This book is a no-apologies introduction to Detective Fiction. It's written in an aggressive, modern English well-suited to a genre which has traditionally brok

This book is a no-apologies introduction to Detective Fiction. It's written in an aggressive, modern English well-suited to a genre which has traditionally brok

Essential reading for all armchair detectives, this collection of 33 classic whodunits is the cream of crime writing.

Edgar Allan Poe essentially invented the detective story in 1841 with Murders in the Rue Morgue. In the years that followed, however, detective fiction in Ameri

Until recently, only a privileged few could read the rare, early writings that formed the basis of detective fiction in America and made it one of the most popu