Bodies From the Library 5 [electronic resource] : Selected Lost Stories of Mystery and Suspense by Masters of the Golden Age
Medawar, Tony2022
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The end of the First World War saw the rise of an insatiable public appetite for clever and thrilling mystery fiction and a new kind of hero – the modern crime writer. As the genre soared in popularity, so did the inventiveness of its best authors, ushering in a 'Golden Age' of detective fiction – two decades of exemplary mystery writing: the era of the whodunit, the impossible crime and the locked-room mystery, with stories that have thrilled and baffled generations of readers.Bodies from the Library collects the stories that are impossible to find: stories that appeared in a newspaper, magazine or an anthology that has long been out of print, ephemeral works such as plays not aired, staged or screened for decades and unpublished stories that were absorbed into an author’s archive when they died ...Please note: These stories were mostly written in the first half of the 20th century and characters sometimes use offensive language or otherwise are described or behave in ways that reflect the prejudices and insensitivities of the period.
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[Place of publication not identified] : Bolinda/HarperCollins UK, 2022
Collation:
1 online resource (1 audio file)
Series:
Bodies From the Library ; 5
ISBN:
9780008548735
Language:
English
BRN:
2747761