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The Vintage Book of Classic Crime
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The Vintage Book of Classic Crime, The great Raymond Chandler once noted that the detective or mystery story . . . has become so thoroughly explored that the real problem for a writer now is to avoid writing a mystery while appearing to do so. And that is precisely what the contributors , The Vintage Book of Classic Crime
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  • The Vintage Book of Classic Crime
  • Written by author Michael Dibdin
  • Published by Random House USA Paperbacks, 1997/10/01
  • The great Raymond Chandler once noted that "the detective or mystery story . . . has become so thoroughly explored that the real problem for a writer now is to avoid writing a mystery while appearing to do so." And that is precisely what the contributors
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Introduction 1
Acknowledgements 4
Serious Business 7
The Man Who Killed Himself 11
The Shooting Party 16
The Postman Always Rings Twice 23
Therese Raquin 27
A Kiss Before Dying 33
Under the Knife 40
The Maul and the Pear Tree 49
'A Case of Fratricide' 57
'Killings' 60
'Hitcher' 70
'Smoke' 72
'Pick-Up on Noon Street' 81
The Killing of the Saints 88
The Police in Different Voices 101
Sir, You Bastard 105
The Steam Pig 115
Act of Darkness 125
Cop Killer 139
Murder at the Munition Works 149
A Coat of Varnish 156
The Erasers 166
Maigret's Memoirs 175
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 183
Freaky Deaky 187
Edgar Allan Poe 197
Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne 197
Edmund Wilson 198
Raymond Chandler 198
G. K. Chesterton 199
Philip Van Doren Stern 199
T. S. Eliot 200
Edmund Wilson 200
James Joyce 200
John Heath-Stubbs 201
Antonio Gramsci 202
Harrison R. Steeves 204
Norman Shrapnel 204
Allen Pryce-Jones 206
Bertolt Brecht 207
Joseph Wood Krutch 207
T. S. Eliot 207
Bertolt Brecht 208
Friedrich Durrenmatt 208
Paul Auster 210
Charles Rycroft 211
Umberto Eco 213
Bertolt Brecht 213
Michael Butor 214
W. H. Auden 215
Pierre Weisz 216
Harold Nicholson 217
James Thurber 217
Raymond Queneau 218
Jean-Paul Sartre 219
S. J. Perelman 219
Paul Cain 223
Northrop Frye 223
Uncommon Murderers 227
'The Tell-Tale Heart' 231
'Porphyria's Lover' 236
The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By 238
The Vatican Cellars 242
The Picture of Dorian Gray 247
A Kiss of Fire 253
Reputation for a Song 259
Verdict of Twelve 270
A Pin to See the Peepshow 283
The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor 296
'Model Village' 301
The Thirty-First of February 303
'A Staffordshire Murderer' 309
Malice Aforethought 311
The Dangerous Edge of Things 325
The Lodger 330
'The Killers' 340
The Glass Key 347
Squeeze Play 355
Trust 360
The Lady in the Lake 366
A Red Death 373
The Second Curtain 380
Plain Murder 385
We, the Accused 393
A Dark-Adapted Eye 402
In a Lonely Place 408
Strangers on a Train 412
Phantom Lady 421
Index 433
Bibliography and Permissions 435


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