This annual anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together tales from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including a short novel by Christianna Brand.
Mystery stories have been around for centuriesâthere are whodunits, whydunits and howdunits, including locked-room puzzles, detective stories without detectives, and crimes with a limited choice of suspects.
Countless volumes of such stories have been published, but some are still impossible to find: stories that appeared in a newspaper, magazine or an anthology that has long been out of print and unpublished stories that were absorbed into an authorâs archive when they died . . .
Here for the first time are three never-before-published mysteries by Edmund Crispin, Ngaio Marsh and Leo Bruce. Together with a newly unearthed short story by Ethel Lina White that inspired Hitchcockâs , and a complete short novel by Christianna Brand, this diverse mix of tales by some of the worldâs most popular classic crime writers contains something for everyone.The Lady Vanishes
Complete with indispensable biographies by Tony Medawar of all the featured authors, the fourth volume in the series once again brings into the daylight the forgotten, the lost and the unknown.Bodies from the Library