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Bodies from the Library

von Tony Medawar (Herausgeber)

Weitere Autoren: H. C. Bailey (Mitwirkender), Anthony Berkeley (Mitwirkender), Nicholas Blake (Mitwirkender), Ernest Bramah (Mitwirkender), Christianna Brand (Mitwirkender)11 mehr, Leo Bruce (Mitwirkender), Agatha Christie (Mitwirkender), J. J. Connington (Mitwirkender), Vincent Cornier (Mitwirkender), Freeman Wills Crofts (Mitwirkender), Cyril Hare (Mitwirkender), Georgette Heyer (Mitwirkender), A. A. Milne (Mitwirkender), John Rhode (Mitwirkender), Arthur Upfield (Mitwirkender), Roy Vickers (Mitwirkender)

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This anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together 16 tales by masters of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including a newly discovered Agatha Christie crime story that has not been seen since 1922. At a time when crime and thriller writing has once again overtaken the sales of general and literary fiction, Bodies from the Library unearths lost stories from the Golden Age, that period between the World Wars when detective fiction captured the public's imagination and saw the emergence of some of the world's cleverest and most popular storytellers. This anthology brings together 16 forgotten tales that have either been published only once before - perhaps in a newspaper or rare magazine - or have never before appeared in print. From a previously unpublished 1917 script featuring Ernest Bramah's blind detective Max Carrados, to early 1950s crime stories written for London's Evening Standard by Cyril Hare, Freeman Wills Crofts and A.A. Milne, it spans five decades of writing by masters of the Golden Age. Most anticipated of all are the contributions by women writers: the first detective story by Georgette Heyer, unseen since 1923; an unpublished story by Christianna Brand, creator of Nanny McPhee; and a dark tale by Agatha Christie published only in an Australian journal in 1922 during her 'Grand Tour' of the British Empire. With other stories by Detection Club stalwarts Anthony Berkeley, H.C. Bailey, J.J. Connington, John Rhode and Nicholas Blake, plus Vincent Cornier, Leo Bruce, Roy Vickers and Arthur Upfield, this essential collection harks back to a time before forensic science - when murder was a complex business.… (mehr)
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I skipped the play which opens with a "yeah this is racist" disclaimer and then 1 page in you get a Japanese character talking about his samurai spirit. I'm good. Otherwise... mediocre stories that I gobble up cause I'm a sucker for generic golden age mystery stories. If you are, you'll probably enjoy it enough, if not, nah ( )
  tombomp | Oct 31, 2023 |
This collection of short stories from various Golden Age mystery writers was a mixed bag. I mean, they all are but this one struck me as more so than others. Maybe this was because there was no overarching theme to this collection.

And it somehow felt as if the story by Agatha Christie was only added to carry the rest of the book.

Dame Agatha's contribution was interesting, but not a favourite.

One thing that I have taken away from this is that Cyril Hare is definitely becoming one of my favourite GA mystery writers. His works tend to have a dark side, but with quite a bit of humor and irony, too. ( )
  BrokenTune | May 26, 2020 |
This is a fascinating collection of stories and plays by Golden Age authors, including the one that got Arthur Upfield into so much trouble, about the perfect murder, and an Agatha Christie story The Wife of the Kenite published in in an Australian Women's Magazine in 1922. This is the earliest published Christie story that I have read. (See my list here).

Most of the stories in the anthology have only been published once, or not previously. Some have worn well, others were more 19th century in their "feel". After each short story is an excellent short biography of the author. The introduction also gave an excellent summary of the Golden Age period. What a productive time it was!

The contents
Before Insulin, J.J. Connington
The Inverness Cape, Leo Bruce
Dark Waters, Freeman Wills Croft
Lincke's Great Case, Georgette Heyer
Calling James Braithwaite, Nicholas Blake - a play
The Elusive Bullet, John Rhode
The Euthanasia of Hilary's Aunt, Cyril Hare
The Girdle of Dreams, Vincent Cornier
The Fool and the Perfect Murder, Arthur Upfield
Bread Upon the Waters, A.A. Milne
The Man with the Twisted Thumb, Anthony Berkeley
The Rum Punch, Christianna Brand
Blind Man's Buff, Ernest Bramah - a play
Victoria Pumphrey, H.C. Bailey
The Starting-Handle Murder, Roy Vickers
The Wife of the Kenite, Agatha Christie ( )
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AutorennameRolleArt des AutorsWerk?Status
Medawar, TonyHerausgeberHauptautoralle Ausgabenbestätigt
Bailey, H. C.MitwirkenderCo-Autoralle Ausgabenbestätigt
Berkeley, AnthonyMitwirkenderCo-Autoralle Ausgabenbestätigt
Blake, NicholasMitwirkenderCo-Autoralle Ausgabenbestätigt
Bramah, ErnestMitwirkenderCo-Autoralle Ausgabenbestätigt
Brand, ChristiannaMitwirkenderCo-Autoralle Ausgabenbestätigt
Bruce, LeoMitwirkenderCo-Autoralle Ausgabenbestätigt
Christie, AgathaMitwirkenderCo-Autoralle Ausgabenbestätigt
Connington, J. J.MitwirkenderCo-Autoralle Ausgabenbestätigt
Cornier, VincentMitwirkenderCo-Autoralle Ausgabenbestätigt
Crofts, Freeman WillsMitwirkenderCo-Autoralle Ausgabenbestätigt
Hare, CyrilMitwirkenderCo-Autoralle Ausgabenbestätigt
Heyer, GeorgetteMitwirkenderCo-Autoralle Ausgabenbestätigt
Milne, A. A.MitwirkenderCo-Autoralle Ausgabenbestätigt
Rhode, JohnMitwirkenderCo-Autoralle Ausgabenbestätigt
Upfield, ArthurMitwirkenderCo-Autoralle Ausgabenbestätigt
Vickers, RoyMitwirkenderCo-Autoralle Ausgabenbestätigt
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This anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together 16 tales by masters of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including a newly discovered Agatha Christie crime story that has not been seen since 1922. At a time when crime and thriller writing has once again overtaken the sales of general and literary fiction, Bodies from the Library unearths lost stories from the Golden Age, that period between the World Wars when detective fiction captured the public's imagination and saw the emergence of some of the world's cleverest and most popular storytellers. This anthology brings together 16 forgotten tales that have either been published only once before - perhaps in a newspaper or rare magazine - or have never before appeared in print. From a previously unpublished 1917 script featuring Ernest Bramah's blind detective Max Carrados, to early 1950s crime stories written for London's Evening Standard by Cyril Hare, Freeman Wills Crofts and A.A. Milne, it spans five decades of writing by masters of the Golden Age. Most anticipated of all are the contributions by women writers: the first detective story by Georgette Heyer, unseen since 1923; an unpublished story by Christianna Brand, creator of Nanny McPhee; and a dark tale by Agatha Christie published only in an Australian journal in 1922 during her 'Grand Tour' of the British Empire. With other stories by Detection Club stalwarts Anthony Berkeley, H.C. Bailey, J.J. Connington, John Rhode and Nicholas Blake, plus Vincent Cornier, Leo Bruce, Roy Vickers and Arthur Upfield, this essential collection harks back to a time before forensic science - when murder was a complex business.

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