Author: Christie, Agatha; Heyer, Georgette; Milne, A. A.; Blake, Nicholas; Brand, Christianna
Author: Medawar, Tony,
Publication year: 2019
Format: Paperback
Publisher: London : Collins Crime Club,
Resource type: Physical
ISBN: 9780008289256 (pbk.) :
Notes:
Seldom or never-seen stories from Agatha Christie, Georgette Heyer, A. A. Milne, Nicholas Blake and Christianna Brand are brought together in this collection to coincide with this year's series of }Bodies From The Library{ events. This anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together 16 tales by masters of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including a newly discovered Agatha Christie crime story that has not been seen since 1922.At a time when crime and thriller writing has once again overtaken the sales of general and literary fiction, Bodies from the Library unearths lost stories from the Golden Age, that period between the World Wars when detective fiction captured the public's imagination and saw the emergence of some of the world's cleverest and most popular storytellers.This anthology brings together 16 forgotten tales that have either been published only once before - perhaps in a newspaper or rare magazine - or have never bef