Resorting to Murder: Holiday Mysteries (British Library Crime Classics) - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 0712357483 ISBN 13 : 9780712357487

Editeur : The British Library Publishing Division, 2015

Synopsis

Holidays offer us the luxury of getting away from it all. So, in a different way, do detective stories. This collection of vintage mysteries combines both those pleasures. From a golf course at the English seaside to a pension in Paris, and from a Swiss mountain resort to the cliffs of Normandy, this new selection shows the enjoyable and unexpected ways in which crime writers have used summer holidays as a theme. These fourteen stories range widely across the golden age of British crime fiction. Stellar names from the past are well represented - Arthur Conan Doyle and G. K. Chesterton, for instance - with classic stories that have won acclaim over the decades. The collection also uncovers a wide range of hidden gems: Anthony Berkeley - whose brilliance with plot had even Agatha Christie in raptures - is represented by a story so (undeservedly) obscure that even the British Library seems not to own a copy. The stories by Phyllis Bentley and Helen Simpson are almost equally rare, despite the success which both writers achieved, while those by H. C. Bailey, Leo Bruce and the little-known Gerald Findler have seldom been reprinted.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Martin Edwards is an award-winning crime writer best known for his series of detective novels set in Liverpool and the Lake District. He is also a member of the Murder Squad collective of crime writers, a member of the Crime Writers' Association Committee and Archivist of the Detection Club

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The British Library Publishing Division
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0712357483
• ISBN 13: 9780712357487
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Éditeur: Edwards Martin
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