The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits

by Michael Ashley (Editor), Michael Ashley (Editor), Michael Ashley (Editor), Ellis Peters (Foreword)

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  1993

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  This collection, with a Foreword by the creator of the Brother Cadfael books, gathers together some of the best stories in the genre of crime fiction epitomised by The Name of the Rose . The bestselling historical detectives are featured, including Cadfael himself, Brother Atheistan, Decius Metellus, Sister Frevisse, Sam Johnson, August Dupin, Ben Snow, Captain Cork and many others. Mike Ashley is the editor of The Camelot Chronicles , The Pendragon Chronicles , The Mammoth Book of Short Horror Novels , and other anthologies.

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  2005

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  The third new collection of historical murder and mystery stories A brilliant new collection of thirty stories of mystery and intrigue spread over three thousand years, from Ancient Egypt to spies on the Titanic. Selected by bestselling editor Mike Ashley, the stories include brand new contributions as well as rare reprints, from writers such as Ian Rankin, Lynda Robinson, Sharan Newman, Gail Frazer, Gillian Linscott and Peter Tremayne. Among the characters featured are the Queen of Sheba, Attila the Hun, Hildegarde of Bingen, Geoffrey Chaucer, Henry the Navigator and Benjamin Franklin. And with settings as far-ranging as Botany Bay and ancient Pisa, New Amsterdam and old Edinburgh, ancient Greece and the court of Kublai Khan.