Resorting to Murder : Holiday Mysteries (Paperback / Softback)

  • Paperback / Softback
  • 320 Pages / Published 7 May 2015
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Description

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.

Additional information

Weight 292 g
Dimensions 190 × 24 mm
ISBN-13

9780712357487

Publisher

British Library Publishing

Imprint

The British Library Publishing Division

Date of Publication

7 May 2015

By (author)
Pages

320

Format

Paperback / softback

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