The Literature of Crime: Stories by World-Famous Authors (1950)

Includes the following 26 stories:THE POST-MORTEM MURDER—Sinclair LewisRANSOM—Pearl S. BuckBEFORE THE PARTY—W. Somerset MaughamTHE MURDER IN THE FISHING CAT—Edna St. Vincent MillayTHE JURYMAN—John GalsworthyTHE MURDER—John SteinbeckMONK—William FaulknerTHE LIMITATIONS OF PAMBÉ SERANG—Rudyard KiplingTABLOID NEWS—Louis BromfieldTHE KILLERS—Ernest HemingwayHUNTED DOWN—Charles DickensPAUL’S CASE—Willa CatherTHE STOLEN WHITE ELEPHANT—Mark TwainTHE GIOCONDA SMILE—Aldous HuxleyTHE HAND—Guy de MaupassantTHE LETTERS IN EVIDENCE—C. S. ForesterHAIRCUT—Ring LardnerAN IDEAL CRAFTSMAN—Walter de la MareTHE CATBIRD SEAT—James ThurberMARKHEIM—Robert Louis StevensonMR. BRISHER’S TREASURE—H. G. WellsLONDON NIGHT’S ENTERTAINMENT—Margery SharpSENSE OF HUMOR—Damon RunyonTHE VERDICT—Frank SwinnertonCLERICAL ERROR—James Gould CozzensGUILTY—Fannie Hurst