Detective Club Crime Classics: Mystery of the Skeleton Key, The

Detective Club Crime Classics: Mystery of the Skeleton Key, The
G K Chesterton, Bernard Capes, Hugh Lamb
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 224pg
13 Jun 2019 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9780008337278
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The Skeleton Key (1919) was the first detective novel published by Collins, ushering in the Golden Age, the Crime Club, and 100 years of remarkable crime fiction that would follow. A body is discovered after a shooting party in the grounds of a country house in Hampshire. The police are called in, and a clever young detective, Sergeant Ridgway, begins to unravel a much more complicated and brutal case of murder than was first suspected. But has he met his match with Le Sage, a chess-playing Baron, who is convinced that the answers lie not in Hampshire but in Paris?After 20 years of writing in various genres, The Skeleton Key was Bernard Capes' crowning achievement, as he died shortly after completing the book. Introduced by Hugh Lamb, whose anthology The Black Reaper resurrected Capes' reputation as one of the best horror writers of his generation, the book also includes its original tribute to Capes by G. K. Chesterton, author of the Father Brown mysteries.

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Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780008337278
Published: 13 Jun 2019
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Collins Crime Club
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 224

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