320 стр. 2 иллюстрации Аннотация This new edition, which is reproduced from a first printing of the book, is introduced by the author Martin Edwards, archivist of the Detection Club, and includes a never-before-published Preface by Agatha Christie, ‘Detective Writers in England’, in which she discusses her fellow writers in the Detection Club.Lord Comstock is a barbarous newspaper tycoon with enemies in high places. His murder in the study of his country houseposes a dilemma for the Home Secretary. In the hours before his death, Lord Comstock’s visitors included the government Chief Whip, an Archbishop, and the… СкачатьПодробнее Оцените книгу Anthony Berkeley, Dorothy L. Sayers, Gladys Mitchell, Helen Simpson, Агата Кристи Ask a Policeman
440 стр. 5 иллюстраций Аннотация A unique anthology for crime aficionados – seven of the world’s most notorious genuine murder mysteries retold by the most accomplished classic crime writers of their generation.A manipulative murderer who stalked the streets of Paris; a young wife who poisoned her eccentric husband; a bank cashier’s mysterious suicide; a brutal double murder in New Zealand… Seven of the world’s greatest crime writers turn their hand to some of the world’s most spine-tingling mysteries – all of them astonishingly TRUE.This remarkable collection from the archives of the Detection Club follows The… СкачатьПодробнее Оцените книгу Dorothy L. Sayers, Francis Iles, Freeman Crofts Wills, Helen Simpson, John Rhode The Anatomy of Murder