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RESORTING TO MURDER
HOLIDAY MYSTERIES |
| By: |
Martin Edwards (Editor) |
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| ISBN 10: |
0712357483 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780712357487 |
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| Publisher: |
THE BRITISH LIBRARY PUBLISHING DIVISION |
| Pub. date: |
7 May, 2015 |
| Series: |
British Library Crime Classics |
| Pages: |
320 |
| Description: |
A collection of 14 vintage mysteries from the likes of Arthur Conan Doyle, GK Chesterton, Anthony Berkeley, Phyllis Bentley among others. |
| 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. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
The British Library Publishing Division |
| Returns: |
Returnable |