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The Mammoth Book of Vintage Whodunnits
Author(s): Maxim Jakubowski (Author)
- Publisher: Robinson Publishing
- Publication Date: 30 Mar. 2006
- Language: English
- Print length: 512 pages
- ISBN-10: 1845292529
- ISBN-13: 9781845292522
Book Description
Hidden gems from the earliest days of mystery fiction. The years 1850-1905 represent the pre-Golden Age of crime writing. Drawn exclusively from those earliest days of mystery fiction, this revealing anthology includes a surprising number of authors not commonly associated today with crime fiction – names like Alexander Dumas, Alexander Pushkin, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stephenson, Arnold Bennett, Mark Twain and Rudyard Kipling. Over three-quarters of the stories in this fascinating volume have not been reproduced since the 1950s. They include: Guy de Maupassant’s “The Hand”; Charles Dickens’s “Hunted Down”; Maurice LeBlanc’s gentleman-burglar Arsene Lupin; Conan Doyle’s “The Adventures of the Three Students”; Robert Louis Stephenson’s “Markheim”; Edgar Poe’s Chevaller Auguste Dupin, the first genuine fictional detective; Baroness Orczy’s “Old Man in the Corner”; and EW Hornung’s immensely popular thief Raffles.
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About the Author
Maxim Jakubowski is the editor of The Best British Mysteries, and the bestselling Mammoth Book of Erotica series, now into its seventh volume. A columnist for The Guardian, novelist and broadcaster, he lives in London where he owns the world-famous Murder One bookshop.
