A collection of suspense stories, puzzle stories, whodunits and tricky whydunits involving police detectives, private eyes, talented and sometimes lucky amateurs, armchair detectives, and ethnic detectives.

a book to remember... In this book you will investigate crime with such Famous Detectives as Perry Mason Nero Wolfe Ellery Queen and read stories of detection and suspense by such Famous Mystery Writers as Agatha Christie John Dickson Carr George Harmon Coxe Charlotte Armstrong Hugh Pentecost and be surprised at tales of mystery and crime by such Famous Literary Figures as W. Somerset Maugham Ben Hecht, John Van Druten A book to remember, a book to read and reread — a book to treasure and keep permanently in your library...

The BIGGEST, the BOLDEST, the MOST COMPREHENSIVE collection of PULP WRITING ever assembled! Weighing in at over a thousand pages, containing over forty-seven stories and two novels, this book is big baby, bigger and more powerful than a freight train — a bullet couldn’t pass through it. Here are the best stories and every major writer who ever appeared in celebrated Pulps like Black Mask, Dime Detective, Detective Fiction Weekly, and more. These are the classic tales that created the genre and gave birth to hard-hitting detectives who smoke criminals like packs of cigarettes; sultry dames whose looks are as lethal as a dagger to the chest; and gin-soaked hideouts where conversations are...

An unstoppable anthology of crime stories culled from Black Mask magazine the legendary publication that turned a pulp phenomenon into literary mainstream. Black Mask was the apotheosis of noir. It was the magazine where the first hardboiled detective story, which was written by Carroll John Daly appeared. It was the slum in which such American literary titans like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler got their start, and it was the home of stories with titles like “Murder Is Bad Luck,” “Ten Carets of Lead,” and “Drop Dead Twice.” Collected here is best of the best, the hardest of the hardboiled, and the darkest of the dark of America’s finest crime fiction. This masterpiece collection...

В сборник «Криминальный альманах» вошли впервые публикуемые на русском языке криминальные истории известных в Америке писателей — Эллери Квина и др.

As the publisher indicates on the dust jacket, this is a host of the World's most celebrated sleuths, unmasked by their authors. included are Roderick Alleyn, john Appleby, Lew Archer, Father Bredder, Flash Casey, Pierre Chambrun and Inspector Cockrill.

Роман Джорджа Кокса построен по трем классическим принципам детективного жанра: остросюжетность, психологизм, отточенность мышления следователя-аналитика.

Рассказ Джорджа X. Кокса из сборника.

Первым в сборнике — роман Хораса Маккоя, в котором наряду с криминальной интригой, автор развенчивает идеи своекорыстного насилия и имморализма. Романы Джорджа Кокса и Роберта Пайка построены по трем классическим принципам детективного жанра: остросюжетность, психологизм, отточенность мышления следователя-аналитика.