Hardcover. Condizione: USED_GOOD. Detection in the Golden Age!!!In 1930, Anthony Berkeley Cox (1893?1971) founded London?s Detection Club, whose members swore that their \"detectives shall well and truly detect the crimes presented to them, using those wits which it may please you to bestow upon them.\" The Detection Club pledged \"never to conceal a vital clue from the reader.\"Anthony Berkeley?s novels and short stories featuring Roger Sheringham and Inspector Moresby are among the finest examples of the fair play, challenge?to?the?reader tradition of the Golden Age. Berkeley punctiliously presented all the clues to the reader, but as Tony Medawar and Arthur Robinson point out in their introduction, he loved showing that clues could be interpreted in multiple ways ? and Sheringham is often wrong in his conclusions.The title story in The Avenging Chance has long been considered one of the five or six greatest formal detective stories. This book also collects seven additional cases of Sheringham and Moresby, one of which (\"The Mystery of Horne\'s Copse\") is a recently discovered novelette. Also included are Berkeley?s own tongue?in?cheek satire of the Sheringham stories and a complete checklist of the Sheringham novels and tales.The Avenging Chance is the eleventh in Crippen & Landru?s Lost Classics series. Cover illustration by Gail Cross. Lost Classics design by Deborah Miller. Codice articolo AMPLE1932009167

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THE AVENGING CHANCE and Other Mysteries from Roger Sheringham's Casebook (Lost Classics Ser.)

Berkeley, Anthony (Medawar, Tony and Robinson, Arthur editors)

Editore: Crippen & Landru, Publishers, Norfolk, VA, U.S.A., 2004

ISBN 10: 1932009167 ISBN 13: 9781932009163

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Hard Cover. Condizione: NEW. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. Miller, Deborah (illustratore). First Edition. 1st edition. A fine, unread copy fine in dust jacket. Number 11 in the Lost Classic Series. Low print run as the publisher states that "The first printing of each book will be small perhaps 400-500 copies, divided between clothbound copies in dustjacket, and trade softcover." In 1930, Anthony Berkeley Cox founded London's Detection Club. His novels and short stories are among the finest examples of the fair play, challange-to-the-reader tradition of the Golden Age. Berkeley punctiliously presented all the clues to the reader, but as Tony Medawar and Arthur Robinson point out in their introduction, he loved showing that clues could be interpreted in multiple ways and Sheringham is often wrong in his conclusions. The title story in "The Avenging Chance" has long been considered one of the five or six greatest formal detective stories. This book also collects seven additional Sheringham and Moresby, one of which ("The Mystery of Horne's Copse") is a recently discovered novelette. Also included are Berkeley's own tongue-in-cheek satire of the Sheringham stories and a complete checklist of the Sheringham novels and tales. Introduction by Medwar and Robinson. Book. Codice articolo 020714

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