100 Crooked Little Crime Stories Author:Martin H. Greenberg (Editor), Stefan R. Dziemianowicz (Editor), Robert H. Weinberg (Editor) From the puzzle tale in Alexandre Dumas's The Man of the Knife to Gerald Tollesfrud's police procedural Switch, this richly varied collection spans more than 200 years and encompasses virtually every kind of crime story. Ernest Leong's Incense Sticks offers a taste of the noir thriller. Allen Beack's Always Together features dark, bloody fratric... more »ide. Ferenc Molnar's The Best Policy tells a fascinating tale of embezzlement, while Gary Lovisi's New Blood stars a compelling serial killer. There's kidnapping in Edgar Wallace's The Slavemaker, bigamy in Joyce Kilmer's Whitemail, drive-by shootings in Dane Gregory's Jackie Won't Be Home, and a crime so bizarre in Geoggrey Vace's The Hard-Luck Kid that it simply defies classification. Each one will get the blood racing and the mind working in overdrive.
Contents:
* Introduction by Stefan Dziemianowicz
* All Sewed Up! by Curt Hamlin
* Always Together by Allen Beck [as by Hugh B. Cave]
* Appointment with Yesterday by Geoffrey Vace [as by Hugh B. Cave]
* At the Pistols Point by E. W. Hornung
* The Best Policy by Ferenc Moln?r
* Beyond Reasonable Doubt by Robert C. Dennis
* Blind Date by J. Lane Linklater
* Brand of Cain by Dan Gordon
* The Burglars Story by W. S. Gilbert
* A Burning Clue by E. Hoffmann Price
* The Compliments of the Chief by Lincoln Steffens
* The Confession by Maurice Level
* The Crimson Complex by G. Fleming-Roberts
* The Cunning of the Serpent by Henry S. Whitehead
* A Dead Clue by David Nowinson
* Dead Mans Drop by R. Van Taylor
* Dead Men Talk by Ernest C. Amaral
* Deaths Old Sweet Song by George William Rae
* The Debt Collector by Maurice Level
* A Devils Highball by G. Fleming-Roberts
* Double Demon by William Fryer Harvey
* Each Night She Dies... by William Brandon
* Easy Kill by William Hellman
* Eight Dollar Murder by Robert Sidney Bowen
* Ferry Slip by Don James
* Final Game by Hugh B. Cave
* First Kill by Chet Williamson
* Flophouse Court Hapsburg Liebe
* Flowers for Mr. Vecchi by Larry Allan
* Footsteps by Justin Case
* Footsteps in the Night by Hugh B. Cave
* Good Night, Sweet Alibi by Rufus Bakalor
* The Grave Joker by Morris Cooper
* Graveyard Race by Andrew Fell
* The Guy Who Heard Murder by Francis K. Allan
* The Hard-Luck Kid by Geoffrey Vace [as by Hugh B. Cave]
* A Helping Hand by Rufus Bakalor
* How to Show a Corpse by Johanas L. Bouma
* I Hope Theyre Worried by Don James
* If the Shoe Fits by Ken Lewis
* Imperfect Alibi by D. L. Champion
* In the Bag by Carey Barnett
* Incense Sticks by Ernest Leong
* An Ingenious Defense Unknown Author
* Into the Lions Den [The Strange Case of Mr. Pruyn] by William F. Nolan
* Its Your Neck by George William Rae
* Jackie Wont Be Home by Dane Gregory
* Jeff Peters as a Personal Magnet [Jeff Peters] by O. Henry
* The Job by Joe R. Lansdale
* Kerrigan by Edwin Baird
* Last Laugh by Lix Agrabee
* Let Nature Take Its Corpse by C. William Harrison
* The Letters of Halpin Chalmers by Peter Cannon
* The Man of the Knife by Alexandre Dumas
* Many Happy Returns by Justin Case [as by Hugh B. Cave]
* Marked in Red by Ralph Powers
* A Matter of Proof by Grover Brinkman
* Mind Over Mayhem by Mack Reynolds
* Mine HostThe Ghost by Costa Carousso
* Motive by August Derleth
* Murder in Bronze by Herbert L. McNary
* Mushrooms by Chet Williamson
* New Blood by Gary Lovisi
* Nimble Fingers by W. Ryerson Johnson
* No Flowers for Henry by Carl Hughes [as by Hugh B. Cave]
* Nobody, Thats Who by William F. Nolan
* Numb by Wayne A. Harold
* On a Dark October by Joe R. Lansdale
* One Mans Poison by Curt Hamlin
* The Pigeon Drop by Michael A. Black
* A Quarter for Crazy Eddie by Will Murray
* The Raffle by Wayne D. Dundee
* A Real Nice Guy by William F. Nolan
* Red Runs the Tide by John P. Foran
* The Red Sail by Lester Dent
* A Retrieved Reformation by O. Henry
* Sacrifice by C. J. Henderson
* The Sapient Monkey [Sebastian Zambra] by Headon Hill
* Side Door to Hell by Cyril Plunkett
* The Silver Protector [Our First Burglar] by Ellis Parker Butler