Great American Mystery Stories of the 20th Century (1989)

by Kenneth D. McCormick (Editor)

Other authors: Charlotte Armstrong (Contributor), Pearl S. Buck (Contributor), W.R. Burnett (Contributor), John Dickson Carr (Contributor), Leslie Charteris (Contributor) — 18 more, Dorothy Salisbury Davis (Contributor), Miriam Allen deFord (Contributor), Mignon G. Eberhart (Contributor), Stanley Ellin (Contributor), William Faulkner (Contributor), Robert L. Fish (Contributor), O. Henry (Contributor), Thomas Kyd (Contributor), John D. MacDonald (Contributor), Ross Macdonald (Contributor), Ed McBain (Contributor), Margaret Millar (Contributor), Q. Patrick (Contributor), Melville Davisson Post (Contributor), Wilbur Daniel Steele (Contributor), T.S. Stribling (Contributor), Paul Theroux (Contributor), Arthur Train (Contributor)

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
McCormick, Kenneth D.	Editor	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Armstrong, Charlotte	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Buck, Pearl S.	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Burnett, W.R.	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Carr, John Dickson	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Charteris, Leslie	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Davis, Dorothy Salisbury	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
deFord, Miriam Allen	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Eberhart, Mignon G.	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Ellin, Stanley	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Faulkner, William	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Fish, Robert L.	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Henry, O.	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Kyd, Thomas	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
MacDonald, John D.	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Macdonald, Ross	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
McBain, Ed	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Millar, Margaret	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Patrick, Q.	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Post, Melville Davisson	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Steele, Wilbur Daniel	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Stribling, T.S.	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Theroux, Paul	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Train, Arthur	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed

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Great American Mystery Stories of the 20th Century

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1989

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Simon Templar

Lew Archer

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A salute to the American mystery writers and their integral part in American literature, the short story, with these 23 tales, based on crime, a genre only recently gaining respectability.

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