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Raymond Chandler once called murder a “simple art.” Maybe so, but detection is a decidedly elegant one, elegant in the way a mathematician calls a tidy solution to a particularly knotty problem elegant. Sherlock Holmes used logic, Father Brown an ability to put himself in the murderer’s skin, Lord Peter a knack for intuitive bursts of inspiration, Sam Spade an instinct to distrust his suspects only so far, Lew Archer a belief that more crime can be explained by Freud than Blackstone. But more central than the methods and mannerisms of the great detectives is the fact that they cut through confusion and chaos, solve puzzles, and set things right to make the world seem quite a logical place after all. They restore order. As for those methods and mannerisms—there, for the readers of detective stories, is where the fun lies. Includes the following 19 stories: ISRAEL ZANGWILL—The Big Bow Mystery (Novella) DOROTHY L. SAYERS—The Queen’s Square G. K. CHESTERTON—The Invisible Man AGATHA CRISTIE—The Girl in the Train ROBERT VAN GULIK—The Murder on Lotus Pond WILLIAM FAULKNER—Hand Upon the Waters DASHIELL HAMMETT—A Man Called Spade DASHIELL HAMMETT—They Can Only Hang You Once DASHIELL HAMMETT

Who reads Great Detectives (1984) Anthology?

Author

Ray Bradbury, Agatha Christie, David Willis McCullough

Publisher

The Reader's Digest Association, Inc. by permission of Pantheon Books

Published

1984

Language

EN

ISBN

9780394540658

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Mystery

Rating

3.8 / 5 (103 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14