Eleven classic whodunits starring master sleuths such as Sherlock
Holmes, Hercule Poirot, and Father Brown.
A superstar lineup of detectives--including Sherlock Holmes, C. Auguste
Dupin, and Hercule Poirot--headlines this elegant leather-bound edition
of classic mystery stories. Short stories such as Edgar Allan Poe's "The
Murders in the Rue Morgue" and G. K. Chesterton's "The Blue Cross" are
ideal for a cozy evening by the fire, while novels like Agatha
Christie's The Murder on the Links and Jules Verne's An Antarctic
Mystery will keep you engrossed for days. The eleven works in this
volume are preceded by a scholarly introduction that explores the
origins of the genre, as well as the development of the modern mystery
story and the contributions made by each author.
Works Included
Short stories:
"The Murders in the Rue Morgue," Edgar Allan Poe
"The Adventure of the Creeping Man," Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"The Blue Cross," G. K. Chesterton
"The Coin of Dionysius," Ernest Bramah
"The Anthropologist at Large," R. Austin Freeman
"The Most Dangerous Game," Richard Connell
Novels:
The Murder on the Links, Agatha Christie
Whose Body?, Dorothy Sayers
The Thirty-nine Steps, John Buchan
An Antarctic Mystery, Jules Verne
Room 13, Edgar Wallace