A unique anthology for crime aficionados seven of the worlds most notorious genuine murder mysteries retold by the most accomplished classic crime writers of their generation.
A manipulative murderer who stalked the streets of Paris; a young wife who poisoned her eccentric husband; a bank cashiers mysterious suicide; a brutal double murder in New Zealand Seven of the worlds greatest crime writers turn their hand to some of the worlds most spine-tingling mysteries all of them astonishingly TRUE.
This remarkable collection from the archives of the Detection Club follows The Floating Admiral, Ask a Policeman and Six Against the Yard back into print after more than 75 years, and shows some of the most accomplished authors of their generation retelling real-life murder mysteries with all the relish of the tastiest crime fiction.
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Each author manages to give the essential facts of his or her case; and the reader has the further interest of seeing how characteristics of the authors fiction writing reveal themselves in this kind of critical and historical work. The layman as well as the criminologist has good reason to read this volume; and he will desire lawyers and detectives also to digest it. Sunday Times
Reviews for previous Detection Club re-issues:
A must for all connoisseurs of detective fiction. Literary Review
This years most welcome reissue. Sunday Telegraph
A book of irresistible charm for students of the detective story. Times Literary Supplement
John Rhode was a pseudonym for the author Cecil John Charles Street (18841964), who also wrote as Miles Burton and Cecil Waye. Having served in the British Army as an artillery officer during the First World War, rising to the rank of Major, he began writing non-fiction before turning to detective fiction, and produced four novels a year for thirty-seven years. The Sunday Times said he must hold the record for the invention of ingenious forms of murder, and the Times Literary Supplement described him as standing in the front rank of those who write detective fiction. Rhodes first series novel, The Paddington Mystery (1925), introduced Dr Lancelot Priestley, who went on to appear in 72 novels, many for Collins Crime Club.
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