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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Crime beat	Michael Connelly	Before Michael Connelly became a novelist, he was a crime reporter, covering the detectives who worked the homicide beat. In these vivid, hard-hitting pieces, Connelly leads the reader past the yello…	OL111725W
Bad lawyer	David Cray	No one felt bad when Sid Kaplan's addiction to alcohol and cocaine destroyed his career as a lawyer, but when he takes on Themla Barrow's scandalous, media-hot case, sees his two only friends die, an…	OL11656038W
The stairs that kept going down	Sir Compton Mackenzie	In the London house his family occupies, a ten-year-old boy discovers a secret, seemingly endless, staircase that leads him to the scene of a crime.	OL1167508W
monster	Jonathan Kellerman	*A second-rate actor is found mutilated in a car trunk.* Then a psychologist at a Los Angeles hospital for the criminally insane is murdered in a similar grisly fashion. Suddenly the incoherent r…	OL12729W
Wodehouse on crime	P. G. Wodehouse	edited and with a preface by D.R. Bensen; foreword by Isaac Asimov. Contents Strychnine in the soup -- The crime wave at Blandings -- Ukridge starts a bank account -- The purity of the turf -- …	OL1337005W
Tales of Mystery and Imagination [29 stories]	Edgar Allan Poe	Tales of Mystery and Imagination, London: George Harrap and New York: Brentanos, 1919. (This famous and frequently copied collection features elaborate illustrations by Harry Clarke. The original edi…	OL13537898W
The Best American Crime Reporting 2008	Otto Penzler,Jonathan Kellerman,Thomas H. Cook	Thieves, liars, killers, and conspirators—it's a criminal world out there, and someone has got to write about it. An eclectic collection of the year's best reportage, The Best American Crime Reportin…	OL13752042W
Edgar Allan Poe	Edgar Allan Poe	STORIES [Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W) Ligeia [William Wilson](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16088822W) [Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/work…	OL14938089W
Seltsame Geschichten (Balloon-Hoax / Descent into the Maelström / Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar …	Edgar Allan Poe	Balloon-Hoax [Descent into the Maelstrom](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273476W) [Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL40987W) Gold-Bug Murders in the Rue Morgue M…	OL14938102W
Visions of Darkness (Cask of Amontillado / Masque of the Red Death / Oval Portrait / Raven / Tell-T…	Edgar Allan Poe,C. Merton Babcock	[Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) [Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W) Oval Portrait Raven [Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works…	OL14938132W
The Best American Crime Writing 2005	Otto Penzler,Thomas H. Cook,James Ellroy	The 2005 edition of The Best American Crime Writing offers the year's most shocking, compelling, and gripping writing about real-life crime, including Peter Landesman's article about female sex slave…	OL14963822W
Inspector Gadget in the case of the mixed-up scientist	Justine Fontes	Penny and her dog, Brain, help a secret agent rescue a scientist kidnapped by a crime organization.	OL15126238W
Adventures in Reading -- Volume 1-- Short Stories	Marjorie Braymer,Arthur Conan Doyle,Ray Bradbury,Edgar Allan Poe,Evan Lodge,B.J. Chute	Dive right in / B.J. Chute Catherine and the winter wheat / P.B. Hughes Apprentice / Dorothy Canfield Ransom of Red Chief / O. Henry The adventure of the dying detective / Arthur Conan Doyle …	OL15132289W
American 24-Karat Gold	Yvonne Collioud Sisko,Mark Twain,Ambrose Bierce,William Faulkner,Ray Bradbury,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Edgar Allan Poe,Herman Melville,Kate Chopin,Jack London	Ripe figs / Kate Chopin -- A worn path / Eudora Welty -- Yoruba / Migene Gonzalez-Wippler -- The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber -- [Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL4…	OL15132668W
Tales of Mystery and Imagination [22 stories]	Edgar Allan Poe	Contains: [Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W) [Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) [Descent into the Maelstrom](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273476W) […	OL15153653W
The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition	Edward Rowe Snow,Phyllis McGinley,John N. Morris,Sarah Kemble Knight,J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur,James Russell Lowell,Robert Frost,Edwin Arlington Robinson,T. S. Eliot,Carl Sandburg,Margaret Walker,Elinor Wylie,Sidney Lanier,Jonathan Edwards,Richard Eberhart,William Bradford,William Cullen Bryant,Oliver Wendell Holmes,Ernest Hemingway,Archibald MacLeish,Teresa Palomo Acosta,Katherine Anne Porter,Elizabeth Cady Stanton,Carlota Cárdenas de Dwyer,John Greenleaf Whittier,Sara Teasdale,Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson,Mark Twain,Ralph Waldo Emerson,Cotton Mather,Gary Soto,Dorothy Parker,Emily Dickinson,Denise Levertov,Ezra Pound,Henry David Thoreau,Washington Irving,Abraham Lincoln,Anne Bradstreet,Mollie Dorsey Sanford,Kurt Vonnegut,Edith Wharton,Lewis Thomas,James Thurber,Annie Dillard,Henry James,Ambrose Bierce,Paul Laurence Dunbar,William Faulkner,William Carlos Williams,E. E. Cummings,Harriet Beecher Stowe,Carson McCullers,Adrienne Rich,Willa Cather,Maxine Kumin,Walt Whitman,Bernard Malamud,Arna Wendell Bontemps,Ray Bradbury,Leslie Silko,Gwendolyn Brooks,Randall Jarrell,David Wagoner,Claude McKay,Stephen Crane,Amiri Baraka,Sherwood Anderson,Richard Wilbur,John Steinbeck,N. Scott Momaday,Benjamin Franklin,Frederick Douglass,Langston Hughes,W. E. B. Du Bois,William Least Heat Moon,Robert E. Lee,Louisa May Alcott,Nathaniel Hawthorne,John Updike,Wallace Stevens,William Stafford,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Chief Joseph,Tennessee Williams,James E. Miller, Jr.,Edgar Allan Poe,Howard Nemerov,Elizabeth Bishop,Amy Lowell,Francis Wright,Philip Morin Freneau,Jean Toomer,Thomas Paine,Galway Kinnell,Eudora Welty,Robert Hayden,Ralph Ellison,Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,Richard Wright,Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman,James Weldon Johnson,Isaac Asimov,Flannery O'Connor,Kate Chopin,James Masao Mitsui,James Baldwin,Margaret Fuller,James Fenimore Cooper,Karl Jay Shapiro,Patrick F. McManus,May Swenson,Edgar Lee Masters,Jim Wayne Miller,Robert Anderson,Countee Cullen,Sylvia Plath,Seattle Chief,Lorraine Hansberry,Louise Bogan,Edna St. Vincent Millay,Thomas Jefferson,Robert Lowell,Sabine R. Ulibarrí,Marianne Moore,Lawson Fusao Inada,Phillis Wheatley,Vern Rutsala,Kerry M. Wood,Eugenia Collier,John Smith,William Byrd II,James W. C. Pennington,Satanta,Lillian Hellman,Mona Van Duyn,Richard Rodriguez,Mari Evans,Theodore Roethke,John Crowe Ransom,Taylor, Edward,Robinson Jeffers	Selections include: ... - [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W/Young_Goodman_Brown) by Nathaniel Hawthorne ... - [An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](https://openlibra…	OL15164554W
Terrorism, Rights and the Rule of Law	Barry Vaughan	The rule of law is becoming a victim of the struggle against terrorism. Many countries are reviewing their security procedures and questioning whether due process rights hinder them in the 'war on te…	OL15174970W
The duty to rescue	Rose Blue	Examines what happens when a crime is perpetrated against an innocent person and nobody cares, discussing the protection of those responsible for rescuing victims and the legal aspects of such situat…	OL15207331W
The Long Goodbye	Raymond Chandler	In noir master Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye, Philip Marlowe befriends a down on his luck war veteran with the scars to prove it. Then he finds out that Terry Lennox has a very wealthy nymphoma…	OL15400581W
Great American Short Stories	Bret Harte,Ernest Hemingway,Mark Twain,Charles Waddell Chesnutt,Henry James,Ambrose Bierce,Willa Cather,Stephen Crane,Sherwood Anderson,Nathaniel Hawthorne,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Paul Negri,Edgar Allan Poe,Sarah Orne Jewett,Herman Melville,Theodore Dreiser,Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman,Kate Chopin,Charlotte Perkins Gilman,Jack London	Contents: Nathaniel Hawthorne: [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W) (1835) -- Edgar Allan Poe: [The tell-tale heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W) (1843) -- H…	OL15430879W