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

EDWARDS M

ISBN 10: 0712357483 / ISBN 13: 9780712357487

Edité par The British Library Publishing Division, 2015

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• Titre: Resorting to Murder: Holiday Mysteries (British Library Crime Classics)
• Éditeur: The British Library Publishing Division
• Date de parution: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0712357483
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780712357487
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• État de l'article: Acceptable

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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.

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