100 Crooked Little Crime Stories
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100 Crooked Little Crime Stories

1994
589 pages
Short storiesDetective and mystery storiesDetective and mystery fictionAmerican Detective and mystery storiesEnglish Detective and mystery storiesAmerican Horror talesAmerican literatureChildren's fictionClassic LiteratureCrimeCrime fictionFiction

All sewed up! / Curt Hamlin Always together / Allen Beck Appointment with yesterday / Geoffrey Vace At the pistol's point / E. W. Hornung The best policy / Ferenc Molnár Beyond reasonable doubt / Robert C. Dennis Blind date / J. Lane Linklater Brand of Cain / Dan Gordon The burglar's story / W. S. Gilbert A burning clue / E. Hoffman Price The compliments of the chief / Lincoln Steffens The confession / Maurice Level The crimson complex / G. Fleming-Roberts The cunning of the serpent / Henry S. Whitehead A dead clue / David Nowinson Dead man's drop / R. Van Taylor Dead men talk / Ernest C. Amaral Death's old sweet song / George William Rae The debt collector / Maurice Level A devil's highball / G. Fleming-Roberts Double demon / William Fryer Harvey Each night she dies / William Brandon Easy kill / William Hellman Eight dollar murder / Robert Sidney Bowen Ferry slip / Don James Final game / Hugh B. Cave First kill / Chet Williamson Flophouse court / Hapsburg Liebe Flowers for Mr. Vecci / Larry Allan Footsteps / Justin Case Footsteps in the night / Hugh B. Cave Good night, sweet alibi / Rufus Bakalor The grave joker / Morris Cooper Graveyard race / Andrew Fell The guy who heard murder / Francis K. Allan The hard-luck kid / Geoffrey Vace A helping hand / Rufus Bakalor How to show a corpse / Johanas L. Bouma I hope they're worried / Don James If the shoe fits / Ken Lewis Imperfect alibi / D. L. Champion In the bag / Carey Barnett Incense sticks / Ernest Leong An ingenious defense / Anonymous Into the lion's den / William F. Nolan It's your neck / George William Rae Jackie won't be home / Dane Gregory Jeff Peters as a personal magnet / O. Henry The job / Joe R. Lansdale Kerrigan / Edwin Baird Last laugh / Lix Agrabee Let nature take its corpse / C. William Harrison The letters of Halpin Chalmers / Peter Cannon The man of the knife / Alexandre Dumas Many happy returns / Justin Case Marked in red / Ralph Powers A matter of proof / Grover Brinkman Mind over mayhem / Mack Reynolds Mine host the ghost / Costa Carousso Motive / August Derleth Murder in bronze / Herbert L. McNary Mushrooms / Chet Williamson New blood / Gary Lovisi Nimble fingers / W. Ryerson Johnson No flowers for Henry / Carl Hughes Nobody, that's who / William F. Nolan Numb / Wayne A. Harold On a dark October / Joe R. Lansdale One man's poison / Curt Hamlin The pigeon drop / Michael A. Black A quarter for Crazy Eddie / Will Murray The raffle / Wayne D. Dundee A real nice guy / William F. Nolan Red runs the tide / John P. Foran The red sail / Lester Dent A retrieved reformation / O. Henry Sacrifice / C. J. Henderson The sapient monkey / Headon Hill Side door to Hell / Cyril Plunkett The silver protector / Ellis Parker Butler The slave -maker / Edgar Wallace Some jobs are simple / Chat Williamson Strictly accidental / Morgan Talbot Sudden violence / Robert Petyo Switch / Gerald Tollesfrud [Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W) / Edgar Allan Poe Terror's night / I. R. Austin Thaxton's call / Jack Dolphin They tell no tales / Francis Chase, Jr. Till death do us part / Dana McGuire The time is now! / Dorothy Dunn To the point / Hugh B. Cave Turnabout / Colby Quinn Two must die! / Ric Hasse Untimely visitor / John Bender A valentine from Teacher / Jim Knapp The white square / Everett M. Webber Whitemail / Joyce Kilmer Whose turn is it? / C. J. Henderson The witch's way / Joseph Shallit

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