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This 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 full-length novellas by **Christianna Brand** and **Julian Symons**. 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. 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anthology that has long been out of print; ephemeral works such as plays not aired, staged or screened for decades; and unpublished stories that were absorbed into an author's archive when they died . . . 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. 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 d
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- Author
- Ngaio Marsh, Christianna Brand, Edmund Crispin, Tony Medawar (Editor)
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Limited
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780008380984
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Thriller, Short Stories
- Rating
- 4.1 / 5 (49 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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