eBook details
- Title: Resorting to Murder: Holiday Mysteries
- Author : Ruth Dudley Edwards
- Release Date : January 01, 2015
- Genre: Historical,Books,Mysteries & Thrillers,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 646 KB
Description
Holidays offer us the luxury of getting away from it all. So, in a different way, do detective stories. This collection of vintage mysteries combines both those pleasures. From a golf course at the English seaside to a pension in Paris, and from a Swiss mountain resort to the cliffs of Normandy, this new selection shows the enjoyable and unexpected ways in which crime writers have used summer holidays as a theme.
These fourteen stories range widely across the golden age of British crime fiction. Stellar names from the past are well represented ñ Arthur Conan Doyle and G. K. Chesterton, for instance ñ with classic stories that have won acclaim over the decades. The collection also uncovers a wide range of hidden gems: Anthony Berkeley ñ whose brilliance with plot had even Agatha Christie in raptures ñ is represented by a story so (undeservedly) obscure that even the British Library does not own a copy. The stories by Phyllis Bentley and Helen Simpson are almost equally rare, despite the success which both writers achieved, while those by H. C. Bailey, Leo Bruce and the little-known Gerald Findler have seldom been reprinted.
Each story is introduced by the editor, Martin Edwards, who sheds light on the authors' lives and the background to their writing.