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Murder & other acts of literature : twenty-four unforgettable and chilling stories by some of the world's best-loved, most celebrated writers / edited by Michele Slung.

1st St. Martin's Press ed.

New York : St. Martin's Press, 1997.

345 pages ; 25 cm

A collection of mysteries that go beyond the usual whodunit formula includes writings by Louisa May Alcott, T.H. White, John Cheever, Isabel Allende, and Edith Wharton.

Detective and mystery stories.

Detective and mystery fiction.

Short stories.

Slung, Michele B., 1947-

Murder and other acts of literature

Originally published: New York : Book-Of-the-Month Club, ©1996.

"A Thomas Dunne book."

Montraldo / John Cheever -- The hitch-hikers / Eudora Welty -- Success or failure / T.H. White -- By a person unknown / Naguib Mahfouz -- How did I get away with killing one of the biggest lawyers in the state? It was easy / Alice Walker -- The hotel of the idle moon / William Trevor -- Aaron Trow / Anthony Trollope -- The fat man / Isak Dinesen -- Mr. Loveday's little outing / Evelyn Waugh -- The Johore murders / Paul Theroux -- A journey / Edith Wharton -- Miss Forbes's summer of happiness / Gabriel García Márquez -- The Macbeth murder mystery / James Thurber -- A double tragedy : an actor's story / Louisa May Alcott -- Un crime maternel / Fay Weldon -- Mary Postgate / Rudyard Kipling -- The walker / Patrick O'Brian -- Country lovers / Nadine Gordimer -- Monk / William Faulkner -- The widow and the parrot : a true story / Virginia Woolf -- My maiden brief / W.S. Gilbert -- An act of vengeance / Isabel Allende -- In vino veritas / A.A. Milne -- The Portobello Road / Muriel Spark.

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