Twelve American Crime Stories

From a regional setting in which two farmers' wives develop a taste for
detection, to a murder in the fast paced world of New York high finance,
the tales included in Twelve American Crime Stories offer readers the
opportunity to play detective and solve the mysteries for themselves.
Featuring distinctly American language and locales, the stories in this
collection range from those with a strongly regional flavor to
hard-boiled fiction. Included here are the best of the genre from
Jacques Futrelle's omniscient detective known as `The Thinking Machine',
and early female sleuths created by Anna Katherine Green, to a
private-eye story by Raymond Chandler, and Clinton H. Stagg's early
introduction of the handicapped sleuth.
For anyone who has ever been
gripped by a good crime story, and for those who never have but are
tempted, Twelve American Crime Stories is a delightful guide to who did
what to whom, and how.