TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tebow,Tim
AU  - Davis,J.Madison
ED  - International Association of Crime Writers.
TI  - Murderous schemes: an anthology of classic detective stories 
SN  - 0195103211 (acid-free paper)
AV  - PR 1309  M974 1996
U1  - 813.087208 20
PY  - 1996///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Detective and mystery stories, American
KW  - Detective and mystery stories, English
KW  - Historias de detectives y misterio
N1  - "In association with the International Association of Crime Writers."; The Locked Room : The shadow of the goat / John Dickson Carr -- What, no butler? / Damon Runyon -- The leopold locked room / Edward D. Hoch -- The man who read John Dickson Carr / William Brittain -- Only One Among You : The secret garden / G.K. Chesterton -- The necklace of pearls / Dorothy L. Sayers -- They can only hang you once / Dashiell Hammett -- Busted blossoms / Stuart M. Kaminsky -- The Caper : A costume piece / E.W. Hornung -- The impossible theft / John F. Suter -- Don't know much about art / Simon Brett -- The ultimate caper / Donald E. Westlake -- The Armchair Detective : The mysterious death on the underground railway / Barones Emmuska Orczy -- The blue geranium / Agatha Christie -- The adventure of Abraham Lincoln's clue / Ellery Queen -- The affair of the twisted scarf / Rex Stout -- Come Into My Parlor : The landlady / Roald Dahl -- The orderly world of Mr. Appleby / Stanley Ellin -- Bless this house / Christianna Brand -- Someday I'll plant more walnut trees / Lawrence Block -- I Confess! : "Thou art the man" / Edgar Allan Poe -- The adventure of the dying detective / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- The master of mystery / Jack London -- The fat man / Isak Dinesen -- Hoist On Their Own Petards : Midnight in Beauchamp Row / Anna Katharine Green -- I'll be waiting / Raymond Chandler -- The possibility of evil / Shirly Jackson -- The secret lover / Peter Lovesey -- Over The Edge : A jury of her peers / Susan Glaspell -- The hands of Mr. Ottermole / Thomas Burke -- Tang / Chester Himes -- Little apple hard to peel / Fredric Brown
N2  - An anthology of detective fiction with examples of its sub-genres, armchair detective, the locked room and so on. The first is represented by Agatha Christie's In Blue Geranium, where the detective solves a crime from a conversation, the second by The Leopold Locked Room, in which a policeman is found in a locked room with his wife killed by his gun, but he didn't do it
ER  -