Edward D. Hoch (1930–2008)
Author of Great British Detectives
About the Author
Edward D. Hoch was the most ingenious of modern mystery writers. He was author of more than 900 short stories, winner of the Edgar Award, former President of the Mystery Writers of America, and contributor to every issue of Ellery Queens Mystery Magazine since 1973 until his death in 2008. As John show more Dickson Carr remarked, "Satan himself would be proud of his ingenuity." The introduction is by Janet Hutchings, editor of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. show less
Series
Works by Edward D. Hoch
All but Impossible! An Anthology of Locked Room and Impossible Crime Stories by Members of the Mystery Writers of… (1981) — Editor; Contributor — 29 copies
Academy Mystery Novellas: Women Sleuths, Police Procedurals, Locked Room Puzzles, Great British Detectives ( BOX Set) (1985) — Editor; Contributor — 14 copies
The Oblong Room [short fiction] 5 copies
The Long Way Down 4 copies
The Cases of Nancy Trentino 3 copies
The Problem of the Secret Patient 3 copies
The Monkey's Clue ; The Stolen Sapphire: Two Mysteries for You to Solve!: Match Wits With Detective Tommy Preston (1978) 3 copies
Christmas is for Cops [Short story] 3 copies
The Homesick Chicken [short story] 3 copies
Zoo 3 copies
Golpe cibernetico 3 copies
The Pirate of Millionaires' Cove 2 copies
The Most Dangerous Man 2 copies
The Forbidden Word [short story] 2 copies
The Boy Who Brought Love 2 copies
The problem of the pink post office 2 copies
The Haggard Society [short story] 2 copies
Housewife Hustlers 2 copies
Cloak And Dagger 2 copies
The Problem of the Black Cloister 2 copies
A Shower of Daggers 2 copies
The Last Paradox [Short story] 2 copies
Second Chance 2 copies
Night Of The Millennium 2 copies
The Last Unicorns 1 copy
Who Rides with Santa Anna? 1 copy
Just One More 1 copy
The Seventieth Number 1 copy
The Maiden's Sacrifice 1 copy
The Problem Of The Tin Goose 1 copy
Waiting For Mrs. Ryder 1 copy
Something Green 1 copy
Another War 1 copy
The Faceless Thing 1 copy
Hoch Edward D. 1 copy
Old Spies Club [short story] 1 copy
Desdemona's Daughter 1 copy
The Great American Novel 1 copy
Golpe cibernetico 1 copy
Ghost Killer by Edward Hoch 1 copy
A Scandal in Montreal 1 copy
The Carnival Caper 1 copy
Alfred Hitchcock's Krimi-Stunde. Band 9 — Author — 1 copy
Damsel with a Derringer 1 copy
The Spy and the Suicide Club 1 copy
Boucheron Bound 1 copy
God of the Playback 1 copy
Old Spies Club 1 copy
A Flash of Red 1 copy
Winter Run [short story] 1 copy
The Serpent in the Sky 1 copy
The Overheard Conversation 1 copy
Bouchercon Bound 1 copy
End of the Line (in Alfred Hitchcock's Book of Horror Stories 2 / Tales to Take Your Breath Away) 1 copy
The Joker Is Mild 1 copy
Dracula 1944 1 copy
The Picnic People 1 copy
The Empty Zoo 1 copy
Xeque-Mate 1 copy
I'd Know You Anywhere 1 copy
The Weekend Magus 1 copy
Smothered Mate 1 copy
Associated Works
Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural: A Treasury of Spellbinding Tales Old & New (1985) — Contributor — 526 copies
The Game Is Afoot: Parodies, Pastiches, and Ponderings of Sherlock Holmes (1994) — Contributor — 198 copies
Masterpieces of Terror and the Unknown: A Treasury of Bizarre Tales Old and New (1993) — Contributor — 196 copies
Murder on the Menu: Cordon Bleu Stories of Crime and Mystery, Volume 1 (1984) — Contributor; Contributor — 196 copies
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories to Be Read with the Door Locked (1975) — Contributor — 167 copies
The Blue Religion: New Stories about Cops, Criminals and the Chase (2008) — Contributor — 155 copies
Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy, Volume 6: Mythical Beasties (1837) — Contributor — 124 copies
The Resurrected Holmes: New Cases from the Notes of John H. Watson, M.D. (1996) — Contributor — 90 copies
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine Presents Fifty Years of Crime and Suspense (2006) — Contributor — 73 copies
Murder by the Book: Literary Mysteries from Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (1995) — Contributor — 67 copies
Bug-Eyed Monsters: 13 Stories of Dripping, Creeping, Gurgling, Purling, Trilling, Oozing, Seeping, Gushing Deadly… (1980) — Contributor — 66 copies
Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers and Other Stories from Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (1992) — Contributor — 64 copies
The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: First Annual Collection (2000) — Contributor — 59 copies
Malice Domestic 8: An Anthology of Original Traditional Mystery Stories (1999) — Contributor — 49 copies
Chapter and Hearse: Suspense Stories about the World of Books (1985) — Contributor; Contributor — 49 copies
The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: Second Annual Collection (2001) — Contributor — 48 copies
The Prosecution Rests: New Stories about Courtrooms, Criminals, and the Law (2009) — Contributor — 47 copies
The Edgar Winners: 33rd Annual Anthology of the Mystery Writers of America (1980) — Contributor — 45 copies
Cloak and Dagger: A Treasury of 35 Great Espionage Stories (1988) — Contributor; Contributor — 44 copies
The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: Third Annual Collection (2002) — Contributor — 43 copies
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 1, No. 1 [Spring 1977] (1966) — Contributor, some editions — 36 copies
At the Scene of the Crime: Forensic Mysteries from Today's Best Writers (2008) — Contributor — 34 copies
The Mystery Hall of Fame: An Anthology of Classic Mystery and Suspense Stories (1984) — Contributor — 32 copies
The Mammoth Book of Short Spy Novels: Twelve Espionage Masterpieces (1986) — Contributor — 31 copies
Ellery Queen's Anthology #30: Masters of Mystery (Fall/Winter 1975) (1975) — Contributor — 29 copies
Once Upon a Crime: Historical Mysteries From Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (1994) — Contributor — 27 copies
The Deadly Bride and 21 of the Year's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Volume II (2006) — Foreword — 26 copies
The Eyes Have It: The First Private Eye Writers of America Anthology (1984) — Contributor — 16 copies
Women's wiles: An anthology of mystery stories by the Mystery Writers of America (1979) — Contributor — 16 copies
The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: First Annual Edition (1992) — Contributor — 16 copies
Ellery Queen's headliners; 20 stories from Ellery Queen's mystery magazine. (1971) — Contributor — 15 copies
The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Second Annual Edition (1993) — Contributor — 12 copies
The Crime of My Life: Favorite Stories by Presidents of the Mystery Writers of America (1984) — Contributor — 11 copies
Ellery Queen's Anthology #32: Magicians of Mystery (Fall/Winter 1976) (1976) — Contributor — 9 copies
The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Seventh Annual Edition (1998) — Bibliography & Necrology — 9 copies
Tricks and Treats: An Anthology of Mystery Stories by the Mystery Writers of America (1976) — Contributor — 9 copies
The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Fifth Annual Edition (1996) — Contributor — 7 copies
The Wickedest Show on Earth: A Carnival of Circus Suspense (1985) — Contributor; Contributor — 7 copies
The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Sixth Annual Edition (1997) — Contributor — 5 copies
Crimes and Misfortunes: The Anthony Boucher Memorial Anthology of Mysteries — Contributor — 4 copies
Killers of the Mind: A Collection of Stories by the Mystery Writers of America (1974) — Contributor — 4 copies
Boucher's choicest; a collection of Anthony Boucher's favorites from Best detective stories of the year (1969) — Contributor — 3 copies
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine - 2004/03-04 — Contributor — 2 copies
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine - 1988/03 — Contributor — 2 copies
Appendici in giallo 1 (racconti) — Contributor; Contributor — 1 copy
La rivista di Alfred Hitchcock n.6 — Author — 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Hoch, Edward Dentinger
- Other names
- Dentinger, Stephen
Stevens, RL
McMahon, Pat
Circus, Anthony
Booth, Irwin
Mr. X - Birthdate
- 1930-02-22
- Date of death
- 2008-01-17
- Burial location
- Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Rochester, New York, USA
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Rochester, New York, USA
- Place of death
- Rochester, New York, USA
- Cause of death
- heart attack
- Places of residence
- Rochester, New York, USA
- Education
- University of Rochester
- Occupations
- copywriter
public relations
research assistant
author - Organizations
- United States Army
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine - Awards and honors
- MWA Grand Master(2001)
Shamus Award(2000)
Bouchercon Lifetime Achievement Award (2001)
Members
Reviews
Lists
Edgar Award (1)
Awards
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Statistics
- Works
- 247
- Also by
- 234
- Members
- 1,302
- Popularity
- #19,720
- Rating
- 3.7
- Reviews
- 19
- ISBNs
- 130
- Languages
- 8
- Favorited
- 4
Sorry, it isn't.
Leslie Charteris is a ... well, at least in this entry, he is a terrible writer. He badly over-writes, trying, I guess, to make his character a real character. I just could not finish the first story.
Even Michael Gilbert's "The Cleaners" disappoints, and he's usually dependable.
Dorothy Sayers' "The Incredible Elopement of Lord Peter Wimsey" doesn't really meet expectations, and she is nearly always better.
Well, maybe my three-star rating is off. Maybe two would be more accurate, but you read this small collection, knowing all the people connected, except maybe Charteris, usually do, not just better, but well, and you decide.… (more)