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The Best Crime Stories Ever Told
Dorothy L. Sayers
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Description for The Best Crime Stories Ever Told
Paperback. Offers a collection of over thirty stories from the 1920s and 1930s, originally chosen by Sayers, a leading expert and connoisseur in the field of mystery literature. In this title, the authors include Edgar Allan Poe, H G Wells, Wilkie Collins, Stephen Crane, and J S Le Fanu. Num Pages: 576 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DQ; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 155 x 31. Weight in Grams: 776.
When acclaimed mystery writer Dorothy L. Sayers first began compiling anthologies of the best crime stories in the 1920s and ’30s, the genre was in the flush of its first golden age. While it is hard to imagine today—after every possible mystery plot has been told, retold, subverted, and played straight again by hundreds of writers over nearly a century—in Sayers’s day there were still twists that had never been seen, and machinations of crime that would shock even jaded Jazz Age readers.
Now today’s fans of mystery and crime can experience a handpicked collection of over thirty of ... Read more
When acclaimed mystery writer Dorothy L. Sayers first began compiling anthologies of the best crime stories in the 1920s and ’30s, the genre was in the flush of its first golden age. While it is hard to imagine today—after every possible mystery plot has been told, retold, subverted, and played straight again by hundreds of writers over nearly a century—in Sayers’s day there were still twists that had never been seen, and machinations of crime that would shock even jaded Jazz Age readers.
Now today’s fans of mystery and crime can experience a handpicked collection of over thirty of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing United States
Number of pages
576
Condition
New
Number of Pages
576
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781620870495
SKU
V9781620870495
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Ref
99-15
About Dorothy L. Sayers
Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957) was a renowned English writer best known for her crime stories, featuring detective and aristocrat Lord Peter Wimsey. Otto Penzler is the proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop, the founder of The Mysterious Press, the creator of Otto Penzler Books, and the editor of many books and anthologies.
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