The Mammoth Book of Vintage Whodunnits
| By: | Jakubowski, Maxim |
| Publisher: | Constable & Robinson Ltd. |
| eText ISBN: | 9781780332703 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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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"