Crime Stories From the 'Strand' by Geraldine Beare

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These delightful stories provide hours of diverting, escapist enjoyment. They are solid British detective stories from a hundred years ago.

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For me, this book has a fabulous cover design and two good stories. The rest of the stories are either mediocre or embarrassingly weak.

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Allen, Grant (Contributor)

Allingham, Margery (Contributor)

Bailey, H.C. (Contributor)

Bentley, E.C. (Contributor)

Chesterton, G.K. (Contributor)

Christie, Agatha (Contributor)

Dickson, Carter (Contributor)

Donovan, Dick (Contributor)

Doyle, Arthur Conan (Contributor)

Eccles, David (Illustrator)

Eustace, Robert (Contributor)

Jepson, Edgar (Contributor)

Keating, H. R. F. (Introduction)

Kipling, Rudyard (Contributor)

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Meade, L.T. (Contributor)

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Canonical title: Crime Stories From the 'Strand'
Original title: Crime Stories From the 'Strand'
Original publication date: 1991

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Genres: Fiction and Literature, Mystery
DDC/MDS: 823.0872 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English fiction By type Genre fiction Adventure fiction Mystery fiction
LCC: PR830 .D4 .C7 — Language and Literature English English Literature Prose Prose fiction. The novel

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Crime Stories From the 'Strand'

by Geraldine Beare (Editor)

Series:The Strand Selection in 3 Volumes

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