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Bodies from the Library 2

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Dorothy L. SayersMargery AllinghamAgatha ChristieEdmund Crispinvarious authorsTony Medawar4 editions

This anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together 15 tales from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including a newly discovered Gervase Fen novella by **Edmund Crispin** that has never previously been published. With the Golden Age of detective fiction shining ever more brightly thanks to the recent reappearance of many forgotten crime novels, *Bodies from the Library* offers a rare opportunity to read lost stories from the first half of the twentieth century by some of the genre’s most accomplished writers. This second volume is a showcase for popular figures of the Golden Age, in stories that even their most ardent fans will not be aware of. It includes uncollected and unpublished stories by acclaimed queens and kings of crime fiction, from **Helen Simpson, Ethel Lina White, E. C. R. Lorac, Christianna Brand, Agatha Christie** and **Dorothy L. Sayers**, to **S. S. Van Dine, Jonathan Latimer, Clayton Rawson, Cyril Alington** and **Antony and Peter Shaffer** (writing as Peter Antony). This book also features two highly readable radio scripts by **Margery Allingham** (involving Jack the Ripper) and **John Rhode**, plus two full-length novellas – one from a rare magazine by **Q Patrick**, the other an unpublished Gervase Fen mystery by Edmund Crispin, written at the height of his career. It concludes with another remarkable discovery: ‘The Locked Room’ by Dorothy L. Sayers, a never-before-published case for Lord Peter Wimsey! Selected and introduced by Tony Medawar, who also provides fascinating pen portraits of each author, *Bodies in the Library *2 is an indispensable collection for any bookshelf.

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