Martin Edwards Resorting to Murder (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Resorting to MurderCondition: NewEAN: 9780712357487ISBN: 9780712357487Publisher: The British Library Publishing DivisionFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 05/07/2015Item Height: 190mmItem Length: 132mmContributor: Martin Edwards (Edited by)Author: Martin EdwardsLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Holiday MysteriesDescription: 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.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: Literary CriticismBook Series: British Library Crime ClassicsTopic: Fiction, Crime Thrillers & MysteryRelease Year: 2015 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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