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THE PENGUIN BOOK OF MURDER MYSTERIES - VARIOUS ...

"The mystery of a bloody murder has been a perennially classic theme  drawing readers to
examine what motivates heinous crimes and how the investigative procedure takes us behind the
scenes of tragedy. These stories from the 19th and early 20th centuries introduce the earliest
detectives  both male and female  that inspired iterations from BBC radio dramas to American
television. Sims's selections showcase evil masterminds  suspect narrators  early female
detectives  shipboard murders  and psychological and scientific inquiries. And then  there are
Clue-like titles such as 'The Case of the Pool of Blood in the Pastor's Study' that a modern
murder mystery fan can't resist. The [book] features stories by classic authors such as Anton
Chekhov  Louisa May Alcott  and Charles W. Chesnutt along with early crime writing luminaries
such as Austrian novelist Augusta Groner and the prolific American Geraldine Bonner. Surprises
include a dark Irish detective story published 14 years before Poe's Dupin investigated the
doings in the Rue Morgue--sixty years before the debut of Sherlock Holmes--and a Canadian First
Nations detective who investigated a century before Dana Stabenow introduced Kate Shugak"--

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