Detective Stories

Now, in the appealing and collectible Pocket Classics format, an anthology of beloved, classic detective storiesriveting and irresistibly addictive tales of crimes and those who unravel them. Beginning with modern masters such as Sara Paretsky, Ruth Rendell, and Ian Rankin, this collection works its way back through the golden age of the 1920s and '30s to the genre's source in Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle. The famous detectives who stalk these pages range from the brilliant and eccentric (Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Poe's C. Auguste Dupin) to the deceptively unlikely (G. K. Chesterton's humble priest, Father Brown; and Agatha Christie's tweedy spinster, Miss Marple); from the tough-guy private eyes created by Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler to accidental bystanders, such as the perceptive neighbors in Susan Glaspell's haunting "A Jury of Her Peers." From classic whodunits featuring Erle Stanley Gardner's Perry Mason and Georges Simenon's Inspector Maigret to Jorge Luis Borges's postmodern tribute to Poe in "Death and the Compass," the stories in this volume will tantalize, perplex, and amaze.

Peter Washington is the editor of the Everyman’s Pocket Classics Ghost Stories and many of the Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets.

Sara Paretsky, The Takamoku Joseki
 
Ian Rankin, Window of Opportunity
 
Ruth Rendell, People Don't Do Such Things
 
H. R. F. Keating, Inspector Ghote and the Miracle Baby
 
Georges Simenon, Mademoiselle Berthe and Her Lover
 
J . L. Borges, Death and the Compass
 
Erle Stanley Gardner, Leg Man
 
Raymond Chandler, I'll Be Waiting
 
Dashiell Hammett, The Gatewood Caper
 
Agatha Christie, The Blue Geranium
 
Susan Glaspell, A Jury of Her Peers
 
G. K. Chesterton, The Blue Cross
 
Arthur Conan Doyle, Silver Blaze
 
Bret Harte, The Stolen Cigar Case
 
James Mclevy, Long Looked-for, Come at Last
 
Edgar Allan Poe, The Purloined Letter