HarperCollins Publishers - Bodies From The Library - 2018 [EN]

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"Bodies from the Library by Tony Medawar" is a Fiction > Mystery/Thriller title in English, distributed as a EPUB file (0.5 MB). Written by Tony Medawar. The book spans approximately 305 pages with 97,436 words. This anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together 16 tales by masters of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including a newly discovered Agatha Christie crime story that has not been seen since 1922. At a time when crime and thriller writing has once again overtaken the sales of general and literary fiction, Bodies from the Library unearths lost stories from the Golden Age, that period between the World Wars when detective fiction captured the public's imagination and saw the emergence of some of the world's cleverest and most popular sto...

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CategoryBooks

LanguageEnglish (EN)

GenreFiction, Mystery, Short Stories, Thriller

QualityEPUB

Size0.5 MB

Pages305

ArchivedAug 24, 2026

Synopsis

While Poe’s stories were popular, and prompted others to try their hand at detective fiction, it would be nearly twenty years before the first novel-length detective story was published. Though other detective novels appeared, most notably The Moonstone (1868) by Wilkie Collins, detection remained generally subordinate to romance and suspense, and it would be a further twenty years before the next landmark in detective fiction, Fergus Hume’s The Mystery of a Hansom Cab , published in 1886. As we