Resorting to murder holiday mysteries

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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.

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Taal: en

Bindwijze: Paperback

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 07 mei 2015

Aantal pagina's: 320

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: M. Edwards

Hoofdredacteur: Martin Edwards

Hoofduitgeverij: British Library Publishing

Product breedte: 132 mm

Product hoogte: 26 mm

Product lengte: 190 mm

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking breedte: 132 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 190 mm

Verpakking lengte: 26 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 357 g

EAN: 9780712357487

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