The Crime Lover's Casebook Author:Jerome Charyn (Editor) The Crime Lover's Casebook: The International Association of Crime Writers' Essential Crime Writing of the Late 20th Century — All the stories in this unparalleled treasury represent crime writing that no longer follows the rules of yesterday's cozies and detective fiction. Evil still lurks here, but there are no san... more »itized off-stage murders solved by aloof paragons of deduction. Instead we have vigorous, ironic, disturbingly realistic and undeniably alive tales that are diverse and riveting.
Introduction / Jerome Charyn --
Watts lions / Walter Mosley --
How I contemplated the world from the Detroit House of Correction and began my life over again / Joyce Carol Oates --
Snail watcher / Patricia Highsmith --
Just say no / Roger L Simon --
In the Bronx / Don DeLillo --
Goldfish / Didier Daeninckx --
Cathedral / Raymond Carver --
Dealer's choice / Sara Paretsky --
Summer of '37 / Julian Semionov --
No radio / Mickey Friedman --
Mafia western / Leonardo Sciascia --
Manufacture of a legend / Paco Ignacio Taibo, II --
King / Isaac Babel --
Law of the eye / Pieke Biermann --
Merciful angel of death / Lawrence Block --
Ishmael / Joe Gores --
Last voyage of the ghost ship / Gabriel GarciÌa MaÌrquez --
Cain / Andrew Vachss --
Ultimate caper / Donald E Westlake --
Chee's witch / Tony Hillerman --
Little Leo / Jerome Charyn --
Cities & the dead / Italo Calvino --
Gravy train / James Ellroy --
Death and the compass / Jorge Luis Borges --
Nicholas in exile / Herbert Gold --
Captain Blood / Donald Barthelme --
Mirror girl / William Bayer --
Man who hated books / Stuart M Kaminsky --
Pig Latin / Clarice Lispector --
Devices and desires / PD James --
Martyrdom / Yukio Mishima --
Fathers and daughters / Laura Grimaldi --
Werewolf / Angela Carter --
Missionary stew / Ross Thomas --
Moment before the gun went off / Nadine Gordimer --