The Mammoth Book of Comic Crime Author:Maxim Jakubowski (Editor) The funny side of the wrong side of the law comes through in this mammoth collection from masters of combined humor and mystery, such as Donald E. Westlake, Peter Lovesey, Terry Pratchett, Ed Gorman, Sarah Caudwell, Bill Pronzini, Mike Ripley, Nicholas Blincoe, Hilary Bonner, Christopher Brookmyre, and many more. Wisecracking safecrackers, accid... more »ent-prone good guys, and criminal line-up ranging from deadpan to dead stupid all feature in The Mammoth Book of Comic Crime roundup of the most unusual suspects.
Includes:
My mother was a bank robber / Nicholas Blincoe --
Liz Peters, PI / Elizabeth Peters --
A double-barreled detective story / Mark Twain --
The Pomeranian poisoning / Peter Lovesey --
The man who shot Kennedy / Mark Blake --
Here comes Santa Claus / Bill Pronzini --
The strange tale of Hector's angel / Mike Phillips --
Chapter the last / Alex Atkinson --
The lion of Draksville / Julian Rathbone --
The absolute and utter impossibility of the facts in the case of the vanishing of Henning Vok / Jack Adrian --
The great detective / Peter Guttridge --
Smeltdown / Mike Ripley --
Taking care of Frank / Antony Mann --
And the buttocks gleamed by night / Mat Coward --
The last snow-flake in Texas / Liz Evans --
A sort of Miss Marple? / H R F Keating --
The story-bag / Philip Gooden --
Slaughter in the Strand / Keith Miles --
The chicken / Jurgen Ehlers --
The postman only rings when he can be bothered / Peter Guttridge --
Father Brown in Muncie, Indiana / Ruth Dudley Edwards --
Tickled to death / Simon Brett --
The Dettweiler solution / Lawrence Block --
Big survivor / Peter T Garratt --
Dr Bud, CA / Michael Z Lewin --
Malice in Blunderland / Kevin Goldstein-Jackson --