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Genre: Crime

The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales [15 stories]

1960

The Pit and the Pendulum and Other Stories (Black Cat / Pit and the Pendulum / Premature Burial / Tell-Tale Heart)

1995

The Cask of Amontillado

1846

Brutes, beasts and human fiends

1964

Deadly deception

2000

The murder and the trial

Criminal behavior

Crooks like us

Beyond the Body Farm

The good mothers

Short Stories (Cask of Amontillado / Gold-Bug / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Oval Portrait / Pit and the Pendulum / Some Words with a Mummy / Tell-Tale Heart)

1998

No way of knowing

2003

My life with a criminal

1989

The complete Jack the Ripper

1975

Tokyo Vice

2009

Talking With Psychopaths and Savages

2019

The Best American Crime Writing 2005

2005

Street crime

2005

In Cold Blood

1965

Flickan som lekte med elden

Savage Appetites

Rothstein

Kiss me, kill me

The Battle for Las Vegas

2006