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Post by jonathan122 on Feb 28, 2009 1:38:02 GMT
The Giant Book of Great Detective Stories - (Robinson 1985)
An omnibus edition of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Bedside Books of Great Detective Stories, edited by van Thal and published in, respectively, 1976, 1977 and 1978. There's little that could make it's way into the Pan Books of Horror, but, taken on its own terms, this really is a fantastic collection.
Book 1
The Inoffensive Captain - E. C. Bentley
The Scapegoat - Christiana Brand
The Mystery of the Child's Toy - Leslie Charteris
The Rubber Trumpet - Roy Vickers
The Moabite Cipher - R. Austin Freeman
The Little Old Man of Batignolles - Emile Gaboriau
The Scarlet Butterfly - Dulcie Gray
Out of Paradise - E. W. Hornung
The Cave of Ali Baba - Dorothy L. Sayers
Book 2
Superintendent Wilson's Holiday - Margaret Cole
The Treasure Hunt - Edgar Wallace
Sing a Song of Sixpence - Agatha Christie
Inspector Ghote and the Miracle Baby - H. R. F. Keating
The Biter Bit - William Wilkie Collins
We Know You're Busy Writing... - Edmund Crispin
Murder! - Arnold Bennett
The Eye of Apollo - G. K. Chesterton
A Matter of Goblins - Michael Innes
The Woman in the Big Hat - Baroness Orczy
Book 3
Goldfish - Raymond Chandler
The Girl with the Red-Gold Hair - June Thomson
Mr Bovey's Unexpected Will - L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace
The Mystery of the Sleeping-Car Express - Freeman Wills Croft
The Alibi - J. C. Squire
The Evidence of the Altar-Boy - Georges Simenon
The Judge Corroborates - J. S. Fletcher
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