Bodies from the Library - Collins Crime Club

Informationen zum Autor Dame Ngaio Marsh was born in New Zealand in 1895 and died in February 1982. She wrote over 30 detective novels and many of her stories have theatrical settings, for Ngaio Marsh’s real passion was the theatre. She was both an actress and producer and almost single-handedly revived the New Zealand public’s interest in the theatre. It was for this work that the received what she called her ‘damery’ in 1966. Robert Bruce Montgomery was born in Buckinghamshire in 1921, and was a golden age crime writer as well as a successful concert pianist and composer. Under the pseudonym Edmund Crispin, he wrote 9 detective novels and 42 short stories. In addition to his reputation as a leader in the field of mystery genre, he contributed to many periodicals and newspapers and edited sci–fi anthologies. After the golden years of the 1950s he retired from the limelight to Devonshire until his death in 1978. Klappentext This annual anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together tales from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including a short novel by Christianna Brand. Zusammenfassung This annual anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together tales from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including a short novel by Christianna Brand.

Product details

• Authors: Christiann Brand, Christianna Brand, Brand Christianna, C, Agatha Christie, Edmund Crispin, Ngaio Marsh, Tony Medawar, Julian et al Symons
• Assisted by: Ton Medawar (Editor), Tony Medawar (Editor), Medawar Tony (Editor)
• Publisher: Harper Collins Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9780008380977
• ISBN: 978-0-00-838097-7
• Dimensions: 141 mm x 222 mm x 36 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical, FICTION / Crime, Historical mysteries, Crime & mystery, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Traditional, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Short Stories, FICTION / Anthologies (multiple authors), FICTION / Thrillers / Crime, Classic crime, Crime & mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, Historical crime & mysteries, Classic crime and mystery fiction, Crime and mystery: cosy mystery, Classic fiction: general and literary