Book Description
These 63 spine-tingling stories originally appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery magazine, and in the words of the master himself, they’ll “make your blood run cold.” Hitchcock coolly serves up cool cops, clever gangsters, bodies stuffed in trunks, kidnappings, adulterous affairs, murder, and espionage, and the resulting thrills are positively delicious. The writers include Ed McBain, whose “Sadie When She Died” features a strange cat-and-mouse game between a sharp detective and the husband of a murdered woman whom the police suspect of having committed the crime. Other tales come from Donald E. Westlake, Bill Pronzini, Patricia Highsmith, Henry Slezar, and Richard M. Ellis.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Here are sixty-three spine tingling tales, introduced by the master of suspense, the late Alfred Hitchcock. These suspenseful stories originally appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, and, in the words of the master himself, are "calculated to make your blood run cold."

You'll find suave detectives, clever gangsters, bodies in trunks, kidnappings, adulterous affairs, murder, and espionage. You'll meet a happy widower, a homicidal country woman, Russians seeking political asylum, a would-be Greenwich Village stud, the Viet Cong, a teenager out on an unfortunate date, a very unhappy little boy at summer camp, willing to do anything to go home.