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Murder Most Foul
The fruit at the bottom of the bowl / Ray Bradbury
Murder! / Arnold Bennett
The kennel / Maurice Level
We knows you're busy writing / Edmund Crispin
A thousand deaths / Jack London
Back for Christmas / John Collier
Before the party / W. Somerset Maugham
Tell-tale Heart / Edgar Allan Poe
The evidence of the alter-boy / Georges Simenon
The hand / Guy de Maupassant
Tickled to death / Simon Brett
Miss Marple tells a story / Agatha Christie
Browdean Farm / A.M. Burrage
A nice touch / Mann Rubin
Light verse / Isaac Asimov
Composed of cobwebs / Eddy C. Bertin
The Boscombe Valley mystery / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The man who knew how / Dorothy L. Sayers
The hands of Mr. Ottermole / Thomas Burke
You got to have brains / Robert Bloch
How the third floor knew the Potteries / Amelia B. Edwards
The invisible man / G.K. Chesterton
The hound / William Faulkner
Three is a lucky number / Margery Allingham
First hate / Algernon Blackwood
The victim / P.D. James
The mistery of the sleeping-car express / Freeman Willis Crofts
Moxon's master / Ambrose Bierce
The basket chair / Winston Graham
The drop of blood / Mor Jokai
Murder! / Arnold Bennett
The kennel / Maurice Level
We knows you're busy writing / Edmund Crispin
A thousand deaths / Jack London
Back for Christmas / John Collier
Before the party / W. Somerset Maugham
Tell-tale Heart / Edgar Allan Poe
The evidence of the alter-boy / Georges Simenon
The hand / Guy de Maupassant
Tickled to death / Simon Brett
Miss Marple tells a story / Agatha Christie
Browdean Farm / A.M. Burrage
A nice touch / Mann Rubin
Light verse / Isaac Asimov
Composed of cobwebs / Eddy C. Bertin
The Boscombe Valley mystery / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The man who knew how / Dorothy L. Sayers
The hands of Mr. Ottermole / Thomas Burke
You got to have brains / Robert Bloch
How the third floor knew the Potteries / Amelia B. Edwards
The invisible man / G.K. Chesterton
The hound / William Faulkner
Three is a lucky number / Margery Allingham
First hate / Algernon Blackwood
The victim / P.D. James
The mistery of the sleeping-car express / Freeman Willis Crofts
Moxon's master / Ambrose Bierce
The basket chair / Winston Graham
The drop of blood / Mor Jokai
352 pages, Hardcover
First published March 1, 1988
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About the author
Agatha Christie
5,802 books75.4k followersAgatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan.
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, the murder mystery The Mousetrap, which has been performed in the West End of London since 1952. A writer during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", Christie has been called the "Queen of Crime". She also wrote six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. In 1971, she was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II for her contributions to literature. Guinness World Records lists Christie as the best-selling fiction writer of all time, her novels having sold more than two billion copies.
This best-selling author of all time wrote 66 crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and six novels under a pseudonym in romance. Her books sold more than a billion copies in the English language and a billion in translation. According to Index Translationum, people translated her works into 103 languages at least, the most for an individual author. Of the most enduring figures in crime literature, she created Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. She atuhored The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in the history of modern theater.
Associated Names:
Agata Christie
Agata Kristi
Агата Кристи (Russian)
Агата Крісті (Ukrainian)
Αγκάθα Κρίστι (Greek)
アガサ クリスティ (Japanese)
阿嘉莎·克莉絲蒂 (Chinese)
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, the murder mystery The Mousetrap, which has been performed in the West End of London since 1952. A writer during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", Christie has been called the "Queen of Crime". She also wrote six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. In 1971, she was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II for her contributions to literature. Guinness World Records lists Christie as the best-selling fiction writer of all time, her novels having sold more than two billion copies.
This best-selling author of all time wrote 66 crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and six novels under a pseudonym in romance. Her books sold more than a billion copies in the English language and a billion in translation. According to Index Translationum, people translated her works into 103 languages at least, the most for an individual author. Of the most enduring figures in crime literature, she created Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. She atuhored The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in the history of modern theater.
Associated Names:
Agata Christie
Agata Kristi
Агата Кристи (Russian)
Агата Крісті (Ukrainian)
Αγκάθα Κρίστι (Greek)
アガサ クリスティ (Japanese)
阿嘉莎·克莉絲蒂 (Chinese)
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March 23, 2023
Spoilers.
Somewhat of a Tragedy. The Murderer killed the Person who blackmailed him.
Ultimatically he did nothing but dared to be born to a Woman who murderer someone.
His Wedding would have been impossible, and his Social Standing would have been devastated.
The True Villian is the Class Structure of the Time.
Luckily, or less appropiate, the Murderer is mainly interested in Money, and Status, and does not regret any further killings.
I realy hope its not a implied eughenics Argument of him having the Murder in his DNA, or some Stuff.
The Murderer is also a Woman, hm? Tell me about it.
Yeah no, it was pretty obvious its not a Woman. The Clue, and the resulting Twist where very predictable if you ever read any of her Books before.
Cant realy say the rest of the Setting, or Charakter left any impression on me.
While fastly changing the Source Material, I cant deny Margret Rutherfords Version as traveling Theater Group was a nice Idea.
Somewhat of a Tragedy. The Murderer killed the Person who blackmailed him.
Ultimatically he did nothing but dared to be born to a Woman who murderer someone.
His Wedding would have been impossible, and his Social Standing would have been devastated.
The True Villian is the Class Structure of the Time.
Luckily, or less appropiate, the Murderer is mainly interested in Money, and Status, and does not regret any further killings.
I realy hope its not a implied eughenics Argument of him having the Murder in his DNA, or some Stuff.
The Murderer is also a Woman, hm? Tell me about it.
Yeah no, it was pretty obvious its not a Woman. The Clue, and the resulting Twist where very predictable if you ever read any of her Books before.
Cant realy say the rest of the Setting, or Charakter left any impression on me.
While fastly changing the Source Material, I cant deny Margret Rutherfords Version as traveling Theater Group was a nice Idea.
April 19, 2022
I'm not sure why some people found some of these stories frightening. For me, they were more bizarre than frightening. Not "bizarre" bizarre, but "The Twilight Zone" bizarre. I think I'll stick with Agatha Christie, Georges Simenon, Somerset Maugham, and Rex Stout from now on.
August 5, 2017
Excellent compilation of crime and horror stories. Wish I could read this collection again for the first time.
April 14, 2021
Series of short stories by various authors - all grisly, gruesome and ingenious! My father bought this for me from a second hand shop when I was 11 & still love it.
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