Description
Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes John Dickson Carr’s Dr Gideon Fell Baroness Orczy’s Old Man in the Corner Anthony Berkeley’s Inspector Moresby Josephine Bell’s Dr David Wintringham.
The streets of London have been home to many great detectives since the days of Sherlock Holmes and Watson, and the exploits of these city sleuths have flourished in the short story from.
Featuring a roster of Scotland Yard’s meticulous best, a cohort of daring doctors and a handful of characterful private investigators, this new collection of short stories selected by Martin Edwards comprises a casebook of some of London’s most challenging mysteries.
With contributions by Margery Allingham (DCI Luke), Anthony Gilbert (Inspector Field) and Henry Wade (John Bragg) along with rare finds by Raymond Postgate, J. Jefferson Farjeon and many more, this anthology invites you to join some of the greatest detectives ever written on their perilous trail through London’s darker underside.
Book Information
ISBN 9780712355513
Author Martin Edwards
Format Paperback
Page Count 304
Imprint British Library Publishing
Publisher British Library Publishing
