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Bodies from the library : lost tales of mystery and suspense by Agatha Christie and other masters of the golden age / selected and introduced by Tony Medawar.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Collins Crime Club, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Description: xii, 324 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780008289225
  • 0008289220
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Before insulin / J.J. Connington -- The Inverness cape / Leo Bruce -- Dark waters / Freeman Wills Croft -- Linckes' great case / Georgette Heyer -- 'Calling James Braithwaite' / Nicholas Blake -- The elusive bullet / John Rhode -- The euthanasia of Hilary's aunt / Cyril Hare -- The girdle of dreams / Vincent Cornier -- The fool and the perfect murder / Arthur Upfield -- Bread upon the waters / A.A. Milne -- The man with the twisted thumb / Anthony Berkeley -- The rum punch / Christianna Brand -- Blind man's bluff / Ernest Bramah -- Victoria Pumphrey / H.C. Bailey -- The starting-handle Murder / Roy Vickers -- The wife of the Kenite / Agatha Christie.
Summary: This anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together 13 rare tales by masters of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including a newly discovered Agatha Christie crime story that has not been seen since 1922.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Mystery Medawar, Tony Available 33111009311099
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together 16 tales by masters of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including a newly discovered Agatha Christie crime story that has not been seen since 1922.

At a time when crime and thriller writing has once again overtaken the sales of general and literary fiction, Bodies from the Library unearths lost stories from the Golden Age, that period between the World Wars when detective fiction captured the public's imagination and saw the emergence of some of the world's cleverest and most popular storytellers.



This anthology brings together 16 forgotten tales that have either been published only once before - perhaps in a newspaper or rare magazine - or have never before appeared in print. From a previously unpublished 1917 script featuring Ernest Bramah's blind detective Max Carrados, to early 1950s crime stories written for London's Evening Standard by Cyril Hare, Freeman Wills Crofts and A.A. Milne, it spans five decades of writing by masters of the Golden Age.



Most anticipated of all are the contributions by women writers: the first detective story by Georgette Heyer, unseen since 1923; an unpublished story by Christianna Brand, creator of Nanny McPhee; and a dark tale by Agatha Christie published only in an Australian journal in 1922 during her 'Grand Tour' of the British Empire.



With other stories by Detection Club stalwarts Anthony Berkeley, H.C. Bailey, J.J. Connington, John Rhode and Nicholas Blake, plus Vincent Cornier, Leo Bruce, Roy Vickers and Arthur Upfield, this essential collection harks back to a time before forensic science - when murder was a complex business.

This anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together 13 rare tales by masters of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including a newly discovered Agatha Christie crime story that has not been seen since 1922.

Before insulin / J.J. Connington -- The Inverness cape / Leo Bruce -- Dark waters / Freeman Wills Croft -- Linckes' great case / Georgette Heyer -- 'Calling James Braithwaite' / Nicholas Blake -- The elusive bullet / John Rhode -- The euthanasia of Hilary's aunt / Cyril Hare -- The girdle of dreams / Vincent Cornier -- The fool and the perfect murder / Arthur Upfield -- Bread upon the waters / A.A. Milne -- The man with the twisted thumb / Anthony Berkeley -- The rum punch / Christianna Brand -- Blind man's bluff / Ernest Bramah -- Victoria Pumphrey / H.C. Bailey -- The starting-handle Murder / Roy Vickers -- The wife of the Kenite / Agatha Christie.

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