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GREAT STORIES OF SUSPENSE
by MacDonald, Ross (Kenneth Millar), Editor
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0394492927
- ISBN 13
- 9780394492926
- Seller
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Canandaigua, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Knopf/Readers Digest, 1993. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Ross MacDonald, creator of arguably the greatest series of mystery-detective stories of the 20th century featuring California private detective, Lew Archer, believed that while detective stories move backward, searching for a solution, suspense stories moved forward toward catastrophe. However, he rightly included one of his Lew Archer novels, "The Far Side of the Dollar," in this extra large anthology of suspense, which also includes novels by Kenneth Fearing, Agatha Chiristie and Dick Francis as well as short fiction by Greene, Hammett, Cain, Ellin, Gilbert, Highsmith and Millar. Also, surprises by Cheever, Robert Louis Stevenson and Flannery O'Conner, with an introduction by MacDonald that lays out the history of two centuries of suspense. This copy is from the Book Club Edition, issued in 1993. 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches, 823 pages, plus notes about the editior and the type face, in black cloth-covered boards with silver lettering on spine. Basically black pictorial dustjacket with pink and white lettering shows a half-inch, closed tear in top edge of front panel, other minimal surface and edge wear, o/w clean and whole with no creasing or chipping. Boards and text are clean, complete and unmarked, binding tight and squre. No bumped corners. A whole lot of good reading at a very economical price. [Sorry, due to book's size and weight, we cannot accept priority/express orders or orders outside the U.S. without additional postage.].
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- Seller
- H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 005541
- Title
- GREAT STORIES OF SUSPENSE
- Author
- MacDonald, Ross (Kenneth Millar), Editor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0394492927
- ISBN 13
- 9780394492926
- Publisher
- Knopf/Readers Digest
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1993
- Keywords
- MYSTERY, SUSPENSE, DETECTIVE, CHRISTIE, FRANCIS, ELLIN, GREENE, HAMMETT, CHEEVE, CAIN
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery; Crime; Amateur Sleuth;
Terms of Sale
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
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About the Seller
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2005
Canandaigua, New York
About H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller, has been serving customers on the internet since 2003. We specialize in modern American and English fiction and in mystery and detective thrillers, as well as art and art history. We also have a growing selection of mid-to-late 19th century history and literature. Nearly all our modern and contemporary books are first editions or otherwise collectable.
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