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100 Crooked Little Crime Stories100 Crooked Little Crime Stories

100 Crooked Little Crime Stories

Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg, Edgar Allan Poe, Martin H. Greenberg

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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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OL14932454W

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Short storiesDetective and mystery storiesDetective and mystery fictionAmerican Detective and mystery storiesEnglish Detective and mystery storiesAmerican Horror talesAmerican literatureChildren's fictionClassic LiteratureCrimeCrime fictionFictionfirst-person narrativeGothic fictionHomicideHorrorHorror fictionHorror stories

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