Blue Ribbon Specials

We all know crime fiction is written by talentless hacks and read by the nearly illiterate, right? Well, here you’ll find some people you’ve probably heard of who would probably disagree: Nobelists, Academy Award winners, Pulitzer winners, a Grammy winner, and a winner of the International Fantasy Award.Contents:• The Ghost Patrol — Sinclair Lewis• The Master of Mystery — Jack London• Crime Without Passion — Ben Hecht• If the Journey Had No End — Rebeccca West• The Perfect Plan — James Hilton• Mr. Loveday’s Little Outing — Evelyn Waugh• The Expense of Justice — Guy de Maupassant• The Gioconda Smile — Aldous Huxley• The Man Higher Up — O. Henry• The Happy Couple — W. Somerset Maugham• Suicide Hotel — André Maurois• A Deal in Ostriches — H. G. Wells• The Silver Mask — Hugh Walpole• Murder on the Waterfront — Budd Schulberg• The Best Policy — Ferenc Molnár• Death of an Old Man — Arthur Miller• How Mr. Hogan Robbed a Bank — John Steinbeck• Smoke — William Faulkner• The Dance — F. Scott Fitzgerald• Crime Passionnel — Louis Bromfield• An Arabian Night in Park Lane — J. B. Priestley• The White Rabbit Caper — James Thurber• A Bottle of Perrier — Edith Wharton• Back for Christmas — John Collier• Diplomatic Crisis — Orson Welles• The Sheep — Joyce Cary• The Luminous Face — Mark Van Doren