num_pages: 272
description: These twelve stories provide an entertaining exploration of this extensive and fascinating corner of English popular fiction, celebrating the detective's intellectual and intuitive powers when confronted with murder, theft, and other mysteries. The main focus of this collection is from the1890s to the 1920s, the period when the classic English detective story was at its confident and original best, but it also offers examples from earlier and later periods. Presenting a balance of classic and more unusual stories, and featuring works by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, G. K. Chesterton, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Michael Innes, this anthology will appeal to both the newcomer and aficionado of the genre.The adventure of the stockbroker's clerk / A. Conan DoyleThe Lenton Croft robberies / Arthur MorrisonThe green-stone god and the stockbroker / Fergus HumeThe blue sequin / R. Austin FreemanThe strange crime of John Boulnois / G.K. ChestertonWho killed Charlie Winpole? / Ernest BramahThe poetical policeman / Edgar WallaceThe man with no face / Dorothy L. SayersThe yellow slugs / H.C. BaileyThe unknown peer / E.C. BentleyLesson in anatomy / Michael InnesThe flaw / Julian Symons
language: English
title: Twelve English Detective Stories
titlecomplete: Twelve English Detective Stories (Oxford Twelves)
ratings_count: 7
publisher: Oxford University Press