The Mammoth book of historical whodunnits / edited by Mike Ashley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ashley, Michael.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Detective and mystery stories, American.

Detective and mystery stories, English.

Historical fiction, American.

Historical fiction, English.

Genre:

Detective and mystery stories, American.

Detective and mystery stories, English.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

xix, 522 pages ; 20 cm

Edition:

First Carroll and Graf edition.

Other Title:

Historical whodunnits

Place of Publication:

New York : Carroll and Graf Pub., 1993.

Summary:

This highly entertaining collection, with a Foreword by the creator of the astonishingly successful Brother Cadfael books, combines in that fascinating genre of crime fiction epitomized by The Name of the Rose. Features Peter Tremayne, Paul Harding, Edward D. Hoch, and others.

Contents:

The locked tomb mystery / Elizabeth Peters

The thief versus King Rhampsinitus / Herodotus

Socrates solves a murder / Breni James

Mightier than the sword / John Maddox Roberts

The treasury thefts / Wallace Nichols

A Byzantine mystery / Mary Reed and Eric Mayer

He came with the rain / Robert van Gulik

The High King's sword / Peter Tremayne

The price of light / Ellis Peters

The confession of Brother Athelstan / Paul Harding

The witch's tale / Margaret Frazer

Father Hugh and the deadly Scythe / Mary Monica Pulver

Leonardo Da Vinci, detective / Theodore Mathieson

A sad and bloody hour / Joe Gores

The Christmas masque / S.S. Rafferty

Murder lock'd in / Lillian de la Torre

Captain Nash and the Wroth inheritance / Raymond Butler

The Doomdorf mystery / Melville Davisson Post

Murder in the Rue Royale / Michael Harrison

The gentleman from Paris / John Dickson Carr

The Golden Nugget poker game / Edward D. Hoch

The case of the Deptford horror / Adrian Conan Doyle

Five rings in Reno / R.L. Stevens.

ISBN:

0786700246

OCLC:

29349860