Tony Medawar Bodies from the Library 5 (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Bodies from the Library 5Condition: NewDescription: Classic crime fiction's 'Indiana Jones' Tony Medawar unearths more unpublished and uncollected stories from the Golden Age of suspense, including John Bude, John Dickson Carr, Dorothy L. Sayers and Julian Symons. ‘Five books in, and the selection here might well be the strongest yet. This series continues to delight with the high standard of forgotten gems that Medawar uncovers, and there’s sufficient range to ensure that all fans of the genre will find something to enjoy. Book 6 can’t come soon enough.’ Jim Noy, author of The Red Death Murders 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. The Golden Age still casts a long shadow, with many of the authors who were published at that time still hugely popular today. Aside from novels, they all wrote short fiction – stories, serials and plays – and although many have been republished in books over the last 100 years, Bodies from the Library collects the ones 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anthology that has long been out of print; ephemeral works such as plays not aired, staged or screened for decades; and unpublished stories that were absorbed into an author’s archive when they died . . . Complete with fascinating biographies by Tony Medawar of all the featured authors, this latest volume in the annual Bodies from the Library series once again brings into the daylight the forgotten, the lost and the unknown, and is an indispensable collection for any bookshelf.Author: Tony MedawarContributor: Tony Medawar (Edited by)Country/Region of Manufacture: GBEAN: 9780008514808Format: PaperbackGenre: FictionISBN: 9780008514808Item Height: 198mmItem Length: 129mmItem Weight: 270gItem Width: 26mmLanguage: EnglishPublisher: Collins Crime ClubRelease Date: 06/08/2023Subtitle: Lost Tales of Mystery and Suspense from the Golden Age of DetectionTopic: Classic Fiction, Crime Thrillers & MysteryRelease Year: 2023 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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