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Crime Classics: The Mystery Story From Poe to the Present
Crime Classics The Mystery Story From Poe to the Present Author:Rex Burns and Mary Rose Sullivan Everybody loves a good story, and mystery writing is the largest-selling genre in American fiction today. In this volume, Rex Burns and Mary Rose Sullivan have chosen seventeen classics of crime from the masters of the genre--Edgar Allen Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jacques Futrelle, G.K. Chesterton, Susan Glaspell, Dashiell Hammett, Dorothy L. Say... more »ers, Agatha Christie, Cornell Woolrich, William Faulkner, Jorge Luis Borges, Ellery Queen, Flannery O'Connor, Ross MacDonald, and Ed McBain. Burns and Sullivan have also written an extensive introduction to the book and to the mystery genre itself, giving readers a historical perspective on mystery writing and an appreciation for the craft involved in stories such as those included here. There is also a brief biographical sketch of each of the collected authors, and a list of suggested further reading at the end of the book.« less