Preston Beach 1917
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BODIES FROM THE LIBRARY
LOST TALES OF MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE BY AGATHA CHRISTIE AND OTHER MASTERS OF THE GOLDEN AGE
Selected and introduced by Tony Medawar
This anthology brings together 16 forgotten tales that have either been published only once before—perhaps in a newspaper or rare magazine—or have never before appeared in print. From a previously unpublished 1917 script featuring Ernest Bramah’s blind detective Max Carrados, Blind Man’s Bluff, to early 1950s crime stories written for London’s Evening Standard by Cyril Hare, Freeman Wills Crofts and A.A. Milne, it spans five decades of writing by masters of the Golden Age.
Most anticipated of all are the contributions by women writers: the first detective story by Georgette Heyer, Linckes’ Great Case, unseen since 1923; the unpublished The Rum Punch by Christianna Brand; and Agatha Christie’s The Wife of the Kenite, a dark tale of revenge published only in an Australian journal in 1922 during her ‘Grand Tour’ of the British Empire.
With other stories by Detection Club stalwarts Anthony Berkeley, H.C. Bailey, J.J. Connington, John Rhode and Nicholas Blake, plus Vincent Cornier, Leo Bruce, Roy Vickers and Arthur Upfield, this essential collection harks back to a time before forensic science—when murder was a complex business.
THE DETECTIVE STORY CLUB
E. C. BENTLEY • TRENT’S LAST CASE • TRENT INTERVENES
E. C. BENTLEY & H. WARNER ALLEN • TRENT’S OWN CASE
ANTHONY BERKELEY • THE WYCHFORD POISONING CASE • THE SILK
STOCKING MURDERS
LYNN BROCK • THE DETECTIONS OF COLONEL GORE • NIGHTMARE
BERNARD CAPES • THE MYSTERY OF THE SKELETON KEY
AGATHA CHRISTIE • THE MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYD • THE BIG FOUR
WILKIE COLLINS • THE MOONSTONE
HUGH CONWAY • CALLED BACK • DARK DAYS
EDMUND CRISPIN • THE CASE OF THE GILDED FLY
FREEMAN WILLS CROFTS • THE CASK • THE PONSON CASE • THE PIT-PROP
SYNDICATE • THE GROOTE PARK MURDER
MAURICE DRAKE • THE MYSTERY OF THE MUD FLATS
FRANCIS DURBRIDGE • BEWARE OF JOHNNY WASHINGTON
J. JEFFERSON FARJEON • THE HOUSE OPPOSITE
RUDOLPH FISHER • THE CONJURE-MAN DIES
J. S. FLETCHER • THE MIDDLE TEMPLE MURDER
FRANK FROËST • THE GRELL MYSTERY
FRANK FROËST & GEORGE DILNOT • THE CRIME CLUB • THE ROGUES’
SYNDICATE
EMILE GABORIAU • THE BLACKMAILERS
ANNA K. GREEN • THE LEAVENWORTH CASE
DONALD HENDERSON • MR BOWLING BUYS A NEWSPAPER • A VOICE LIKE
VELVET
FERGUS HUME • THE MILLIONAIRE MYSTERY
GASTON LEROUX • THE MYSTERY OF THE YELLOW ROOM
VERNON LODER • THE MYSTERY AT STOWE • THE SHOP WINDOW
MURDERS
PHILIP MACDONALD • THE RASP • THE NOOSE • THE RYNOX MYSTERY • MURDER GONE MAD • THE MAZE
NGAIO MARSH • THE NURSING HOME MURDER
G. ROY McRAE • THE PASSING OF MR QUINN
R. A. V. MORRIS • THE LYTTLETON CASE
ARTHUR B. REEVE • THE ADVENTURESS
FRANK RICHARDSON • THE MAYFAIR MYSTERY
R. L. STEVENSON • DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE
J. V. TURNER • BELOW THE CLOCK
EDGAR WALLACE • THE TERROR
CAROLYN WELLS • MURDER IN THE BOOKSHOP
ISRAEL ZANGWILL • THE PERFECT CRIME
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