# Classic Tales of Mystery - Leather

by **Editors of Canterbury Classics** (Author), **Ken Mondschein** (Introduction by)

**Eleven classic whodunits starring master sleuths such as Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, and Father Brown.**

A superstar lineup of detectives--including Sherlock Holmes, C. Auguste Dupin, and Hercule Poirot--headlines this elegant leather-bound edition of classic mystery stories. Short stories such as Edgar Allan Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and G. K. Chesterton's "The Blue Cross" are ideal for a cozy evening by the fire, while novels like Agatha Christie's _The Murder on the Links_ and Jules Verne's _An Antarctic Mystery_ will keep you engrossed for days. The eleven works in this volume are preceded by a scholarly introduction that explores the origins of the genre, as well as the development of the modern mystery story and the contributions made by each author.

**Works Included**  
**Short stories:**  
"The Murders in the Rue Morgue," Edgar Allan Poe  
"The Adventure of the Creeping Man," Sir Arthur Conan Doyle  
"The Blue Cross," G. K. Chesterton  
"The Coin of Dionysius," Ernest Bramah  
"The Anthropologist at Large," R. Austin Freeman  
"The Most Dangerous Game," Richard Connell  
**Novels:**  
_The Murder on the Links_, Agatha Christie  
_Whose Body?_, Dorothy Sayers  
_The Thirty-nine Steps_, John Buchan  
_An Antarctic Mystery_, Jules Verne  
_Room 13_, Edgar Wallace

**Number of Pages:** 784

**Dimensions:** 1.7 x 9.1 x 6.2 IN

**Publication Date:** September 21, 2021

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