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The Folio Treasury of Shorter Crime Fiction, Volume 2: Superior Sleuths

The Folio Treasury of Shorter Crime Fiction, Volume 2: Superior Sleuths

Sue Bradbury
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Whether it's a classic whodunit, a brilliantly plotted detective story or a sophisticated psychological chiller, there's no greater pleasure than settling down with a good crime story.

These stories introduce many of crime fiction's finest heroes, including the crucial episodes that formed Ian Rankin's John Rebus and John Le Carré's spy–master George Smiley.

Acclaimed masters of mystery such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Rex Stout and Edgar Wallace rub shoulders with less well known yet equally compelling writers like American mystery queen Anna Katharine Green and Cornell Woolrich, best known for 'Rear Window', famously immortalized in film by Alfred Hitchcock. Each story is introduced either by the authors themselves, by fellow crime writers, including Colin Dexter, Reginald Hill and Margaret Yorke, or by aficionados of the genre, like Patrick Marnham, Simon Brett and Marcel Berlins. Full of menace and diabolical twists, pitting rationalism against the supernatural, good against evil, these twenty masterpieces will baffle and entertain the most ingenious of armchair detectives.

Volume 2: Superior Sleuths
Guaranteed to make any reader cudgel 'the little grey cells', 'Dead Man's Mirror' is a classic from the mistress of mystery and suspense: a locked door, a gleaming pistol, a shattered mirror – a suicide seems obvious, but Poirot has other ideas – Two famous characters make their debuts in these stories: the world's most famous spymaster, George Smiley, would go on to take a leading role in many of John Le Carré's future novels, while Antonia Fraser's Jemima Shore is introduced in a terrific English mystery set in a country convent.

Dead Man's Mirror by Agatha Christie
The Gun with Wings by Rex Stout
Call for the Dead by John Le Carré
Quiet as a Nun by Antonia Fraser
Grace Notes by Sara Paretsky

Quarter bound in cloth with blocked paper sides.
Set in Garamond.
4 volumes, with 44 illustrations 4 in colour by Nick Hardcastle
6½" x 9"
Language
English
Pages
453
Format
Hardcover
Release
January 01, 2007

The Folio Treasury of Shorter Crime Fiction, Volume 2: Superior Sleuths

Sue Bradbury
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
Whether it's a classic whodunit, a brilliantly plotted detective story or a sophisticated psychological chiller, there's no greater pleasure than settling down with a good crime story.

These stories introduce many of crime fiction's finest heroes, including the crucial episodes that formed Ian Rankin's John Rebus and John Le Carré's spy–master George Smiley.

Acclaimed masters of mystery such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Rex Stout and Edgar Wallace rub shoulders with less well known yet equally compelling writers like American mystery queen Anna Katharine Green and Cornell Woolrich, best known for 'Rear Window', famously immortalized in film by Alfred Hitchcock. Each story is introduced either by the authors themselves, by fellow crime writers, including Colin Dexter, Reginald Hill and Margaret Yorke, or by aficionados of the genre, like Patrick Marnham, Simon Brett and Marcel Berlins. Full of menace and diabolical twists, pitting rationalism against the supernatural, good against evil, these twenty masterpieces will baffle and entertain the most ingenious of armchair detectives.

Volume 2: Superior Sleuths
Guaranteed to make any reader cudgel 'the little grey cells', 'Dead Man's Mirror' is a classic from the mistress of mystery and suspense: a locked door, a gleaming pistol, a shattered mirror – a suicide seems obvious, but Poirot has other ideas – Two famous characters make their debuts in these stories: the world's most famous spymaster, George Smiley, would go on to take a leading role in many of John Le Carré's future novels, while Antonia Fraser's Jemima Shore is introduced in a terrific English mystery set in a country convent.

Dead Man's Mirror by Agatha Christie
The Gun with Wings by Rex Stout
Call for the Dead by John Le Carré
Quiet as a Nun by Antonia Fraser
Grace Notes by Sara Paretsky

Quarter bound in cloth with blocked paper sides.
Set in Garamond.
4 volumes, with 44 illustrations 4 in colour by Nick Hardcastle
6½" x 9"
Language
English
Pages
453
Format
Hardcover
Release
January 01, 2007

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