Murderous Schemes: An Anthology of Classic Detective Stories Hardcover - 1996
by Donald E. Westlake (Editor); J. Madison Davis (Editor)
These 32 classic crime stories illuminate the genre's best-known plot constructions--including "the locked room", "the caper", "hoist on their own petards", and "over the edge". Covering over 150 years of crime and detective fiction, featuring styles from the hard-boiled to the cozy, Murderous Schemes profiles the writing of Agatha Christie, Ellery Queen, Rex Stout, Dorothy L. Sayers, Edgar Allan Poe, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and many others.
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A CRIME IS COMMITTED IN A ROOM, SEALED FROM THE INSIDE OR under constant scrutiny.
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When plotting a murder (figuratively speaking), the mystery writer has at hand any number of M.O.'s including such tried and true conventions as the locked room, the unbreakable alibi, the double bluff, the mistaken identity, and many others. Indeed, one of the challenges (and greatest sources of pleasure) for a mystery writer is to visit a well-known plot construction - to try their hand at "the locked room" or "the caper" - perhaps to honor a writer or story they admire, perhaps to try to top them. Now, in Murderous Schemes, renowned mystery writer Donald E. Westlake and J. Madison Davis (current president of the International Association of Crime Writers) offer an illuminating look at eight such mystery conventions, illustrating each with four short stories written by some of the masters of the form. The resulting collection of thirty-two tales spans a hundred and fifty years of crime fiction and includes virtually every style imaginable, from the hard-boiled detective story to the cozy armchair mystery.
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- Title Murderous Schemes: An Anthology of Classic Detective Stories
- Author Donald E. Westlake (Editor); J. Madison Davis (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 528
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A.
- Date 1996-10-31
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780195103212 / 0195103211
- Weight 1.64 lbs (0.74 kg)
- Dimensions 8.98 x 5.86 x 1.58 in (22.81 x 14.88 x 4.01 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Detective and mystery stories, English, Detective and mystery stories, American
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96019121
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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- Library Journal, 12/01/1996, Page 151
- Publishers Weekly, 10/28/1996, Page 60
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