Sleuths of the Century [Carroll & Graf, hardcover, 2000]

This is Sleuths of the Century, edited by Jon L. Breen and Ed Gorman, containing the short story by Tony Hillerman entitled "The Witch, Yazzie, and the Nine of Clubs." In this story, somewhat contemporaneous with People of Darkness, the newly assigned detective Jim Chee solves a mystery during a long evening attending a Navajo ceremony.

The volume also contains work by other well-known mystery writers, for example, Ellery Queen, Agatha Christie, and Ed McBain. This is a hardcover book with dust jacket.

• Title Page Transcription:
  SLEUTHS OF | THE CENTURY | [decorative rule] | Edited by | Jon L. Breen and Ed Gorman | CARROLL & GRAF PUBLISHERS, INC. | NEW YORK
• Contents:
  [i] half title SLEUTHS OF THE CENTURY, [ii] blank, [iii] title page, [iv] copyright, [v-vi] prior copyrights, vii Contents, [viii] blank, [ix] second half title, [x] blank, 1-3 Introduction, 4-579 text, [580-582] blank
• List of Contents:
  1. Introduction, Jon L. Breen
  2. The Phantom Motor, Jacques Futrelle
  3. The Secret Garden, G. K. Chesterton
  4. Problem at Sea, Agatha Christie
  5. The Piscatorial Farce of the Stolen Stomach, Dorothy L. Sayers
  6. The Adventure of the Glass-Domed Clock, Ellery Queen
  7. Madam Maigret's Admirer, Georges Simenon
  8. The Wrong Problem, John Dickson Carr
  9. The Next Witness, Rex Stout
  10. The Case of the Irate Witness, Erle Stanley Gardner
  11. The King in Yellow, Raymond Chandler
  12. The Pink Caterpillar, Anthony Boucher
  13. The Suicide, Ross Macdonald
  14. The Empty Hours, Ed McBain
  15. The Heroine, Patricia Highsmith
  16. The Death of a Bum, Donald E. Westlake
  17. Breathe No More, John D. MacDonald
  18. When the Wedding Was Over, Ruth Rendell
  19. Like a Lamb to Slaughter, Lawrence Block
  20. The Witch, Yazzie, and the Nine of Clubs, Tony Hillerman
  21. Cat's-Paw, Bill Pronzini
  22. Somewhere in the City, Marcia Muller
  23. Old Rattler, Sharyn McCrumb
  24. Dalziel's Ghost, Reginald Hill
  25. The Watts Lions, Walter Mosley
  26. Grace Notes, Sara Paretsky
• Physical Attributes:
  • Format: Hardcover with dust jacket, 23.5 x 16 cm
  • Binding: Quarter bound, red paper-covered boards, black paper tape. The title, editors' names, and publisher name are embossed on the spine in gold.
  • Collation: [i]-[x] 1-579 [580-582]
  • Price: $26.00 USD