Detective Stories from the Strand
By: selected and introduced by Jack Adrian ; foreword by Julian Symons.
Contributors: Adrian, Jack.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Oxford [England]; New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780192123060
Copyright date: 1991
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories, English; English fiction -- 20th century
Other titles: Strand (London, England)
Description: This collection which will delight all enthusiasts of crime fiction from the Golden Age of detective writing contains twenty-five mystery and detection, all first published in "The Strand Magazine," one of the most successful and influential popular magazines of its time (1891-1950). Making its mark immediately with the publicaiton of the first Sherlock Holmes stories, "The Strand" continued to publish high quality detective fiction.
Table of contents: title: I The great detectives. The vampire of the village / G.K. Chesterton --; title: The dream / Agatha Christie --; title: The ginger king / A.E.W. Mason --; title: The ministering angel / E.C. Bentley --; title: Tokay of the comet year / H. Warner Allen II Legal niceties. --; title: A point of law / Somerset Maugham --; title: Not guilty / Will Scott --; title: III The twist. The idol's eye / Sapper --; title: The perfect crime / Seamark --; title: The intruder / Augustus Muir --; title: Cast-iron alibi / Richard Keverne --; title: IV Rogues, knaves, and fortune-hunters. A deal in old masters / Aldous Huxley --; title: Private water / A.J. Alan --; title: A gift from the Nabob / D.L. Murray --; title: The episcopal seal / J. Maclaren-Ross --; title: V Mostly murder. The interruption / W.W. Jacobs --; title: The Chobham affair / Edgar Wallace --; title: By kind permission of the murdered man / Hylton Cleaver --; title: In view of the audience / Marguerite Steen --; title: The man who dreamed too much / Quentin Reynolds --; title: Inquest / Loel Yeo --; title: VI The master. The adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton / Arthur Conan Doyle / The Adventure of the creeping man / Arthur Conan Doyle --; title: The adventure of the lion's mane / Arthur Conan Doyle --; title: The adventure of the first class carriage / Ronald Knox.