A wonderfully entertaining collection of crime stories. There are two important divisions in mystery fiction hard boiled versus soft City versus country. Fans of the country house mystery are in the game for the puzzle perhaps for the players of manners. Fans of the city are in it for the grit the danger the sense how are theatrical the situation may seem. There is a grit in reality of Plenty in these stories, which take place in their local look how in urban landscape Ranger from Paris to Tokyo from Chicago to Los Angeles and back to london. It's a Heritage of hard-boiled mystery back to its roots with stories that are the great classic and contemporary names.

ISBN: 9780395513187