Download or read book Murderous Schemes written by Donald E. Westlake and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of detective fiction with examples of its sub-genres, armchair detective, the locked room and so on. The first is represented by Agatha Christie's In Blue Geranium, where the detective solves a crime from a conversation, the second by The Leopold Locked Room, in which a policeman is found in a locked room with his wife killed by his gun, but he didn't do it.