Detective Stories from The Strand - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 019282998X ISBN 13: 9780192829986

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1992

Synopsis

The Strand Magazine, launched in January 1891, was one of the most successful and influential popular magazines of all time. Making its mark immediately with the publication of the first Sherlock Holmes stories, the magazine continued to publish high-quality detective fiction for half a million readers until 1950. Now, in the centenary of its launch, this collection offers twenty-five classic stories of mystery and detection, all first published in the Strand. It features tales of some of the most celebrated detectives of all time--Agatha Christie's Poirot, G.K. Chesterton's Father Brown, and E.C. Bentley's Philip Trent--as well as stories from Sapper, Edgar Wallace, Somerset Maugham, Aldous Huxley, and A.E.W. Mason. And, of course, this volume would not be complete without Sherlock Holmes, who makes his appearance in three classic cases.
With little-known stories by famous authors, and ingenious works by almost-forgotten writers, Detective Stories from the Strand is a treasure trove of remarkable ingenuity, guaranteed to delight all enthusiasts of crime fiction.

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About the Author

About the Editor:
Jack Adrian is the author of several thrillers as well as war and science fiction novels. An authority on this century's popular and genre fiction, he has compiled a number of anthologies and single-author collections, and has edited E.F. Benson, and Desirable Residences and Other Stories.

From Publishers Weekly

It flourished for well over half a century and was one of the most popular magazines of its time, but what will be forever remembered about the Strand magazine is that it published the very first Sherlock Holmes story--and many more thereafter. This well-balanced collection of detective fiction from its pages (a similar anthology, of weird and macabre stories, Strange Tales from the Strand Magazine , will appear simultaneously) accepts that identification gracefully, with Holmes represented by three adventures and Ronald Knox's famed pastiche "The Adventure of the First Class Carriage." Nor are the bits of Sherlockiana standard stuff, including "The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton," in which the Great Detective not only allows a murderer to escape punishment but commits a crime of his own, and the controversial "The Adventure of the Lion's Mane," told by Holmes himself rather than by Dr. Watson. Other famous sleuths appeared in the pages of the Strand as well, and editor Adrian includes Agatha Christie's "The Dream," a Hercule Poirot story (rather more obvious than most, unfortunately), and the only Father Brown tale to appear there, G. K. Chesteron's "The Vampire of the Village." Ninteen additional stories, by authors famous (Somerset Maugham, Aldous Huxley, Edgar Wallace) and mostly forgotten (sic Seamark, Richard Keverne, Loel Yeo) round out an anthology of material not generally available elsewhere and thus of significant appeal to aficionados.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 019282998X
• ISBN 13: 9780192829986
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 398
• Editor: Adrian Jack