THE LONGMANANTHOLOGY OF

DETECTIVE FICTIONDeane Mansfieid-Kelley

University of Texas at El Paso

Lois A. MarchinoUniversity of Texas at El Paso

SUB Gottingen 7217 811 841

2005 A 6151

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CONTENTS

Preface xi

INTRODUCTION 1CRITICAL ESSAY 11John Ball, Murder at Large 11

THE AMATEUR DETECTIVE 25CRITICAL ESSAYS AND COMMENTARIES 29Patricia D. Maida and Nicholas B. Spornick From "The

Puzzle-Game" 29Nancy Ellen Talburt and Juana R. Young The Many Guises of

the Contemporary Amateur Detective 39

STORIES 54Edgar Allan Poe The Murders in the Rue Morgue 54Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Silver Blaze 81 \Agatha Christie The Witness for the Prosecution 101Dorothy L. Sayers The Haunted Policeman 118John Dickson Carr The House in Goblin Wood 134Ellery Queen 'M;y Queer Dean' 151Margaret Maron Deborah's judgment 156Sharyn McCrumb ~Nine Lives to Live 172Diane Mott Davidson Cold Turkey 185Jan Burke Revised Endings 199

Contents

THE PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR (205CRITICAL ESSAYS AND COMMENTARIES (208;Raymond Chandler The Simple Art of Murder 208Natalie Hevener Kaufman and Carol McGinnis Kay From

"Grafton's Place in the Development of the Detective Novel" ^219

STORIES 2 2 9Dashiell Hammett The Gutting of Couffignal 229Raymond Chandler Trouble Is M;y Business 253Sue Graf ton The Parker Shotgun 294SaraParetsky Skin Deep 308Gar Anthony Haywood And Pray Nobody Sees You 319S. J. Rozan Going Home 331

THE POLICE 337CRITICAL ESSAYS AND COMMENTARIES(.341'LeRoy Lad Panek From "The Police Novel" 341Ed McBain The 87th Precinct 358

STORIES 364Freeman Wills Crofts The Hunt Ball 364Georges Simenon Inspector Maigret Deduces 373Ed McBain Sadie When She Died 383Tony Hillerman Chee's Witch filhIan Rankin The Dean's Curse 419Clark Howard Under Suspicion 437Peter Robinson Missing in Action 457

Contents ix

APPENDIX ANotable Annual Awards for Mystery and Detective Fiction 475

APPENDIX BBibliography of Critical Essays and Commentaries 477

Credits 479

Index of Authors and Titles 481