The Oxford book of English detective stories

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The Oxford book of English detective stories

edited by Patricia Craig

Oxford University Press, 1990

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English detective stories

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Includes bibliographical references

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内容説明

The detective story, with its roots in Poe's Chevalier Dupin mysteries and Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone, first achieved mass popularity in the 1890s with The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Its success has a good deal to do with its pungency, and with its power to intrigue and absorb the reader while abiding by the rules of the genre (however flexible these have become). Every age has produced a kind of detective fiction which exemplifies its distinctive manners and customs, from the sedate tales which began to appear in the wake of Sherlock Holmes to the debonair detection of the 1920s and after. The sleuth short story took off in many directions, with such writers as Anthony Berkeley, Freeman Wills Crofts, Carter Dickson, and Edmund Crispin bringing the upmost expertise and ingenuity to bear on the detective theme. An increasing realism is apparent in the post-war era, though with no diminution in entertainment value, and as we come up to the present, the detective story has been adapted further to accommodate sexual comedy and other facets of modern life. This collection of 33 stories shows the scope, vigour, and enduring fascination of the detective story, as well as indicating its importance as a barometer of social attitudes and literary practices. It gathers together a wide range of stories, many unfamiliar by writers of the calibre of Agatha Christie, Julian Symons, Ngaio Marsh, G. K. Chesterton, P. D. James, Ruth Rendell, Dorothy L. Sayers, Margery Allingham, Nicholas Blake, Michael Innes, and H. R. F. Keating.

目次

  • The stir outside the Cafe Royal, Clarence Rook
  • silver blaze, Arthur Conan Doyle
  • the mysterious visitor, R.Austin Freeman
  • the case of Laker, absconded, Arthur Morrison
  • the oracle of the dog, G.K.Chesterton
  • the genuine tabard, E.C.Bentley
  • the dead leaves, H.C.Bailey
  • the mystery of the sleeping car express, Freeman Wills Crofts
  • the purple line, John Rhode
  • solved by inspection, Ronald Knox
  • the henpecked murderer, Roy Vickers
  • superintendent Wilson's holiday, G.D.H.Cole and M.Cole
  • the witness for the prosecution, Agatha Christie
  • the avenging chance, Anthony Berkeley
  • murder at Pentecost, Dorothy L.Sayers
  • death on the air, Ngaio Marsh
  • Miss Burnside's dilemma, Cyril Hare
  • Daisy Bell, Gladys Mitchell
  • three is a lucky number, Margery Allingham
  • the assassins' club, Nicholas Blake
  • the house in Goblin Wood, Carter Dickson
  • the furies, Michael Innes
  • the hornets' nest, Christianna Brand
  • the murderer, Julian Symons
  • the killing of Michael Finnegan, Michael Gilbert
  • murder at St.Oswald's, Michael Underwood
  • Great Aunt Allie's flypapers, P.D.James
  • Baker dies, Edmund Crispin and Geoffrey Bush
  • a dangerous thing, H.R.F.Keating
  • thornapple, Ruth Rendell
  • the Oxford way of death, Robert Barnard
  • bring back the cat, Reginald Hill
  • how's your mother?, Simon Brett.

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