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City Sleuths and Tough Guys: Crime Stories from Poe to the Present
City Sleuths and Tough Guys Crime Stories from Poe to the Present Author:David Willis McCullough (Editor) Introduction / David Willis McCullough -- — The simple art of murder / Raymond Chandler -- — The clue of the yellow curtains / Francois Eugene Vidocq -- — The mystery of Marie Roget / Edgar Allen Poe -- — The lodger / Marie Belloc Lowndes -- — Princess Sonia's bath / Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre -- — The investors / Edgar Wallace -- — The ten... more »th clew / Dashiell Hammett --
The rubber trumpet / Roy Vickers --
No proof / Yoh Sano --
Dead-end for Delia / William Campbell Gault --
At the Etoile du Nord / Georges Simenon --
I always get the cuties / John D. MacDonald --
This world, then the fireworks / Jim Thompson --
The gold fever tapes / Mickey Spillane --
Wild goose chase / Ross MacDonald --
The nine-to-five man / Stanley Ellin --
Small homocide / Ed McBain --
Blind man with a pistol / Chester Himes --
Pigeon blood / Paul Cain --
Just one of those days / Donald E. Westlake --
Election day / Joseph Hansen --
The Parker shotgun / Sue Grafton --
The Johore murders / Paul Theroux --
Sure, blue, and dead, too / Janwillem van de Wetering --
Skin deep / Sara Paretsky --
Death by water / William Marshall --
Flake piece / Carolyn Wheat --
Dead soldier / Loren D. Estleman --
Double indemnity, the screenplay / Raymond Chandler and Billy Wilder« less