An edition of Great Tales of Detection: Nineteen Stories (Everyman's Library (Paper)) (1976)

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Nineteen Stories

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An edition of Great Tales of Detection: Nineteen Stories (Everyman's Library (Paper)) (1976)

Great Tales of Detection

Nineteen Stories

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This classic collection brings together nineteen of the greatest detective tales ever written, spanning between them a period of a hundred years. They range from Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Purloined Letter', one of the earliest examples of the genre, through Agatha Christie's 'perfect murder' in 'Philomel Cottage' to the cunningly constructed 'The Mystery of The Sleeping-Car Express' by Freeman Wills Crofts. The authors included are:
H.C. Bailey
E. C. Bentley
Anthony Berkeley
Ernest Bramah
Thomas Burke
G. K. Chesterton
Agatha Christie
Wilkie Collins
Freeman Wills Croft
R. Austin Freeman
Edgar Jepson and Robert Eustace
Milward Kennedy
C. Daly King
John Rhode
Father Ronald Knox
Edgar Allan Poe
Dorothy L. Sayers
Robert Louis Stevenson
Henry Wade

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Dent
Language
English
Pages
382

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Subjects
English Detective and mystery stories, anthology, Detective and mystery stories

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Great Tales of Detection: Nineteen Stories
September 1996, Amereon Ltd
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Great Tales of Detection: Nineteen Stories (Everyman's Library (Paper))
February 1992, Everymans Library
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Great tales of detection: nineteen stories
1991, J.M. Dent, C.E. Tuttle
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Great tales of detection: nineteen stories
1984, Everyman's Library, Dent
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Great Tales of Detection: Nineteen Stories
1976, Dent
in English
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London

Edition Notes

Reprint of the 1936 ed. published by J. M. Dent, London under title: Tales of detection.

Series
An Everyman paperback

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.0872
Library of Congress
PZ1 .G79884 1976, PR1309.D4 .G79884 1976

The Physical Object

Pagination
iii-xvi, 382 p. ;
Number of pages
382

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL4613800M
Internet Archive
greattalesofdete00saye
ISBN 10
0460009281, 0460019287
LCCN
77377731
Library Thing
1899267

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