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Classic Tales of Mystery, EPUB eBook

Classic Tales of Mystery EPUB

Part of the Leather-bound Classics series

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Eleven classic whodunits starring master sleuths such as Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, and Father Brown.

A superstar lineup of detectivesincluding Sherlock Holmes, C. Auguste Dupin, and Hercule Poirotheadlines this elegant leather-bound edition of classic mystery stories. Short stories such as Edgar Allan Poe's ';The Murders in the Rue Morgue' and G. K. Chesterton's ';The Blue Cross' are ideal for a cozy evening by the fire, while novels like Agatha Christie'sThe Murder on the Linksand Jules Verne'sAn Antarctic Mysterywill keep you engrossed for days. The eleven works in this volume are preceded by a scholarly introduction that explores the origins of the genre, as well as the development of the modern mystery story and the contributions made by each author.

Works Included
Short stories:
The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Edgar Allan Poe
The Adventure of the Creeping Man, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Blue Cross, G. K. Chesterton
The Coin of Dionysius, Ernest Bramah
The Anthropologist at Large, R. Austin Freeman
The Most Dangerous Game, Richard Connell
Novels:
The Murder on the Links, Agatha Christie
Whose Body?, Dorothy Sayers
The Thirty-nine Steps, John Buchan
An Antarctic Mystery, Jules Verne
Room 13, Edgar Wallace

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