'Curiously enough,'said Dr. Manners,'I know a story in which the detection of a murder turned on the behaviour of a bird: in this instance a jackdaw.'
Since the dawn of the crime fiction genre,animals of all kinds have played a memorable part in countless mysteries,and in a variety of roles: the perpetrator,the key witness,the sleuth's trusted companion. This collection of fourteen stories corrals plots centred around cats,dogs and insects alongside more exotic incidents involving gorillas,parakeets and serpents - complete with a customary shoal of red herrings.
From the animal mysteries of Arthur Conan Doyle and F. Tennyson Jesse through to more modern masterpieces of the sub-genre from Christianna Brand and Penelope Wallace,this anthology celebrates one of the liveliest and most imaginative species of classic crime fiction.
Publisher: British Library PublishingISBN: 9780712353441Dimensions: 190 x 130 mm
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