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These 32 classic crime stories illuminate the genre's best-known plot constructions--including "the locked room", "the caper", "hoist on their own petards", and "over the edge". Covering over 150 years of crime and detective fiction, featuring styles from the hard-boiled to the cozy, Murderous Schemes profiles the writing of Agatha Christie, Ellery Queen, Rex Stout, Dorothy L. Sayers, Edgar Allan Poe, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and many others. Contents: Introduction / Donald E. Westlake The shadow of the goat / John Dickson Carr What, no butler? / Damon Runyon The Leopold locked room / Edward D. Hoch The man who read John Dickson Carr / William Brittain The secret garden / G. K. Chesterton The necklace of pearls / Dorothy L. Sayers They can only hang you once / Dashiell Hammett Busted Blossoms / Stuart M. Kaminsky A costume piece / E. W. Hornung The impossible theft / John F. Suter Dont know much about art / Simon Brett The ultimate caper / Donald E. Westlake The mysterious death on the underground railway / Baroness Emmuska Orczy The blue geranium / Agatha Christie The adventure of Abraham Lincolns clue / Ellery Queen The affair of the twisted scarf / Rex Stout The

Author

Donald E Westlake; J. Madison Davis; International Association of Crime Writers

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780195104875

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Mystery, Humanities

Rating

3.77 / 5 (23 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13