Resorting to murder : holiday mysteries

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Resorting to murder : holiday mysteries
Title remainder
holiday mysteries
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Martin Edwards
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Language
eng
Summary
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
Cataloging source
RECBK
Dewey number
823.9
Index
no index present
LC call number
PR1309.D4
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unknown
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dictionaries

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