Edward D. Hoch (1930–2008)
Auteur de Great British Detectives
A propos de l'auteur
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 afficher plus Dickson Carr remarked, "Satan himself would be proud of his ingenuity." The introduction is by Janet Hutchings, editor of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. afficher moins
Séries
Œuvres de Edward D. Hoch
All but Impossible! An Anthology of Locked Room and Impossible Crime Stories by Members of the Mystery Writers of… (1981) — Directeur de publication; Contributeur — 29 exemplaires
The Year's Best Mystery and Suspense Stories, 1985 (1985) — Directeur de publication — 26 exemplaires
Academy Mystery Novellas: Women Sleuths, Police Procedurals, Locked Room Puzzles, Great British Detectives ( BOX Set) (1985) — Directeur de publication; Contributeur — 14 exemplaires
The Year's Best Mystery and Suspense Stories, 1994 (1994) — Directeur de publication — 10 exemplaires
Best Detective Stories of the Year - 1978 (1978) — Directeur de publication; Contributeur — 8 exemplaires
Best Detective Stories of the Year - 1977 (1977) — Directeur de publication; Contributeur — 7 exemplaires
The Year's Best Mystery and Suspense Stories, 1990 (1990) — Directeur de publication — 7 exemplaires
Best Detective Stories of the Year - 1979 (1979) — Directeur de publication; Contributeur — 7 exemplaires
The Year's Best Mystery and Suspense Stories, 1993 (1993) — Directeur de publication — 6 exemplaires
The Year's Best Mystery and Suspense Stories, 1988 (1988) — Directeur de publication — 6 exemplaires
The Oblong Room [short fiction] 5 exemplaires
Alfred Hitchock's Mystery Magazine Presents 4 exemplaires
The Long Way Down 4 exemplaires
The Year's Best Mystery and Suspense Stories, 1987 (1987) — Directeur de publication — 4 exemplaires
Dear dead days;: The 1972 Mystery Writers of America anthology, (1972) — Directeur de publication — 4 exemplaires
The Cases of Nancy Trentino 3 exemplaires
The Problem of the Secret Patient 3 exemplaires
The Monkey's Clue ; The Stolen Sapphire: Two Mysteries for You to Solve!: Match Wits With Detective Tommy Preston (1978) 3 exemplaires
The Year's Best Mystery and Suspense Stories, 1991 (1991) — Directeur de publication — 3 exemplaires
Christmas is for Cops [Short story] 3 exemplaires
The Return of the Speckled Band [Short story] 3 exemplaires
The Homesick Chicken [short story] 3 exemplaires
Zoo 3 exemplaires
Golpe cibernetico 3 exemplaires
The Pirate of Millionaires' Cove 2 exemplaires
The Most Dangerous Man 2 exemplaires
The Forbidden Word [short story] 2 exemplaires
The Boy Who Brought Love 2 exemplaires
The problem of the pink post office 2 exemplaires
The Haggard Society [short story] 2 exemplaires
Housewife Hustlers 2 exemplaires
Cloak And Dagger 2 exemplaires
The Problem of the Black Cloister 2 exemplaires
A Shower of Daggers 2 exemplaires
The Last Paradox [Short story] 2 exemplaires
Second Chance 2 exemplaires
Night Of The Millennium 2 exemplaires
The Last Unicorns 1 exemplaire
Who Rides with Santa Anna? 1 exemplaire
Just One More 1 exemplaire
The Seventieth Number 1 exemplaire
The Maiden's Sacrifice 1 exemplaire
The Problem of the Crowded Cemetery 1 exemplaire
The Problem Of The Tin Goose 1 exemplaire
Waiting For Mrs. Ryder 1 exemplaire
Something Green 1 exemplaire
Murder at Rose Cottage [Short story] 1 exemplaire
The Deer That Ate a Diamond [Short story] 1 exemplaire
Another War 1 exemplaire
The Faceless Thing 1 exemplaire
De beste misdaadverhalen van het jaar 1 exemplaire
Hoch Edward D. 1 exemplaire
The Adventure of the Anonymous Author 1 exemplaire
The Ripper of Storyville [short story] 1 exemplaire
Old Spies Club [short story] 1 exemplaire
Desdemona's Daughter 1 exemplaire
The Problem of the Country Inn 1 exemplaire
The Great American Novel 1 exemplaire
Golpe cibernetico 1 exemplaire
Ghost Killer by Edward Hoch 1 exemplaire
A Scandal in Montreal 1 exemplaire
The Carnival Caper 1 exemplaire
The Case of the Barking Beagle 1 exemplaire
Murder Offstage [short story] 1 exemplaire
Alfred Hitchcock's Krimi-Stunde. Band 9 — Auteur — 1 exemplaire
The theft of the rusty bookmark 1 exemplaire
The Theft of the Laughing Lions 1 exemplaire
The theft of the Persian slipper 1 exemplaire
The Impossible “Impossible Crime” [short fiction] 1 exemplaire
Damsel with a Derringer 1 exemplaire
44 microstorie di fantascienza 1 exemplaire
The Spy and the Suicide Club 1 exemplaire
Boucheron Bound 1 exemplaire
The Theft of the Sandwich Board 1 exemplaire
God of the Playback 1 exemplaire
Old Spies Club 1 exemplaire
A Flash of Red 1 exemplaire
The Theft Of The Rusty Bookmark A Christmas Story 1 exemplaire
The Man Who Came Back [short story] 1 exemplaire
The Man Who Collected Ravens [short story] 1 exemplaire
Toil and Trouble [short story] 1 exemplaire
Circus in the Sky [short story] 1 exemplaire
Winter Run [short story] 1 exemplaire
The Serpent in the Sky 1 exemplaire
The Overheard Conversation 1 exemplaire
Bouchercon Bound 1 exemplaire
End of the Line (in Alfred Hitchcock's Book of Horror Stories 2 / Tales to Take Your Breath Away) 1 exemplaire
The Theft of the Rusty Bookmark: a Christmas Story 1 exemplaire
The Joker Is Mild 1 exemplaire
Dracula 1944 1 exemplaire
The Picnic People 1 exemplaire
The Empty Zoo 1 exemplaire
The Case of the Anonymous Author 1 exemplaire
Centaur Fielder For The Yankees 1 exemplaire
The Problem of the Covered Bridge 1 exemplaire
Xeque-Mate 1 exemplaire
I'd Know You Anywhere 1 exemplaire
The Weekend Magus 1 exemplaire
The Wall Too High [Michael Vlado] 1 exemplaire
The Jersey Devil [Short story] 1 exemplaire
The Spy Who Stayed Up All Night [Short story] 1 exemplaire
A háromnyakú palack titka. /Tíz izgalmas novella/. ([irták]: Edward D. Hoch, Henry Slezar… 1 exemplaire
Interpol: The Case of the Lapidated Man 1 exemplaire
The Problem of the Gypsy Camp [short story] 1 exemplaire
Smothered Mate 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunits Volume 1 (1993) — Contributeur; Contributeur — 566 exemplaires
Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural: A Treasury of Spellbinding Tales Old & New (1985) — Contributeur — 526 exemplaires
100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories (1993) — Contributeur; Contributeur; Contributeur — 213 exemplaires
The Game Is Afoot: Parodies, Pastiches, and Ponderings of Sherlock Holmes (1994) — Contributeur — 198 exemplaires
Masterpieces of Terror and the Unknown: A Treasury of Bizarre Tales Old and New (1993) — Contributeur — 196 exemplaires
In the Shadow of the Master: Classic Tales by Edgar Allan Poe (2009) — Contributeur — 175 exemplaires
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories to Be Read with the Door Locked (1975) — Contributeur — 167 exemplaires
The Blue Religion: New Stories about Cops, Criminals and the Chase (2008) — Contributeur — 154 exemplaires
Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy, Volume 6: Mythical Beasties (1837) — Contributeur — 124 exemplaires
The Mammoth Book of Locked-Room Mysteries and Impossible Crimes (2000) — Contributeur — 120 exemplaires
Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy, Volume 7: Magical Wishes (1891) — Contributeur — 91 exemplaires
The Resurrected Holmes: New Cases from the Notes of John H. Watson, M.D. (1996) — Contributeur — 90 exemplaires
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine Presents Fifty Years of Crime and Suspense (2006) — Contributeur — 73 exemplaires
Murder by the Book: Literary Mysteries from Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (1995) — Contributeur — 67 exemplaires
Bug-Eyed Monsters: 13 Stories of Dripping, Creeping, Gurgling, Purling, Trilling, Oozing, Seeping, Gushing Deadly… (1980) — Contributeur — 66 exemplaires
Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers and Other Stories from Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (1992) — Contributeur — 64 exemplaires
The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: First Annual Collection (2000) — Contributeur — 59 exemplaires
Alfred Hitchcock Presents More Stories My Mother Never Told Me (1964) — Contributeur — 55 exemplaires
Malice Domestic 8: An Anthology of Original Traditional Mystery Stories (1999) — Contributeur — 49 exemplaires
Chapter and Hearse: Suspense Stories about the World of Books (1985) — Contributeur; Contributeur — 49 exemplaires
The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: Second Annual Collection (2001) — Contributeur — 48 exemplaires
The Prosecution Rests: New Stories about Courtrooms, Criminals, and the Law (2009) — Contributeur — 47 exemplaires
The Edgar Winners: 33rd Annual Anthology of the Mystery Writers of America (1980) — Contributeur — 45 exemplaires
Cloak and Dagger: A Treasury of 35 Great Espionage Stories (1988) — Contributeur; Contributeur — 44 exemplaires
The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: Third Annual Collection (2002) — Contributeur — 43 exemplaires
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 1, No. 1 [Spring 1977] (1966) — Contributeur, quelques éditions — 36 exemplaires
At the Scene of the Crime: Forensic Mysteries from Today's Best Writers (2008) — Contributeur — 34 exemplaires
The Mystery Hall of Fame: An Anthology of Classic Mystery and Suspense Stories (1984) — Contributeur — 32 exemplaires
The Mammoth Book of Short Spy Novels: Twelve Espionage Masterpieces (1986) — Contributeur — 31 exemplaires
Distant danger: The 1988 Mystery Writers of America anthology (1988) — Contributeur — 29 exemplaires
Ellery Queen's Anthology #30: Masters of Mystery (Fall/Winter 1975) (1975) — Contributeur — 29 exemplaires
Once Upon a Crime: Historical Mysteries From Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (1994) — Contributeur — 27 exemplaires
The Deadly Bride and 21 of the Year's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Volume II (2006) — Avant-propos — 26 exemplaires
Murder Most Catholic: Divine Tales of Profane Crimes (2002) — Contributeur; Contributeur — 21 exemplaires
Senior Sleuths: A Large Print Anthology of Mysteries and Puzzlers (1989) — Contributeur — 17 exemplaires
The Eyes Have It: The First Private Eye Writers of America Anthology (1984) — Contributeur — 16 exemplaires
Women's wiles: An anthology of mystery stories by the Mystery Writers of America (1979) — Contributeur — 16 exemplaires
The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: First Annual Edition (1992) — Contributeur — 16 exemplaires
Ellery Queen's headliners; 20 stories from Ellery Queen's mystery magazine. (1971) — Contributeur — 15 exemplaires
The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Second Annual Edition (1993) — Contributeur — 12 exemplaires
The Crime of My Life: Favorite Stories by Presidents of the Mystery Writers of America (1984) — Contributeur — 11 exemplaires
Ellery Queen's Anthology #32: Magicians of Mystery (Fall/Winter 1976) (1976) — Contributeur — 9 exemplaires
The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Seventh Annual Edition (1998) — Bibliography & Necrology — 9 exemplaires
Tricks and Treats: An Anthology of Mystery Stories by the Mystery Writers of America (1976) — Contributeur — 9 exemplaires
The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Fifth Annual Edition (1996) — Contributeur — 7 exemplaires
The Wickedest Show on Earth: A Carnival of Circus Suspense (1985) — Contributeur; Contributeur — 7 exemplaires
The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Sixth Annual Edition (1997) — Contributeur — 5 exemplaires
Crimes and Misfortunes: The Anthony Boucher Memorial Anthology of Mysteries — Contributeur — 4 exemplaires
Killers of the Mind: A Collection of Stories by the Mystery Writers of America (1974) — Contributeur — 4 exemplaires
Boucher's choicest; a collection of Anthony Boucher's favorites from Best detective stories of the year (1969) — Contributeur — 3 exemplaires
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine - 2004/03-04 — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine - 1988/03 — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
Appendici in giallo 1 (racconti) — Contributeur; Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
La rivista di Alfred Hitchcock n.6 — Auteur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Hoch, Edward Dentinger
- Autres noms
- Dentinger, Stephen
Stevens, RL
McMahon, Pat
Circus, Anthony
Booth, Irwin
Mr. X - Date de naissance
- 1930-02-22
- Date de décès
- 2008-01-17
- Lieu de sépulture
- Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Rochester, New York, USA
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Rochester, New York, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Rochester, New York, USA
- Cause du décès
- heart attack
- Lieux de résidence
- Rochester, New York, USA
- Études
- University of Rochester
- Professions
- copywriter
public relations
research assistant
author - Organisations
- United States Army
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine - Prix et distinctions
- MWA Grand Master(2001)
Shamus Award(2000)
Bouchercon Lifetime Achievement Award (2001)
Membres
Critiques
Listes
Edgar Award (1)
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 247
- Aussi par
- 234
- Membres
- 1,301
- Popularité
- #19,740
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 19
- ISBN
- 130
- Langues
- 8
- Favoris
- 4
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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.… (plus d'informations)