内容简介

Annotated anthology textbook of detective stories for American high schools, containing literary history and criticism with student exercises designed to deepen similar literary sensibilities.

Contains:

Edgar Allan Poe

The murders in the Rue Morgue --

The purloined letter --

The gold bug --

Arthur Conan Doyle

Study in scarlet (excerpts) --

Final Problem

[Adventure of the Empty House](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1518119W/The_Adventure_of_the_Empty_House)

The American Sherlock Holmes:

Ellery Queen

The telltale bottle --

My queer dean! --

The adventure of the president's half dome --

The others:

The problem of cell 13 by Jacques Futrelle --

The invisible man by G.K. Chesterton --

The mystery of Hunter's Lodge by Agatha Christie --

The adventurous exploit of the cave of Ali Baba by Dorothy Sayers --

Mr. Strang performs an experiment by William Brittain --

There were female sleuths before women's liberation:

Locked doors by Mary Roberts Rinehart --

Village murders by Agatha Christie --

You bet your life by Stuart Palmer --

Mom and the haunted mink by James Yaffe --

Variations:

In the heat of the night (excerpts) by John [Dudley] Ball --

The world series murder by Rex Stout --

The day the children vanished by Hugh Pentecost --

The stolen cigar case by Bret Harte.