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Bodies from the library 5 : forgotten stories of mystery and suspense by the queens of crime and other masters of the golden age / selected and introduced by Tony Medawar.

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London : Collins Crime Club, 2022.

Detective and mystery stories, English.

9780008514761 (hardcover) :

408 pages ; 23 cm

The predestined / Q Patrick -- Villa for sale / Ellis Peters -- The ginger king / A.E.W. Mason -- Sugar-plum killer / Michael Gilbert -- Vacancy with a corpse / Anthony Boucher -- Where do we go from here? / Dorothy L. Sayers -- Benefit of the doubt / Anthony Berkeley -- Scandal of the Louvre / S.S. Van Dine -- The pressure of circumstance / J.J. Connington -- Riddle of the cabin cruiser / John Dickson Carr -- Skeleton in the cupboard / Ianthe Jerrold -- The year and the day / Edmund Crispin -- Murder in the Montparnasse / John Bude -- The thistle down / H.C. Bailey -- The magnifying glass / Cyril Hare -- The "what's my line?" murder / Julian Symons.

"The end of the First World War saw the rise of an insatiable public appetite for clever and thrilling mystery fiction and a new kind of hero--the modern crime writer. As the genre soared in popularity, so did the inventiveness of its best authors, ushering in a "Golden Age" of detective fiction--two decades of exemplary mystery writing: the era of the whodunit, the impossible crime and the locked-room mystery, with stories that have thrilled and baffled generations of readers. The Golden Age still casts a long shadow, with many of the authors who were published at that time still hugely popular today. Aside from novels, they all wrote short fiction--stories, serials and plays--and although many have been republished in books over the last 100 years, Bodies from the Library collects the ones that are impossible to find: stories that appeared in a newspaper, magazine or an anthology that has long been out of print; ephemeral works such as plays not aired, staged or screened for decades; and unpublished stories that were absorbed into an author’s archive when they died"--Publisher.

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