Pauline C. Smith --
Cost of Kent Castwell / Avram Davidson --
Pseudo identity ; With a smile for the ending / Lawrence Block --
That Russian! / Jack Ritchie --
Galton and the yelling boys ; Nothing but human nature / Hillary Waugh --
Blind date / Charles Boeckman --
Pressure / Roderick Wilkinson --
Running man ; Here lies another blackmailer ; I don't understand it! / Bill Pronzini. Vietnam circle / F.J. Kelly --
Sadie when she died / Ed McBain --
Very cautious boy / Gilbert Ralston --
Try for the big prize / Borden Deal --
Voice in the night / Robert Colby --
Undertaker, please drive slow ; News from nowhere / Ron Goulart --
Never shake a family tree ; Come back, come back ... ; Best-friend murder / Donald E. Westlake --
Dead duck / Lawrence Treat --
Games for adults / John Lutz --
Night of the twisters / James Michael Ullman --
Variations on a game / Patricia Highsmith. Child's play / William Link, Richard Levinson --
Just a little impractical joke / Richard Stark --
Murderer #2 / Jean Potts --
Third call ; #8 / Jack Ritchie --
Damon and Pythias and Delilah Brown / Rufus King --
Glory hunter / Richard M. Ellis --
Frightened lady ; Murder, 1990 / C.B. Gilford --
Once upon a bank floor ; Montevideo squeeze / James Holding --
Death by misadventure / Wenzell Brown --
Television country / Charlotte Edwards --
Art for money's sake / Dan J. Marlowe --
Panther, panther in the night / Paul W. Fairman. Perfectly timed plot / X. Ferrars --
All the needless killing ; Doctor Apollo / Bryce Walton --
One for the crow / Mary Barrett --
Happiness before death ; Case of the kind waitress / Henry Slesar --