Murder on Deck! - Shipboard and Shoreline Mystery Stories (Hardcover, New)

Herbert (coeditor with Tony Hillerman of The Oxford Anthology of American Detective Stories, 1996, etc.) has put together a collection of 25 stories (1894-1998) in which the characters are doing exactly the same things as the target audience - sunning at the seaside, booking vacations on cruise ships, lazing in deck chairs - except that they're killing each other as well. (Kirkus Reviews)

The sea itself has always been a mystery--cold, dark, vast, and unfathomable--indifferent to human wishes and perilous to the ill-prepared. So what more appropriate setting for the ultimate human mystery, the seemingly unsolvable murder.

In Murder on Deck! Rosemary Herbert proves that the opulence of the cruise ship and seaside resort has attracted some of the greatest writers in the genre. From Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, and Viola Brothers Shore to William Faulkner, Ellery Queen, John Mortimer, Susan Moody, and many others, Murder on Deck! ofers 25 stories that plumb the depths of ghastly crimes. Many of these stories take place on luxury liners, or holiday shorelines, where mostly privileged vacationers have sought a pleasant and highly civilized escape from their daily lives. Imagine their chagrin when murder is thrust into their midst and the high tide of anxiety rolls in. Our detectives, too, are often on vacation, taking time off from pondering the impenetrable and are thus forced into a busman's holiday of restoring order and calm to a shattered idyll. In addition to acclaimed stories in English, Murder on Deck! sails into international waters with stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Colombia), Saho Sasazawa (Japan), and for the first time ever in English, Chris Rippen (The Netherlands). Dutch author Janwillem van de Wetering rewrote his 1985 story "Messing About in Boats," especially for this anthology.

A marvelous collection for the mystery lover or armchair traveler, and perfect reading for any vacation, especially the ocean cruise or trip to the beach, Murder on Deck! weighs anchor and heads for the high seas of unforgettable intrigue and watertight suspense.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 1998
First published:	April 1998
Editors:	Rosemary Herbert
Dimensions:	223 x 147 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	346
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-508603-4
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Books > Fiction > Special features > Short stories Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Crime & mystery > General Promotions > Women In Power > Books
LSN:	0-19-508603-1
Barcode:	9780195086034

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