The Vintage Book of Classic Crime

by Michael Didbin (Editor)

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From Edgar Allan Poe to elmore Leonard, and from W H Auden to Walter Mosley - a briliant, groundbreaking omnibus of crime writing that tests the limits of the genre.

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Michael Didbin
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31+ Works 9,657 Members
Michael Dibdin is the author of thirteen previous novels. A native of England, he now lives in Seattle, Washington, with his wife, the mystery writer Katherine Beck. (Bowker Author Biography)

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Abella, Alex (Contributor)
Armitage, Simon (Contributor)
Benjamin, Paul (Contributor)
Browning, Robert (Contributor)
Cain, James M. (Contributor)
Chandler, Raymond (Contributor)
Chekhov, Anton (Contributor)
Cole, G. D. H. (Contributor)
Cole, M. (Contributor)
Critchley, T.A. (Contributor)
Dubus, Andre (Contributor)
Duffy, Carol Ann (Contributor)
Faulkner, William (Contributor)
Fenton, James (Contributor)
Forester, C. S. (Contributor)
Fuller, Roy (Contributor)
Gide, André (Contributor)
Grierson, Edward (Contributor)
Hammett, Dashiell (Contributor)
Hemingway, Ernest (Contributor)
Higgins, George V. (Contributor)
Highsmith, Patricia (Contributor)
Hughes, Dorothy B. (Contributor)
Iles, Francis (Contributor)
Irish, William (Contributor)
James, P.D. (Contributor)
Jesse, F. Tennyson (Contributor)
Kafka, Franz (Contributor)
King, Francis (Contributor)
Leonard, Elmore (Contributor)
Levin, Ira (Contributor)
Lowndes, Marie Belloc (Contributor)
McCabe, Cameron (Contributor)
McClure, James (Contributor)
Mosley, Walter (Contributor)
Newman, G.F. (Contributor)
Poe, Edgar Allan (Contributor)
Postgate, Raymond (Contributor)
Raymond, Ernest (Contributor)
Robbe-Grillet, Alain (Contributor)
Simenon, Georges (Contributor)
Singer, Isaac B. (Contributor)
Sjöwall, Maj (Contributor)
Snow, C.P. (Contributor)
Symons, Julian (Contributor)
Thompson, Hunter S. (Contributor)
Togawa, Masako (Contributor)
Vine, Barbara (Contributor)
Wahlöö, Per (Contributor)
Wilde, Oscar (Contributor)
Zola, Émile (Contributor)

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1993

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Fiction and Literature, Mystery
DDC/MDS
808.83 — Literature & rhetoric Literature, rhetoric & criticism Rhetoric and collections of literary texts from more than two literatures Literature Collections Collections of fiction
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PN6071 .D45 .V56 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Collections of general literature
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