MASTERPIECES OF MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE by Greenberg, Martin H. (editor) (Cornell Woolrich; Rex Stout; Dick Francis; Simon Brett; Sue Grafton; Linda Barnes; Donald E. Westlake; Antonia Fraser; Lillian de la Torre; Edward D. Hoch; Ursula Curtiss; Isaac Asimov; Stephen King; John D. MacDonald) - 1988

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988. (xvi) 651 pp. Quarter-bound in black and gray boards; lettered with silver on the spine; headband. Light wear at the corners of the dustjacket; no interior markings. Dj art by Edward Gorey. This anthology contains: The Dancing Detective by Cornell Woolrich; Help Wanted Male by Rex Stout; Twenty One Good Men and True by Dick Francis; The Nuggy Bar by Simon Brett; The Homesick Buick by John D. MacDonald; The Parker Shotgun by Sue Grafton; Quitters Inc. by Stephen King; Lucky Penny by Linda Barnes; Never Shake a Family Tree by Donald E. Westlake; Have a Nice Death by Antonia Fraser; Milady Bigamy by Lillian de la Torre; The Theft of the Four Spades by Edward D. Hoch; The Marked Man by Ursula Curtiss; The Cross of Lorraine by Isaac Asimov; The Worst Crime Known to Man by Reginald Hill; The Honest Blackmailer by Patricia Moyes; Cat's Paw by Bill Pronzini; A Nice Place to Stay by Nedra Tyre; One Thousand Dollars a Word by Lawrence Block; The Victim by P. D. James; Little Terror by Robert Barnard; The Dream is Better by Julian Symons; Danger Out of the Past by Erle Stanley Gardner; The Case of the Emerald Sky by Eric Ambler; Strictly Diplomatic by John Dickson Carr; The African Tree Beavers by Michael Gilbert; There are No Snakes in Ireland by Frederick Forsyth; The Splintered Monday by Charlotte Armstrong; And So Died Riabouchinska by Ray Bradbury; The Nine to Five Man by Stanley Ellin; The Man Who Collected Poe by Robert Bloch; The Copper Beeches by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; The Blue Cross by G. K. Chesterton; The Submarine Plans by Agatha Christie; The Necklace of Pearls by Dorothy L. Sayers; Death on the Air by Ngaio Marsh; Midnight Blue by Ross Macdonald; Abraham Lincoln's Clue by Ellery Queen; The Fever Tree by Ruth Rendell; and The Stolen White Elephant by Mark Twain.. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Edward Gorey;. 8vo.