The Raymond Chandler collection “The Simple Art of Murder” (1950) starts with his erudite titular essay from 1944. One of the most famous analyses ever
Editor Vince Emery provides an archeological service as well as a literary one with “Lost Stories” (2005). He started by tracking down every under-published story
Watching “Woman in the Dark” (1934), it’s apparent why – other than classics like “The Maltese Falcon” (1941) and the “Thin Man” series – Dashiell
In stark contrast to Doyle’s “Holmes” stories, and to a greater degree than Christie’s shorts, Dashiell Hammett’s short stories have had a checkered publication history.
The last scraps of Dashiell Hammett’s writings were published in “The Hunter and Other Stories” (2013). It includes 15 never-before-published stories, including three screen treatments
In collecting all of Dashiell Hammett’s Continental Op stories (1923-30), “The Big Book of the Continental Op” (2017) brings a reader back to the excitement
Arthur Conan Doyle writes his last dozen Holmes stories from 1921-27, collected in “The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes” (1927), as if knowing they will be
Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes output slowed as he built up entries for his second-to-last book, “His Last Bow” (1917), which gathers eight short stories
For today’s readers, Sherlock Holmes didn’t stay dead for long. “Killed off” in “The Final Problem,” he re-emerges in the next-published short story, “The Adventure
“The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” (1892) is simultaneously a timelessly great read – with deliberate yet steadily moving prose that flows like honey today –