San Antonio College Library

Sections include such listings as:a "master" list; mystery types; series characters; settings; title chronology; alphabetical list of titles; pseudonyms, and mystery book awards.

This mystery collection presents many selections never before collected in book form and nemerous selections chosen by the author himself from his famous "Black Widower" and "Union Club" series, as well ad a wide variety of other stories.

Mademoiselle Stangerson had retired to bed when she cried out from her room, "Murder! Murder! Help!" Immediately revolver shots rang out, and there was a great noise of struggle and commotion. Her father and a servant ran to the Yellow Room. The door was locked. Her cries had ceased. When they finally broke down the door, they found Mademoiselle on the floor badly hurt and bleeding. No one else was in the room. There was no other means of exit except...

The title applies in several ways to this wicked collection of crime short stories, to many of the stories' characters and protagonists, who include murderers, adulterers, thieves; to the stories' arcs, which offer numerous bends and suprises.

A complete collection of short fiction by the creator of Philip Marlowe includes stories such as "Blackmailers Don't Shoot," "The Pencil," and "English Summer."

Houston homicide detective Carmen Palma and a specialist in serial killers investigate the murders of several upper-middle-class Houston women living secret, double lives.

Essays taken from Salem Press's Critical survey of mystery and detective fiction, published in 1988.