num_pages: 337
description:  Bodies from the Library 2 Bodies from the Library 3 Bodies from the Library 4 This anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together 16 rare 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 publics imagination and saw the emergence of some of the worlds 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 From a previously unpublished 1917 script featuring Ernest Bramahs blind detective Max Carrados to early 1950s crime stories written for Londons Evening Standard by Cyril Hare Freeman Wills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of all are the contributions by women writers: the first detective story by Georgette Heyer unseen since 1923; an unpublished story by Christianna Brand creator of Nanny McPhee; and a dark tale by Agatha Christie published only in an Australian journal in 1922 during her Grand Tour of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.
language: English
title: Bodies from the Library: Lost Tales of Mystery and Suspense from the Golden Age of Detection: Lost Tales of Mystery and Suspense by Agatha Christie and other Masters of the Golden Age
publisher: Collins Crime Club