Mammoth 1019-page anthology of crime fiction introduced by G. K. Chesterton.
"Forty -five stories by forty-four strong practitioners of the twenties and thirties, almost all worth reading." - Barzun & Taylor, A Catalogue of Crime (1989).
Includes stories by Edgar Allan Poe, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Edgar Wallace, Wilkie Collins, E. C. Bentley, Thomas Burke, H. C. Bailey, Dorothy Sayers, Ernest Bramah, Freeman Wills Crofts and many others.
A follow-up volume was published in 1938.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was one of the most influential English writers of the 20th century. His prolific and diverse output included journalism, philosophy, poetry, biography, Christian apologetics, fantasy and detective fiction.
Chesterton has been called the "prince of paradox". Time magazine, in a review of a biography of Chesterton, observed of his writing style: "Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories—first carefully turning them inside out.
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