Great Stories of Crime & Detection. (4v.). Vol1 Beginnings to 1920, 424pp. Vol2 The Twenties & Thirties, 427pp. Vol3 The Forties & Fifties, 429pp. Vol4 The Sixties to the Present, 459pp. 11 illustrated by Nick Hardcastle in each volume. Authors included: Poe, Dickens, Le Fanu, Wilkie Collins, L T Meade, Arthur Conan Doyle, R Austin Freeman, Arthur Morrison, Maurice Leblanc, Baroness Orczy, E W Hornung, Ernest Bramah, G K Chesterton et. al. Bound in image blocked blue cloth. Gilt text printed on slipcase. 23x16cm.
Superb four volume Folio anthology, featuring short stories by the finest exponents of crime and mystery fiction. Over 100 tales of murder, suspense, deception and revenge. G. K. Chesterton divided crime authors into two types: poisoners (novelists) and cut-throats (short story writers). Here, stabbing swiftly and cleanly in more than 100 tales, from the 1840’s to 2001, are the chief executors of the latter art.
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