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The Oxford Book of Detective Stories is a thorough, broad, and representative collection of short stories intended to reflect the best of detective fiction from around the world. Drawing on works dating from the middle 1800s up to the present, editor Patricia Craig shows us how different nationalities have imposed their own stamp on this highly popular and relatively young literary genre. Alongside English and American fiction by such acknowledged masters as Ellery Queen, Dashiell Hammett, Erle Stanley Gardner, and Agatha Christie, we find stories by Georges Simenon, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sarah Paretsky, and Ian Rankin. The anthology roams across Europe and Further afield to embrace Japan, Denmark, Holland, Italy, Argentina, Czechoslovakia, and other countries.This is a book that will delight any fan or student of detective fiction. Women detectives, police procedurals, the amateur sleuth, locked-room mysteries, and the classic or pioneering models of the genre are all represented here -- andin her perceptive and inclusive introduction Craig examines the figure of the detective in international literature.… (más)
Many famous authors, including Arthur Conan Doyle, R. Austin Freeman, Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner, Agatha Christie, Dashiell Hammett, James Thurber, Jorge Luis Borges ("Death and the Compass"), Georges Simenon, Ellery Queen, Sue Grafton, Sara Paretsky.
A quote from "Death and the Compass": "You'll say reality is under no obligation to be interesting. To which I'd reply that reality may disregard the obligation but that we may not. . . ." [p. 240]
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Please distinguish between The Oxford Book of Detective Stories (this work; 2000) and The Oxford Book of English Detective Stories (1990). Patricia Craig edited both, but they are clearly separate Works having different contents. Thank you.
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The Oxford Book of Detective Stories is a thorough, broad, and representative collection of short stories intended to reflect the best of detective fiction from around the world. Drawing on works dating from the middle 1800s up to the present, editor Patricia Craig shows us how different nationalities have imposed their own stamp on this highly popular and relatively young literary genre. Alongside English and American fiction by such acknowledged masters as Ellery Queen, Dashiell Hammett, Erle Stanley Gardner, and Agatha Christie, we find stories by Georges Simenon, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sarah Paretsky, and Ian Rankin. The anthology roams across Europe and Further afield to embrace Japan, Denmark, Holland, Italy, Argentina, Czechoslovakia, and other countries.This is a book that will delight any fan or student of detective fiction. Women detectives, police procedurals, the amateur sleuth, locked-room mysteries, and the classic or pioneering models of the genre are all represented here -- andin her perceptive and inclusive introduction Craig examines the figure of the detective in international literature.
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A quote from "Death and the Compass":
"You'll say reality is under no obligation to be interesting. To which I'd reply that reality may disregard the obligation but that we may not. . . ." [p. 240]