Bodies from the library. 3 : forgotten stories of mystery and suspense by the queens of crime and other masters of the golden age

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The Golden Age of detective fiction had begun inauspiciously with the publication of E.C. Bentley's schismatic Trent's Last Case in 1913, but it hit its stride in 1920 when both Agatha Christie and Freeman Wills Crofts - latterly crowned queen and king of the genre - had crime novels published for the first time. They ushered in two decades of exemplary mystery writing, the era of the whodunit, the impossible crime and the locked-room mystery, wi...

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ISBN:

9780008380939

Description:

viii, 374 pages ; 23 cm

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Bodies from the library. Volume 3 : forgotten stories of mystery and suspense by the queens of crime and other masters of the golden age

Notes:

"Includes uncollected stories by Ngaio Marsh & John Dickson Carr"--Cover

Contents:

Some little things / Lynn Brock
Hot steel / Anthony Berkeley
The murder at Warbeck Hall / Cyril Hare
The house of the poplars / Dorothy L. Sayers
The Hampstead murder / Christopher Bush
The scarecrow murders / Joseph Commings
The incident of the dog's ball / Agatha Christie
The case of the unlucky airman / Christopher St John Sprigg
The riddle of the black spade / Stuart Palmer
A torch at the window / Josephine Bell
Grand guignol / John Dickson Carr
A knotty problem / Ngaio Marsh
The orange plot mysteries
The orange kid / Peter Cheyney
And the answer was ... / Ethel Lina White
He stooped to live / David Hume
Mr Prendergast and the orange / Nicholas Blake
The yellow sphere / John Rhode
The 'eat more fruit' murder / William A. R. Collins

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2980072

Other Authors:

Medawar, Tony, compiler

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