The Detective Story

An Introduction to the World's Greatest Whodunit Sleuths and Their Creators

by Jacques Futrelle, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Stuart Palmer et al.

1975 441 pages eng

Annotated anthology textbook of detective stories for American high schools, containing literary history and criticism with student exercises designed to deepen similar literary sensibilities. Contains: Edgar Allan Poe The murders in the Rue Morgue -- The purloined letter -- The gold bug -…