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    Continental Crimes

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    Discover the captivating treasures buried in the British Library's archives. Largely inaccessible to the public until now, these enduring crime classics were written in the golden age of detective fiction.

    "As with the best of such compilations, readers of classic mysteries will relish discovering unfamiliar authors, along with old favorites such as Arthur Conan Doyle and G.K. Chesterton." —Publishers Weekly, STARRED review

    A man is forbidden to uncover the secret of the tower in a fairy-tale castle by the Rhine. A headless corpse is found in a secret garden in Paris—belonging to the city's chief of police. And a drowned man is fished from the sea off the Italian Riviera, leaving the carabinieri to wonder why his socialite friends at the Villa Almirante are so unconcerned by his death.

    These are three of the scenarios in this new collection of vintage crime stories. Detective stories from the golden age and beyond have used European settings—cosmopolitan cities, rural idylls and crumbling chateaux—to explore timeless themes of revenge, deception, murder and haunting.

    Including lesser-known stories by Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, G.K. Chesterton, J. Jefferson Farjeon and other classic writers, this collection reveals many hidden gems of British crime.

    Also in the British Library Crime Classics:

    Smallbone Deceased

    The Body in the Dumb River

    Blood on the Tracks

    Surfeit of Suspects

    Death Has Deep Roots

    Checkmate to Murder

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSourcebooks
    Release dateAug 1, 2017
    ISBN9781464207495
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    • 3/5
      This book was sent to me by the publisher Poisoned Pen Press via NetGalley. Thank you.This British Library Crime Classic anthology, as the title explains, is a collection of 14 short stories where the crimes take place on the continent, rather than in England. Most have English characters and English detectives. Sherlock Holmes does not appear in the Doyle story The New Catacomb which might be fortunate for the great detective since Doyle seems to have borrowed generously from a classic Poe story. Chesterton’s Father Brown finds himself dealing with too many heads for one trunk. Although Arnold Bennet, author of the Staffordshire novel Anne of the Five Towns, did not concentrate on detective fiction he did write a neat little heist story about a missing necklace. My favorite was a Parker Pyne story, a character not as popular as the author’s Hercule Poirot or Miss Marple. Christie offers a mystery about a jewel theft with some surprising advice to a young husband about his marriage. And even F. Tennyson Jess, the author of the great A Pin to See the Peepshow, has a dark tale about a husband who may or may not be hastening his wife’s death.These stories range from good to forgettable, a typical mixture for an anthology. It is an unchallenging fun read.