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03618aam a22006137a 4500 001 02733BCC364E11ED9E3F459833ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220917010019 008 s2016 ilu 00011 eng 020 $a 146420375X 020 $a 9781464203756 : PAP 040 $d SILO 082 00 $a Mystery EDWARDS 100 1 $a Edwards, Martin, $e editor. 245 10 $a Resorting to murder : $b holiday mysteries / $c edited and introduced [with notes] by Martin Edwards. 246 3 $a Holiday mysteries 250 $a First U.S. edition. 264 1 $a [Naperville, IL] : $b Poisoned Pen Press, $c [2016] 300 $a 277 pages ; $c 21 cm 505 0 $t Cousin once removed / $r Michael Gilbert. $t A schoolmaster abroad / $r E. W. Hornung -- $t Murder! / $r Arnold Bennett -- $t The murder on the golf links / $r M. McDonnell Bodkin -- $t The finger of stone / $r G. K. Chesterton -- $t The vanishing of Mrs Fraser / $r Basil Thomson -- $t A mystery of the Sand-Hills / $r R. Austin Freeman -- $t The hazel ice / $r H. C. Bailey -- $t Razor edge / $r Anthony Berkeley -- $t Holiday task / $r Leo Bruce -- $t A posteriori / $r Helen Simpson -- $t Where is Mr Manetot? / $r Phyllis Bentley -- $t The house of screams / $r Gerald Findler -- $t Cousin once removed / $r Michael Gilbert. 520 0 $a 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. 650 4 $a Short stories. 655 7 $a Short stories. $2 gsafd 700 1 $a Doyle, Arthur Conan, $c Sir, $d 1859-1930. 700 1 $a Hornung, E. W. 700 1 $a Bennett, Arnold. 700 1 $a Bodkin, M. McDonnell. 700 1 $a Chesterton, G. K. $q (Gilbert Keith), $d 1874-1936. 700 1 $a Thomson, Basil. 700 1 $a Freeman, R. Austin. 700 1 $a Bailey, H. C. 700 1 $a Berkeley, Anthony. 700 1 $a Bruce, Leo. 700 1 $a Simpson, Helen. 700 1 $a Bentley, Phyllis. 700 1 $a Findler, Gerald. 700 1 $a Gilbert, Michael. 740 4 $a The adventure of the devil's foot 740 2 $a A schoolmaster abroad 740 0 $a Murder! 740 4 $a The murder on the golf links 740 4 $a The finger of stone 740 4 $a The vanishing of Mrs Fraser 740 2 $a A mystery of the Sand-Hills 740 4 $a The hazel ice 740 0 $a Razor edge 740 0 $a Holiday task 740 2 $a A posteriori 740 0 $a Where is Mr Manetot? 740 4 $a The house of screams 740 0 $a Cousin once removed 941 $a 1 952 $l CMPE792 $d 20230629015108.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=02733BCC364E11ED9E3F459833ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search