The Adventure of the Missing Detective: And 19 of the Year's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories!

by Aliya Whiteley, Jeffery Deaver, Max Allan Collins, et al.

Book Overview

From traditional mystery stories with devious doings and a plot full of clues to terse thrillers with edge-of-the-seat climaxes to the nail-biting tale of psychological suspense, no field of popular fiction can match contemporary crime writing in diversity, excitement, cunning, or satisfaction. In this stunning collection of the year's best offerings in the genre, armchair detectives, suspense addicts, and crime solvers alike can thrill to new stories...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786716436
• ISBN13: 9780786716432
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers
• Length: 568 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

The short story lives!

A great book to take along on vacation. Enjoy interesting well written mysteries by true masters of the genre. Compilations often come off as pretentious and try to reach above what they really are, pure entertainment. The editor selected great examples, not a dud in the bunch, and 25 stories gives you more than twice the content of most collections and that alone is worth the investment. Buy! Read! Enjoy!