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When acclaimed mystery writer Dorothy L. Sayers first began compiling anthologies of the best crime stories in the 1920s and '30s, the genre was in the flush of its first golden age. While it is hard to imagine today--after every possible mystery plot has been told, retold, subverted, and played straight again by hundreds of writers over nearly a century--in Sayers's day there were still twists that had never been seen, and machinations of crime that would shock even jaded Jazz Age readers. Now today's fans of mystery and crime can experience a handpicked collection of over thirty of the most outstanding stories from this era, originally chosen by Sayers and newly introduced by Otto Penzler, a leading expert and connoisseur in the field of mystery literature. As a prolific writer of the genre, Sayers understood the difficulty of putting together a mystery that was not only sufficiently challenging (so that the solution was not immediately obvious to the reader), but also solvable without forcing the writer to cheat. That balance between opacity and solvability remains the greatest challenge of writing great crime stories--and these are some of the greatest. Authors appearing in this collection include: Edgar Allen Poe Herman Melville H. G. Wells Wilkie Collins Stephen Crane J. S. Le Fanu This is a treasure trove for real fans!… (más)
Lord Peter Whimsey is an acquired taste. In Clouds of Witness, we chase through 200 pages only to come back to where we started. The difference being is that we've had a jolly good time in the chase. In The Unpleasnatness at the Bellona Club we come across a Lord who is not sure of himself and the story drags. The idea of the story is great fun and it progresses at a fair pace but takes too long to end. ( )
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Introduction (Otto Penzler): If there is a universal truth to the compiling of an anthology, it is that it is a subjective undertaking.
Lord Chizelrigg's Missing Fortune (Robert Barr): The name of the late Lord Chizelrigg never comes to my mind without instantly suggesting that of Mr. T. A. Edison.
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The Inexperienced Ghost (H. G. Wells): All I certainly know is that, in the very moment, in the very instant, of concluding those passes, he changed, and staggered, and fell down before us--dead!
When acclaimed mystery writer Dorothy L. Sayers first began compiling anthologies of the best crime stories in the 1920s and '30s, the genre was in the flush of its first golden age. While it is hard to imagine today--after every possible mystery plot has been told, retold, subverted, and played straight again by hundreds of writers over nearly a century--in Sayers's day there were still twists that had never been seen, and machinations of crime that would shock even jaded Jazz Age readers. Now today's fans of mystery and crime can experience a handpicked collection of over thirty of the most outstanding stories from this era, originally chosen by Sayers and newly introduced by Otto Penzler, a leading expert and connoisseur in the field of mystery literature. As a prolific writer of the genre, Sayers understood the difficulty of putting together a mystery that was not only sufficiently challenging (so that the solution was not immediately obvious to the reader), but also solvable without forcing the writer to cheat. That balance between opacity and solvability remains the greatest challenge of writing great crime stories--and these are some of the greatest. Authors appearing in this collection include: Edgar Allen Poe Herman Melville H. G. Wells Wilkie Collins Stephen Crane J. S. Le Fanu This is a treasure trove for real fans!
In Clouds of Witness, we chase through 200 pages only to come back to where we started. The difference being is that we've had a jolly good time in the chase.
In The Unpleasnatness at the Bellona Club we come across a Lord who is not sure of himself and the story drags. The idea of the story is great fun and it progresses at a fair pace but takes too long to end. ( )