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Murder at the Manor (British Library Crime Classics) (edición 2016)

por Martin Edwards (Editor)

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The English country house is an iconic setting for some of the greatest British crime fiction. This new collection gathers together stories written over a span of about 65 years, during which British society, and life in country houses, was transformed out of all recognition. It includes fascinating and unfamiliar twists on the classic closed circle plot, in which the assorted guests at a country house party become suspects when a crime is committed. In the more sinister tales featured here, a gloomy mansion set in lonely grounds offers an eerie backdrop for dark deeds.… (más)
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Título:Murder at the Manor (British Library Crime Classics)
Autores:Martin Edwards (Editor)
Información:Poisoned Pen Press (2016), 384 pages
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Etiquetas:books I own, books I've read, British, British Library Crime Classics, mystery, detective

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Murder at the Manor: Country House Mysteries por Martin Edwards (Editor)

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The White Pillars Murders by G. K. Chesterton is a masterpiece and miles above the pat religious hectoring of his Father Brown stories. ( )
  tombomp | Oct 31, 2023 |
In general, I prefer full-length novels to short stories; short stories often wind up feeling incomplete to me. Most of these stories are concluded with enough explanation to satisfy novel-readers, but a few end in frustratingly ambiguous ways. Overall, a good collection of classic English country house mysteries that offers an enjoyable introduction to this sub-genre, as well as to the "need to know" classic mystery writers. I especially appreciated the introductory description of each author, as it helped me to understand each author and story's place in history.

Note: I received a digital ARC through NetGalley. ( )
  fernandie | Sep 15, 2022 |
One of the British Library Crime Classic anthologies recently published, this is a collection of - as the title says - short mysteries that take place at country houses of the nominally wealthy. I haven't read the whole of the collection, but what I have read was almost uniformly excellent.

Below the list of stories I read, along with a few quick thoughts about each:

The Copper Beeches - Arthur Conan Doyle: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
It's Sherlock Holmes, of course it's excellent. It's one of the more far out story premises, but it's fantastic. If you haven't read Sherlock Holmes yet... um, why?

The Problem of Dead Wood Hall - Dick Donovan: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
One of two I liked the least. It's an inverted mystery, so really, not a mystery as far as I'm concerned. There was no puzzle to be solved here, only what feels like an opportunity for the detective to boast.

Gentlemen and Players - E.W. Hornung - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Ok, I'm going to kind of contradict myself now, because there's no mystery here either, but it's Raffles! I've been wanting to read a Raffles story for ages, and I've finally got my chance. It was fun, the writing was amusing, the pace quick and lively and the ending... I saw that ending coming but it was still everything I hoped it would be. I need more Raffles in my life.

The White Pillars Murder - G.K. Chesterton - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The other one I liked the least. Chesterton and I are not destined for the author/fan dynamic. I did not like The Haunted Bookshop because it took me forever to figure out that it wasn't a ghost story, and that what little plot it did have was drowning in the author's exposition. I didn't like this one either; the prose was less superfluous, but the plot was... I don't know what the plot was. I don't know what his point was in writing this, honestly; a cautionary tale to all P.I. hopefuls? A slag off at Holmes? Who knows, but it's strike two against this particular Golden Age writer for me.

The Same to Us - Margery Allingham - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
More 4.5 stars. Very short story, and again, less mystery than a satire, but it was incredibly well written and humorous. There was never any doubt in my mind from the start what the ending was going to be, but that last 1/2 star was purely for the last line of the story.

The Murder at the Towers - E.V. Knox - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Martin Edwards mentions this story in his The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books in the chapter "Making Fun of Murder" and it's one of the stories I particularly wanted to read. It did not disappoint. It was hilarious; Knox doesn't try to be subtle, his humour is... well, to quote the first line of the story:

"Mr. Ponderby-Wilkins was a man so rich, so ugly, so cross, and so old, that even the stupidest reader could not expect him to survive any longer than chapter I. Vulpine in his secretiveness, he was porcine in his habits, saturnine in his appearance, and ovine in his unconsciousness of doom. He was the kind of man who might easily perish as early as paragraph 2."

I was in love from the start - and laughing. The rest is also pure farce, but Knox manages to get a humdinger in at the very last line, and it left me laughing and shaking my head.

There's a few other stories in this collection that I want to make a point of reading in the near future; some authors that I'm only learning about whose work I want to check out. I'll definitely be coming back to this one soon, and I'm looking forward to reading the other anthologies Edward has put together. ( )
  murderbydeath | Feb 8, 2022 |
When the stories in this book are good, they are excellent. When they are bad, they are still not horrid. Even at their worst they are just boring. Overall, this mixed bag of British country house murder mysteries is enjoyable. ( )
  Porua | Nov 30, 2019 |
This anthology contains 16 short stories, some written by masters of the genre and others by less well known. I never cease to be amazed at how many people were writing crime fiction in England in the period covered by this anthology.

Short story collections are among my favourites as they offer the prospect of quick delving, of a variety of approaches. Each of the stories in this collection relates somehow to a crime, often murder, committed at a country house. They also offer an interesting insight into a period of English life where society rapidly changed because of the advent of World War One.

I was surprised however that the editor - and there was probably good reason for it - allowed this volume to go to press without page numbers on the Table of Contents, and without the short story titles being repeated in the top margins of the printed pages. ( )
  smik | Jun 19, 2019 |
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The English country house is an iconic setting for some of the greatest British crime fiction. This new collection gathers together stories written over a span of about 65 years, during which British society, and life in country houses, was transformed out of all recognition. It includes fascinating and unfamiliar twists on the classic closed circle plot, in which the assorted guests at a country house party become suspects when a crime is committed. In the more sinister tales featured here, a gloomy mansion set in lonely grounds offers an eerie backdrop for dark deeds.

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