Title: Vintage Mystery and Detective Stories
Description: This volume is a richly entertaining and exciting collection of 50 mystery and detective stories from the golden age of crime fiction. This was a period when crimes were solved by the wit and ingenuity of sleuths with only their own intelligence to rely on, rather than a battery of scientific devices and procedures employed by the modern crime solver.

Within these pages you will meet fifty fascinating sleuths such as G. K. Chesterton's Mr Pond; Ernest Bramah's remarkable blind detective, Max Carrados, who can read newspapers by running his sensitive fingers over the print; Craig Kennedy, 'the American Sherlock Holmes' created by Arthur B. Reeve; and Jacques Futrelle's 'Thinking Machine' Professor S. F. X. Van Dusen.

The reader will also find tales by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Arnold Bennett, Rudyard Kipling, Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle - all created to thrill and intrigue you.
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, mystery & detective, collections & anthologies, Fiction, Mystery and detective stories, monograms, Children's fiction, Children's stories, English children's stories, English Detective and mystery stories, horse racing, opium, race horses, scalpels
Places: Paris, Wessex, Dartmoor, King's Pyland
People: C. Auguste Dupin, Minister D—, Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, Sherlock Holmes, John H. Watson, Fitzroy Simpson, Silver Blaze, Colonel Ross, John Straker, Ned Hunter, William Derbyshire, Silas Brown, Inspector Gregory