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Michael Sims

The Penguin Book of Murder Mysteries

The Penguin Book of Murder Mysteries

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For classic murder mystery readers, a scintillating anthology of lost treasures to read alongside Edgar Allan Poe and Sherlock Holmes

A Penguin Classic


For The Penguin Book of Murder Mysteries, writer and anthologist Michael Sims did not summon the usual suspects. He sought the unfamiliar, the unjustly forgotten, and little-known gems by writers from outside the genre.Ā Ā This historical tour of one of our most popular literary categories includes stories never before reprinted, features rebellious early ā€œlady detectives," and spotlights former stars of the crime fieldā€”Austrian novelist Auguste Groner and prolific American Geraldine Bonner among them. For twenty-first century connoisseurs of crime, The Penguin Book of Murder Mysteries celebrates how the nineteenth century added a fierce modern twist to the ancient theme of bloody murder.
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