Twelve English Detective Stories Michael Cox

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Zusammenfassung

This collection focuses mainly on the years from the 1890s to the 1920s - when the classic English detective story was at its best - but also offers examples both earlier and later. The stories include ones by Arthur Conan Doyle, G.K. Chesterton, Dorothy L. Sayers and Michael Innes.

Twelve English Detective Stories Zusammenfassung

Twelve English Detective Stories Michael Cox

The main focus of this collection is from the 1890s to the 1920s, the period when the classic English detective story was at its confident and original best, but also offering examples from earlier and later periods. These stories provide an entertaining exploration of this extensive and fascinating corner of English popular fiction, celebrating the detective's intellectual and intuitive powers when confronted with murder, theft, and other mysteries. With stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, G.K. Chesterton, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Michael Innes, this anthology should appeal to all enthusiasts of detective fiction.

Über Michael Cox

Michael Cox is a senior commissioning editor with Oxford University Press. He has edited The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories (1986), Victorian Ghost Stories (1991) (both with R. A. Gilbert), Victorian Detective Stories (1992), The Oxford Book of Historical Stories (with Jack Adrian, 1994), The Oxford Book of Spy Stories (1996), The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1996), and Twelve Tales of the Supernatural and Twelve Victorian Ghost Stories (1997), both in the Oxford Twelves series.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; A. Conan Doyle: 'The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk'; Arthur Morrison: 'The Lenton Croft Robberies'; Fergus Hume: 'The Green-Stone God and the Stock-Broker'; R. Austin Freeman: 'The Blue Sequin'; E.C. Bentley: 'The Unknown Peer'; G.K. Chesterton: 'The Strange Crime of John Boulnois'; Ernest Bramah: 'Who Killed Charlie Winpole?'; Edgar Wallace: 'The Poetical Policeman'; Dorothy L. Sayers: 'The Man With No Face'; H.C. Bailey: 'The Yellow Slugs'; 'Michael Innes' (J.I.M. Stewart): 'Lesson in Anatomy'; Julian Symons: 'The Flaw'; Notes; Acknowledgements.

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GOR001254750

ISBN 13

9780192880963

ISBN 10

0192880969

Titel

Twelve English Detective Stories Michael Cox

Autor

Michael Cox

Serien

Oxford Twelves S.

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Bindung

Broschiert

Verlag

Oxford University Press

Datum

1999-01-01

Anzahl der Seiten

266

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N/A

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