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Synopsis
22 master tales of mystery and suspense dedicated to the proposition that "great writers" when they write mystery stories, write great mystery stories.
Editted by William Tenn and Donald E. Westlake, this volume includes works from Charles Dickens, Stephen Crane, James Farrell, Jorge Luis Borges, Geoffrey Chaucer, Ogden Nash, Sinclair Lewis, John Steinbeck, WJ Gilbert, Robert Coates, Luigi Pirandello, Rudyard Kipling, Tolstoi, Albert Malk, Peter Ustinov, Oscar Wilde, Robert Browning, Alberto Moravia, Joyce Cary, Herbert Gold, Sir Walter Scott andHonore de Balzac.