The Oxford Book Of American Detective Stories - ed. Tony Hillerman, ed. Rosemary Herbert Audiobook

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The Oxford Book Of American Detective Stories
Edited by Tony Hillerman and Rosemary Herbert
Read by Mike Morrison
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Edgar Allan Poe’s Murders in the Rue Morgue launched the detective story in 1841. The genre began as a highbrow form of entertainment, a puzzle to be solved by a rational sifting of clues. In Britain, the stories became decidedly upper crust: the crime often committed in a world of manor homes and formal gardens, the blood on the Persian carpet usually blue. But from the beginning, American writers worked important changes on Poe’s basic formula, especially in use of language and locale. As early as 1917, Susan Glaspell evinced a poignant understanding of motive in a murder in an isolated farmhouse. And with World War I, the Roaring ’20s, the rise of organized crime and corrupt police with Prohibition, and the Great Depression, American detective fiction branched out in all directions, led by writers such as Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, who brought crime out of the drawing room and into the mean streets where it actually occurred.
In The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories, Tony Hillerman and Rosemary Herbert bring together thirty-three tales that illuminate both the evolution of crime fiction in the United States and America’s unique contribution to this highly popular genre. Tracing its progress from elegant locked room mysteries, to the hard-boiled realism of the ’30s and ’40s, to the great range of styles seen today, this superb collection includes the finest crime writers, including Erle Stanley Gardner, Raymond Chandler, Ross Macdonald, Rex Stout, Ellery Queen, Ed McBain, Sue Grafton, and Hillerman himself. There are also many delightful surprises: Bret Harte, for instance, offers a Sherlockian pastiche with a hero named Hemlock Jones, and William Faulkner blends local color, authentic dialogue, and dark, twisted pride in An Error in Chemistry. We meet a wide range of sleuths, from armchair detective Nero Wolfe, to Richard Sale’s journalist Daffy Dill, to Robert Leslie Bellem’s wise-cracking Hollywood detective Dan Turner, to Linda Barnes’s six-foot tall, red-haired, taxi-driving female P.I., Carlotta Carlyle. And we sample a wide variety of styles, from tales with a strongly regional flavor, to hard-edged pulp fiction, to stories with a feminist perspective. Perhaps most important, the book offers a brilliant summation of America’s signal contribution to crime fiction, highlighting the myriad ways in which we have reshaped this genre. The editors show how Raymond Chandler used crime, not as a puzzle to be solved, but as a spotlight with which he could illuminate the human condition; how Ed McBain, in A Small Homicide, reveals a keen knowledge of police work as well as of the human sorrow which so often motivates crime; and how Ross Macdonald’s Lew Archer solved crime not through blood stains and footprints, but through psychological insight into the damaged lives of the victim’s family. And throughout, the editors provide highly knowledgeable introductions to each piece, written from the perspective of fellow writers and reflecting a life-long interest–not to say love–of this quintessentially American genre.
American crime fiction is as varied and as democratic as America itself. Hillerman and Herbert bring us a gold mine of glorious stories that can be read for sheer pleasure, but that also illuminate how the crime story evolved from the drawing room to the back alley, and how it came to explore every corner of our nation and every facet of our lives.

Stories in this collection:

01) Introduction by Tony Hillerman and Rosemary Herbert
02) The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe
03) The Stolen Cigar Case by Bret Harte
04) The Problem of Cell 13 by Jacques Futrelle
05) The Doomdorf Mystery by Melville Davisson Post
06) Missing: Page Thirteen by Anna Katharine Green
07) The Beauty Mask by Arthur B. Reeve
08) A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell
09) The False Burton Combs by Carroll John Daly
10) The Keyboard of Silence by Clinton H. Stagg
11) A Nose for News by Richard Sale
12) Spider by Mignon G. Eberhart
13) Leg Man by Erle Stanley Gardner
14) I’ll Be Waiting by Raymond Chandler
15) The Footprint in the Sky by John Dickson Carr
16) Rear Window by Cornell Woolrich
17) The Lipstick by Mary Roberts Rinehart
18) Homicide Highball by Robert Leslie Bellem
19) An Error in Chemistry by William Faulkner
20) From Another World by Clayton Rawson
21) A Daylight Adventure by T. S. Stribling
22) See No Evil by William Campbell Gault
23) Crime Must Have a Stop by Anthony Boucher
24) Small Homicide by Ed McBain
25) Guilt-Edged Blonde by Ross Macdonald
26) Christmas Party by Rex Stout
27) A Matter of Public Notice by Dorothy Salisbury Davis
28) The Adventure of Abraham Lincoln’s Clue by Ellery Queen
29) Words Do Not a Book Make by Bill Pronzini
30) Christmas Is for Cops by Edward D. Hoch
31) Lucky Penny by Linda Barnes
32) The Parker Shotgun by Sue Grafton
33) Chee’s Witch by Tony Hillerman
34) Benny’s Space by Marcia Muller