Continental Crimes (British Library Crime Classics)

by Agatha Christie (Author), Arnold Bennett (Author), Marie Belloc Lowndes (Author), Martin Edwards (Author), Arthur Conan Doyle (Author), Michael Gilbert (Author), Arthur Conan Doyle (Author), Michael Gilbert (Author), Marie Belloc Lowndes (Author), Arthur Conan Doyle (Author), Martin Edwards (Editor), Martin Edwards (Author), Arnold Bennett (Author), Agatha Christie (Author), Stacy Aumonier (Author), Martin Edwards (ed) (Author), H. C. Bailey (Author), J. Jefferson Farjeon (Author), F. Tennyson Jesse (Author), E. Phillips Oppenheim (Author), Josephine Bell (Author), Ian Hay (Author), G. K. Chesterton (Author), Arnold Bennett (Author), H. De Vere Stacpoole (Author), Agatha Christie (Author)

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  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.

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  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.