The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories [First Edition, hardback, 1996]

This is the first edition hardback edition of The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories, which was published in 1996 by Oxford University Press in New York City, New York. The cover art, by Ted Ancher, features blue tinted photograph of a man in a hat using a flashlight to search for something in a dark and misty street.

• Title Page Transcription:
  THE OXFORD BOOK OF | American | Detective | Stories | [decorative rule] | EDITED BY | Tony Hillerman | Rosemary Herbert | New York Oxford | OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS | 1996
• Contents:
  [i] half title THE OXFORD BOOK OF AMERICAN DETECTIVE STORIES, [ii] blank, [iii] title page, [iv] copyright, [v] dedication, [vi] blank, [vii] ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, [viii] blank, [ix-x] CONTENTS, [1] half title, [2] blank, 3-9 Introduction by Tony Hillerman with Rosemary Herbert, 10-682 text, 683-686 CREDITS, [687-692] blank
• Table of Contents:
  1. Introduction by Tony Hillerman with Rosemary Herbert
  2. The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe
  3. The Stolen Cigar Case by Bret Harte
  4. The Problem of Cell 13 by Jacques Futrelle
  5. The Doomdorf Mystery by Melville Davisson Post
  6. Missing: Page Thirteen by Anna Katherine Green
  7. The Beauty Mask by Arthur B. Reeve
  8. A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell
  9. The False Burton Combs by Carroll John Daly
  10. The Keyboard of Silence by Clinton H. Stagg
  11. A Nose for News by Richard Sale
  12. Spider by Mignon G. Eberhart
  13. Leg Man by Erle Stanley Gardner
  14. I'll Be Waiting by Raymond Chandler
  15. The Footprint in the Sky by John Dickson Carr
  16. Rear Window by Cornell Woolrich
  17. The Lipstick by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  18. Homicide Highball by Robert Leslie Bellem
  19. An Error in Chemistry by William Faulkner
  20. From Another World by Clayton Rawson
  21. A Daylight Adventure by T.S. Stribling
  22. See No Evil by William Campbell Gault
  23. Crime Must Have a Stop by Anthony Boucher
  24. Small Homicide by Ed McBain
  25. Guilt-Edged Blonde by Ross McDonald
  26. Christmas Party by Rex Stout
  27. A Matter of Public Notice by Dorothy Salisbury Davis
  28. The Adventure of Abraham Lincoln's Clue by Ellery Queen
  29. Words Do Not a Book Make by Bill Pronzini
  30. Christmas Is for Cops by Edward D. Hoch
  31. Lucky Penny by Linda Barnes
  32. The Parker Shotgun by Sue Grafton
  33. Chee's Witch by Tony Hillerman
  34. Benny's Space by Marcia Muller
• Physical Attributes:
  • Format: Hardback, 22 x 14.7 cm.
  • Binding: Blue boards with the editors, title, and publisher's logo surrounded by a border printed with gold on the spine. The front boards also have the title and a border printed in gold.
  • Collation: [i-x] [1]-9 10-682 683-686 [687-692]
  • Price: $25.00 USD