The Oxford Book of English Detective Stories

A collection of English detective stories features work by Arthur Conan Doyle, Clarence Rook, R. Austin Freeman, Arthur Morrison, G.K. Chesterton, E.C. Bentley, H.C. Bailey, and many more

The field of detective fiction is vast, and The Oxford Book of Detective Stories brings together the best short fiction from around the world to show how different nationalities have imposed their own stamp on the genre. As well as English and American stories from acknowledged masters such as Ellery

An anthology of thirty-three short stories traces the evolution of American crime fiction in works by Erle Stanley Gardner, Rex Stout, Ellery Queen, Ed McBain, Sue Grafton, Sara Paretsky, Bret Harte, William Faulkner, and Tony Hillerman

A collection of thirty-two stories of travel by the world's greatest writers past and present, including Edith Wharton, John Updike, Rebecca West, and Jack Kerouac, transports readers to places as far apart as the Rhine and Palestine

 H.C. Bailey’s detective Reggie Fortune was one of the most popular protagonists of the Golden Age of detective fiction. Fortune appeared in nine novels yet it was in a series of 84 short stories that were published from 1920 to 1940 where he truly shone, combining elements of several