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Book

Crime stories and other writings

Call Number

  • MYSTERY HAMM (CEN)

Publication Information

New York : Library of America : Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Putnam, c2001.

Physical Description

934 p. ; 21 cm.

Notes

Steven Marcus wrote the notes for this volume.

Contents

  • Crime stories: Arson plus
  • Slippery fingers
  • Crooked souls
  • The tenth clew
  • Zigzags of treachery
  • The house in Turk Street
  • The girl with the silver eyes
  • Women, politics and murder
  • The golden horseshoe
  • Nightmare Town
  • The Whosis Kid
  • The scorched face
  • Dead yellow woman
  • The gutting of Couffignal
  • The assistant murderer
  • Creeping Siamese
  • The big knock-over
  • $106,000 blood money
  • The main death
  • This king business
  • Fly paper
  • The farewell murder
  • Woman in the dark
  • Two sharp kniver (continued)
  • (Contents continued) Other writings: The thin man: an early typescript
  • From the Memoirs of a private detective
  • Suggestions to detective story writers.

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