{"product_id":"9780008380977","title":"Bodies from the Library 4 : Lost Tales of Mystery and Suspense from the Golden Age of Detection","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Medawar, Tony, Marsh, Ngaio, Brand, Christianna, Crispin, Edmund \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 30\/09\/2021,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 416 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780008380977,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis annual anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together tales from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including a short novel by Christianna Brand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Mystery stories have been around for centuries—there are whodunits, whydunits and howdunits, including locked-room puzzles, detective stories without detectives, and crimes with a limited choice of suspects.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Countless volumes of such stories have been published, but some are still impossible to find: stories that appeared in a newspaper, magazine or an anthology that has long been out of print; ephemeral works such as plays not aired, staged or screened for decades; and unpublished stories that were absorbed into an author’s archive when they died . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Here for the first time are three never-before-published mysteries by Edmund Crispin, Ngaio Marsh and Leo Bruce, and two pieces written for radio by Gladys Mitchell and H. C. Bailey—the latter featuring Reggie Fortune.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Together with a newly unearthed short story by Ethel Lina White that inspired Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes, and a complete short novel by Christianna Brand, this diverse mix of tales by some of the world’s most popular classic crime writers contains something for everyone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Complete with indispensable biographies by Tony Medawar of all the featured authors, the fourth volume in the series Bodies from the Library once again brings into the daylight the forgotten, the lost and the unknown.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39629944619052,"sku":"9780008380977","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780008380977_51704479-3f51-479d-b232-c3c1b584f2b9.jpg?v=1759668248","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780008380977","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}