The Anatomy of Murder
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Anatomy of Murder
By (Author) The Detection Club
By (author) Dorothy L. Sayers
By (author) Francis Iles
By (author) Freeman Wills Crofts
By (author) Helen Simpson
By (author) John Rhode
HarperCollins Publishers
Collins Crime Club
19th June 2019
13th June 2019
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
Historical crime and mysteries
Classic crime and mystery fiction
Thriller / suspense fiction
Fiction based on or inspired by true events
Short stories
823.087208
Physical Properties
Paperback
352
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 22mm
240g
Description
A unique anthology for crime aficionados seven of the worlds most notorious genuine murder mysteries retold by the most accomplished classic crime writers of their generation.
A manipulative murderer who stalked the streets of Paris; a young wife who poisoned her eccentric husband; a bank cashiers mysterious suicide; a brutal double murder in New Zealand Seven of the worlds greatest crime writers turn their hand to some of the worlds most spine-tingling mysteries all of them astonishingly TRUE.
This remarkable collection from the archives of the Detection Club follows The Floating Admiral, Ask a Policeman and Six Against the Yard back into print after more than 75 years, and shows some of the most accomplished authors of their generation retelling real-life murder mysteries with all the relish of the tastiest crime fiction.
Reviews
Each author manages to give the essential facts of his or her case; and the reader has the further interest of seeing how characteristics of the authors fiction writing reveal themselves in this kind of critical and historical work. The layman as well as the criminologist has good reason to read this volume; and he will desire lawyers and detectives also to digest it. Sunday Times
Reviews for previous Detection Club re-issues:
A must for all connoisseurs of detective fiction. Literary Review
This years most welcome reissue. Sunday Telegraph
A book of irresistible charm for students of the detective story. Times Literary Supplement
Author Bio
The Detection Club is a private association of writers of detective fiction in Great Britain, existing chiefly for the purpose of eating dinners together at suitable intervals and of talking illimitable shop Its membership is confined to those who have written genuine detective stories (not adventure tales or thrillers) and election is secured by a vote of the club on recommendation by two or more members, and involves the undertaking of an oath. Dorothy L. Sayers
