Great Tales of Detection

Great Tales of Detection

by Dorothy L. Sayers

1976

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This classic collection brings together nineteen of the greatest detective tales ever written, spanning between them a period of a hundred years. They range from Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Purloined Letter', one of the earliest examples of the genre, through Agatha Christie's 'perfect murder' in 'Philomel Cottage' to the cunningly constructed 'The Mystery of The Sleeping-Car Express' by Freeman Wills Crofts. The authors included are: H.C. Bailey E. C. Bentley Anthony Berkeley Ernest Bramah Thomas Burke G. K. Chesterton Agatha Christie Wilkie Collins Freeman Wills Croft R. Austin Freeman Edgar Jepson and Robert Eustace Milward Kennedy C. Daly King John Rhode Father Ronald Knox Edgar Allan Poe Dorothy L. Sayers Robert Louis Stevenson Henry Wade