The anatomy of murder : famous crimes critically considered by the Detection Club

Summary: A unique anthology for crime aficionados - seven of the world's most notorious genuine murder mysteries retold by the most accomplished classic crime writers of their generation. A manipulative murderer who stalked the streets of Paris; a young wife who poisoned her eccentric husband; a bank cashier's mysterious suicide; a brutal double murder in New Zealand...Seven of the world's greatest crime writers turn their hand to some of the world's most spine-tingling mysteries - all of them astonishingly true.

Record details

ISBN: 9780007569687
Physical Description: print
xii, 335 pages ; 20 cm
Publisher: London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2014.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Death of Henry Kinder / Helen Simpson -- Constance Kent / John Rhode -- The case of Adelaide Bartlett / Margaret Cole -- An impression of the Landru case / E.R. Punshon -- The murder of Julia Wallace / Dorothy L. Sayers -- The Rattenbury case / Francis Iles -- A New Zealand tragedy / Freeman Wills Crofts.