| International Standard Book Number |
9781613165423 (paperback)
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| International Standard Book Number |
1613165420 (paperback)
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781613165416 (hardcover)
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| International Standard Book Number |
1613165412 (hardcover)
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| Title Statement |
Golden age whodunits / Otto Penzler, editor.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : Penzler Publishers, 2024.
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| Physical Description |
384 pages ; 21 cm.
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| Series Statement |
American mystery classics
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| General Note |
"Fifteen puzzling mysteries from the masters of the form"--Cover.
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| General Note |
Includes discussion questions.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
The amateur of crime / Stephen Vincent Benet -- Black murder / Anthony Boucher -- Crisis, 1999 / Fredric Brown -- The flowering face / Mignon G. Eberhart -- The dance / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The episode of the tangible illusion / C. Daly King -- Haircut / Ring Lardner -- Fingerprints don't lie / Stuart Palmer -- The witness in the metal box / Melville Davisson Post -- Man bites dog / Ellery Queen -- The clue of the tattooed man / Clayton Rawson -- The phonograph murder / Helen Reilly -- The lipstick / Mary Roberts Rinehart -- Too many sleuths / Vincent Starrett -- A passage to Benares / T.S. Stribling.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"Depending on who you ask, the term "whodunit" was first coined sometime around 1930, but the literary form predates that name be several decades. Still, it was in the years between the two World Wars -- the so-called "Golden Age" of mystery fiction -- that the style flourished. Short mysteries were published far and wide by a variety of authors, not just those primarily associated with the genre. They appeared in The Saturday Evening Post, Cosmopolitan, The New Yorker, and other high-end periodicals that still exist today. These tales were, in short, among the most popular diversions in literature and were of the highest caliber. In this volume, Edgar Award-winning anthologist Otto Penzler collects some of the finest American whodunits of the era, including household names and welcome rediscoveries, introducing each author and story to lend context to their work. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ellery Queen, and Mary Roberts Rinehart are all included, as are Ring Lardner, Melville Davisson Post, and Helen Reilly. The result is a cross section of the whodunit tale in the years that made it a staple in mystery fiction."-- Provided by publisher.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Murder Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Detectives Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Investigations Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Mystery fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Detective and mystery fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Short stories.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Penzler, Otto, editor.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
BeneÌt, Stephen Vincent, 1898-1943. Amateur of crime.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Boucher, Anthony, 1911-1968. Black murder.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Brown, Fredric, 1906-1972. Crisis, 1999.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Eberhart, Mignon G. (Mignon Good), 1899-1996. Flowering face.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940. Dance.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
King, C. Daly, 1895-1963. Episode of the tangible illusion.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Lardner, Ring, 1885-1933. Haircut.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Palmer, Stuart, 1905-1968. Fingerprints don't lie.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Post, Melville Davisson, 1869-1930. Witness in the metal box.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Queen, Ellery. Man bites dog.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Rawson, Clayton, 1906-1971. Clue of the tattooed man.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Reilly, Helen, 1890-1962. Phonograph murder.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Rinehart, Mary Roberts, 1876-1958. Lipstick.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Starrett, Vincent, 1886-1974. Too many sleuths.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Stribling, T. S. (Thomas Sigismund), 1881-1965. Passage to Benares.
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