Continental crimes
Record details
- ISBN: 1464207488
- ISBN: 9781464207488
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Physical Description:
313 pages ; 21 cm.
print - Edition: First US trade paperback edition.
- Publisher: Scottsdale, AZ : Poisoned Pen Press, 2017.
- Copyright: ©2017
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | New catacomb / Arthur Conan Doyle -- Bracelet at Bruges / Arnold Bennett -- Secret garden / G. K. Chesterton -- Secret of the Magnifique / E. Phillips Oppenheim -- Petit-Jean / Ian Hay -- Lover of St Lys / F. Tennyson Jesse -- Popeau intervenes / Marie Belloc Lowndes -- Perfect murder / Stacy Aumonier -- Room in the tower / J. Jefferson Farjeon -- Ten-franc counter / H. de Vere Stacpoole -- Have you got everything you want? / Agatha Christie -- Long dinner / H. C. Bailey -- Packet-boat murder / Josephine Bell -- Villa Almirante / Michael Gilbert. |
Summary, etc.: | "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. |
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Subject: | Murder Investigation Fiction England Fiction |
Genre: | Detective and mystery fiction. Short stories. Mystery fiction. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Bentley Memorial Library - Bolton | PBK SC FIC Con (Edw) (Text) | 33160142350357 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Kent Memorial Library - Suffield | MYSTERY EDWARDS (Text) | 32518138274579 | Adult Mystery | Available | - |
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Author Notes
Continental Crimes
MARTIN EDWARDS is an award-winning crime writer best known for two series of novels set in Liverpool and the Lake District. He is a series consultant for British Library Crime Classics, Chair of the Crime Writers' Association, and President of the Detection Club. The Golden Age of Murder , his study of the Detection Club, was published in 2015 to international acclaim, and won the Edgar, Agatha, H.R.F. Keating and Macavity awards for the year's best book about the genre.