EAN: 9780143137535

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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