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Detective stories from the Strand / selected and introduced by Jack Adrian ; foreword by Julian Symons.
- Title
- Detective stories from the Strand / selected and introduced by Jack Adrian ; foreword by Julian Symons.
- Publication
- Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1991.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PR1309.D4 D4 1991 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Adrian, Jack.
- Description
- xxiii, 374 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- This collection which will delight all enthusiasts of crime fiction from the Golden Age of detective writing contains twenty-five mystery and detection, all first published in "The Strand Magazine," one of the most successful and influential popular magazines of its time (1891-1950). Making its mark immediately with the publicaiton of the first Sherlock Holmes stories, "The Strand" continued to publish high quality detective fiction.
- Uniform Title
- Strand Magazine (London, England)
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Detective and mystery fiction
- Short stories
- Mystery fiction
- Detective and mystery fiction.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The vampire of the village / G.K. Chesterton -- The dream / Agatha Christie -- The ginger king / A.E.W. Mason -- The ministering angel / E.C. Bently -- Tokay of the comet year / H. Warner Allen -- A point of law / Somerset Maugham -- Not guilty / Will Scott -- The idol's eye / Sapper -- The perfect crime / Seamark -- The intruder / Augustus Muir -- Cast-iron alibi / Richard Keverne -- A deal in old masters / Aldous Huxley -- Private water / A.J. Alan -- A gift from the Nabob / D.L. Murray -- The Episcopal seal / J. Maclaren-Ross -- The interruption / W.W. Jacobs -- The Chobham affair / Edgar Wallace -- By kind permission of the murdered man / Hylton Cleaver -- In view of the audience / Marguerite Steen -- The man who dreamed too much / Quentin Reynolds -- Inquest / Loel Yeo -- The adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton / Arthur Conan Doyle -- The adventure of the creeping man / Arthur Conan Doyle -- The adventure of the lion's mane / Arthur Conan Doyle -- The adventure of the first class carriage / Ronald Knox.
- ISBN
- 0192123068
- 9780192123060
- LCCN
- 91021476
- OCLC
- 23900779
- SCSB-10968537
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library