Continental crimes /
Continental crimes /
edited and introduced by Martin Edwards.
- First US trade paperback edition.
- 313 pages ; 21 cm.
- British Library crime classics .
- British Library crime classics. .
New catacomb / Bracelet at Bruges / Secret garden / Secret of the Magnifique / Petit-Jean / Lover of St Lys / Popeau intervenes / Perfect murder / Room in the tower / Ten-franc counter / Have you got everything you want? / Long dinner / Packet-boat murder / Villa Almirante / Arthur Conan Doyle -- Arnold Bennett -- G. K. Chesterton -- E. Phillips Oppenheim -- Ian Hay -- F. Tennyson Jesse -- Marie Belloc Lowndes -- Stacy Aumonier -- J. Jefferson Farjeon -- H. de Vere Stacpoole -- Agatha Christie -- H. C. Bailey -- Josephine Bell -- Michael Gilbert.
"A man is forbidden to uncover the secret of the tower in a fairy-tale castle by the Rhine. A headless corpse is found in a secret garden in Paris - belonging to the city's chief of police. And a drowned man is fished from the sea off the Italian Riviera, leaving the carabinieri to wonder why his socialite friends at the Villa Almirante are so unconcerned by his death. These are three of the scenarios in this new collection of vintage crime stories. Detective stories from the golden age and beyond have used European settings - cosmopolitan cities, rural idylls and crumbling chateaux - to explore timeless themes of revenge, deception, murder and haunting. Including lesser-known stories by Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, G.K. Chesterton, J. Jefferson Farjeon and other classic writers, this collection reveals many hidden gems of British crime."--Page 4 of cover.
9781464207488 1464207488
Murder--Investigation--Fiction.
England--Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Short stories.
New catacomb / Bracelet at Bruges / Secret garden / Secret of the Magnifique / Petit-Jean / Lover of St Lys / Popeau intervenes / Perfect murder / Room in the tower / Ten-franc counter / Have you got everything you want? / Long dinner / Packet-boat murder / Villa Almirante / Arthur Conan Doyle -- Arnold Bennett -- G. K. Chesterton -- E. Phillips Oppenheim -- Ian Hay -- F. Tennyson Jesse -- Marie Belloc Lowndes -- Stacy Aumonier -- J. Jefferson Farjeon -- H. de Vere Stacpoole -- Agatha Christie -- H. C. Bailey -- Josephine Bell -- Michael Gilbert.
"A man is forbidden to uncover the secret of the tower in a fairy-tale castle by the Rhine. A headless corpse is found in a secret garden in Paris - belonging to the city's chief of police. And a drowned man is fished from the sea off the Italian Riviera, leaving the carabinieri to wonder why his socialite friends at the Villa Almirante are so unconcerned by his death. These are three of the scenarios in this new collection of vintage crime stories. Detective stories from the golden age and beyond have used European settings - cosmopolitan cities, rural idylls and crumbling chateaux - to explore timeless themes of revenge, deception, murder and haunting. Including lesser-known stories by Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, G.K. Chesterton, J. Jefferson Farjeon and other classic writers, this collection reveals many hidden gems of British crime."--Page 4 of cover.
9781464207488 1464207488
Murder--Investigation--Fiction.
England--Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Short stories.