Hitchcock, Alfred (ed) - The Best of Mystery / Хичкок, Альфред (ред) - Лучшие детективы [2004, EPUB, ENG]

Winter Run by EDWARD D. HOCH You Can't Blame Me by HENRY SLESAR A Flower in Her Hair by PAULINE C. SMITH The Cost of Kent Castwell by AVRAM DAVIDSON Pseudo Identity by LAWRENCE BLOCK That Russian! / Ох уж этот русский! by JACK RITCHIE Galton and the Yelling Boys by HILLARY WAUGH Blind Date by CHARLES BOECKMAN Pressure / Давление by RODERICK WILKINSON The Running Man by BILL PRONZINI The Vietnam Circle by F. J. KELLY Sadie When She Died / Сэди by ED MCBAIN A Very Cautious Boy / Очень осторожный парень by GILBERT RALSTON A Try for the Big Prize by BORDEN DEAL Voice in the Night / Телефонный звонок by ROBERT COLBY Undertaker, Please Drive Slow by RON GOULART Never Shake a Family Tree / Не трясите фамильное древо by DONALD E. WESTLAKE Here Lies Another Blackmailer by BILL PRONZINI Dead Duck by LAWRENCE TREAT Games for Adults by JOHN LUTZ Night of the Twisters by JAMES MICHAEL ULLMAN Variations on a Game / Вариации на одну тему by PATRICIA HIGHSMITH Child's Play by WILLIAM LINK and RICHARD LEVINSON Just a Little Impractial Joke by RICHARD STARK Murderer #2 by JEAN POTTS The Third Call / Третий звонок by JACK RITCHIE Damon and Pythias and Delilah Brown by RUFUS KING Glory Hunter by RICHARD M. ELLIS Linda Is Gone by PAULINE C. SMITH Frightened Lady by C. B. GILFORD Come Back, Come Back... / Вернись, вернись by DONALD E. WESTLAKE Once Upon a Bank Floor / Однажды в банке by JAMES HOLDING Warrior's Farewell by EDWARD D. HOCH Death by Misadventure by WENZELL BROWN With a Smile for the Ending by LAWRENCE BLOCK Television Country by CHARLOTTE EDWARDS Art for Money's Sake by DAN J. MARLOWE Nothing but Human Nature by HILLARY WAUGH Murder, 1990 / Убийство в 199... году by C. B. GILFORD Panther, Panther in the Night by PAUL W. FAIRMAN Perfectly Timed Plot by E. X. FERRARS #8 / № 8 by JACK RITCHIE All the Needless Killing by BRYCE WALTON A Melee of Diamonds by EDWARD D. HOCH One for the Crow by MARY BARRETT Happiness Before Death by HENRY SLESAR I Don't Understand It by BILL PRONZINI News From Nowhere by RON GOULART A Case of Desperation by KATE WILHELM An Interlude for Murder / Смертельный спектакль by PAUL TABORI Death Overdue by ELEANOR DALY BOYLAN The Best-Friend Murder / Убийство лучшего друга by DONALD E. WESTLAKE Pattern of Guilt / Признание by HELEN NIELSEN A Real, Live Murderer by DONALD HONIG Doctor Apollo by BRYCE WALTON The Pursuer by HOLLY ROTH Final Arrangements by LAWRENCE PAGE Countdown / Отсчет времени by DAVID ELY Murder Between Friends / Убийство среди подруг by NEDRA TYRE Case of the Kind Waitress by HENRY SLESAR Ghost of a Chance by CARROLL MAYERS The Montevideo Squeeze by JAMES HOLDING The White Moth by MARGARET CHENOWETH

Marge was hungry. She had used her lunch hour to pick up some plastic dolls for the PTA Fall Festival, knowing she would have time to eat between two and three-thirty, before the small branch bank reopened for the Friday evening rush. Now it appeared she was going to have to wait for Mrs. Ashton to come and collect the dolls. Ralph, the other teller, grinned commiseratingly at her and left. The manager, Mr. Redmon, stood by the door, waiting for the minute hand to click into place, but before he could set the lock, two people arrived. Mrs. Ashton pushed her way into the bank. A tall slender man in a windbreaker followed her closely. Marge sighed her relief. “Marge, my dear,” Mrs. Ashton began at the door, and continued with no change in volume as she crossed the floor. “You don’t know how I rushed to get here in time. Did you get them? I’ve lined up six mothers to make dresses. Did you ask Warren?” . . .