Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror: Second Series
by Dorothy L. Sayers (Editor)
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery, and Horror (2)
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This book contains the second volume of Dorothy Leigh Sayers 1928 collection of detective stories entitled Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror . Written by a wide variety of mystery writers from ancient times up until the early twentieth century, this fantastic compendium will appeal to fans of the detective fiction genre, and would make for a great addition to any bookshelf. Notable authors include: Edgar Allen Poe, Baroness Orczy, G.K. Chesterton, and Aldous Huxley. show more Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893 1957), was a renowned English crime writer, poet, playwright, essayist, translator and Christian humanist. She was also a student of classical and modern languages. Many vintage texts such as this are becoming increasingly rare and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now, in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author." show lessTags
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If you ever stumble across a copy of this book, it is well worth your time to pick it up. Sayers deploys a fine editorial eye to publish not only some real classics, but also some short stories you would be hard-pressed to find anywhere else - at least, I haven't, and I've read a lot of Victorian and Edwardian ghost stories.
Be aware the tales of "detection" part of the book are also largely supernatural or at least kind of creepy as well. I don't view that as a bad thing!
Be aware the tales of "detection" part of the book are also largely supernatural or at least kind of creepy as well. I don't view that as a bad thing!
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Dorothy Sayers's impressive reputation as a contemporary master of the classic detective story is eclipsed only by Agatha Christie's. Sayers was born in Oxford and attended Somerville College, where she received a B.A. in 1915 and an M.A. in 1920. During that period, Sayers worked as an instructor of modern languages at Hull High School for Girls show more in Yorkshire and as a reader for a publisher in Oxford. Her early literary work was in poetry; she published several volumes and served as an editor for the journal Oxford Poetry from 1917 to 1919. Sayers also worked as a copywriter for a major advertising firm in London. She was president of the Modern Language Association from 1939 to 1945 and of the Detection Club in the 1950s. Around 1920 Sayers developed the idea for her detective hero Lord Peter Wimsey, and she soon published her first mystery, Whose Body? (1923), in which Lord Peter is introduced. For the next dozen or so years, Sayers wrote prolifically about Wimsey, creating in the process what many critics of the genre consider to be the finest detective novels in the English language. Perhaps her most famous Wimsey mystery was The Nine Tailors (1934). Although Sayers essentially followed the classic form in her detective fiction---a formula in which the plot assumes a greater importance than do the characters---Sayers maintained that a detective hero's greatness depended on how effectively the character was portrayed. All but one of Sayers's mysteries feature Lord Peter Wimsey. By the late 1930s, Sayers had apparently tired of writing detective fiction. She stated in 1947 that she would write no more mysteries, that she wrote detective fiction only when she was young and in need of money. Thus saying, Sayers turned her attention to her early loves, medieval and religious literature, spending her remaining years lecturing on and translating Dante (see Vol. 2). (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- 823.0108 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English fiction By type Short stories Collections
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- PZ1 .S274 .G — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction in English
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