The scene: a sleeping car on the North-Western express, somewhere
between Preston and Carlisle. The weapon: a small-caliber revolver.
The victims: two young newlyweds, with little money and no known
enemies. The puzzle: everyone in the car has an alibi, and no one
was seen to leave. Here are all the ingredients for another
gripping detective story.
The Oxford Book of English Detective Stories gathers 33 engrossing
tales of crime, ranging from the birth of the genre to the present
day. Arthur Conan Doyle, G.K. Chesterton, Agatha Christie, Dorothy
Sayers, Margery Allingham, P.D. James, Ruth Rendell, Robert
Barnard, and Simon Brett--all the giants of English mystery are
here, as well as Christianna Brand, Ngaio Marsh, Michael Innes,
Reginald Hill, Nicholas Blake, Michael Underwood, and many more.
Editor Patricia Craig treats us to Sherlock Holmes, indefatigably
tracking the details of the theft of Colonel Ross's prize horse,
Silver Blaze, and the murder of its trainer. In "The Oracle of the
Dog," G.K. Chesterton's Father Brown sits calmly in his study,
solving at a distance the perplexing murder of Colonel Druce: was
it the foreign Dr. Valentine, the foppish lawyer Traill, or Floyd,
the exuberant American secretary? P.D. James sends Chief
Superindentant Dalgliesh on the trail of a mysterious death from
some seventy years before--a case with a final, darkly ironic
twist. And Robert Barnard grimly lampoons English academe in "The
Oxford Way of Death." In addition to this dazzling array of
stories, Craig provides a concise introduction which surveys the
origins and development of this enduring genre.
Ingenious, gothic, morbid, satirical--the English detective story
ranks among the most dynamic and gripping fiction. In The Oxford
Book of English Detective Stories, Patricia Craig presents some of
the best ever written, in an absorbing tour of the world of crime,
detection, and retribution.
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