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The Anatomy of Murder (1936)

by The Detection Club

Other authors: Margaret Isabel Cole (Contributor), Freeman Wills Crofts (Contributor), Francis Iles (Contributor), E.R. Punshon (Contributor), John Rhode (Contributor)2 more, Dorothy L. Sayers (Contributor), Helen de Guerry Simpson (Contributor)

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A unique anthology for crime aficionados - seven of the world's most notorious genuine murder mysteries retold by the most accomplished classic crime writers of their generation. A manipulative murderer who stalked the streets of Paris; a young wife who poisoned her eccentric husband; a bank cashier's mysterious suicide; a brutal double murder in New Zealand... Seven of the world's greatest crime writers turn their hand to some of the world's most spine-tingling mysteries - all of them astonishingly TRUE. This remarkable collection from the archives of the Detection Club follows The Floating Admiral, Ask a Policeman and Six Against the Yard back into print after more than 75 years, and shows some of the most accomplished authors of their generation retelling real-life murder mysteries with all the relish of the tastiest crime fiction.… (more)
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Detection Club, Theprimary authorall editionsconfirmed
Cole, Margaret IsabelContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Crofts, Freeman WillsContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Iles, FrancisContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Punshon, E.R.Contributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Rhode, JohnContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Sayers, Dorothy L.Contributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Simpson, Helen de GuerryContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Edwards, MartinIntroductionsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed

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This LT work is the original publication of seven essays under the collective title The Anatomy of a Murder (London: John Lane, 1936), published in the U.S. as The Anatomy of Murder (New York: Macmillan, 1937). The first four essays from that original publication, by Simpson, Rhode, Cole and Punshon, are reprinted in a 1989 Berkeley Books edition also titled The Anatomy of Murder. The last three essays from the original publication, by Sayers, Iles and Crofts, are reprinted in a 1990 Berkeley Books edition titled More Anatomy of Murder.

The 1936 work was reprinted in 2014 as The Anatomy of Murder which includes all 7 of the original essays.
This is a different book than the one with the same title written by Imogen Robertson.
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A unique anthology for crime aficionados - seven of the world's most notorious genuine murder mysteries retold by the most accomplished classic crime writers of their generation. A manipulative murderer who stalked the streets of Paris; a young wife who poisoned her eccentric husband; a bank cashier's mysterious suicide; a brutal double murder in New Zealand... Seven of the world's greatest crime writers turn their hand to some of the world's most spine-tingling mysteries - all of them astonishingly TRUE. This remarkable collection from the archives of the Detection Club follows The Floating Admiral, Ask a Policeman and Six Against the Yard back into print after more than 75 years, and shows some of the most accomplished authors of their generation retelling real-life murder mysteries with all the relish of the tastiest crime fiction.

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