Great tales of detection
nineteen stories
by Dorothy L. Sayers
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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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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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