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An edition of Great Tales of Detection: Nineteen Stories (Everyman's Library (Paper)) (1976)

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This classic collection brings together nineteen of the greatest detective tales ever written, spanning between them a period of a hundred years. They range from Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Purloined Letter', one of the earliest examples of the genre, through Agatha Christie's 'perfect murder' in 'Philomel Cottage' to the cunningly constructed 'The Mystery of The Sleeping-Car Express' by Freeman Wills Crofts. The authors included are:
H.C. Bailey
E. C. Bentley
Anthony Berkeley
Ernest Bramah
Thomas Burke
G. K. Chesterton
Agatha Christie
Wilkie Collins
Freeman Wills Croft
R. Austin Freeman
Edgar Jepson and Robert Eustace
Milward Kennedy
C. Daly King
John Rhode
Father Ronald Knox
Edgar Allan Poe
Dorothy L. Sayers
Robert Louis Stevenson
Henry Wade

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J.M. Dent, C.E. Tuttle
Language
English
Pages
382

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English Detective and mystery stories, anthology, Detective and mystery stories

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Great Tales of Detection: Nineteen Stories
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Great tales of detection: nineteen stories
1991, J.M. Dent, C.E. Tuttle
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Great tales of detection: nineteen stories
1984, Everyman's Library, Dent
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Great Tales of Detection: Nineteen Stories
1976, Dent
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Published in
London, Rutland, Vt
Series
Everyman's library

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Dewey Decimal Class
823/.087208
Library of Congress
PR1309.D4 G73 1991, PR1309.D4G73 1991

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Pagination
xiv, 382 p. ;
Number of pages
382

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OL1491115M
ISBN 10
046087117X
LCCN
93163617
OCLC/WorldCat
28547338
Library Thing
1899267
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2724365

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