Murder & other acts of literature : twenty-four unforgettable and chilling stories by some of the world's best-loved, most celebrated writers / edited by Michele Slung.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: New York : St. Martin's Press, 1997.Edition: 1st St. Martin's Press edDescription: 345 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 031216937X (hardcover)
  • 9780312169374 (hardcover)
Other title:
  • Murder and other acts of literature
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN 6120.95 .D45 M77 1997
Contents:
Montraldo / John Cheever -- The hitch-hikers / Eudora Welty -- Success or failure / T.H. White -- By a person unknown / Naguib Mahfouz -- How did I get away with killing one of the biggest lawyers in the state? It was easy / Alice Walker -- The hotel of the idle moon / William Trevor -- Aaron Trow / Anthony Trollope -- The fat man / Isak Dinesen -- Mr. Loveday's little outing / Evelyn Waugh -- The Johore murders / Paul Theroux -- A journey / Edith Wharton -- Miss Forbes's summer of happiness / Gabriel Garc�ia M�arquez -- The Macbeth murder mystery / James Thurber -- A double tragedy : an actor's story / Louisa May Alcott -- Un crime maternel / Fay Weldon -- Mary Postgate / Rudyard Kipling -- The walker / Patrick O'Brian -- Country lovers / Nadine Gordimer -- Monk / William Faulkner -- The widow and the parrot : a true story / Virginia Woolf -- My maiden brief / W.S. Gilbert -- An act of vengeance / Isabel Allende -- In vino veritas / A.A. Milne -- The Portobello Road / Muriel Spark.
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Originally published: New York : Book-Of-the-Month Club, c1996.

"A Thomas Dunne book."

Montraldo / John Cheever -- The hitch-hikers / Eudora Welty -- Success or failure / T.H. White -- By a person unknown / Naguib Mahfouz -- How did I get away with killing one of the biggest lawyers in the state? It was easy / Alice Walker -- The hotel of the idle moon / William Trevor -- Aaron Trow / Anthony Trollope -- The fat man / Isak Dinesen -- Mr. Loveday's little outing / Evelyn Waugh -- The Johore murders / Paul Theroux -- A journey / Edith Wharton -- Miss Forbes's summer of happiness / Gabriel Garc�ia M�arquez -- The Macbeth murder mystery / James Thurber -- A double tragedy : an actor's story / Louisa May Alcott -- Un crime maternel / Fay Weldon -- Mary Postgate / Rudyard Kipling -- The walker / Patrick O'Brian -- Country lovers / Nadine Gordimer -- Monk / William Faulkner -- The widow and the parrot : a true story / Virginia Woolf -- My maiden brief / W.S. Gilbert -- An act of vengeance / Isabel Allende -- In vino veritas / A.A. Milne -- The Portobello Road / Muriel Spark.

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