The World's Greatest Detective Stories

by Herbert van Thal (Editor)

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Volume contains four anthologies ranging in style and setting from modern New York suspense to the classic English whodunnit.

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Herbert Van Thal
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Bennett, Arnold (Contributor)
Bentley, E.C. (Contributor)
Brand, Christianna (Contributor)
Chandler, Raymond (Contributor)
Chandler, Raymond (Contributor)
Charteris, Leslie (Contributor)
Chesterton, G. K. (Contributor)
Chesterton, G.K. (Contributor)
Christie, Agatha (Contributor)
Christie, Agatha (Contributor)
Cole, Margaret Isabel (Contributor)
Collins, Wilkie (Contributor)
Crispin, Edmund (Contributor)
Crofts, Freeman Wills (Contributor)
Eustace, Robert (Contributor)
Fletcher, J. S. (Contributor)
Footner, Hulbert (Contributor)
Fraser, Antonia (Contributor)
Freeman, R. Austin (Contributor)
Gaboriau, Émile (Contributor)
Gray, Dulcie (Contributor)
Hornung, E. W. (Contributor)
Hornung, E.W. (Contributor)
James, P. D. (Contributor)
Jesse, F. Tennyson (Contributor)
Jones, Elwyn (Contributor)
Keating, H.R.F. (Contributor)
Meade, L. T. (Contributor)
Orczy, Baroness (Contributor)
Queen, Ellery (Contributor)
Sayers, Dorothy L. (Contributor)
Sayers, Dorothy L. (Contributor)
Simenon, Georges (Contributor)
Simeonon, Georges (Contributor)
Squire, J. C. (Contributor)
Thomson, Basil (Contributor)
Thomson, June (Contributor)
Treat, Lawrence (Contributor)
Vickers, Roy (Contributor)
Wainwright, John (Contributor)
Wallace, Edgar (Contributor)

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Canonical title
The World's Greatest Detective Stories
Original title
The World's Greatest Detective Stories
Alternate titles
The Giant Book of Great Detective Stories; The Mammoth Book of Great Detective Stories
Original publication date
1985
Disambiguation notice
Previously published separately as The First, Second and Third Bedside Book of Great Detective Stories.
Published in 1996 under the title The Giant Book of Detective Stories.

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Fiction and Literature, Mystery
DDC/MDS
823.087208 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English fiction By type Genre fiction Adventure fiction Mystery fiction Mystery anthologies
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PN6120.95 .D45 .M3 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Collections of general literature Fiction
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