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Metropolitan Mysteries: A Casebook of London's Detectives
Paperback
Series: British Library Crime Classics
Publisher Price: $15.99
ISBN13: 9781464237737
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
Published: Dec 9 2025
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.75
Height: 1.11 Width: 5.21 Depth: 7.91
Language: English
A welcome look at a distinctive turn in the history of detective fiction., the stories offer ample local color, highlighting for the most part the ordinary folk--shopkeepers, ticket-takers, hairdressers, steeplejacks, barmen, and the occasional government functionary--that give London its flair. -- Kirkus Reviews
Featuring a roster of Scotland Yard's meticulous best, a cohort of daring doctors and a cadre of characterful private investigators, this new selection by Martin Edwards includes eighteen vintage mystery stories from a period between 1908 and 1963 to showcase the city's most compelling classic cases.
Lord Peter Wimsey reads murder in the minutiae of a Bloomsbury kitchen. Dr. Gideon Fell unravels a locked-room mystery from a flat in Chelsea. Superintendent Aldgate cracks the case of the body atop Nelson's Column.
The streets of London have been home to many great detectives since the days of Sherlock Holmes and Watson, with some of the best authors in the genre taking to the short story form to pit their sleuths against crimes ranging from murders on the Tube to heists from the capital's finest jewellers. With contributions by Margery Allingham, John Dickson Carr and Dorothy L. Sayers 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.
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