Resorting to Murder: A Collection of Holiday Mysteries (British Library Crime Classics)

Author: Martin Edwards

Title: Resorting to Murder: A Collection of Holiday Mysteries (British Library Crime Classics)

Binding: Paperback

Number Of Pages: 288

Release Date: 2015-06-02

Details: Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder
"This volume in Poisoned Pen's British Library Crime Classics series is ideal summer vacation reading." -Publishers Weekly
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 does not 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.
Each story is introduced by the editor, Martin Edwards, who sheds light on the authors' lives and the background to their writing.

EAN: 9781464203756

Package Dimensions: Height: 8 Inches, Length: 5.25 Inches, Weight: 0.6 Pounds, Width: 0.72 Inches

Languages: en