Chapters (22)
- Cover
- Title
- GOLDEN AGEDETECTIVE STORIES
- INTRODUCTION
- THE ENEMY
- THE STRIPPER
- POSTICHE
- THE CASE OF THE CRIMSON KISS
- THE ENCHANTED GARDEN
- 5-4=MURDERER
- THERE’S DEATH FOR REMEMBRANCE
- THE MONKEY MURDER
- THE ADVENTURE OF THE AFRICAN TRAVELER
- PUZZLE FOR POPPY
- FROM ANOTHER WORLD
- GOOD-BYE, GOOD-BYE!
- LOCKED DOORS
- THE MYSTERY IN ROOM 913
- DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
- American Mystery Classics
- AMERICAN MYSTERY CLASSICS
- About the Editor
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American Mystery Classics
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Available now in hardcover and paperback:
| Charlotte Armstrong | The Chocolate Cobweb |
| Charlotte Armstrong | The Unsuspected |
| Anthony Boucher | Rocket to the Morgue |
| Anthony Boucher | The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars |
| John Dickson Carr | The Crooked Hinge |
| John Dickson Carr | The Plague Court Murders |
| Mignon G. Eberhart | Murder by an Aristocrat |
| Erle Stanley Gardner | The Case of the Careless Kitten |
| Erle Stanley Gardner | The Case of the Baited Hook |
| Frances Noyes Hart | The Bellamy Trial |
| H.F. Heard | A Taste for Honey |
| Dorothy B. Hughes | Dread Journey |
| Dorothy B. Hughes | Ride the Pink Horse |
| W. Bolingbroke Johnson | The Widening Stain |
| Frances & Richard Lockridge | Death on the Aisle |
| John P. Marquand | Your Turn, Mr. Moto |
| Stuart Palmer | The Puzzle of the Happy Hooligan |
| Ellery Queen | The Egyptian Cross Mystery |
| Ellery Queen | The Siamese Twin Mystery |
| Patrick Quentin | A Puzzle for Fools |
| Clayton Rawson | Death From a Top Hat |
| Craig Rice | Home Sweet Homicide |
| Mary Roberts Rinehart | The Haunted Lady |
| Mary Roberts Rinehart | Miss Pinkerton |
| Mary Roberts Rinehart | The Wall |
| Joel Townsley Rogers | The Red Right Hand |
| Vincent Starrett | The Great Hotel Murder |
| Cornell Woolrich | The Bride Wore Black |
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About the Editor
OTTO PENZLER, the creator of American Mystery Classics, is also the founder of the Mysterious Press (1975); MysteriousPress.com (2011), an electronic-book publishing company; and New York City’s Mysterious Bookshop (1979). He has won a Raven, the Ellery Queen Award, two Edgars (for the Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection, 1977, and The Lineup, 2010), and lifetime achievement awards from NoirCon and The Strand Magazine. He has edited more than 70 anthologies and written extensively about mystery fiction.