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epub | 1.19 MB | English | Isbn:0892963557 | Author: Thomas Godfrey | Year: 1988
Description:
Quote:Nothing could seem more civilized, more orderly and sedate than a weekend at one of Great Britain's country estates. Yet these staid, conservative houses play host to a wider variety of murders than do the mean streets of America's darkest cities.
Contents:
The adventure of the Abbey Grange / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle --
A marriage tragedy / Wilkie Collins --
Lord Chizelrigg's missing fortune / Robert Barr --
The Fordwych Castle mystery / Emmuska, Barroness Orczy --
The blue scarab / R. Austin Freeman --
The doom of the Darnaways / G.K. Chesterton --
The shadow on the glass / Agatha Christie --
The queen's square / Dorothy L. Sayers --
Death on the air / Ngaio Marsh --
The same to us / Margery Allingham --
The hunt ball / Freeman Wills Crofts --
The incautious burglar / John Dickson Carr --
The long shot / Nicholas Blake --
Jeeves and the stolen Venus / P.G. Wodehouse --
Death in the sun / Michael Innes --
An unlocked window / Ethel Lina White --
The wood-for-the-trees / Philip MacDonald --
The man on the roof / Christianna Brand --
The death of Amy Robsart / Cyril Hare --
Fen Hall / Ruth Rendell --
A very desirable residence / P.D. James --
The Worcester enigma / James Miles.
Category:Mystery, Short Stories, Fiction, Anthologies, British Literature, Crime, Historical