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For armchair travelers and armchair detectives: a top-flight collection of suspenseful stories, tales of quaint Irish villages, fast-paced Far Eastern cities, lush tropical paradises -- and destinations unknown. Contents:The Caribbean : The missing house / Hayford Peirce North America : A knife between brothers / Manly Wade Wellman There are no snakes in Hawaii / Juanita Sheridan The word for breaking August sky / James Sarafin Corollary / Hughes Allison Kaddish / Batya Swift Yasgur All Indians are warriors / William T. Lowe Latin American : There are no stars over San Juan / Kenneth Gavrell The hair of the widow / Robert Somerlott Asia : The sole of the foot / Shizuko Natsuki The courage of Akira-kun / Ron Butler Africa : To catch a wizard / Walter Satterthwait Eastern Europe : Hide-and-seek--Russian style / Patricia McGerr Europe : Journey into time / Georges Simenon Who killed that son of a doge? / David Braly Suspect / Patricia Highsmith The mists of Ballyclough / Barbara Callahan Inspector Wexford and the Winchurch affair / Ruth Rendell The Middle East : The adventure of the Egyptian tomb / Agatha Christie The night of power / Josh Pachter

A country-and-western singer slips out of the spotlight in Charlotte Hinger's "The Family Rose"...A temperamental diva takes center stage in Agatha Christie's "Swan Song"...A Wagner fan becomes a murder suspect in Michael Underwood's "Death at the Opera"...A collection of delightful tales make up the magnum opus known as "Murder to Music"...a collection that will strike a chord for fans of music and mystery.

Taken from the pages of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, the stories in this suspense-filled collection contain all of the wonderfully delicious elements of the "cozy"--bodies in the library, old English manors, red herrings, suspicious butlers, and much more.Contents:The name on the wrapper / Margery Allingham --The necklace of pearls / Dorothy L. Sayers --The crime of Miss Oyster Brown / Peter Lovesey --Strychnine in the soup / P.G. Wodehouse --Murder at Rokeby house / C.M. Chan --The borgia heirloom / Julian Symons --Dr. Hyde, detective, and the white pillars murder / G.K. Chesterton --Policeman's holiday / Michael Innes --The ministering angel / E.C. Bentley --Home is where the heart is / Nell Lamburn --The wicked ghost / Christianna Brand --The gallowglass / David Braly --Fen Hall / Ruth Rendell.