HISTORICAL WHODUNITS :: Anthology HB w/ DJ

• Hardback book with Dust Jacket edited by Mike Ashley
• Foreword by Ellis Peters
• Over 520 pages
• Introductory material and this arrangement copyright © 1993 by Mike Ashley
• 1997 Barnes & Noble Books

" Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose introduced millions of readers to the special mixture of enchantment and thrills offered by historical detective fiction ( historical meaning taking place before the author's birth.)
Historical Whodunits - the first anthology of historical detective stories to appear in print - brilliantly represents this relatively rare type of literature. "

" Here are twenty-three stories, with an astounding variety of settings ranging from Egypt in the fourteenth century B.C. to the Yukon circa 1900.
The detectives include an ancient Egyptian sage, whose case involves not a locked room but a locked tomb; a Roman slave, whose investigation of a treasury theft leads him to a very high personage; the perspicacious twelfth-century monk Brother Cadfael, author Ellis Peter's greatest creation; William Shakespeare, hot on the trail of the murderer of Christopher Marlowe; Samuel Johnson, with Boswell as his Doctor Watson; C. Auguste Dupin, in a new adventure and still at his favorite recreation of showing up the perfect of the Paris police just as he unfailingly did in the original stories by Poe; and Sherlock Holmes, in a story by the son of Arthur Conan Doyle. "

Contents includes:

" Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Chronicles of Crime
Foreword by Ellis Peters

PART I: THE ANCIENT WORLD

1 The Locked Tomb Mystery Elizabeth Peters

2 The Thief versus King Rhampsinitus Herodotus

3 Socrates Solves a Murder Breni James

4 Mightier Than the Sword John Maddox Roberts

5 The Treasury Thefts Wallace Nichols

6 A Byzantine Mystery Mary Reed and Eric Mayer

7 He Came With the Rain Robert van Gulik

8 The High King's Sword Peter Tremayne

PART II: THE MIDDLE AGES

9 The Price of Light Ellis Peters

10 The Confession of Brother Athelstan Paul Harding

11 The Witch's Tale Margaret Frazer

12 Father Hugh and the Deadly Scythe Mary Monica Pulver

13 Leonardo Da Vinci, Detective Theodore Mathieson

14 A Sad and Bloody Hour Joe Gores

PART III: REGENCY AND GASLIGHT

15 The Christmas Masque S.S. Rafferty

16 Murder Lock'd In Lillian de la Torre

17 Captain Nash and the Wroth Inheritance Raymond Butler

18 The Doomdorf Mystery Melville Davisson Post

19 Murder in the Rue Royale Michael Harrison

20 The Gentleman from Paris John Dickson Carr

21 The Golden Nugget Poker Game Edward D. Hoch

PART IV: HOLMES AND BEYOND

22 The Case of the Deptford Horror Adrian Conan Doyle

23 Five Rings in Reno R.L. Stevens

Afterword: Old-Time Detection Arthur Griffiths
Appendix: The Chroniclers of Crime "

Both the book and dust jacket are in very good to excellent condition with only minor wear.
No torn or ripped pages.
No markings or writing.

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