Crime Classics: The Mystery Story from Poe to the Present, edited by Rex Burns & Mary Rose Sullivan

Type: Hardcover Condition: Used, Great. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Light rubbing wear on the cover and spine. No folded pages, no notes, no underlines or markings on the pages. Details: Crime Classics: The Mystery Story from Poe to the Present, edited by Rex Burns & Mary Rose Sullivan ISBN: Pages: 388 Published: 1990 Everybody loves a good story, and mystery writing is the largest-selling genre in American fiction today. In this volume, Rex Burns and Mary Rose Sullivan have chosen seventeen classics of crime from the masters of the genre- -Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jacques Futrelle, G. K. Chesterton, Susan Glaspell, Dashiell Hammett, Dorothy L. Sayers, Agatha Christie, Cornell Woolrich, William Faulkner, Jorge Luis Borges, Ellery Queen, Flannery O'Connor, Ross McDonald, and Ed McBain. Burns and Sullivan have also written an extensive introduction to the book and to the mystery genre itself, giving readers a historical perspective on mystery writing and an appre- cation for the craft involved in stories such as those included here. There is also a brief biographical sketch of each of the collected authors, and a list of suggested further reading at the end of the book.