В сборник вошли детективы: «Дело о беспечном котенке» Э. С. Гарднера, «Убийство на голубой яхте» Л. Флетчер, «Идеальное преступление», «Синяя борода» Л. Чартерис.

Когда дельце сулит приличный куш, глава сыскного агентства Берта Кул не упустит шанса обогатиться, используя обаяние и изворотливость своего подчиненного — хитроумного Дональда Лэма. На этот раз пройдохе предстоит найти убийцу богатого предпринимателя («Холостяки умирают одинокими»), помочь выпутаться из щекотливой ситуации представителю крупной страховой компании («Подставных игроков губит жадность») и даже выступить в странной роли двойника неудавшегося любовника («Испытай всякое»).

Перри Мейсон (англ. Perry Mason) — практикующий лос-анджелесский адвокат, литературный персонаж из детективных романов Эрла Гарднера. Главным отличием Мейсона от других литературных адвокатов является то, что помимо представительства клиентов в суде Мейсон проводит своё частное расследование, параллельно с полицией осуществляет собственные следственные мероприятия, самолично исследует места преступлений, обстоятельства их совершения, вещественные доказательства и добывает другие сведения, которые могут помочь оправдать его клиентов и изобличить истинных преступников. Благодаря романам о приключениях Мейсона Эрл Гарднер стал одним из самых издаваемых писателей США. Первый роман о приключениях Мейсона вышел в 1933 г. Литературная серия из восьмидесяти романов и коротких рассказов продолжалась почти сорок лет, до 1973 г., когда был выпущен последний написанный непосредственно Гарднером роман о приключениях Мейсона

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52. Эрл Стенли Гарднер. Дело о сумочке авантюристки

53. Эрл Стенли Гарднер. Дело застенчивой обвиняемой (Перевод: С. Бурина)

54. Эрл Стенли Гарднер. Дело испуганной машинистки

55. Эрл Стенли Гарднер. Дело очаровательного призрака

56. Эрл Стенли Гарднер. Дело кричащей женщины

57. Эрл Стенли Гарднер. Дело сумасбродной красотки (Перевод: С. Бурин)

58. Эрл Стенли Гарднер. Дело о хитроумной ловушке (Перевод: А. Завгороднего)

59. Эрл Стенли Гарднер. Дело беглой медсестры

60. Эрл Стенли Гарднер. Дело о девушке с календаря (Перевод: Т. Никулиной)

61. Эрл Стенли Гарднер. Дело счастливых ножек (Перевод: А. Пушкиной)

62.Эрл Стенли Гарднер. Дело мифических обезьян (Перевод: Л. Васильевой)

63. Эрл Стенли Гарднер. Дело поющей юбочки

64. Эрл Стенли Гарднер. Дело о смертоносной игрушке (Перевод: Е. Клинова)

65. Эрл Стенли Гарднер. Дело о двойняшке

66. Эрл Стенли Гарднер. Дело подстерегающего волка (Перевод: Т. Никулиной)

67. Эрл Стенли Гарднер. Дело о стройной тени

68. Эрл Стенли Гарднер. Дело о двойнике пожилой дамы

69. Эрл Стенли Гарднер. Дело супруга-двоеженца (Перевод: О. Барам)

70. Эрл Стенли Гарднер. Дело белокурой удачи

71. Эрл Стенли Гарднер. Дело бывшей натурщицы (Перевод: С. Чаусянской)

72. Эрл Стенли Гарднер. Дело сварливого свидетеля (Перевод: П. Рубцова)

73. Эрл Стенли Гарднер. Дело о влюбленной тетушке

74. Эрл Стенли Гарднер. Дело тайны падчерицы

75. Эрл Стенли Гарднер.Дело о воющей собаке

76. Эрл Стенли Гарднер. Дело иллюзорной удачи (Перевод: М. Кудрявцевой)

77. Эрл Стенли Гарднер. Дело смелой разведёнки (Перевод: М. Кудрявцевой)

78. Эрл Стенли Гарднер. Дело обеспокоенного опекуна (Перевод: П. Рубцова)

79. Эрл Стенли Гарднер. Дело очаровательной попрошайки (Перевод: И. Миронова)

80. Эрл Стенли Гарднер. Дело встревоженной официантки

81. Эрл Стенли Гарднер. Дело о королеве красоты

82. Эрл Стенли Гарднер. Дело небрежного купидона

83. Эрл Стенли Гарднер. Дело невероятной фальшивки (Перевод: М. Жуковой)

84. Эрл Стенли Гарднер. Дело куклы-непоседы (Перевод: А. Кудрявицкого)

85. Эрл Стенли Гарднер. Дело об отложенном убийстве

86. Эрл Стенли Гарднер. Показания одноглазой свидетельницы

Given its extraordinary span, its international scope, and its variant styles and groundbreaking stylists, A Century of Great Suspense Stories is a singular achievement. A bestselling master of suspense himself Jeffery Deaver had the enviable task of selecting from the thousands of stories written over the past one hundred years those which best represented the classic form, as well as the justly celebrated authors whose ironic twists and stunning payoffs left a lasting, vivid, and unnerving impression. The result is a triumph.

In this ambitious anthology you’ll revel in the sardonic, overtly amoral plotting of Patricia Highsmith. You’ll rediscover the strangely poignant and surprising turns of Stanley Ellin, and the profoundly underrated Margaret Millar, a genius who mixed savage social satire with brooding horror. You’ll be treated to Stephen King at his chilling best. You’ll find yourself on the violent urban streets of Ross Macdonald and Mickey Spillane, and seeped in the ominous regional flavor of Sharyn McCrumb and Tony Hillerman. You’ll marvel at the cunning webs spun by Lawrence Block, Ruth Rendell, Anthony Boucher, and Sara Paretsky, all of whom defy expectations as they reinvent the genre. And you’ll understand the awesome reputations of those authors who set the standard, such as the legendary Harlan Ellison, Fredric Brown, the master of the twist ending, and James M. Cain, uncannily skilled at knowing what went on between men and women behind closed doors. (The darker the room the better.)

Delivering everything from the one-two punch of the detective story to the ingeniously precise trappings of the police procedural, from the disquieting corners of the criminal mind to sheer dread-inducing horror, A Century of Great Suspense Stories is a rich anthology of this popular literary genre, a stunning tribute to the art of storytelling, and to the men and women who have done it best.

In rural Idaho a man with amnesia is missing. He had a picture taken of himself in front of a cabin he built and sent it to his wife. He said he had bouts of amnesia following a car accident. A detective from the big city is on his way out to solve the case. Local sheriff Bill Catlin shows him country sheriffs know a thing or two.

The White Rings fight a murder gang.

For just over fifty years, Ellery Queen has dominated the American detective and mystery story scene. His annual collections of short and not-so-short stories by the cream of writers in the field have appeared for nearly forty of those years.

Including a complete short novel by Erle Stanley Gardner, The Clue of the Screaming Woman, and seventeen novelettes and short stories by masters of mystery Robert Bloch, Hugh Pentecost, Victor Canning, Lloyd Biggie, Jr. and Ellery Queen himself, amongst many others.

PERIL PRESS presents 3 short stories by Erle Stanley Gardner:

The Case of the Invisible Circle

The Case of the Knockout Bullet

The Clue of the Onyx Ring

In their heyday, the true-crime pulp magazines spawned many of the masters of American detective fiction. These early gems have been unearthed and collected here for the first time.

Pete Quint finds a hot market for air conditioning.

An unstoppable anthology of crime stories culled from Black Mask magazine the legendary publication that turned a pulp phenomenon into literary mainstream.

Black Mask was the apotheosis of noir. It was the magazine where the first hardboiled detective story, which was written by Carroll John Daly appeared. It was the slum in which such American literary titans like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler got their start, and it was the home of stories with titles like “Murder Is Bad Luck,” “Ten Carets of Lead,” and “Drop Dead Twice.” Collected here is best of the best, the hardest of the hardboiled, and the darkest of the dark of America’s finest crime fiction. This masterpiece collection represents a high watermark of America’s underbelly. Crime writing gets no better than this.

Featuring

• Deadly Diamonds

• Dancing Rats

• A Prize Fighter Fighting for His Life

• A Parrot that Wouldn’t Talk

Including

• Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon as it was originally published

• Lester Dent’s Luck in print for the first time

The BIGGEST, the BOLDEST, the MOST COMPREHENSIVE collection of PULP WRITING ever assembled!

Weighing in at over a thousand pages, containing over forty-seven stories and two novels, this book is big baby, bigger and more powerful than a freight train — a bullet couldn’t pass through it. Here are the best stories and every major writer who ever appeared in celebrated Pulps like Black Mask, Dime Detective, Detective Fiction Weekly, and more. These are the classic tales that created the genre and gave birth to hard-hitting detectives who smoke criminals like packs of cigarettes; sultry dames whose looks are as lethal as a dagger to the chest; and gin-soaked hideouts where conversations are just preludes to murder. This is crime fiction at its gritty best.

Including:

• Three stories by Raymond Chandler, Cornell Woolrich, Erle Stanley Gardner, and Dashiell Hammett.

• Complete novels from Carroll John Daly, the man who invented the hard-boiled detective, and Fredrick Nebel, one of the masters of the form.

• A never before published Dashiell Hammett story.

• Every other major pulp writer of the time, including Paul Cain, Steve Fisher, James M. Cain, Horace McCoy, and many, many more of whom you’ve probably never heard.

• Three deadly sections — The Crimefighters, The Villains, and The Dames — with three unstoppable introductions by Harlan Coben, Harlan Ellison, and Laura Lippman.

Featuring:

• Plenty of reasons for murder, all of them good.

• A kid so smart — he’ll die of it.

• A soft-hearted loan shark’s legman learning — the hard way — never to buy a strange blonde a hamburger.

• The uncanny “Moon Man” and his mad-money victims.

A beautiful coed is raped and murdered. Only one clue is found, and that so small that it is invisible to the naked eye.

Here, Erle Stanley Gardner recounts how one tiny lead enabled the police to bring a murderer to justice.

Almost everyone knows that Stanley Ketchel was one of the great boxing champions of all time, but many have forgotten that he was murdered—and under baffling circumstances. All the evidence pointed to a gambling syndicate yet the case was obscured by a missing diamond stickpin, a lucky bracelet, and a pretty cook. Here Erle Stanley Gardner relates how this strange case was solved by not following the logical clues.

A new and different Gardner — featuring the State Police and forensic medicine.

It was there that Rob Trenton found himself on a blissful tour with the lovely, if mysterious, Linda Carroll. And it was there that the bumptious Merton Ostrander joined the twosome and, as far as Rob was concerned, made it a crowd.

But it was on a lonely road outside New York City that the real trouble began. For that was when Rob discovered the cache of dope cleverly concealed in Linda’s car — setting the scene for murder...