Called Back - The Detective Club

A classic from the HarperCollins archives, involving a blind man who stumbles across a murder.

About the author

Hugh Conway aka Frederick John Fargus (1847-1885) was a Bristol auctioneer who found fame as a writer when his 1883 book Called Back sold an astonishing 350,000 copies and was the publishing sensation of the year, effectively reinventing the crime novel. Compared favourably to Wilkie Collins, he wrote the equally successful Called Back the following year, but died from typhoid in 1885 aged only 37, cutting short a promising writing career.

Martin Edwards is an award-winning crime novelist whose Lake District Mysteries have been optioned by ITV. Elected to the Detection Club in 2008, he became the first Archivist of the Club, and is also Archivist of the Crime Writers’ Association. Renowned as the leading expert on the history of Golden Age detective fiction, he won the Crimefest Mastermind Quiz three times, and possesses one of Britain’s finest collections of Golden Age novels.

Summary

The first in a new series of classic detective stories from the vaults of HarperCollins involves a blind man who stumbles across a murder. As he has not seen anything, the assassins let him go, but he finds it is impossible to walk away from murder.

Product details

• Authors: Hugh Conway, Conway Hugh, Martin Edwards
• Assisted by: Martin Edwards (Introduction)
• Publisher: Harper Collins Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.08.2015
• EAN: 9780008137113
• ISBN: 978-0-00-813711-3
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 195 mm x 20 mm
• Series: The Detective Club; Detective Club Crime Classics; Detective Club Crime Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, Crime & mystery, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Crime and mystery fiction, Classic fiction: general and literary