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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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Great Tales of Detection: Nineteen Stories
September 1996, Amereon Ltd
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0848817052 9780848817053
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Great Tales of Detection: Nineteen Stories (Everyman's Library (Paper))
February 1992, Everymans Library
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046087117X 9780460871174
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Great tales of detection: nineteen stories
1991, J.M. Dent, C.E. Tuttle
in English
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Great tales of detection: nineteen stories
1984, Everyman's Library, Dent
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0460119281 9780460119283
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Reprint of the 1936 ed. published by J. M. Dent, London under title: Tales of detection.
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