The Mystery Hall of Fame: An Anthology of Classic Mystery and Suspense Stories

by Bill Pronzini and Charles G. Waugh

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688022219
• ISBN13: 9780688022211
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 467 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The Mystery Hall of Fame, An Anthology

The Mystery Hall of Fame is an ambitious collection of stories that represents the craft of mystery writing at its all-time best. And who could better choose such stories than the men and women who write this much-loved brand of fiction, the Mystery Writers of American, one of the most important and active writers' groups in the country? The members of MWA voted not just for the works of mystery and suspense that would make a good anthology, but for a star-studded list of authors and their most outstanding stories, for classics of the past and for the greats among the modern writers. You will fid here "The Purloined Letter" by Edgar Allan Poe, "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Oracle of the Dog" by G. K. Chesterton, and stories by such other unforgettable writers as Lord Dunsany, Dashiell Hamett, Atgatha Christie, John Dickson Carr, Ellery Queen, and Roald Dahl, represented by his hilarious tale of the perfect crime, "Lamb to the Slaughter." Among the authors are several who deserve to be better known than they are to the general reader, such as Jacques Futrelle, Thomas Burke, Fredric Brown, and Hollywood screenwriter Philip MacDonald. The book is a testimony to the vitality of this field of fiction over many long decades.