Twelve English Detective Stories

by Michael Cox (Editor)

These twelve stories provide an entertaining exploration of this extensive and fascinating corner of English popular fiction, celebrating the detective's intellectual and intuitive powers when confronted with murder, theft, and other mysteries. The main focus of this collection is from the
1890s to the 1920s, the period when the classic English detective story was at its confident and original best, but it also offers examples from earlier and later periods. Presenting a balance of classic and more unusual stories, and featuring works by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, G. K. Chesterton,
Dorothy L. Sayers, and Michael Innes, this anthology will appeal to both the newcomer and aficionado of the genre.

The adventure of the stockbroker's clerk / A. Conan Doyle
The Lenton Croft robberies / Arthur Morrison
The green-stone god and the stockbroker / Fergus Hume
The blue sequin / R. Austin Freeman
The strange crime of John Boulnois / G.K. Chesterton
Who killed Charlie Winpole? / Ernest Bramah
The poetical policeman / Edgar Wallace
The man with no face / Dorothy L. Sayers
The yellow slugs / H.C. Bailey
The unknown peer / E.C. Bentley
Lesson in anatomy / Michael Innes
The flaw / Julian Symons

Genres: Crime

266 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

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About the Author:
Michael Andrew Cox was an English biographer, novelist and musician.
He also held the position of Senior Commissioning Editor of reference books for Oxford University Press.