The Picador Book Of Crime Writing

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Utilizing material from many sources to shed real insight into the laws, whys and wherefores, of crime, the book contains fiction and non-fiction items.

Picador Book of Crime Writing ed. Michael Dibdin

Contents
On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts by Thomas de Quincey
Introduction by Michael Dibdin

Serious Business
The Man Who Killed Himself by Julian Symons
The Shooting Party by Anton Chekhov; trans. by A.E. Chamot
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
Thérèse Raquin [1867] by Émile Zola
A Kiss Before Dying by Ira Levin
Under the Knife by Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Maul and the Pear Tree by P.D. James & T.A. Critchley
"A Case of Fratricide" by Franz Kafka; trans. by J.A. Underwood
"Killings" by Andre Dubus
"Hitcher" [from Book of Matches] by Simon Armitage
Smoke [Gavin Stevens] by William Faulkner
Pick-Up on Noon Street ["Noon Street Nemesis"] by Raymond Chandler
The Killing of the Saints by Alex Abella

The Police in Different Voices
Sir, You Bastard by G.F. Newman
The Steam Pig by James McClure
Act of Darkness by Francis King
Cop Killer by Maj Sjöwall, Per Wahlöö; trans. by Thomas Teal
Murder at the Munition Works by G.D.H. & M. Cole
A Coat of Varnish by C.P. Snow
The Erasers [from Les gommes, Editions de Minuit; Paris, 1953] by Alain Robbe-Grillet
Maigret's Memoirs [from Les Mémoires de Maigret, Fayard; Paris, 1950; Insp. Jules Maigret] by Georges Simenon; trans. by J. Stewart
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter Thompson72
Freaky Deaky by Elmore Leonard

Sentence First, Verdict Afterwards
by Edgar Allan Poe
from "Epilogue: to Will H. Low" by Robert Louis Stevenson & Lloyd Osbourne
from "Why Do People Read Detective Stories?" by Edmund Wilson
from "Casual Notes on the Mystery Novel" by Raymond Chandler
from "How to Write a Detective Story" by G.K. Chesterton
from "The Case of the Corpse in the Blind Alley" by Philip Van Doren Stren
by T.S. Eliot
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
"Send for Lord Timothy" by John Heath-Stubbs
by Antonio Gramsci
from "A Sober Word on the Detective Story" by Harrison R. Steeves
by Norman Shrapnel
by Allen Pryce-Jones
(from "Über die Popularitat des Kriminalromans", in Gesammelte Werke, Suhrkamp Verlag; Frankfurt am Main, 1967] by Bertolt Brecht; trans. by Jeff Morrison
from "Only a Detective Story" by Joseph Wood Krutch
from Selected Essays by T.S. Eliot
(from "Über die Popularitat des Kriminalromans", in Gesammelte Werke, Suhrkamp Verlag; Frankfurt am Main, 1967] by Bertolt Brecht; trans. by Jeff Morrison
The Pledge [from Das Versprechen: Requiem auf den Kriminalroman, Die Arche; Zürich, 1958] by Friedrich Dürrenmatt; trans. by R. & C. Winston
City of Glass by Paul Auster
from "The Analysis of a Detective Story" by Charles Rycroft
from Postille a 'Il nome della rosa', Gruppo Editoriale Fabbri, Bompiani, Sonzongo Etas SPA] by Umberto Eco
(from "Über die Popularitat des Kriminalromans", in Gesammelte Werke, Suhrkamp Verlag; Frankfurt am Main, 1967] by Bertolt Brecht; trans. by Jeff Morrison
Passing Time [from L'Emploi du temps, Editions de Minuit; Paris, 1951] by Michel Butor; trans. by J. Stewart
"Detective Story" by W.H. Auden
from "Simenon and 'Le Commissaire'" by Pierre Weisz
by Haerold Nicholson
"The Wings of Henry James" by James Thurber
by Raymond Queneau; trans. by Michael Dibdin
from Les mots, Gallimard [in English as Words] by Jean-Paul Sartre; trans. by Irene Clephanen
"Somewhere a Roscoe…" by S.J. Perelman
Fast One by Paul Cain
from The Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays by Northrop Frye

Uncommon Murders
Uncommon Murders by Michael Dibdin
The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
Porphyria's Lover by Robert Browning
The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By [from L'Homme qui regardait passer les trains, Fayard; Paris, 1938] by Georges Simenon; trans. by S. Gilbert
The Vatican Cellars [from Les caves du Vatican, Gallimard; Paris, 1950] by André Gide; trans. by D. Bussy
The Picture of Dorian Gray [Dorian Gray] by Oscar Wilde
A Kiss of Fire by Masako Togawa; trans. by S. Grove
Reputation for a Song by Edward Grierson
Verdict of Twelve by Raymond Postgate
A Pin to See the Peepshow by F. Tennyson Jesse4
The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor by Cameron McCabe7
"Model Village" by Carol Ann Duffy
The Thirty-First of February by Julian Symons
"A Staffordshire Murderer" by James Fenton
Malice Aforethought by Francis Iles

The Dangerous Edge of Things
The Dangerous Edge of Things by Michael Dibdin
The Lodger by Marie Belloc Lowndes
The Killers by Ernest Hemingway7
The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett
Squeeze Play by Paul Benjamin
Trust by George V. Higgins
The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler
A Red Death [Easy Rawlins] by Walter Mosley
The Second Curtain by Roy Fuller
Plain Murder by C.S. Forester
We, the Accused by Ernest Raymond
In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes
Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith