Resorting to Murder: Holiday Mysteries (2015) (British Library Crime Classics) edited by Martin Edwards
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Overview: 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.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
Contents:
Introduction – Martin Edwards
The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot – Arthur Conan Doyle
A Schoolmaster Abroad – E. W. Hornung
Murder! – Arnold Bennett
The Murder on the Golf Links – M. McDonnell Bodkin
The Finger of Stone – G. K. Chesterton
The Vanishing of Mrs. Fraser – Basil Thomson
A Mystery of the Sand-Hills – R. Austin Freeman
The Hazel Ice – H. C. Bailey
Razor Edge – Anthony Berkeley
Holiday Task – Leo Bruce
A Posteriori – Helen Simpson
Where is Mr. Manetot? – Phyllis Bentley
The House of Screams – Gerald Findler
Cousin Once Removed – Michael Gilbert
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