Manhattan mysteries
1987, 1st Edition. New York: Avenel Books. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #343998
ISBN: 0517631792
Physical description: x, 579 pages; 24 cm. Contents: Introduction: Mysterious island / [Carol-Lynn Rössel Waugh] -- The good samaritan / Isaac Asimov -- Mom sings an aria / James Yaffe -- The woman I envied / George Baxt -- New York blues / Cornell Woolrich -- Small homicide / Ed McBain -- The gentleman from Paris / John Dickson Carr -- The lord of Central Park / Avram Davidson -- A craving for originality / Bill Pronzini -- The day of the bullet / Stanley Ellin -- The crime of the century / R.L. Stevens -- The back stairway / Hal Ellson -- The hawk and the dome of Hell / S.S. Rafferty -- The beatings / Evan Hunter -- A place of her own / Joyce Harrington -- The medical finger / Ellery Queen -- The corpse in the Statue of Liberty / William Irish -- The cop and the anthem / O. Henry -- Jericho and the cardboard box / Hugh Pentecost -- The man who came back / Edward D. Hoch -- Hildegarde Withers is back / Stuart Palmer -- The quality of mercy / Eleazar Lipsky -- Murder in one scene / Q. Patrick -- The missing man / Katherine MacLean -- The garrulous Garrity grand scam / Francis M. Nevins, Jr. -- God save the mark: a novel / Donald E. Westlake.Subjects: Fiction. 20th century fiction. Crime and thriller.
Price: €25.00