Vintage Mystery and Detective Stories - Edited by David Stuart Davies

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Wallace, G. K. Chesterton, Wilkie Collins

Wordsworth Editions

2006

1276 páginas

1d 18h 32m

ISBN-13: 9781840220650

This volume is a richly entertaining and exciting collection of mystery and detective stories from the golden age of crime fiction. This was a period when crimes were solved by the wit and intenuity of the sleuth with only his own intelligence to rely on, rather than a battery of scientific devices and procedures employed by the modern crime solver.

Within these pages you will meet such fascinating sleuths as G. K. Chesterton's Mr Pond; Ernest Bramah's remarkable blind detective, Max Carrados, who can read newspapers by running his sensitive fingers over the print; Craig Kennedy, 'the American Sherlock Holmes' created by Arthur B. Reeve; and Jacques Futrelle's 'Thinking Machine' Professor S. F. X. Van Dusen.

The reader will also find tales by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Arnold Bennett, Rudyard Kipling, Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Colan Doyle - all created to thrill and intrigue you.