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A Century of Detective Stories

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Mammoth 1019-page anthology of crime fiction introduced by G. K. Chesterton.

"Forty -five stories by forty-four strong practitioners of the twenties and thirties, almost all worth reading." - Barzun & Taylor, A Catalogue of Crime .

Includes stories by Edgar Allan Poe, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Edgar Wallace, Wilkie Collins, E. C. Bentley, Thomas Burke, H. C. Bailey, Dorothy Sayers, Ernest Bramah, Freeman Wills Crofts and many others.

A follow-up volume was published in 1938.

Language: English

Pages: 1019

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers, Ltd.)

Release: May 07, 2022

ISBN: 0849509475

ISBN 13: 9780849509476

A Century of Detective Stories

4/5 ( ratings)

Mammoth 1019-page anthology of crime fiction introduced by G. K. Chesterton.

"Forty -five stories by forty-four strong practitioners of the twenties and thirties, almost all worth reading." - Barzun & Taylor, A Catalogue of Crime .

Includes stories by Edgar Allan Poe, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Edgar Wallace, Wilkie Collins, E. C. Bentley, Thomas Burke, H. C. Bailey, Dorothy Sayers, Ernest Bramah, Freeman Wills Crofts and many others.

A follow-up volume was published in 1938.

Language: English

Pages: 1019

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers, Ltd.)

Release: May 07, 2022

ISBN: 0849509475

ISBN 13: 9780849509476

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