A unique anthology for crime aficionados – seven of the world’s most notorious genuine murder mysteries retold by the most accomplished classic crime writers of their generation.
A manipulative murderer who stalked the streets of Paris; a young wife who poisoned her eccentric husband; a bank cashier’s mysterious suicide; a brutal double murder in New Zealand… Seven of the world’s greatest crime writers turn their hand to some of the world’s most spine-tingling mysteries – all of them astonishingly TRUE.
This remarkable collection from the archives of the Detection Club follows The Floating Admiral, Ask a Policeman and Six Against the Yard back into print after more than 75 years, and shows some of the most accomplished authors of their generation retelling real-life murder mysteries with all the relish of the tastiest crime fiction.
- ISBN13 9780008283193
- Publish Date 13 June 2019 (first published 1 November 1989)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Imprint Collins Crime Club
- Format Paperback
- Pages 352
- Language English
- URL http://harpercollins.co.uk