Anthologies

Contents: 479 My Adventure in Norfolk (1924) short story by A. J. Alan 485 Miss Bracegirdle Does Her Duty (1922) short story by Stacy Aumonier 500 The Leech of Folkestone [The Ingoldsby Legends] (1931) novelette by Richard Harris Barham [as by R. H. Barham] 525 A. V. Laider (1916) short story by Max Beerbohm 543 The Room in the Tower (1912) short story by E. F. Benson 555 Cut-Throat Farm (1909) short story by J. D. Beresford 559 The Damned Thing (1893) short story by Ambrose Bierce 567 Secret Worship [John Silence] (1908) novelette by Algernon Blackwood 598 No. 17 (1910) short story by E. Nesbit [as by Mrs. E. Bland] 606 The Queer Door (1930) short story by Douglas G. Browne 621 The Waxwork (1931) short story by A. M. Burrage [as by Ex-Private X] 633 Mad Monkton (1859) novella by Wilkie Collins [as by William Wilkie Collins] 691 The Haunted Ships (1821) short story by Allan Cunningham [as by Alan Cunningham] 705 The King Waits (1918) short story by Clemence Dane 713 The Tree (1922) short story by Walter de la Mare 730 The Second Awakening of a Magician (1930) short story by S. L. Dennis 739 No. I Branch Line, the Signal-Man (1931) short story by Charles Dickens (variant of The Signalman 1866) 752 Riesenberg (1911) short fiction by Ford Madox Ford 777 The Beast with Five Fingers (1919) novelette by William Fryer Harvey [as by W. F. Harvey] 802 The Old Man (1931) short story by Holloway Horn 808 The Prayer (1895) novelette by Violet Hunt 833 The Well (1902) short story by W. W. Jacobs 844 The Resurgent Mysteries (1931) short fiction by Edgar Jepson 861 Mr. Justice Harbottle [Martin Hesselius] (1907) novelette by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu [as by J. S. Le Fanu] 892 The Haunted and the Haunters (1931) novelette by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (variant of The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain 1859) [as by Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Lytton] 927 The Great Return (1915) novelette by Arthur Machen 958 The Story of the Greek Slave (1834) short story by Frederick Marryat 971 Anty Bligh (1905) short story by John Masefield 975 The Double Admiral (1925) short story by John Metcalfe 986 The Library Window (1902) novelette by Margaret Oliphant [as by Mrs. Oliphant] 1024 Rose Rose (1910) short story by Barry Pain 1030 The Iron Pineapple (1926) short story by Eden Phillpotts 1046 Berenice (1850) short story by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of Berenice—A Tale 1835) 1053 The Roll-Call of the Reef (1931) short story by Arthur Quiller-Couch [as by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch] 1068 Mangaroo (1926) short story by Naomi Royde-Smith 1075 Sredni Vashtar (1910) short story by Saki 1080 The Mortal Immortal (1891) short story by Mary Shelley [as by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley] 1092 The Primate of the Rose (1928) short story by M. P. Shiel 1108 Called to the Rescue (1863) short story by Henry Spicer 1112 The Enemy (1923) short story by Hugh Walpole 1122 The Inexperienced Ghost (1902) short story by H. G. Wells 1134 Lukundoo (1927) short story by Edward Lucas White [as by E. L. White]

News tycoon Lord Comstock is greedy, ruthless, scandal-mongering, and dead by Archbishop, MP, Scotland Yard Commissioner, or mysterious lady. 1 Death at Hursley Lodge by John Rhode 2 Mrs. Bradley’s Dilemma by Helen de Guerry Simpson 3 Sir John Takes his Cue by Gladys Mitchell 4 Lord Peter’s Privy Counsel by Anthony Berkeley 5 The Conclusions of Mr. Roger Sheringham by Dorothy L. Sayers 6 "If you want to know" by Milward Kennedy

Six “perfect murders” by Margery Allingham, Dorothy L. Sayers, and other Golden Age Mystery authors of the Detection Club—plus an essay by Agatha Christie. Founded in England in the 1930s, the Detection Club brought together an impressive array of Golden Age Mystery authors. Their projects included The Floating Admiral , a whodunit in which twelve different writers contributed individual chapters, as well as Ask a Policeman, another collaboration in which the mystery writers swapped detectives to solve a murder. In Six Against the Yard , a half dozen mystery masters—Margery Allingham, Father Ronald Knox, Anthony Berkeley, Russell Thorndike, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Freeman Wills Crofts—each create a perfect crime, a seemingly unsolvable mystery. The stories are then analyzed by Ex-Superintendent Cornish, C.I.D., a real-life retired police detective, to see if they would indeed stump Scotland Yard. This edition also features an afterword by inaugural Detection Club member Agatha Christie on a true unsolved case of arsenic poisoning in Britain in 1929.

"The Scoop" first appeared as a serial in the Listener in 1931."Behind the Screen" first appeared as a serial in the Listener in 1930.The two serials were first published in book form in the UK by Victor Gollancz Ltd in 1983 and in the US by Harper & Row in 1984.It was another foggy night in London when the members of the world-renowned Detection Club gathered to repeat the success of their jointly authored book, The Floating Admiral. Each writer worked on the mysteries without knowing the solutions the others had planned. When the creators of Miss Marple, Lord Peter Wimsey and other sleuths get together, you can be sure the mysteries will be monumental, the detection delightful, and the results exciting!

This anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together 16 tales by masters of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including a newly discovered Agatha Christie crime story that has not been seen since 1922. At a time when crime and thriller writing has once again overtaken the sales of general and literary fiction, Bodies from the Library unearths lost stories from the Golden Age, that period between the World Wars when detective fiction captured the public’s imagination and saw the emergence of some of the world’s cleverest and most popular storytellers. This anthology brings together 16 forgotten tales that have either been published only once before – perhaps in a newspaper or rare magazine – or have never before appeared in print. From a previously unpublished 1917 script featuring Ernest Bramah’s blind detective Max Carrados, to early 1950s crime stories written for London’s Evening Standard by Cyril Hare, Freeman Wills Crofts and A.A. Milne, it spans five decades of writing by masters of the Golden Age. Most anticipated of all are the contributions by women writers: the first detective story by Georgette Heyer, unseen since 1923; an unpublished story by Christianna Brand, creator of Nanny McPhee; and a dark tale by Agatha Christie published only in an Australian journal in 1922 during her ‘Grand Tour’ of the British Empire. With other stories by Detection Club stalwarts Anthony Berkeley, H.C. Bailey, J.J. Connington, John Rhode and Nicholas Blake, plus Vincent Cornier, Leo Bruce, Roy Vickers and Arthur Upfield, this essential collection harks back to a time before forensic science – when murder was a complex business.

Join us for a summer holiday to die for ... For most of us, a summer holiday is an opportunity to escape from it all: to lounge on warm sands or sip a cool drink in the shade of a city square. But, as the characters in this murderously good collection of classic crime stories discover to their cost ... trouble has a nasty habit of finding you out. From a body found on a beach without a single footprint, to a lemonade stand whose wares appear to have been poisoned and a Wimbledon final ruined by the mysterious disappearance of the championship player, these tales of murder and malice will take you on the trip of a lifetime. So pour that glass of Pimms, grab your sunhat and indulge your dark side: these stories will chill you to your very core, even in a heatwave ...

'So great ... it's criminal' SAGA 'With Cecily Gayford in charge, we are on safe ground' DAILY MAIL From beneath the beach umbrella, all might seem idyllic - children playing, sunbathers relaxing, ice slowly melting in a cocktail glass. But look a little closer, and all is not as it seems ... In these classic crime stories of midsummer murder and madness, the mercury is climbing - and so is the body count. Prepare to spend this summer holiday with some shady characters (in sunny places) and immerse yourself in tales of mystery and depravity at home and abroad. Just remember - there might be nothing new under the sun ... but murder is the most ancient art of all.