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The Folio Treasury of Shorter Crime Fiction, Volume 4: Murderous Minds

The Folio Treasury of Shorter Crime Fiction, Volume 4: Murderous Minds

Sue Bradbury
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Whether it's a classic whodunit, a brilliantly plotted detective story or a sophisticated psychological chiller, there's no greater pleasure than settling down with a good crime story.

These stories introduce many of crime fiction's finest heroes, including the crucial episodes that formed Ian Rankin's John Rebus and John Le Carré's spy–master George Smiley.

Acclaimed masters of mystery such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Rex Stout and Edgar Wallace rub shoulders with less well known yet equally compelling writers like American mystery queen Anna Katharine Green and Cornell Woolrich, best known for 'Rear Window', famously immortalized in film by Alfred Hitchcock. Each story is introduced either by the authors themselves, by fellow crime writers, including Colin Dexter, Reginald Hill and Margaret Yorke, or by aficionados of the genre, like Patrick Marnham, Simon Brett and Marcel Berlins. Full of menace and diabolical twists, pitting rationalism against the supernatural, good against evil, these twenty masterpieces will baffle and entertain the most ingenious of armchair detectives.

Volume 4: Murderous Minds
When insurance salesman Walter Huff meets Phyllis Nirdlinger, the glamorous wife of one of his wealthy clients, it doesn't take him long to decide to help her get rid of her husband. Delivered in taut, stiletto–sharp prose, James Cain's 'Double Indemnity' explores the obsessive desire that can destroy everything in its path. Cornell Woolrich's chilling story of the disappearance of newly–wed Smiles Bliss demonstrates his mastery of the noir genre. In 'Piranha to Scurfy', Ruth Rendell adds a spine–tingling dimension to her story of an obsessive loner, while Minette Walters's 'The Tinder Box' reveals how ignorance and a vigilante mentality can ignite in deadly conflagration.

Double Indemnity by James Cain
Wanted: Someone Innocent by Margery Allingham
You'll Never See Me Again by Cornell Woolrich
Piranha to Scurfy by Ruth Rendell
The Tinder Box by Minette Walters

Quarter bound in cloth with blocked paper sides.
Set in Garamond.
4 volumes, with 44 illustrations 4 in colour by Nick Hardcastle
6½" x 9"
Language
English
Pages
407
Format
Hardcover
Release
January 01, 2007

The Folio Treasury of Shorter Crime Fiction, Volume 4: Murderous Minds

Sue Bradbury
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
Whether it's a classic whodunit, a brilliantly plotted detective story or a sophisticated psychological chiller, there's no greater pleasure than settling down with a good crime story.

These stories introduce many of crime fiction's finest heroes, including the crucial episodes that formed Ian Rankin's John Rebus and John Le Carré's spy–master George Smiley.

Acclaimed masters of mystery such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Rex Stout and Edgar Wallace rub shoulders with less well known yet equally compelling writers like American mystery queen Anna Katharine Green and Cornell Woolrich, best known for 'Rear Window', famously immortalized in film by Alfred Hitchcock. Each story is introduced either by the authors themselves, by fellow crime writers, including Colin Dexter, Reginald Hill and Margaret Yorke, or by aficionados of the genre, like Patrick Marnham, Simon Brett and Marcel Berlins. Full of menace and diabolical twists, pitting rationalism against the supernatural, good against evil, these twenty masterpieces will baffle and entertain the most ingenious of armchair detectives.

Volume 4: Murderous Minds
When insurance salesman Walter Huff meets Phyllis Nirdlinger, the glamorous wife of one of his wealthy clients, it doesn't take him long to decide to help her get rid of her husband. Delivered in taut, stiletto–sharp prose, James Cain's 'Double Indemnity' explores the obsessive desire that can destroy everything in its path. Cornell Woolrich's chilling story of the disappearance of newly–wed Smiles Bliss demonstrates his mastery of the noir genre. In 'Piranha to Scurfy', Ruth Rendell adds a spine–tingling dimension to her story of an obsessive loner, while Minette Walters's 'The Tinder Box' reveals how ignorance and a vigilante mentality can ignite in deadly conflagration.

Double Indemnity by James Cain
Wanted: Someone Innocent by Margery Allingham
You'll Never See Me Again by Cornell Woolrich
Piranha to Scurfy by Ruth Rendell
The Tinder Box by Minette Walters

Quarter bound in cloth with blocked paper sides.
Set in Garamond.
4 volumes, with 44 illustrations 4 in colour by Nick Hardcastle
6½" x 9"
Language
English
Pages
407
Format
Hardcover
Release
January 01, 2007

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