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245 00 $aResorting to murder :$bholiday mysteries /$cedited and introduced by Martin Edwards.
264 1 $aLondon :$bThe British Library,$c2015.
300 $a1 volume ;$c20 cm.
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490 1 $aBritish Library crime classics
520 $aHolidays 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.
505 00 $tThe adventure of the Devil's Foot /$rArthur Conan Doyle --$tA schoolmaster abroad /$rE.W. Hornung --$tMurder! /$rArnold Bennett --$tThe murder on the golf links /$rM. McDonnell Bodkin --$tThe finger of stone /$rG. K. Chesterton --$tThe vanishing of Mrs Fraser /$rBasil Thomson --$tA mystery of the sand-hills /$rR. Austin Freeman --$tThe hazel ice /$rH. C. Bailey --$tRazor edge /$rAnthony Berkeley --$tHoliday task /$rLeo Bruce --$tA posteriori /$rHelen Simpson --$tWhere is Mr. Manetot? /$rPhyllis Bently --$tThe house of screams /$rGerald Findler --$tCousin once removed /$rMichael Gilbert.
650 0 $aDetective and mystery stories, English.
650 7 $aDetective and mystery stories, English.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00891515
655 7 $aDetective and mystery fiction.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01726581
655 7 $aShort stories.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01726740
655 7 $aShort stories.$2lcgft
655 7 $aDetective and mystery fiction.$2lcgft
700 1 $aEdwards, Martin,$d1955-$eeditor.
830 0 $aBritish Library crime classics.
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