Edward D. Hoch (1930–2008)
Autor de Great British Detectives
Sobre El Autor
Edward D. Hoch was the most ingenious of modern mystery writers. He was author of more than 900 short stories, winner of the Edgar Award, former President of the Mystery Writers of America, and contributor to every issue of Ellery Queens Mystery Magazine since 1973 until his death in 2008. As John mostrar más Dickson Carr remarked, "Satan himself would be proud of his ingenuity." The introduction is by Janet Hutchings, editor of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. mostrar menos
Series
Obras de Edward D. Hoch
All but Impossible! An Anthology of Locked Room and Impossible Crime Stories by Members of the Mystery Writers of… (1981) — Editor; Contribuidor — 29 copias
Academy Mystery Novellas: Women Sleuths, Police Procedurals, Locked Room Puzzles, Great British Detectives ( BOX Set) (1985) — Editor; Contribuidor — 14 copias
The Oblong Room [short fiction] 5 copias
The Long Way Down 4 copias
Golpe cibernetico 3 copias
Zoo 3 copias
The Homesick Chicken [short story] 3 copias
Christmas is for Cops [Short story] 3 copias
The Problem of the Secret Patient 3 copias
The Monkey's Clue ; The Stolen Sapphire: Two Mysteries for You to Solve!: Match Wits With Detective Tommy Preston (1978) 3 copias
The Cases of Nancy Trentino 3 copias
Housewife Hustlers 2 copias
Cloak And Dagger 2 copias
The Haggard Society [short story] 2 copias
The problem of the pink post office 2 copias
The Last Paradox [Short story] 2 copias
The Forbidden Word [short story] 2 copias
The Problem of the Black Cloister 2 copias
The Pirate of Millionaires' Cove 2 copias
A Shower of Daggers 2 copias
The Most Dangerous Man 2 copias
The Boy Who Brought Love 2 copias
Night Of The Millennium 2 copias
Second Chance 2 copias
Murder Offstage [short story] 1 copia
Just One More 1 copia
The Problem Of The Tin Goose 1 copia
Old Spies Club [short story] 1 copia
The Last Unicorns 1 copia
Hoch Edward D. 1 copia
Who Rides with Santa Anna? 1 copia
Desdemona's Daughter 1 copia
Waiting For Mrs. Ryder 1 copia
The Faceless Thing 1 copia
Another War 1 copia
God of the Playback 1 copia
Something Green 1 copia
The Maiden's Sacrifice 1 copia
The Case of the Barking Beagle 1 copia
Golpe cibernetico 1 copia
The theft of the rusty bookmark 1 copia
The Theft of the Laughing Lions 1 copia
The theft of the Persian slipper 1 copia
The Problem of the Country Inn 1 copia
A Scandal in Montreal 1 copia
The Theft of the Sandwich Board 1 copia
A Flash of Red 1 copia
Old Spies Club 1 copia
Ghost Killer by Edward Hoch 1 copia
Boucheron Bound 1 copia
44 microstorie di fantascienza 1 copia
The Spy and the Suicide Club 1 copia
The Seventieth Number 1 copia
The Great American Novel 1 copia
Damsel with a Derringer 1 copia
The Carnival Caper 1 copia
Toil and Trouble [short story] 1 copia
Circus in the Sky [short story] 1 copia
Winter Run [short story] 1 copia
The Serpent in the Sky 1 copia
The Overheard Conversation 1 copia
Bouchercon Bound 1 copia
End of the Line (in Alfred Hitchcock's Book of Horror Stories 2 / Tales to Take Your Breath Away) 1 copia
The Joker Is Mild 1 copia
Dracula 1944 1 copia
The Picnic People 1 copia
The Empty Zoo 1 copia
The Case of the Anonymous Author 1 copia
Centaur Fielder For The Yankees 1 copia
Xeque-Mate 1 copia
I'd Know You Anywhere 1 copia
The Weekend Magus 1 copia
The Jersey Devil [Short story] 1 copia
Smothered Mate 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural: A Treasury of Spellbinding Tales Old & New (1985) — Contribuidor — 524 copias
100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories (1993) — Contribuidor; Contribuidor; Contribuidor — 212 copias
The Game Is Afoot: Parodies, Pastiches, and Ponderings of Sherlock Holmes (1994) — Contribuidor — 198 copias
Masterpieces of Terror and the Unknown: A Treasury of Bizarre Tales Old and New (1993) — Contribuidor — 194 copias
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories to Be Read with the Door Locked (1975) — Contribuidor — 166 copias
The Blue Religion: New Stories about Cops, Criminals and the Chase (2008) — Contribuidor — 153 copias
Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy, Volume 6: Mythical Beasties (1837) — Contribuidor — 124 copias
Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy, Volume 7: Magical Wishes (1891) — Contribuidor — 90 copias
The Resurrected Holmes: New Cases from the Notes of John H. Watson, M.D. (1996) — Contribuidor — 90 copias
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine Presents Fifty Years of Crime and Suspense (2006) — Contribuidor — 72 copias
Murder by the Book: Literary Mysteries from Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (1995) — Contribuidor — 67 copias
Bug-Eyed Monsters: 13 Stories of Dripping, Creeping, Gurgling, Purling, Trilling, Oozing, Seeping, Gushing Deadly… (1980) — Contribuidor — 66 copias
Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers and Other Stories from Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (1992) — Contribuidor — 64 copias
The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: First Annual Collection (2000) — Contribuidor — 59 copias
Malice Domestic 8: An Anthology of Original Traditional Mystery Stories (1999) — Contribuidor — 49 copias
Chapter and Hearse: Suspense Stories about the World of Books (1985) — Contribuidor; Contribuidor — 48 copias
The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: Second Annual Collection (2001) — Contribuidor — 48 copias
The Prosecution Rests: New Stories about Courtrooms, Criminals, and the Law (2009) — Contribuidor — 46 copias
The Edgar Winners: 33rd Annual Anthology of the Mystery Writers of America (1980) — Contribuidor — 45 copias
Cloak and Dagger: A Treasury of 35 Great Espionage Stories (1988) — Contribuidor; Contribuidor — 44 copias
The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: Third Annual Collection (2002) — Contribuidor — 43 copias
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 1, No. 1 [Spring 1977] (1966) — Contribuidor, algunas ediciones — 36 copias
At the Scene of the Crime: Forensic Mysteries from Today's Best Writers (2008) — Contribuidor — 34 copias
The Mystery Hall of Fame: An Anthology of Classic Mystery and Suspense Stories (1984) — Contribuidor — 32 copias
The Mammoth Book of Short Spy Novels: Twelve Espionage Masterpieces (1986) — Contribuidor — 31 copias
Ellery Queen's Anthology #30: Masters of Mystery (Fall/Winter 1975) (1975) — Contribuidor — 29 copias
Once Upon a Crime: Historical Mysteries From Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (1994) — Contribuidor — 27 copias
The Deadly Bride and 21 of the Year's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Volume II (2006) — Prólogo — 26 copias
Murder Most Catholic: Divine Tales of Profane Crimes (2002) — Contribuidor; Contribuidor — 21 copias
Women's wiles: An anthology of mystery stories by the Mystery Writers of America (1979) — Contribuidor — 16 copias
The Eyes Have It: The First Private Eye Writers of America Anthology (1984) — Contribuidor — 16 copias
The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: First Annual Edition (1992) — Contribuidor — 16 copias
Ellery Queen's headliners; 20 stories from Ellery Queen's mystery magazine. (1971) — Contribuidor — 15 copias
The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Second Annual Edition (1993) — Contribuidor — 12 copias
The Crime of My Life: Favorite Stories by Presidents of the Mystery Writers of America (1984) — Contribuidor — 11 copias
Ellery Queen's Anthology #32: Magicians of Mystery (Fall/Winter 1976) (1976) — Contribuidor — 9 copias
The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Seventh Annual Edition (1998) — Bibliography & Necrology — 9 copias
Tricks and Treats: An Anthology of Mystery Stories by the Mystery Writers of America (1976) — Contribuidor — 9 copias
The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Fifth Annual Edition (1996) — Contribuidor — 7 copias
The Wickedest Show on Earth: A Carnival of Circus Suspense (1985) — Contribuidor; Contribuidor — 7 copias
The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Sixth Annual Edition (1997) — Contribuidor — 5 copias
Crimes and Misfortunes: The Anthony Boucher Memorial Anthology of Mysteries — Contribuidor — 4 copias
Killers of the Mind: A Collection of Stories by the Mystery Writers of America (1974) — Contribuidor — 4 copias
Boucher's choicest; a collection of Anthony Boucher's favorites from Best detective stories of the year (1969) — Contribuidor — 3 copias
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine - 2004/03-04 — Contribuidor — 2 copias
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine - 1988/03 — Contribuidor — 2 copias
Appendici in giallo 1 (racconti) — Contribuidor; Contribuidor — 1 copia
La rivista di Alfred Hitchcock n.6 — Autor — 1 copia
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Hoch, Edward Dentinger
- Otros nombres
- Dentinger, Stephen
Stevens, RL
McMahon, Pat
Circus, Anthony
Booth, Irwin
Mr. X - Fecha de nacimiento
- 1930-02-22
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2008-01-17
- Lugar de sepultura
- Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Rochester, New York, USA
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Rochester, New York, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Rochester, New York, USA
- Causa de fallecimiento
- heart attack
- Lugares de residencia
- Rochester, New York, USA
- Educación
- University of Rochester
- Ocupaciones
- copywriter
public relations
research assistant
author - Organizaciones
- United States Army
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine - Premios y honores
- MWA Grand Master(2001)
Shamus Award(2000)
Bouchercon Lifetime Achievement Award (2001)
Miembros
Reseñas
Listas
Edgar Award (1)
Premios
También Puede Gustarte
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 247
- También por
- 233
- Miembros
- 1,322
- Popularidad
- #19,443
- Valoración
- 3.7
- Reseñas
- 19
- ISBNs
- 131
- Idiomas
- 8
- Favorito
- 4
Sorry, it isn't.
Leslie Charteris is a ... well, at least in this entry, he is a terrible writer. He badly over-writes, trying, I guess, to make his character a real character. I just could not finish the first story.
Even Michael Gilbert's "The Cleaners" disappoints, and he's usually dependable.
Dorothy Sayers' "The Incredible Elopement of Lord Peter Wimsey" doesn't really meet expectations, and she is nearly always better.
Well, maybe my three-star rating is off. Maybe two would be more accurate, but you read this small collection, knowing all the people connected, except maybe Charteris, usually do, not just better, but well, and you decide.… (más)