Vintage Crime: from the Crime Writers’ Association
Editat de Martin Edwardsen Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 aug 2020
Vintage Crime is a CWA anthology with a difference, celebrating members’ work over the years. The book will gather stories from the mid-1950s until the twenty-first century by great names of the past, great names of the present together with a few hidden treasures by less familiar writers. The first CWA anthology, Butcher’s Dozen, appeared in 1956, and was co-edited by Julian Symons, Michael Gilbert, and Josephine Bell. The anthology has been edited by Martin Edwards since 1996, and has yielded many award-winning and nominated stories in the UK and overseas.
This new edition includes an array of incredible and award-winning authors: Robert Barnard, Simon Brett, Liza Cody, Mat Coward, John Dickson Carr, Marjorie Eccles, Martin Edwards, Kate Ellis, Anthea Fraser, Celia Fremlin, Frances Fyfield, Michael Gilbert, Paula Gosling, Lesley Grant-Adamson, HRF Keating, Bill Knox, Peter Lovesey, Mick Herron, Michael Z. Lewin, Susan Moody, Julian Symons and Andrew Taylor.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781787585461
ISBN-10: 1787585468
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Ediția:Nouă
Editura: Flame Tree Publishing
Colecția FLAME TREE PRESS
Locul publicării:New York, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1787585468
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Ediția:Nouă
Editura: Flame Tree Publishing
Colecția FLAME TREE PRESS
Locul publicării:New York, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Martin Edwards (Editor) is the author of eighteen novels, including the Lake District Mysteries, and the Harry Devlin series. His ground-breaking genre study The Golden Age of Murder has won the Edgar, Agatha, and H.R.F. Keating awards. He has edited twenty eight crime anthologies, has won the CWA Short Story Dagger and the CWA Margery Allingham Prize, and is series consultant for the British Library’s Crime Classics. In 2015, he was elected eighth President of the Detection Club, an office previously held by G.K. Chesterton, Agatha Christie, and Dorothy L. Sayers.
The CWA (Crime Writers' Association) was founded in 1953 by John Creasey, and organises the prestigious CWA Dagger Awards which celebrate the best in crime writing. The CWA is a pro-active, thriving and ever-expanding community of writers based in the UK but with a reach that extends worldwide.
The CWA (Crime Writers' Association) was founded in 1953 by John Creasey, and organises the prestigious CWA Dagger Awards which celebrate the best in crime writing. The CWA is a pro-active, thriving and ever-expanding community of writers based in the UK but with a reach that extends worldwide.
Recenzii
'For more than sixty years, the CWA has done more for British crime writing than any other organisation.'
"A book that should provide hours of entertainment and discovery for fans of mysteries and especially those with British roots and overtones."
"There is something for everyone within this anthology with the stories spanning a variety of time periods and types of crime."
“Excellently put together, and overall an enjoyable reader that shows many different styles which keeps the genre well and truly alive.”
“[...] if you like “golden age” mysteries, with puzzles to figure out, you’ll enjoy this book. I certainly did!”
"A book that should provide hours of entertainment and discovery for fans of mysteries and especially those with British roots and overtones."
"There is something for everyone within this anthology with the stories spanning a variety of time periods and types of crime."
“Excellently put together, and overall an enjoyable reader that shows many different styles which keeps the genre well and truly alive.”
“[...] if you like “golden age” mysteries, with puzzles to figure out, you’ll enjoy this book. I certainly did!”
Descriere
Vintage Crime will be a CWA anthology with a difference, celebrating members’ work over the years. The book will gather stories from the mid-1950s until the twenty-first century by great names of the past, great names of the present together with a few hidden treasures by less familiar writers.