Double Death: A Detective Story First Edition of this 'round robin' novel by successful mystery writers of the day: Sayers, Crofts, Valentine Williams, F.T. Jesse, Anthony Armstrong and David Hume

Sayers, Dorothy (et alia)

Edité par Gollancz, London, 1939

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A splendid copy in the scarce original dust jacket. Handsomely bound in finely woven black cloth stamped brightly in orange lettering on the spine. Very clean and tight throughout; virtually unread. In a very good minus dust jacket with a 1" x 1" piece missing at the top of the spine taking out most of the word "Double" over death. The spine is darkened and stained. The front and rear panels are very good with a touch of soiling. With the price of 7/6 net at the bottom of the jacket spine. With the 2 maps of the scene of the crime present. Overall, an attractive, collectible copy of this scarce joint venture in detective fiction. Dorothy Leigh Sayers(13 June 1893 17 December 1957) was an English crime novelist, playwright, translator and critic. In 1930 Sayers became a founder member of the Detection Club. This grew from informal dinners arranged by Anthony Berkeley for writers of detective fiction "for the enjoyment of each other's company and for a little shop talk".[61] The dinners proved such a success that the participants agreed to form themselves into a club, under the presidency of G. K. Chesterton, whom Sayers admired.[61][n 9] She was one of the club's most enthusiastic members; she devised its elaborate initiation ritual in which new members swore to write without relying on "Divine Revelation, Feminine Intuition, Mumbo Jumbo, Jiggery Pokery, Coincidence or the Act of God" and "to observe a seemly moderation in the use of Gangs, Conspiracies, Death-Rays, Ghosts, Hypnotism, Trap-Doors, Chinamen, Super-Criminals and Lunatics, and utterly and forever to forswear Mysterious Poisons unknown to Science".[63][n 10] The club charged no subscription fees, and to raise money for the acquisition of premises members contributed to collaborative works for broadcast or print.[65] The first, organised by Sayers, was Behind the Screen (1930) in which six club members took it in turn to read their own fifteen-minute episodes of a crime mystery on BBC radio.[n 11]Sayers published two novels in 1930. Prompted by a suggestion from a fellow author, Robert Eustace, she worked on The Documents in the Case. Eustace, a medical practitioner, provided the main plot device and scientific details; Sayers turned them into prose, hoping to write a novel in the manner of the 19th-century author Wilkie Collins, whose work she admired.[67] She was working on a biography of Collins and adopted his first-person narrative technique in a story mostly told in exchanges of letters between the characters. Peter Wimsey does not appear in the book: Brabazon writes that Sayers "tasted the joys of freedom from Wimsey".[68] Reviews were favourable, but gave only qualified praise.[69] In The Graphic, the writer Evelyn Waugh contrasted Sayers and Christie:Mrs Christie, on the whole, concentrates her ingenuity on a kind of three card trick, "spot the villain", and even exercises a kind of mesmeric influence on the reader in diverting his attention from the significant details. Miss Sayers, on the other hand, devotes herself more to devising unexpected mechanisms of crime and in creating characters who are of real personal interest quite apart from the importance they attain through the events of the story. (Wikipedia) First edition with the date of 1939 on the title page and no subsequent printings listed on the copyright page.

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• Titre: Double Death: A Detective Story First Edition of this 'round robin' novel by successful mystery writers of the day: Sayers, Crofts, Valentine Williams, F.T. Jesse, Anthony Armstrong and David Hume
• Éditeur: Gollancz, London
• Date de parution: 1939
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition.
• État de la jaquette: Dust Jacket Included
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Detective Fiction