The World of Mystery Fiction (1978)

by Elliot L. Gilbert (Editor)

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Includes mystery stories by Vidocq, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, G.K. Chesterton, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ellery Queen, Georges Simenon, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Cornell Woolrich, Ross Macdonald, Agatha Christie, and Jorge Luis Borges.

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A great overview and anthology, with lively commentary by Gilbert, who was also a scholar of Victorian literature. (

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Includes mystery stories by Vidocq, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, G.K. Chesterton, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ellery Queen, Georges Simenon, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Cornell Woolrich, Ross Macdonald, Agatha Christie, and Jorge Luis Borges.

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