Foreign Bodies (British Library Crime Classics)

Foreign Bodies (British Library Crime Classics)

by Maurice Leblanc (Author), Anton Chekhov (Author), Martin Edwards (Editor), Anton Chekhov (Author), Maurice Leblanc (Author), Martin Edwards (Author), Maurice Level (Author), Ivans (Author), Balduin Groller (Author), Palle Rosenkrantz (Author)

Synopsis

Today, translated crime fiction is in vogue - but this was not always the case. A century before Scandi noir, writers across Europe and beyond were publishing detective stories of high quality. Often these did not appear in English and they have been known only by a small number of experts. This is the first ever collection of classic crime in translation from the golden age of the genre in the 20th century. Many of these stories are exceptionally rare, and several have been translated for the first time to appear in this volume. Martin Edwards has selected gems of classic crime from Denmark to Japan and many points in between. Fascinating stories give an insight into the cosmopolitan cultures (and crime-writing traditions) of diverse places including Mexico, France, Russia, Germany and the Netherlands.

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Format: Illustrated::Abridged::Box set::Audiobook::Large P
Pages: 288
Publisher: British Library Publishing
Published: 05 Oct 2017

ISBN 10: 0712356991
ISBN 13: 9780712356992

Author Bio
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.