Resorting to Murder: Holiday Mysteries (British Library Crime Classics) - Softcover

Martin Edwards; G. K. Chesterton; Arthur Conan Doyle; E. W. Hornung; Arnold Bennett; M. McDonnell Bodkin; Basil Thomson; R. Austin Freeman; H. C. Bailey; Anthony Berkeley; Leo Bruce; Helen Simpson; Phyllis Bentley; Gerald Findler; Michael Gilbert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0712357483 ISBN 13: 9780712357487

Publisher: The British Library Publishing Division, 2015

Synopsis

Holidays offer us the luxury of getting away from it all. So, in a different way, do detective stories. This collection of vintage mysteries combines both those pleasures. From a golf course at the English seaside to a pension in Paris, and from a Swiss mountain resort to the cliffs of Normandy, this new selection shows the enjoyable and unexpected ways in which crime writers have used summer holidays as a theme. These fourteen stories range widely across the golden age of British crime fiction. Stellar names from the past are well represented - Arthur Conan Doyle and G. K. Chesterton, for instance - with classic stories that have won acclaim over the decades. The collection also uncovers a wide range of hidden gems: Anthony Berkeley - whose brilliance with plot had even Agatha Christie in raptures - is represented by a story so (undeservedly) obscure that even the British Library seems not to own a copy. The stories by Phyllis Bentley and Helen Simpson are almost equally rare, despite the success which both writers achieved, while those by H. C. Bailey, Leo Bruce and the little-known Gerald Findler have seldom been reprinted.

About this title

Review:

There really is something for everyone here ... This is a volume to treasure and enjoy. --Shiny New Books

Whether it s Sherlock Holmes or a lesser-known crime solver, the stories in this collection represent the peak of classic British mysteries, serving as wonderful examples to new readers and warmly welcoming old friends to established fans of the genre. --Manhattan Book Review

About the Author:

Martin Edwards is an award-winning crime writer best known for his series of detective novels set in Liverpool and the Lake District. He is also a member of the Murder Squad collective of crime writers, a member of the Crime Writers' Association Committee and Archivist of the Detection Club

About this edition

• Publisher: The British Library Publishing Division
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0712357483
• ISBN 13: 9780712357487
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Martin Edwards