Bodies from the Library 5: Forgotten Stories of Mystery and Suspense from the Golden Age of Detection

On Sale: 06/09/2022

Bodies from the Library 5: Forgotten Stories of Mystery and Suspense from the Golden Age of Detection

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Bodies from the Library 5: Forgotten Stories of Mystery and Suspense from the Golden Age of Detection

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Classic crime fiction's 'Indiana Jones' Tony Medawar unearths more unpublished and uncollected stories from the Golden Age of suspense, including John Bude, John Dickson Carr, Dorothy L. Sayers and Julian Symons.

‘Five books in, and the selection here might well be the strongest yet. This series continues to delight with the high standard of forgotten gems that Medawar uncovers, and there’s sufficient range to ensure that all fans of the genre will find something to enjoy. Book 6 can’t come soon enough.’
Jim Noy, author of The Red Death Murders

The end of the First World War saw the rise of an insatiable public appetite for clever and thrilling mystery fiction and a new kind of hero – the modern crime writer. As the genre soared in popularity, so did the inventiveness of its best authors, ushering in a “Golden Age” of detective fiction – two decades of exemplary mystery writing: the era of the whodunit, the impossible crime and the locked-room mystery, with stories that have thrilled and baffled generations of readers.

The Golden Age still casts a long shadow, with many of the authors who were published at that time still hugely popular today. Aside from novels, they all wrote short fiction – stories, serials and plays – and although many have been republished in books over the last 100 years, Bodies from the Library collects the ones that are impossible to find: stories that appeared in a newspaper, magazine or an anthology that has long been out of print; ephemeral works such as plays not aired, staged or screened for decades; and unpublished stories that were absorbed into an author’s archive when they died . . .

Complete with fascinating biographies by Tony Medawar of all the featured authors, this latest volume in the annual Bodies from the Library series once again brings into the daylight the forgotten, the lost and the unknown, and is an indispensable collection for any bookshelf.

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Product Details

  • ISBN: 9780008514761
  • ISBN 10: 0008514763
  • Imprint: Collins Crime Club
  • On Sale: 06/09/2022
  • Pages: 416
  • List Price:19.99 CAD
  • BISAC1 : FICTION / Anthologies (multiple authors)
  • BISAC2 : FICTION / Crime
  • BISAC3 : FICTION / Thrillers / Crime
  • BISAC4 : FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Traditional
  • BISAC5 : FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical

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