[82170] The Art of the Mystery Story: A Collection of Critical Essays. Howard HAYCRAFT, edited, a commentary by.

The Art of the Mystery Story: A Collection of Critical Essays

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1946. 8vo. Blue cloth, stamped in gilt. ix, 545 p. 1st edition. Very good in lightly worn d.w. with a few edge tears (four internally mended). [82170]

Includes contributions by G. K. Chesterton, R. Austin Freeman, Willard Huntington Wright (S. S. Van Dine), Dorothy Sayers, Vincent Starrett, Ronald A. Knox, Erle Stanley Gardner, Raymond Chandler, Anthony Boucher, John Dickson Carr, Rex Stout, Edmund Wilson, Ellery Queen, Dashiell Hammett, John Carter, Haycraft, et al.

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