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The English country house murders

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  • "The stories have been arranged in developmental, roughly chronologic, sequence. We begin with an appearance by Sherlock Holmes, still the beacon by which all that happens in the English Country House Mystery is guided. Then follow some early accounts, showing the influences of Walpole, Burns, and other romantic novelists. Then several classical accounts, from the rivals of Sherlock Holmes through the work of one of the last great ladies of the English mystery, Christianna Brand. Some important variants are interspersed, most notably: the inverted story, in which the perpetrator and his methods are known, and the means of detection alone engages us; the Country House Mystery as humor and satire, with P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves as the pluperfect servant ensnared in the crime; the English Country House Gothic thriller, in which whodunit and how are subordinated to scaring the stuffing out of the poor reader. At the conclusion, there are few end-of-the-cycle Country House mysteries where the postwar realities assert themselves quite strongly. And then, a sweet to conclude: Holmes again, in a final bow to the tradition. - Introduction."
  • "22 stories by Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, Dorothy L. Sayers, Margery Allingham, G.K. Chesterton, Wilkie Collins, Arthur Conan Doyle, P.D. James, and others."

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  • "Mystery fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"

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  • "The English country house murders"@en
  • "English house murders"@en
  • "Das grosse Krimi Lesebuch II"
  • "English Country House Murders : Tales of Perfidious Albion"
  • "English country house murders : tales of perfidious albion"
  • "English country house murders : tales of perfidious albion"@en
  • "English country house murders"
  • "English country house murders"@en
  • "English country house murders"@fi
  • "Das große Krimi-Lesebuch / 2"
  • "Murha maaseudulla"@fi

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