GREAT TALES OF CRIME AND DETECTION

Toronto: Smithbooks, 1993. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Second Printing. 8vo. 567 pp. Please note, this is a very heavy book and, depending where in the world you are, the shipping might be higher than normal. Glossy pictorial boards matching the dustjacket; headband. Light wear at the corners of the dustjacket; no interior markings. This anthology contains: The Adventure of the Three Garridebs - Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; The Death Cry - Craig Kennedy by Arthur B. Reeve; The Footprint in the Sky - Colonel March by John Dickson Carr; The Adventure of the Emperor's Dice - Ellery Queen by Ellery Queen; Too Many Have Lived - Sam Spade by Dashiell Hammett; The Case of the Irate Witness - Perry Mason by Erle Stanley Gardner; Walk Softly Stranger - Charlie Chan by Robert Hart Davis; Marlowe Takes on the Syndicate - Philip Marlowe by Raymond Chandler; Not - Tonight - Danger - Mike Shayne by Brett Halliday; It's in the Bag - Harry Lime by Orson Welles; The Smart Detective - The Saint by Leslie Charteris; Gideon and the Chestnut Vendor by John Creasey; Light Fingers - Paul Temple by Francis Durbridge; The All Bad Hat - Inspector Ghote by H. R. F. Keating; Stan the Killer - Maigret by Georges Simenon; The Treasure Hunt - Mr J. G. Reeder by Edgar Wallace; Van Der Valk and the False Caesar by Nicolas Freeling; The Footsteps that Ran - Lord Peter Wimsey by Dorothy L. Sayers; The Eye of Apollo - Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton; The World Series Murder - Nero Wolfe by Rex Stout; Guilt Edged Blonde - Lew Archer by Ross Macdonald; The Man Who Was Hammered - Sexton Blake by Jack Trevor Story; The Garage Racketeers - Dick Barton by Geoffrey Webb and Edward J. Mason; Hazell and the Patriot by P. B. Yuill; Rumpole and the Hanging Judge by John Mortimer; Great Aunt Allie's Flypapers - Dalgleish by P. D. James; Jemima Shore at the Sunny Grave by Antonia Fraser; The Case of the Perfect Maid - Miss Marple by Agatha Christie; The Snapdragon and the C.I.D. - Campion by Margery Allingham; The Adventure of the Clapham Cook - Poirot by Agatha Christie; When the Wedding Was Over - Inspector Wexford by Ruth Fendell; and Morse's Greatest Mystery - Inspector Morse by Colin Dexter..