Detective Stories

by Pullman, Philip

• ISBN13: 9780753456361
• ISBN10: 0753456362
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-06-20
• Publisher: Kingfisher

Summary

Young mystery fans will be enthralled by this compelling volume of detective fiction that includes both classic and contemporary writers such as Italo Calvino, Agatha Christie, Ellery Queen, Damon Runyon, and Andrew Vachss.

Author Biography

Philip Pullman is an award-winning writer who has won critical aclaim. His novel, Northern Lights (the first in the His Dark Materials trilogy) was published in the US as an adult novel under the title The Golden Compass. In the UK, Northern Lights won the Carnegie Medal, the Guardian Children's Fiction Award and the Children's Book of the Year Award, while in the US it was one of four honor children's books at the ABBY awards. Previous novels have included The Ruby in the Smoke, winner of the International Reading Association Award and recommended in the New York Times Parents Guide to the Best Books for Children, and Tiger in the Well, shortlisted for the Guardian Award. A former teacher, Philip Pullman writes in a garden shed at the bottom of his garden near Oxford, England. A passionate advocate of children's literature he has said " . . . stories are vital. There's more wisdom in a story than in volumes of philosophy, and there's a hunger for stories in all of us."

Table of Contents

Introduction	7	(2)
The Speckled Band	9	(30)
Arthur Conan Doyle
Cold Money	39	(8)
Ellery Queen
The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb	47	(17)
Agatha Christie
Emil and the Detectives (an extract)	64	(14)
Erich Kastner
The Inspiration of Mr. Budd	78	(16)
Dorothy L. Sayers
From the Files of Inspector Craig	94	(2)
Raymond Smullyan
Butch Minds the Baby	96	(16)
Damon Runyon
Murder at St. Oswald's	112	(18)
Michael Underwood
The Cross of Lorraine	130	(20)
Isaac Asimov
The Newdick Helicopter	150	(16)
Leslie Charteris
More from the Files of Inspector Craig	166	(2)
Raymond Smullyan
The One-Handed Murderer	168	(8)
Italo Calvino
The Little Mystery	176	(18)
E.C. Bentley
Fingerprinting a Ghost	194	(11)
Tony Fletcher
It's a Hard World	205	(6)
Andrew Vachss
Maddened by Mystery	211	(10)
Stephen Leacock
Inspector Craig's Solutions	221	(2)
Acknowledgments	223

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