Holidays offer us the luxury of getting away from it all. So,in a different way,do detective stories. This collection of vintage mysteries combines both those pleasures. From a golf course at the English seaside to a pension in Paris,and from a Swiss mountain resort to the cliffs of Normandy,this new selection shows the enjoyable and unexpected ways in which crime writers have used summer holidays as a theme.These fourteen stories range widely across the golden age of British crime fiction. Stellar names from the past are well represented-Arthur Conan Doyle and G. K. Chesterton,for instance-with classic stories that have won acclaim over the decades. The collection also uncovers a wide range of hidden gems: Anthony Berkeley-whose brilliance with plot had even Agatha Christie in raptures-is represented by a story so (undeservedly) obscure that even the British Library seems not to own a copy. The stories by Phyllis Bentley and Helen Simpson are almost equally rare,despite the success which both writers achieved,while those by H. C. Bailey,Leo Bruce and the little-known Gerald Findler have seldom been reprinted.
Publisher: British Library PublishingISBN: 9780712357487Number of pages: 320Dimensions: 190 x 132 mm
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