THIS BOOK THE LITERATURE OF CRIME STORIES BY WORLD FAMOUS AUTHORS WAS EDITED BY ELLERY QUEEN AND PUBLISHED BY LITTLE, BROWN AND CMPANY IN 1950. IT IS A SERIES OF TWENTY SIX SHORT NOVELS BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. INCLUDED: The post-mortem murder / Sinclair Lewis -- Ransom / Pearl S. Buck -- Before the party / W. Somerset Maugham -- Murder in the fishing cat / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- The juryman / John Galsworthy -- The murder / John Steinbeck -- Monk / William Faulkner -- The limitations of Pambé Serang / Rudyard Kipling -- Tabloid news / Louis Bromfield -- The killers / Ernest Hemingway -- Hunted down / Charles Dickens -- Paul's case / Willa Cather -- The stolen white elephant / Mark Twain -- The Gioconda smile / Aldous Huxley -- The hand / Guy de Maupassant -- The letters in evidence / C.S. Forester -- Haircut / Ring Lardner -- An ideal craftsman / Walter de la Mare -- The catbird seat / James Thurber -- Markheim / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Mr. Brisher's treasure / H.G. Wells -- London night's entertainment / Margery Sharp -- Sense of humor / Damon Runyon -- The verdict / Frank Swinnerton -- Clerical error / James Gould Cozzens -- Guilty / Fannie Hurst IT IS 405 PAGES IN LENGTH AND IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION HAVING BEEN READ PROBABLY ONCE OR NOT AT ALL. OTHER BOOKS ARE AVAILABLE. FOR OTHER ITEMS OF HOUSEHOLD INTEREST, VINTAGE COLLECTABLES AND ANTIQUES PLEASE VISIT MY OTHER ADS.