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The other is The Mysterious West, a less weighty book, with "20 short stories, primarily mystery and detective fiction", each introduced by Tony Hillerman. In sum, the 20 stories had "fictional landscapes here [that] range from the desolation, silence, and danger of Death Valley, and the small, dying towns of southern Colorado to the ...
"Sixty Million Trillion Combinations" is a short mystery story by American writer Isaac Asimov.It was first published in the May 5, 1980, issue of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine under the title "64 Million Trillion Combinations," and reprinted in Banquets of the Black Widowers (1984) and The Return of the Black Widowers (2003).
Poe wrote the short story in Philadelphia, where he resided at various locations from 1838 to 1844. [33] [34] Poe originally titled the story "The Murders in the Rue Trianon-Bas" [35] but renamed it to better associate with death. [36] "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" first appeared in Graham's Magazine in April 1841 while Poe was working as an ...
The Return of the Black Widowers is a collection of short mystery stories by American writer Isaac Asimov, featuring his fictional club of mystery solvers, the Black Widowers. It was first published in hardcover by Carroll & Graf in December 2003, and in trade paperback by the same publisher in November 2005.
"The Purloined Letter" is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe. It is the third of his three detective stories featuring the fictional C. Auguste Dupin, the other two being "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt". These stories are considered to be important early forerunners of the modern detective story.
"The Problem of Cell 13" is a short story by Jacques Futrelle. It was first published in 1905 and later collected in The Thinking Machine (1907), which was featured in crime writer H. R. F. Keating's list of the 100 best crime and mystery books ever published. [1]
"The Ultimate Crime" is a short story by Isaac Asimov, dealing with a minor aspect of one of the Sherlock Holmes stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is the 24th of Asimov's Black Widowers mystery stories, and it appeared in his anthology More Tales of the Black Widowers ( Doubleday , 1976), which collects the second dozen stories of the series.