Title:
Settling scores : sporting mysteries
Author:
Edwards, Martin, 1955- editor, writer of introduction.
ISBN:
9781464212840
Physical Description:
xii, 318 pages ; 21 cm.
Series:
British Library crime classics
British Library crime classics.
Contents:
The loss of Sammy Crockett / Arthur Morrison -- The adventure of the missing three-quarter / Arthur Conan Doyle -- The double problem / F.A.M. Webster -- Fisherman's luck / J. Jefferson Farjeon -- The football photograph / H.C. Bailey -- The red golf ball / Gerald Verner -- The boat race murder / David Winser -- The swimming gala / Gladys Mitchell -- The case of the man in the squared circle / Ernest Dudley -- I, said the sparrow / Leo Bruce -- Four to one-bar one / Henry Wade -- Death at the wicket / Bernard Newman -- The Wimbledon mystery / Julian Symons -- The drop shot / Michael Gilbert -- Dangerous sport / Celia Fremlin.
Abstract:
"Drawing upon Martin Edwards' expert knowledge of golden age crime and mystery short fiction, this short story collection features a death at the races, a murder at the regatta, and foul play in all its forms. In this anthology, where sports meets crime, the basketball court, the golf course - even the wholesome freshness of the swimming gala - become the setting of every kind of skullduggery penned by both masters of the genre and rarely reprinted authors"-- Provided by publisher.
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