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Bodies from the Library: Lost Classic Stories by Masters of the Golden Age - Leo Bruce, Ernest Bramah, Anthony Berkeley, John Rhode, H.C. Bailey, Nicholas Blake, Tony Medawar, Roy Vickers, J.J. Connington, Christianna Brand, Agatha Christie, Georgette Heyer
Bodies from the Library: Lost Classic Stories by Masters of the Golden Age
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780008289256 (0008289255)
Publisher: Collins Crime Club
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics, Mystery, Detective, Crime
Series: Bodies from the Library (#1)
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BrokenTune
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3.0 Bodies from the Library
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This collection of short stories from various Golden Age mystery writers was a mixed bag. I mean, they all are but this one struck me as more so than others. Maybe this was because there was no overarching theme to this collection. And it somehow felt as if the story by Agatha Christie was only ad...
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A Scottish-Canadian Blethering On About Books
A Scottish-Canadian Blethering On About Books rated it
3.0 Bodies from the Library (comp. Medawar)
text Bodies from the Library (comp. Medawar)
This is a compilation of previously uncompiled detective short stories, most of them having appeared once in a periodical and then disappeared from view. They are ephemeral enough that that disappearance is hardly a literary crime, but there's a certain interest in seeing a really representative sel...
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Other editions (3)
Bodies from the Library - A.A. Milne, Georgette Heyer, Christianna Brand, J.J. Connington, Roy Vickers, Nicholas Blake, H.C. Bailey, John Rhode, Anthony Berkeley, Ernest Bramah, Agatha Christie, Leo Bruce, Tony Medawar
Bodies from the Library: Lost Tales of Mystery and Suspense by Agatha Christie and other Masters of the Golden Age - Nicholas Blake, Tony Medawar, Christianna Brand, Agatha Christie, Georgette Heyer, A.A. Milne
Bodies from the Library - Leo Bruce, Agatha Christie, Ernest Bramah, Anthony Berkeley, John Rhode, H.C. Bailey, Nicholas Blake, Tony Medawar, Roy Vickers, Philip Bretherton, J.J. Connington, Christianna Brand, Georgette Heyer, A.A. Milne
Books by Leo Bruce
Bodies from the Library - A.A. Milne, Georgette Heyer, Christianna Brand, J.J. Connington, Roy Vickers, Nicholas Blake, H.C. Bailey, John Rhode, Anthony Berkeley, Ernest Bramah, Agatha Christie, Leo Bruce, Tony Medawar
Case for Three Detectives - Leo Bruce
Death of Cold - Leo Bruce Death of Cold - Leo Bruce
Furious Old Women - Leo Bruce
Death with Blue Ribbon - Leo Bruce
Case with 4 Clowns: A Sergeant Beef Mystery (Sergeant Beef Series) - Leo Bruce
Case with No Conclusion: A Sgt. Beef Mystery - Leo Bruce
Death at St. Asprey's School - Leo Bruce
Case Without a Corpse - Leo Bruce Case Without a Corpse - Leo Bruce
Death of a Bovver Boy - Leo Bruce
Books by Agatha Christie
Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie
Death on the Nile - Agatha Christie
Murder at the Vicarage - Agatha Christie
The ABC Murders - Agatha Christie
The Body in the Library - Agatha Christie
4:50 from Paddington - Agatha Christie
Murder in Mesopotamia - Agatha Christie
Appointment with Death - Agatha Christie
Murder on the Links - Agatha Christie
Books by Ernest Bramah
Vintage Mystery and Detective Stories - G.K. Chesterton, Mark Twain, David Stuart Davies, Wilkie Collins, Israel Zangwill, E.W. Hornung, Edgar Wallace, Robert Barr, M.P. Shiel, Mrs. Henry Wood, W.W. Jacobs, Jacques Futrelle, Victor L. Whitechurch, Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard, Ernest Bramah, J.S. Fletcher, Stacy
Bodies from the Library - A.A. Milne, Georgette Heyer, Christianna Brand, J.J. Connington, Roy Vickers, Nicholas Blake, H.C. Bailey, John Rhode, Anthony Berkeley, Ernest Bramah, Agatha Christie, Leo Bruce, Tony Medawar
The Tragedy at Brookbend Cottage - Ernest Bramah
The Knight's Cross Signal Problem - Ernest Bramah
Short Stories of To-Day and Yesterday - Ernest Bramah
The Mirror of Kong Ho - Ernest Bramah
Cosy Crime Short Stories - G.K. Chesterton, Israel Zangwill, Edgar Wallace, Martin Edwards, Maurice Leblanc, Anna Katharine Green, R. Austin Freeman, Ernest Bramah, Arthur Morrison, Tom Mead, Andrew Forrester, Gregory Von Dare, Stephanie Bedwell-Grime, Jeffrey B. Burton, Catherine Louisa Pirkis,
The Eyes of Max Carrados (Wordsworth Tales of Mystery and The Supernatural) - Ernest Bramah
What Might Have Been; The Story of a Soc... What Might Have Been; The Story of a Social War - Ernest Bramah
Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat - Ernest Bramah, Lin Carter
Books by Anthony Berkeley
The Floating Admiral - Helen Simpson, Agatha Christie, The Detection Club, Milward Kennedy, Margaret Cole, Henry Wade, Clemence Dane, John Rhode, Anthony Berkeley, Victor L. Whitechurch, Freeman Wills Crofts, Edgar Jepson, Ronald Knox, Dorothy L. Sayers, G.D.H. Cole, G.K. Chesterton
The Poisoned Chocolates Case - Anthony Berkeley
Bodies from the Library - A.A. Milne, Georgette Heyer, Christianna Brand, J.J. Connington, Roy Vickers, Nicholas Blake, H.C. Bailey, John Rhode, Anthony Berkeley, Ernest Bramah, Agatha Christie, Leo Bruce, Tony Medawar
Ask a Policeman - Helen Simpson, The Detection Club, Milward Kennedy, John Rhode, Anthony Berkeley, Gladys Mitchell, Dorothy L. Sayers
Trial and Error - Anthony Berkeley
The Layton Court Mystery - Anthony Berkeley
The Wychford Poisoning Case - Anthony Berkeley
The Silk Stocking Murders - Anthony Berkeley
The Piccadilly Murder - Anthony Berkeley
Death In The House - Anthony Berkeley
Books by John Rhode
The Floating Admiral - Helen Simpson, Agatha Christie, The Detection Club, Milward Kennedy, Margaret Cole, Henry Wade, Clemence Dane, John Rhode, Anthony Berkeley, Victor L. Whitechurch, Freeman Wills Crofts, Edgar Jepson, Ronald Knox, Dorothy L. Sayers, G.D.H. Cole, G.K. Chesterton
Bodies from the Library - A.A. Milne, Georgette Heyer, Christianna Brand, J.J. Connington, Roy Vickers, Nicholas Blake, H.C. Bailey, John Rhode, Anthony Berkeley, Ernest Bramah, Agatha Christie, Leo Bruce, Tony Medawar
Ask a Policeman - Helen Simpson, The Detection Club, Milward Kennedy, John Rhode, Anthony Berkeley, Gladys Mitchell, Dorothy L. Sayers
Vegetable Duck - John Rhode
Dead Men at the Folly - John Rhode
The Claverton Mystery (Dr. Priestley, #14) - John Rhode
Invisible Weapons - John Rhode
The Bloody Tower - John Rhode
Blackthorn House - John Rhode
They Watched By Night - John Rhode
Books by H.C. Bailey
Bodies from the Library - A.A. Milne, Georgette Heyer, Christianna Brand, J.J. Connington, Roy Vickers, Nicholas Blake, H.C. Bailey, John Rhode, Anthony Berkeley, Ernest Bramah, Agatha Christie, Leo Bruce, Tony Medawar
The Long Dinner (Fantasy and Horror Classics) - H.C. Bailey
Save a Rope - H.C. Bailey Save a Rope - H.C. Bailey
Shadow on the Wall: A Mr. Fortune Novel - H.C. Bailey
Crime for Christmas - Wilkie Collins, Ellis Peters, H.R.F. Keating, Richard Dalby, Edgar Wallace, J.E. Preston Muddock, H.C. Bailey, David G. Rowlands, Fergus Hume, Lennox Robinson, Pamela Sewell, C.L. Pirkis, Raymund Allen, Christopher Hallam, Thomas Hardy, Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doy
This Is MR Fortune - H.C. Bailey This Is MR Fortune - H.C. Bailey
The Twittering Bird Mystery - H. C. Bail... The Twittering Bird Mystery - H. C. Bailey
Call Mr. Fortune - H.C. Bailey
Great Short Stories Of Detection, Mystery And Horror - Robert Louis Stevenson, G.K. Chesterton, Joseph Conrad, Aldous Huxley, M.R. James, Dorothy L. Sayers, Saki, Ambrose Bierce, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Arthur Machen, Robert Smythe Hichens, E.F. Benson, Emmuska Orczy, May Sinclair, E.W. Hornung, Robert Barr, Charles Collins
Dead Man's Shoes - H C BAILEY
Books by Nicholas Blake
A Question of Proof - Nicholas Blake
Bodies from the Library - A.A. Milne, Georgette Heyer, Christianna Brand, J.J. Connington, Roy Vickers, Nicholas Blake, H.C. Bailey, John Rhode, Anthony Berkeley, Ernest Bramah, Agatha Christie, Leo Bruce, Tony Medawar
The Beast Must Die - Nicholas Blake
Thou Shell of Death - Nicholas Blake
The Whisper in the Gloom - Nicholas Blake
The Private Wound - Nicholas Blake
Malice in Wonderland - Nicholas Blake
The Case of the Abominable Snowman - Nicholas Blake
Great Irish Detective Stories - James Joyce, Lord Dunsany, Flann O'Brien, William Trevor, Peter Tremayne, Peter Haining, Elizabeth Bowen, Brian Talbot Cleeve, Brendan Behan, Benedict Kiely, Gerald Griffin, Edmund Crispin, Frank O'Connor, Freeman Wills Crofts, Seán Ó Faoláin, Liam O'Flaherty, Nicholas B
Murder with Malice - Nicholas Blake
Books by Roy Vickers
Bodies from the Library - A.A. Milne, Georgette Heyer, Christianna Brand, J.J. Connington, Roy Vickers, Nicholas Blake, H.C. Bailey, John Rhode, Anthony Berkeley, Ernest Bramah, Agatha Christie, Leo Bruce, Tony Medawar
Department of Dead Ends: 14 Stories - Roy Vickers
Murder Will Out - Roy Vickers
Seven Chose Murder - Roy Vickers
The Kynsard Affair - Roy Vickers
Eight Murders in the Suburbs - Roy Vickers
Let the Dead Past; Collectors' Item; The... Let the Dead Past; Collectors' Item; The Department of Dead Ends. - John Stephen Strange, Amber Dean, Roy Vickers
Murdering MR Velfrage - Roy Vickers
They Can't Hang Caroline - Roy Vickers They Can't Hang Caroline - Roy Vickers
The Sole Survivor - Roy Vickers
Books by J.J. Connington
Bodies from the Library - A.A. Milne, Georgette Heyer, Christianna Brand, J.J. Connington, Roy Vickers, Nicholas Blake, H.C. Bailey, John Rhode, Anthony Berkeley, Ernest Bramah, Agatha Christie, Leo Bruce, Tony Medawar
Nordenholt's Million - J.J. Connington
Death at Swaythling Court - J.J. Connington
Murder Will Speak - J.J. Connington
The Counsellor - J. J. Connington, Curtis Evans
The Eye in the Museum - J.J. Connington
The Four Defences - J.J. Connington
The Two Tickets Puzzle - J.J. Connington
The Ha-Ha Case - J. J. Connington
The Castleford Conundrum - J.J. Connington
Books by Christianna Brand
Nanny McPhee: Based on the Collected Tales of Nurse Matilda - Christianna Brand, Edward Ardizzone
Nurse Matilda - Christianna Brand, Edward Ardizzone
Bodies from the Library - A.A. Milne, Georgette Heyer, Christianna Brand, J.J. Connington, Roy Vickers, Nicholas Blake, H.C. Bailey, John Rhode, Anthony Berkeley, Ernest Bramah, Agatha Christie, Leo Bruce, Tony Medawar
Green for Danger - Christianna Brand
Bodies from the Library 2: Forgotten Stories of Mystery and Suspense by the Queens of Crime and other Masters of Golden Age Detection - Helen Simpson, Agatha Christie, Christianna Brand, Peter Antony, Various Authors, Cyril Alington, E.C.R. Lorac, Jonathan Latimer, Clayton Rawson, S.S. Van Dine, Anthony Shaffer, Peter Shaffer, Ethel Lina White, Dorothy L. Sayers, Tony Medawar
Tour de Force - Christianna Brand
Suddenly at His Residence - Christianna Brand
Naughty Children - Christianna Brand, Edward Ardizzone
Fog of Doubt - Christianna Brand
Nurse Matilda Goes To Hospital - Christianna Brand
Books by Georgette Heyer
These Old Shades - Georgette Heyer
Arabella - Georgette Heyer
Devil's Cub - Georgette Heyer
Venetia - Georgette Heyer
Cotillion - Georgette Heyer
Faro's Daughter - Georgette Heyer
Sylvester - Georgette Heyer
Friday's Child - Georgette Heyer
Black Sheep - Georgette Heyer
The Masqueraders - Georgette Heyer
Books by Tony Medawar
Bodies from the Library - A.A. Milne, Georgette Heyer, Christianna Brand, J.J. Connington, Roy Vickers, Nicholas Blake, H.C. Bailey, John Rhode, Anthony Berkeley, Ernest Bramah, Agatha Christie, Leo Bruce, Tony Medawar
Bodies from the Library 2: Forgotten Stories of Mystery and Suspense by the Queens of Crime and other Masters of Golden Age Detection - Helen Simpson, Agatha Christie, Christianna Brand, Peter Antony, Various Authors, Cyril Alington, E.C.R. Lorac, Jonathan Latimer, Clayton Rawson, S.S. Van Dine, Anthony Shaffer, Peter Shaffer, Ethel Lina White, Dorothy L. Sayers, Tony Medawar
The Grell Mystery - Frank Froest, Tony Medawar
13 to the Gallows - John Dickson Carr, Val Gielgud, Tony Medawar
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