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The verdict of us all

To the delight of mystery fans everywhere, London's legendary Detection Club has chosen to celebrate the 80th birthday of past-president and acclaimed mystery author H.R.F. Keating with this enjoyable anthology of 17 short stories by some of the biggest names in the business. Authors include P.D. James, Peter Lovesey and Colin Dexter. The standouts are from James and Lovesey; Baroness James takes a break from chronicling Commander Dalgleish's exploits to present a taut psychological tale of murder in Hearing Ghote, while Lovesey's Popping Round to the Post ranks with that author's smartest and most twisty efforts.

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  • "New stories from The Detection Club"@en

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  • "In honor of H. R. F. Keating's 80th birthday, his fellow Detection Club members and the leading lights in crime fiction serve up a new selection of tantalising conundrums."
  • "To the delight of mystery fans everywhere, London's legendary Detection Club has chosen to celebrate the 80th birthday of past-president and acclaimed mystery author H.R.F. Keating with this enjoyable anthology of 17 short stories by some of the biggest names in the business. Authors include P.D. James, Peter Lovesey and Colin Dexter. The standouts are from James and Lovesey; Baroness James takes a break from chronicling Commander Dalgleish's exploits to present a taut psychological tale of murder in Hearing Ghote, while Lovesey's Popping Round to the Post ranks with that author's smartest and most twisty efforts."@en
  • "This is a wickedly wonderful short-story collection from some of Britain's bestloved crime writers. The contributing authors include Len Deighton, Reginald Hill. Colin Dexter, P. D. James, Simon Brett and Uza Cody, and with Dick Francis penning the foreword and Peter Lovesey putting the collection together, there is plenty to delight all crime fans."@en
  • "In honour of H.R.F Keating's 80th Birthday, his fellow Detection Club Members and the leading lights in crime fiction serve up a new selection of tantalising conundrums. Edited by Peter Lovesey. Foreword by Dick Francis. Stories include: Lionel Davidson's Tuesday's Child; Len Deighton's Sherlock Holmes and the Titanic Swindle; Reginal Hill's Uncle Harry; P.D. James' Hearing Ghote; H.R.F Keating's Arkady Nikolaivich and many others."@en

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  • "Audiobooks"@en
  • "Short stories"@en
  • "Mystery, Short stories"
  • "Detective and mystery stories"@en
  • "Mystery fiction"@en

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  • "The verdict of us all [new stories from the Detection Club]"
  • "The verdict of us all"
  • "The verdict of us all"@en
  • "The verdict of us all new stories from the Detection Club"
  • "The verdict of us all new stories from the Detection Club"@en

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