The adventure of the devil's foot A schoolmaster abroad Murder! The murder on the golf links The finger of stone The vanishing of Mrs Fraser A mystery of the Sand-Hills The hazel ice Razor edge Holiday task A posteriori Where is Mr Manetot? The house of screams Cousin once removed
Contents:
Cousin once removed / Michael Gilbert. A schoolmaster abroad / E. W. Hornung -- Murder! / Arnold Bennett -- The murder on the golf links / M. McDonnell Bodkin -- The finger of stone / G. K. Chesterton -- The vanishing of Mrs Fraser / Basil Thomson -- A mystery of the Sand-Hills / R. Austin Freeman -- The hazel ice / H. C. Bailey -- Razor edge / Anthony Berkeley -- Holiday task / Leo Bruce -- A posteriori / Helen Simpson -- Where is Mr Manetot? / Phyllis Bentley -- The house of screams / Gerald Findler -- Cousin once removed / Michael Gilbert.
Summary:
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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