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The Mammoth Book of Modern Crime Stories (aka The Anthology of Crime Stories)
The Mammoth Book of Modern Crime Stories - aka The Anthology of Crime Stories Author:George Hardinge (Editor) This huge anthology includes 38 detective and mystery stories about crimes, their detection, criminals and their motives. The short stories take you onto the gritty and violent streets of the city, and into the darkest places in the human mind. Love, danger and death, parody, spoof, and pastiche have had a long tradition within... more » the field of crime fiction.
Contents:
The Blood Bargain / Eric Ambler;
Mr. Bulmer's Golden Carp / John Bingham;
Bless This House / Christianna Brnd;
Don't Know Much About Art / Simon Brett;
North Wind / Gwendoline Butler;
The Harlequin Tea Set / Agatha Christie;
Turn and Turn About / Francis Clifford;
We Know You're Busy Writing, But We Thought You Wouldn't Mind If We Just Dropped in for a Minute / Edmund Crispin;
Faery Tale / Celia Dale;
Indian Rope Trick / Lionel Davidson;
At the Lulu-Bar Motel / Colin Dexter;
Instrument of Justice / Elizabeth Ferrars;
The Gift / Dick Francis;
Death of an Old Dog / Antonia Fraser;
Audited and Found Correct / Michael Gilbert;
The Circus / Winston Graham;
Those Awful Dawns / Patricia Highsmith;
Suicide, or Murder? / Jane Aiken Hodge;
Mary / P. M. Hubbard;
The Girl who Loved Graveyards / P. D. James;
An Upright Woman / H. R. F. Keating;
Something on Everyone / Anthony Lejeune;
The Reluctant Detective / Michael Z. Lewin;
The Mistaken Smile / Audrey Erskine Lindop;
The Chair / Roger Longrigg;
The Secret Lover / Peter Lovesey;
The Old Mob / Desmond Lowden;
The Last Place on Earth / James McClure;
A Light on the Road to Woodstock / Ellis Peters;
The Boudicca Killing / Anthony Price;
The Irony of Hate / Ruth Rendell;
Tower of Silence / Maurice Richardson;
Family Butcher / George Sims;
The Belvedere / Jean Stubbs;
The Flaw / Julian Symons;
Fixation / Miles Tripp;
OK for Murder / Michael Underwood;
A Wise Child / John Wainwright;
The Man from the White Mountains / Ted Willis;
Hazell and the Patriot / P. B. Yuill.
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Also published as The Anthology of Crime Stories, 1984.
Originally published as The Best of Winter's Crimes, Vol 1 & Vol 2, 1986« less