title: Alfred Hitchcock's Home Sweet Homicide: Stories from Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
author: Cathleen Jordan
description: These stories from Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine , all loosely centered on home and family, feature some of the top names in the mystery field. Among the gems are Joseph Hansen's "The Owl in the Oak," about the murder of a sweet old lady who turns out to have been a monster, and the story of a wife who tries to have it all but learns that men are not to be trusted ("Domestic Intrigue" by Donald E. Westlake). Patricia Moyes's funny tale, "A Young Man Called Smith," about two suspicious young men, appears to telegraph its ending but delights with a surprising twist. The hard-boiled school is well represented by Lawrence Block's "A Candle for the Bag Lady" and Loren Estleman's "Greektown," in which Amos Walker tracks down a man driven to violence against women and uncovers a family's secret shame. Other entries are from Marcia Muller, Charlotte MacLeod, Nancy Pickard, Herbert Resnicow, John F. Suter (a most unusual story about punishment and revenge), Ralph McInerny and John Lutz. Not a bad one in the lot. <br />Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  Daring Detectives look for trouble!
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  • Ellery Queen wonders why a cat-hating old lady is buying cats. . .
  
  
  
  
  
  • A kid named Frankie searches for a murder case that his detective father can
  solve. . .
  
  
  
  
  
  • Perry Mason tries to clear a known criminal mixed up in a robbery. . .
  
  
  
  
  
  • Hercule Poirot bets that he can locate a missing financier—without leaving
  home!
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Watch these bold sleuths and four others take on tricky, brainteasing
  cases—selected by Alfred Hitchcock—will have you gasping, chuckling, and
  chewing your nails!
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The authors represented in this fine anthology are:
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  John Dickson Carr • Stuart Palmer
  
  
  
  
  
  Agatha Christie • Hugh Pentecost
  
  
  
  
  
  August Derleth • Ellery Queen
  
  
  
  
  
  Erle Stanley Gardner • Cornell Woolrich
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _Alfred Hitchcock Story Collections for Young Readers_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _Alfred Hitchcock’s_ Haunted Houseful
  
  
  
  
  
  _Alfred Hitchcock’s_ Ghostly Gallery
  
  
  
  
  
  _Alfred Hitchcock’s_ Solve-Them-Yourself Mysterie