num_pages: 264
description: The stories in this anthology were written over a period of almost thirty years, and cover the best part of two millennia.Murder and miracles --The hunchback and the stammerer --War hath made all friends --Domesday deferred --The shoulder-blade of a ram --Perfect shadows --A black death --A gift from God --Squinting at death --Murder at anchor --Comical revenge --Radical dandy --Slaughter in the strand --The sea horse --Blind eyes --Second fiddle --Sea voices --Psalm for a dead disciple --
language: English
title: Murder, Ancient and Modern
titlecomplete: Murder, Ancient and Modern
genres: Mystery
ratings_count: 4
publisher: Crippen & Landru, Publishers