Great Tales of Detection

This classic collection brings together nineteen of the greatest detective tales ever written, spanning between them a period of a hundred years. They range from Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Purloined Letter', one of the earliest examples of the genre, through Agatha Christie's 'perfect murder' in 'Philomel Cottage' to the cunningly constructed 'The Mystery of The Sleeping-Car Express' by Freeman Wills Crofts. The authors included are:

H.C. Bailey

E. C. Bentley

Anthony Berkeley

Ernest Bramah

Thomas Burke

G. K. Chesterton

Agatha Christie

Wilkie Collins

Freeman Wills Croft

R. Austin Freeman

Edgar Jepson and Robert Eustace

Milward Kennedy

C. Daly King

John Rhode

Father Ronald Knox

Edgar Allan Poe

Dorothy L. Sayers

Robert Louis Stevenson

Henry Wade