Best of
Crime

1950

The Mousetrap and Other Plays


Agatha Christie - 1950
    This special collection of Agatha Christie's greatest suspense plays includes The Mousetrap (the longest running play in history), Ten Little Indians, Witness for the Prosecution, Appointment with Death, The Hollow, Towards Zero, Go Back to Murder, and The Verdict.

Night of the Jabberwock


Fredric Brown - 1950
    This sharp, ironic, tightly written thriller takes place during a single night, during which our narrator, editor of a small-city newspaper, shows what stuff journalists were made of then by consuming a truly epic amount of alcohol and unweaving an artfully tangled web.

Portrait in Smoke


Bill S. Ballinger - 1950
    From the moment he finds in his files a photograph marked "Krassy Almauniski, winner of the Stockyard News beauty contest", he’s obsessed and ends up following an old trail that leads to nothing but trouble.

Little Men, Big World


W.R. Burnett - 1950
    Managed by a man named Arky, and run by a mysterious figure known as The Mover, a gambling racket operates in a crime-filled and corrupt city.