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Detective Mysteries Short Stories [Kietas viršelis]

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  • Formatas: Hardback, 480 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 234x153x36 mm, weight: 792 g, 25 Line drawings, black and white
  • Serija: Gothic Fantasy
  • Išleidimo metai: 15-Nov-2019
  • Leidėjas: Flame Tree Publishing
  • ISBN-10: 1787556948
  • ISBN-13: 9781787556942
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:
  • Formatas: Hardback, 480 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 234x153x36 mm, weight: 792 g, 25 Line drawings, black and white
  • Serija: Gothic Fantasy
  • Išleidimo metai: 15-Nov-2019
  • Leidėjas: Flame Tree Publishing
  • ISBN-10: 1787556948
  • ISBN-13: 9781787556942
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:
Private Eyes with eagle eyes and rare skills, PI's and gumshoes, bloodhounds and sleuths, the shadowy arts of the detective have intrigued us since tales of the Pinkerton Detective Agency and Sherlock Holmes. Add some treachery, intimacy, and a little murder to the mix and you'll find a powerful series of dark stories from classic and contemporary writers.

This new title in our successful Gothic Fantasy Short Stories collection contains a fabulous mix of classic and brand new writing, with contemporary authors from the US, Canada, and the UK.

The contemporary authors featured in this anthology are: Daniel Brock, Elliott Capon, Philip Brian Hall, Tina L. Jens, Tom Mead, Marshall J. Moore, Pat Morris, Amelia Dee Mueller, Trixie Nisbet, Patsy Pratt-Herzog, Michele Bazan Reed, Lesley L. Smith and Cameron Trost.

Classic authors include Margery Allingham, Robert Barr, Anthony Berkeley, Matthias McDonnell Bodkin, William Evans Burton, G.K. Chesterton, Carroll John Daly, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Eustace and Edgar Jepson, J.S. Fletcher, R. Austin Freeman, Jacques Futrelle, Susan Glaspell, Anna Katharine Green, Thomas W. Hanshew, E. and H. Heron, Herbert Jenkins, Maurice Leblanc, L.T. Meade and Robert Eustace, Arthur Morrison, Baroness Orczy, Catherine Louisa Pirkis, Melville Davisson Post, Edgar Wallace, Hugh C. Weir, Mrs Henry Wood.


Private Eyes with eagle eyes and rare skills, bloodhounds and sleuths, the shadowy arts of the detective have intrigued us since tales of the Pinkerton Detective Agency and Sherlock Holmes. Add some treachery, intimacy, and a little murder to the mix and you'll find a powerful series of dark stories from classic and contemporary writers.
Foreword 8(1)
Rosemary Herbert
Publisher's Note 9(3)
The Meaning of the Act
12(10)
Margery Allingham
Lord Chizelriggs Missing Fortune
22(13)
Robert Barr
The Avenging Chance
35(10)
Anthony Berkeley
Murder by Proxy
45(13)
Matthias McDonnell Bodkin
The Case of the Disappearing Body
58(9)
Daniel Brock
The Secret Cell
67(18)
William E. Burton
Murder Is My Middle Name
85(8)
Elliott Capon
The Point of a Pin
93(12)
G.K. Chesterton
If Death Is Respectable
105(22)
Carroll John Daly
The Adventure of Silver Blaze
127(16)
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Tea Leaf
143(11)
Robert Eustace
Edgar Jepson
The Yorkshire Manufacturer
154(9)
J.S. Fletcher
The Case of Oscar Brodski
163(25)
R. Austin Freeman
The Mystery of the Fatal Cipher
188(17)
Jacques Futrelle
A Jury of Her Peers
205(13)
Susan Glaspell
An Intangible Clue
218(12)
Anna Katharine Green
No Head for Figures
230(9)
Philip Brian Hall
The Divided House
239(11)
Thomas W. Hanshew
The Story of the Spaniards, Hammersmith
250(8)
E. H. Heron
The Strange Case of Mr. Challoner
258(13)
Herbert Jenkins
A Cat with a Gat
271(7)
Tina L. Jens
Arsene Lupin in Prison
278(12)
Maurice Leblanc
Vandergiessen's Daughter
290(7)
Tom Mead
To Prove an Alibi
297(14)
L.T. Meade
Robert Eustace
Argent
311(9)
Marshall J. Moore
Nobody Special
320(12)
Pat Morris
The Case of the Flitterbat Lancers
332(12)
Arthur Morrison
Welcome to Paradise
344(13)
Amelia Dee Mueller
A Problem with Threes
357(11)
Trixie Nisbet
The Fenchurch Street Mystery
368(10)
Baroness Orczy
Drawn Daggers
378(12)
Catherine Louisa Pirkis
Naboth's Vineyard
390(8)
Melville Davisson Post
The Case of the Mislaid Plans
398(5)
Patsy Pratt-Herzog
The Lady in Black
403(7)
Michele Bazan Reed
The Hollow Man
410(8)
Lesley L. Smith
The Murder at Karreg Du
418(10)
Cameron Trost
The Poetical Policeman
428(9)
Edgar Wallace
The Man with Nine Lives
437(20)
Hugh C. Weir
Going Through the Tunnel
457(11)
Mrs. Henry Wood
Biographies & Sources 468
Rosemary Herbert (foreword) is editor in chief of The Oxford Companion to Crime & Mystery Writing and author of Front Page Teaser: A Liz Higgins Mystery. A former Harvard University reference librarian, and a longtime journalist and literary critic, her books also include Whodunnit? A Whos Who in Crime & Mystery Writing, Murder on Deck! Shipboard & Shoreline Mystery Stories, and Twelve American Crime Stories. She co-edited, with Tony Hillerman, The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories and A New Omnibus of Crime. After residing on a Maine island, she now lives in Americas heartland, where she pursues writing and ceramic arts.