Manhattan Mysteries (Hardcover)

Description

All 25 short stories by top writers, in this delightful compendium, have a common motif: intrigue, suspense, and crime in New York City. What a perfect companion for a snowed-in night! The editors of this great big collection have selected stories whose plots and styles differ widely. What shines through is the setting — the Big Apple. Suggestion: Read one story a night and you’ll look forward to even the coldest, most blustery evening. Perfect for your permanent library or as a gift to a friend or associate, Manhattan Mysteries gives you the widest spectrum of entertainment, from mystery/humor to mystery/suspense, at an astonishingly low price.

Contents:

Introduction: Mysterious island
The good samaritan / Isaac Asimov
Mom sings an aria / James Yaffe
The woman I envied / George Baxt
New York blues / Cornell Woolrich
Small homicide / Ed McBain
The gentleman from Paris / John Dickson Carr
The lord of Central Park / Avram Davidson
A craving for originality / Bill Pronzini
The day of the bullet / Stanley Ellin
The crime of the century / R. L. Stevens
The back stairway / Hal Ellson
The hawk and the dome of Hell / S. S. Rafferty
The beatings / Evan Hunter
A place of her own / Joyce Harrington
The medical finger / Ellery Queen
The corpse in the Statue of Liberty / William Irish
The cop and the anthem / O. Henry
Jericho and the cardboard box / Hugh Pentecost
The man who came back / Edward D. Hoch
Hildegarde Withers is back / Stuart Palmer
The quality of mercy / Eleazar Lipsky
Murder in one scene / Q. Patrick
The missing man / Katherine MacLean
The garrulous Garrity grand scam / Francis M. Nevins, Jr.
God save the mark: a novel / Donald E. Westlake