Continental Crimes (British Library Crime Classics) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1464207488 ISBN 13: 9781464207488

A man is forbidden to uncover the secret of the tower in a fairy-tale castle by the Rhine. A headless corpse is found in a secret garden in Paris - belonging to the city's chief of police. And a drowned man is fished from the sea off the Italian Riviera, leaving the carabinieri to wonder why his socialite friends at the Villa Almirante are so unconcerned by his death. These are three of the scenarios in this new collection of vintage crime stories compiled by Martin Edwards. Detective stories from the golden age and beyond have used European settings - cosmopolitan cities, rural idylls and crumbling chateaux - to explore timeless themes of revenge, deception and haunting. Including lesser-known stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, G.K. Chesterton, and J. Jefferson Farjeon - and over a dozen other classic writers - this collection reveals many hidden gems of British crime.

Review:

Contains 14 short stories, by Agatha Christie, Conan Doyle, GK Chesterton and a smattering of the well-chosen but no longer famous. --The Times, July 2017

This toothsome collection of vintage crime stories from the Golden Age is edited by the man most qualified for the task. --Barry Forshaw, Crime Time

The field is so rich ... that veteran editor Edwards (Miraculous Mysteries, 2017, etc.) can't have had much trouble in plucking these plums ... a feast for the equally nostalgic. --Kirkus Reviews

About the Author:

Martin Edwards is an award-winning crime writer best known for two series of crime novels set in Liverpool and the Lake District. He is series consultant for British Library Crime Classics and the editor of six previous anthologies in the series, as well as being Vice Chair of the Crime Writers Association and President of the Detection Club. The Golden Age of Murder, his study of the Detection Club, has won several awards since its publication in 2015.

• ISBN 10: 1464207488
• ISBN 13: 9781464207488
• Binding: Paperback