The Mammoth Book of Short Crime Novels brings together for the fist time in book form twelve top-quality mystery and detective novellas by some of the best writers in the field, both past and present.From the Horrors of the past to the slaughter and savagery of the present this book contains accounts of murders for desire of gain or disposal of a spouse to the terrifying serial killing. These stores span more than fifty years of crime fiction writing in the ...
Each story in this highly entertaining collection is significant for its contribution to the development of crime solving literature. There are ghastly crimes committed in the dark of night and master detectives at work to insure that justice is served. In a story by Thomas Hardy, we are introduced to a thief who outwits his hangman, and in an attack on civic self-righteousness, Mark Twain shows us a man who succeeds in stealing virtue from an entire town. The ...