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Bodies from the Library 2 - Forgotten Stories of Mystery and Suspense by the Queens of Crime and Other Masters of Golden Age Detection (Hardcover)
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Bodies from the Library 2 - Forgotten Stories of Mystery and Suspense by the Queens of Crime and Other Masters of Golden Age Detection (Hardcover)
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This anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings
together 15 tales from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the
first time in book form, including a newly discovered Gervase Fen
novella by Edmund Crispin that has never previously been published.
With the Golden Age of detective fiction shining ever more brightly
thanks to the recent reappearance of many forgotten crime novels,
Bodies from the Library offers a rare opportunity to read lost
stories from the first half of the twentieth century by some of the
genre's most accomplished writers. This second volume is a showcase
for popular figures of the Golden Age, in stories that even their
most ardent fans will not be aware of. It includes uncollected and
unpublished stories by acclaimed queens and kings of crime fiction,
from Helen Simpson, Ethel Lina White, E.C.R. Lorac, Christianna
Brand, Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers, to S.S. Van Dine,
Jonathan Latimer, Clayton Rawson, Cyril Alington and Antony and
Peter Shaffer (writing as Peter Antony). This book also features
two highly readable radio scripts by Margery Allingham (involving
Jack the Ripper) and John Rhode, plus two full-length novellas -
one from a rare magazine by Q Patrick, the other an unpublished
Gervase Fen mystery by Edmund Crispin, written at the height of his
career. It concludes with another remarkable discovery: 'The Locked
Room' by Dorothy L. Sayers, a never-before-published case for Lord
Peter Wimsey! Selected and introduced by Tony Medawar, who also
provides fascinating pen portraits of each author, Bodies from the
Library 2 is an indispensable collection for any bookshelf.
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