title: The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories
author: Tony Hillerman
description: Hillerman, author of the Joe Leaphorn mysteries, and Herbert, editor of The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing, trace this short-story genre from its beginnings in the hands of Edgar Allen Poe through its development by the likes of Erle Stanley Gardner, Mary Roberts Rinehart and Anthony Boucher to its current practice by such masters as Marcia Muller. Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," which established a great many of the whodunit conventions, is indispensable to such an overview. Raymond Chandler's "I'll be Waiting" emits a doom-laden atmosphere right from the first line; William Faulkner shows unexpected economy of language?and a transparent plot?in "An Error in Chemistry." Ed McBain scores high marks in "Small Homicide," in which the tiny details of a baby's untimely death resonate uncomfortably. As represented in this competent, unstartling collection, Linda Barnes ("Lucky Penny") easily outsasses Sue Grafton ("The Parker Shotgun"). Hillerman makes a solid appearance with "Chee's Witch," and in "Benny's Space" Muller captures the full subtle force of her novel-length vision. <BR>Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  An Inspector Hadley Case
  Book One: The Galitzi Diamonds 
   
   
   
   
   
  (C)2018 LAURA WALKER
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  CHAPTER ONE
  Detective Inspector Mikey Hadley was still quite a young man for an
  experienced detective at thirty-five. He lived alone in an elite apartment in
  London and that was the way he liked it, being an elusive sort of character
  and not having met a woman to his taste. He often rubbed shoulders with
  the very rich and famous as he dealt with cases amongst this type of crowd.
  With his pale skin, sandy blonde hair and grey penetrating eyes he looked
  the part at most parties held by them and he fitted in well enough to observe
  
  human nature. That is what gave his investigative skills a boost in the right
  direction.
  Today, which happened to be a grey, dusky morning, he was sitting at 