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Bodies from the Library 3 (Paperback)
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Bodies from the Library 3 (Paperback)
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Loot Price R211
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This anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings
together 18 tales from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the
first time in book form, including uncollected stories by Ngaio
Marsh and John Dickson Carr. The Golden Age of detective fiction
had begun inauspiciously with the publication of E.C. Bentley's
schismatic Trent's Last Case in 1913, but it hit its stride in 1920
when both Agatha Christie and Freeman Wills Crofts - latterly
crowned queen and king of the genre - had crime novels published
for the first time. They ushered in two decades of exemplary
mystery writing, the era of the whodunit, the impossible crime and
the locked-room mystery, with stories that have thrilled and
baffled generations of readers. This new volume in the Bodies from
the Library series features the work of 18 prolific authors who,
like Christie and Crofts, saw their popularity soar during the
Golden Age. Aside from novels, they all wrote short fiction -
stories, serials and plays - and although most of them have been
collected in books over the last 100 years, here are the ones that
got away... In this book you will encounter classic series
detectives including Colonel Gore, Roger Sheringham, Hildegarde
Withers and Henri Bencolin; Hercule Poirot solves 'The Incident of
the Dog's Ball'; Roderick Alleyn returns to New Zealand in a
recently discovered television drama by Ngaio Marsh; and Dorothy L.
Sayers' chilling 'The House of the Poplars' is published for the
first time. With a full-length novella by John Dickson Carr and an
unpublished radio script by Cyril Hare, this diverse collection
concludes with some early 'flash fiction' commissioned by Collins'
Crime Club in 1938. Each mini story had to feature an orange,
resulting in six very different tales from Peter Cheyney, Ethel
Lina White, David Hume, Nicholas Blake, John Rhode and - in his
only foray into writing detective fiction - the publisher himself,
William Collins.
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