Vintage Detective Stories (Collector's Library)

Vintage Detective Stories (Collector's Library)

by David Stuart Davies (Introduction)

Synopsis

The Collector's Library volumes of short stories - Best Ghost Stories , Best Fairy Stories , Celtic Fairy Tales and Tales of the Macabre have proved popular throughout the world. This new collection of detective stories of the golden age includes intriguing tales by Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Wallace, G.K. Chesterton, 'Sapper', E.W. Hornung, and Arnold Bennett. These masters of the genre are joined by less well-known but equally skilled writers such as Arthur B. Reeve, Maurice LeBlanc, Ernest Bramah, Mrs Henry Wood, Stacy Aumonier and Herbert Jenkins among others.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 584
Edition: Main Market
Publisher: Macmillan Collector's Library
Published: 01 Sep 2012

ISBN 10: 1907360689
ISBN 13: 9781907360688

Author Bio
David Stuart Davies is an author, playwright and editor and is regarded as an authority on Sherlock Holmes. His fiction includes novels featuring his wartime detective Johnny Hawke and several Sherlock Holmes novels - including Sherlock Holmes and the Devil's Promise. He is a committee member of the Crime Writers' Association, editing their monthly publication, Red Herrings, and is a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund.