TY - BOOK AU - Slung,Michele B. TI - Murder & other acts of literature: twenty-four unforgettable and chilling stories by some of the world's best-loved, most celebrated writers SN - 031216937X (hardcover) AV - PN 6120.95 .D45 M77 1997 PY - 1997/// CY - New York PB - St. Martin's Press KW - Detective and mystery stories N1 - 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 ER -