Murder & other acts of literature :  twenty-four unforgettable and chilling stories by some of the world's best-loved, most celebrated writers / 
 Murder and other acts of literature 
edited by Michele Slung. 
 - 1st St. Martin's Press ed. 
 - New York :  St. Martin's Press,  1997. 
 - 345 p. ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/> Originally published: New York : Book-Of-the-Month Club, c1996.  "A Thomas Dunne book." 
<br/><br/> Montraldo /  The hitch-hikers /  Success or failure /  By a person unknown /  How did I get away with killing one of the biggest lawyers in the state? It was easy /  The hotel of the idle moon /  Aaron Trow /  The fat man /  Mr. Loveday's little outing /  The Johore murders /  A journey /  Miss Forbes's summer of happiness /  The Macbeth murder mystery /  A double tragedy : an actor's story /  Un crime maternel /  Mary Postgate /  The walker /  Country lovers /  Monk /  The widow and the parrot : a true story /  My maiden brief /  An act of vengeance /  In vino veritas /  The Portobello Road /  John Cheever --  Eudora Welty --  T.H. White --  Naguib Mahfouz --  Alice Walker --  William Trevor --  Anthony Trollope --  Isak Dinesen --  Evelyn Waugh --  Paul Theroux --  Edith Wharton --  Gabriel Garc�ia M�arquez --  James Thurber --  Louisa May Alcott --  Fay Weldon --  Rudyard Kipling --  Patrick O'Brian --  Nadine Gordimer --  William Faulkner --  Virginia Woolf --  W.S. Gilbert --  Isabel Allende --  A.A. Milne --  Muriel Spark. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>031216937X (hardcover) 9780312169374 (hardcover) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>97014677 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Detective and mystery stories.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN 6120.95 .D45  / M77 1997