Murder by the glass : a vintage collection of crime and mystery stories / edited by Peter Haining
1994, First Edition. London : Souvenir. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Not price-clipped. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #407871
ISBN: 0285632051
Physical description; 351p. ; 24cm. Contents; Name your poison: stories of the connoisseurs: A connoisseur's revenge / Roald Dahl - The cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe - Ale celestial? / A.E. Coppard - Bitter almonds / Dorothy L. Sayers - The income tax mystery / Michael Gilbert - In vino veritas / Lawrence G. Blochman - The last bottle in the world / Stanley Ellin
Cellar cool / Geoffrey Household - The friends of Plonk / Kingsley Amis - Dying for a drink: cocktails of mystery and death : The opener of the crypt / John Jakes - Before the party / Somerset Maugham - A bottle of gin / Robert Bloch - Marmalade wine / Joan Aiken - The wine glass / A.A. Milne - The liqueur glass / Phyllis Bottome - Over an absinthe bottle / W.C. Morrow - The widow / Margery Allingham - To the widow / Christianna Brand - Make mine murder: cases of the drinking detectives: A matter of tast / Dorothy L. Sayers - Raffles and operation champagne / Barry Perowne - The umblemished bootlegger / Leslie Charteris - The unknown peer / E.C. Bentley - The adventure of the tell-tale bottle / Ellery Queen - Wry highball / Craig Rice - The man who stirred champagne / Hugh Pentecost - Under the hammer / Georges Simenon - Means of evil / Ruth Rendell. Subjects; Detective and mystery stories. English fiction Short stories. Mystery fiction. Short stories. Mystery fiction Anthologies.
Price: €10.95