Detective Stories from the Strand
by Jack Adrian, Agatha Christie, and Arthur Conan Doyle
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This collection which will delight all enthusiasts of crime fiction from the Golden Age of detective writing contains twenty-five mystery and detection, all first published in "The Strand Magazine," one of the most successful and influential popular magazines of its time (1891-1950). Making its mark immediately with the publicaiton of the first Sherlock Holmes stories, "The Strand" continued to publish high quality detective fiction.
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Detective Stories from the Strand
1991, Oxford University Press
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in English
0192123068 9780192123060
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I The great detectives. The vampire of the village / G.K. Chesterton --
The dream / Agatha Christie --
The ginger king / A.E.W. Mason --
The ministering angel / E.C. Bentley --
Tokay of the comet year / H. Warner Allen II Legal niceties. --
A point of law / Somerset Maugham --
Not guilty / Will Scott --
III The twist. The idol's eye / Sapper --
The perfect crime / Seamark --
The intruder / Augustus Muir --
Cast-iron alibi / Richard Keverne --
IV Rogues, knaves, and fortune-hunters. A deal in old masters / Aldous Huxley --
Private water / A.J. Alan --
A gift from the Nabob / D.L. Murray --
The episcopal seal / J. Maclaren-Ross --
V Mostly murder. The interruption / W.W. Jacobs --
The Chobham affair / Edgar Wallace --
By kind permission of the murdered man / Hylton Cleaver --
In view of the audience / Marguerite Steen --
The man who dreamed too much / Quentin Reynolds --
Inquest / Loel Yeo --
VI The master.
The adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton / Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the creeping man / Arthur Conan Doyle --
The adventure of the lion's mane / Arthur Conan Doyle --
The adventure of the first class carriage / Ronald Knox.
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