The Sedgemoor Strangler and Other Stories of Crime - Softcover

Peter Lovesey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1885941641 ISBN 13: 9781885941640

Publisher: Crippen & Landru Publishers, 2001

Synopsis

The Washington Post described Peter Lovesey's crime fiction as "ingenious ... irresistible ... wickedly clever." In "The Sedgemoor Strangler," a serial killer leaves a naked corpse among the reeds, and a young waitress gradually comes to suspect that she is the next victim. Another serial killer terrifies a nineteenth-century housewife in the shocking, twisting tale of "Dr Death." Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate the stealing of the Christmas Star in "The Four Wise Men." "The Amorous Corpse" is one of the finest recent impossible crime detective stories — a robbery is committed by a man proven by unimpeachable evidence to have been dead several hours earlier. In "The Problem of Stateroom 10," the famous mystery writer Jacques Futrelle investigates a murder as the Titanic goes down.

Full of wit, irony, tricky plots, and an engaging sense of place and time, The Sedgemoor Strangler is an extraordinary collection of sixteen extraordinary stories.

About this title

About the Author

Peter Lovesey has won honors around the world, including the Gold and Silver Daggers, the Macavity, and the Grand Prix de Litterateur Policière. The British Crime Writers Association has recognized Lovesey with its highest honor, the Cartier Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement.

From Booklist

Short-story aficionados should flock to this marvelous collection of 16 nail-bitingly suspenseful tales from the popular British crime writer. Perfect murders, serial stranglers, mysterious paintings, deadly practical jokes, gorilla suits--they're all here. It's been said that writing short mystery fiction is tougher than writing mystery novels (not enough room for characters to develop, the argument goes), but Lovesey makes it look like a walk in the park. He even makes his "gimmick" stories--a Sherlock Holmes pastiche, a murder mystery set on the Titanic, a tale in which a dead man appears to have committed a robbery--look effortless, a trick many writers have yet to master. These stories have appeared in such magazines and anthologies as Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, The Strand, and Death by Horoscope, but even those who have read them all before will want to read them again. A comprehensive bibliography of Lovesey's published stories will send fans scurrying for more. David Pitt
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Edition details

• Publisher: Crippen & Landru Publishers
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1885941641
• ISBN 13: 9781885941640
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 200