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Metropolitan Mysteries

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The streets of London have been home to many great detectives since the days of Sherlock Holmes and Watson, and the exploits of these city sleuths have flourished in the short story from.

Featuring a roster of Scotland Yard's meticulous best, a cohort of daring doctors and a handful of characterful private investigators, this new collection of short stories selected by Martin Edwards comprises a casebook of some of London's most challenging mysteries.

With contributions by Margery Allingham (DCI Luke), Anthony Gilbert (Inspector Field) and Henry Wade (John Bragg) along with rare finds by Raymond Postgate, J. Jefferson Farjeon and many more, this anthology invites you to join some of the greatest detectives ever written on their perilous trail through London's darker underside.

Authors include Arthur Conan Doyle, John Dickson Carr, Josephine Bell, Anthony Berkeley, Margery Allingham, Henry Wade and many more.

About This Edition

ISBN: 9780712355513
Publication date:
Author: Martin Edwards
Publisher: British Library Publishing
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 304 pages
Series: British Library Crime Classics
Genres: Classic crime and mystery fiction
Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives
Crime and mystery: cosy mystery
Crime and mystery: police procedural

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