THE LONGMAN ANTHOLOGY OF DETECTIVE FICTION
Deane Mansfieid-Kelley University of Texas at El Paso Lois A. Marchino University of Texas at El Paso SUB Gottingen 7 217 811 841
2005 A 6151
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Preface xi INTRODUCTION 1
CRITICAL ESSAY 11 John Ball, Murder at Large 11
THE AMATEUR DETECTIVE 25
CRITICAL ESSAYS AND COMMENTARIES 29 Patricia D. Maida and Nicholas B. Spornick From "The Puzzle-Game" 29 Nancy Ellen Talburt and Juana R. Young The Many Guises of the Contemporary Amateur Detective 39
STORIES 54 Edgar Allan Poe The Murders in the Rue Morgue 54 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Silver Blaze 81 \ Agatha Christie The Witness for the Prosecution 101 Dorothy L. Sayers The Haunted Policeman 118 John Dickson Carr The House in Goblin Wood 134 Ellery Queen 'M;y Queer Dean' 151 Margaret Maron Deborah's judgment 156 Sharyn McCrumb ~Nine Lives to Live 172 Diane Mott Davidson Cold Turkey 185 Jan Burke Revised Endings 199 • Contents
THE PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR (205
CRITICAL ESSAYS AND COMMENTARIES (208; Raymond Chandler The Simple Art of Murder 208 Natalie Hevener Kaufman and Carol McGinnis Kay From "Grafton's Place in the Development of the Detective Novel" ^219
STORIES 229 Dashiell Hammett The Gutting of Couffignal 229 Raymond Chandler Trouble Is M;y Business 253 Sue Graf ton The Parker Shotgun 294 SaraParetsky Skin Deep 308 Gar Anthony Haywood And Pray Nobody Sees You 319 S. J. Rozan Going Home 331
THE POLICE 337
CRITICAL ESSAYS AND COMMENTARIES(.341' LeRoy Lad Panek From "The Police Novel" 341 Ed McBain The 87th Precinct 358
STORIES 364 Freeman Wills Crofts The Hunt Ball 364 Georges Simenon Inspector Maigret Deduces 373 Ed McBain Sadie When She Died 383 Tony Hillerman Chee's Witch filh Ian Rankin The Dean's Curse 419 Clark Howard Under Suspicion 437 Peter Robinson Missing in Action 457 Contents • ix APPENDIX A Notable Annual Awards for Mystery and Detective Fiction 475 APPENDIX B
Bibliography of Critical Essays and Commentaries 477
Credits 479
Index of Authors and Titles 481