Bodies from the Library: Lost Tales of Mystery and Suspense by Masters of the Golden Age - Tony Medawar (ed)

Written by Tony Medawar (ed)
Read by Philip Bretherton
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 32 Kbps
Unabridged

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Release date: July 26, 2018
Duration: 08:37:44

This anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together 13 rare tales by masters of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including a newly discovered Agatha Christie crime story that has not been seen since 1922. At a time when crime and thriller writing has once again overtaken the sales of general and literary fiction, Bodies from the Library unearths lost stories from the Golden Age, that period between the World Wars when detective fiction captured the public’s imagination and saw the emergence of some of the world’s cleverest and most popular storytellers.

This audio anthology brings together the majority of forgotten tales from the book Bodies from the Library, from the 1920s to the 1950s, by masters of the Golden Age including Cyril Hare, Freeman Wills Crofts and A.A. Milne, Most anticipated of all are the contributions by women writers: the first detective story by Georgette Heyer, unseen since 1923; an unpublished story by Christianna Brand, creator of Nanny McPhee; and a dark tale by Agatha Christie published only in an Australian journal in 1922 during her ‘Grand Tour’ of the British Empire.

With other stories by Detection Club stalwarts this essential collection harks back to a time before forensic science – when murder was a complex business.

Introduction
Before Insulin by J. J. Connington
The Inverness Cape by Leo Bruce
Dark Waters by Freeman Wills Crofts
Linckes’ Great Case by Georgette Heyer
The Elusive Bullet by John Rhode
The Euthanasia of Hilary’s Aunt by Cyril Hare
The Girdle of Dreams by Vincent Cornier
The Fool and the Perfect Murder by Arthur Upfield
Bread Upon the Waters by A. A. Milne
The Man With the Twisted Thumb by Anthony Berkeley
The Rum Punch by Christianna Brand
Victoria Pumphrey by H. C. Bailey
The Starting-Handle Murder by Roy Vickers
The Wife of the Kenite by Agatha Christie