The Mammoth Book of Golden Age Detective Stories [antikvár]

Introduction And Edgar Allan Poe begat the Chevalier Dupin, and Dupin begat Lecoq, and Lecoq begat Sherlock Holmes, and Sherlock Holmes begat - oh, dozens and dozens of detectives, and the Golden Age of the Detective Story was upon us. I'm probably in trouble already. The Golden Age is generally taken to be the period between the two World Wars, that idyllic (for some) era when such writers as Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, John Dickson Carr, Margery Allingham, Ellery Queen, S. S. Van Dine and others were pouring out whodunnits that now seem classic, and for the mystery novel it probably was an era as Golden as it has been painted. But the period that is covered in this collection - roughly the late-Victorian and Edwardian age - offers not only the complete canon of Sherlock Holmes short stories, the first and best of Father Brown, The Old Man in the Corner, the blind detective Max Carrados, Raffles, Uncle Abner, John Silence, Dr Thorndike and the "inverted" detective story. Prince Zaleski, "The Thinking Machine", Arsene Lupin, Craig Kennedy, and Inspector Hanaud, but many more besides, and there has surely never been a more gilded age for the detective short story. And that is not to mention The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Big Bow Mystery, Trent's