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The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits Volume 1

The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits Volume 1
Author: Mike Ashley
Publisher: Robinson
Total Pages: 484
Release: 2015-02-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1472117085
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Divided into three main sections, "The Ancient World", "The Middle Ages" and "Regency and Gaslight", The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits includes: · The Thief versus Rhampsinitus by Herodotus - probably the earliest detective story ever written. · The Locked Tomb Mystery, set in ancient Egypt, by Elizabeth Peters. · A new story by John Maddox Roberts featuring the young Roman detective Decius Metellus. · Robert van Gulik's ingenious He Came With the Rain featuring Judge Dee, a real-life character who lived inseventh-century China. · A new story by Peter Tremayne, set in seventh-century Ireland and featuring Sister Fidelma. · Ellis Peters' Brother Cadfael story The Price of Light. · Paul Harding's The Confession of Brother Athelstan. · A classic locked-room mystery featuring Lillian de la Torre's popular detective Sam Johnson. · A story by Michael Harrison featuring August Dupin, the detective created by Edgar Allan Poe and the inspiration behind Sherlock Holmes. · John Dickson Carr's acclaimed The Gentleman from Paris. ...and many more!

The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits Volume 3

The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits Volume 3
Author: Mike Ashley
Publisher: Robinson
Total Pages: 427
Release: 2015-02-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1472114817
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The third new collection of historical murder and mystery stories A brilliant new collection of thirty stories of mystery and intrigue spread over three thousand years, from Ancient Egypt to spies on the Titanic. Selected by bestselling editor Mike Ashley, the stories include brand new contributions as well as rare reprints, from writers such as Ian Rankin, Lynda Robinson, Sharan Newman, Gail Frazer, Gillian Linscott and Peter Tremayne. Among the characters featured are the Queen of Sheba, Attila the Hun, Hildegarde of Bingen, Geoffrey Chaucer, Henry the Navigator and Benjamin Franklin. And with settings as far-ranging as Botany Bay and ancient Pisa, New Amsterdam and old Edinburgh, ancient Greece and the court of Kublai Khan.

The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits Volume 2

The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits Volume 2
Author: Mike Ashley
Publisher: Robinson
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2015-02-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1472117077
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An all-new collection of exciting murder-mysteries with historical settings This new volume of historical murder and mystery contains over 20 specially commissioned stories ranging in period from Ancient Rome to the reign of Good Queen Bess. It features original stories from such masters as Steven Saylor, Peter Tremayne, Philip Gooden, Susanna Gregory, Kate Ellis, Michael Jecks, Edward D. Hoch and Marilyn Todd. · In Steven Saylor’s Roman tale, Poppy and the Poisoned Cake, Gordianus the Finder feels his latest assignment is suspiciously easy to solve. · Edward D. Hoch puts a novel twist on the locked-room mystery by setting it on a “locked ship” — Christopher Columbus’s, in fact! · In Flibbertigibbet Paul Finch unleashes a deranged serial killer on Elizabethan London. · Falstaff ’s successor Sir Johan de Mandeville turns sleuth in Keith Taylor’s Bene?t of Clergy. · Sister Fidelma must solve the mystery of a murdered Celtic monk in Death of an Icon by Peter Tremayne. · A pig provides the key to Michael Jecks’s latest Sir Baldwin mystery.- · Cherith Baldry turns Geoffrey Chaucer into a secret agent in her version of The Pilgrim’s Tale. · Anarchy and murderous intent rule when the Romans leave the British Isles in Richard Butler’s The Last Legion. . . . plus many more tales of dark age murder and mayhem!

The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits

The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits
Author: Michael Ashley
Publisher: Robinson Publishing
Total Pages: 564
Release: 2005
Genre: Detective and mystery stories, English
ISBN: 9781845290047
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The third new collection of historical murder and mystery stories A brilliant new collection of thirty stories of mystery and intrigue spread over three thousand years, from Ancient Egypt to spies on the Titanic. Selected by bestselling editor Mike Ashley, the stories include brand new contributions as well as rare reprints, from writers such as Ian Rankin, Lynda Robinson, Sharan Newman, Gail Frazer, Gillian Linscott and Peter Tremayne. Among the characters featured are the Queen of Sheba, Attila the Hun, Hildegarde of Bingen, Geoffrey Chaucer, Henry the Navigator and Benjamin Franklin. And with settings as far-ranging as Botany Bay and ancient Pisa, New Amsterdam and old Edinburgh, ancient Greece and the court of Kublai Khan.

The Mammoth Book of More Historical Whodunnits

The Mammoth Book of More Historical Whodunnits
Author: Mike Ashley
Publisher: Running PressBook Pub
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2001
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780786709168
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More than thirty acclaimed mystery writers--including Elizabeth Peters, Margaret Frazer, Derek Wilson, Susanna Gregory, Edward D. Hoch, Steven Saylor, Peter Tremayne, and Marilyn Todd--present a baffling assortment of historical mysteries. Original.

The Mammoth Collection of Historical Whodunnits and Historical Detectives

The Mammoth Collection of Historical Whodunnits and Historical Detectives
Author: Mike Ashley
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub
Total Pages: 1056
Release: 1996-09-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780786703777
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The best of the bestselling historical detective writers are all here in this double-volume boxed set--Ellis Peters, Peter Tremayne, Edward D. Hoch, John Dickson Carr, Lillian de al Torre, Kate Sedley, Margaret Frazer, and many more. Editor Mike Ashley has chosen mystery stories set through the ages, with turn-of-the-century conumdrums, medieval whodunnits, and truly ancient mysteries from the Bible and Herodotus.

The Mammoth Book of Jacobean Whodunnits

The Mammoth Book of Jacobean Whodunnits
Author: Mike Ashley
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 591
Release: 2011-09-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1780333544
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The seventeenth century was a time ripe with murder, anarchy, war, political and religious intrigue, of which the Gunpowder Plot is only one example. This unputdownable new anthology from Mike Ashley presents 25 whodunnits set in those turbulent times -- also the age of the Witchfinder General, 'revenge' tragedies and the colonization of America. Stories of murder and mayhem centre on the true role of Guy Fawkes, the English Civil War and the fate of Charles I, plus the lost colony of Roanoke and the tale of Pocahontas. A fast-paced anthology for a thrilling time in British history.

The Mammoth Book of Classical Whodunnits

The Mammoth Book of Classical Whodunnits
Author: Mike Ashley
Publisher: C & R Crime
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2014-02-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1472114922
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In the golden days of Ancient Greece and Rome, amidst the splendid art and architecture, the philosophy and politics - there was always a full measure of intrigue, mystery and murder. In this new collection twenty-two writers take up their pens to give an enthralling picture of classical crime. Favourite historical detectives such as Gordianus the Finder, Decius Metellus, and Sister Fidelma rub shoulders with eminent temporary sleuths such as Socrates and that honourable man Brutus, whilst other great names - Augustus, Archimedes, and even the spoilt and beautiful goddess of love, Aphrodite herself - also become enmeshed in terrible and ingenious crimes. Contributors include: Keith Heller Edward D. Hoch Phyllis Ann Karr Theodore Mathieson Amy Myers Wallace Nichols Anthony Price Steven Saylor Darrell Schweitzer Brian Stableford Keith Taylor and many more

New Sherlock Holmes Adventures

New Sherlock Holmes Adventures
Author: Packages
Publisher: Packages
Total Pages: 548
Release: 2000-05-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780785818809
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After Arthur Conan Doyle created the detective, Sherlock Holmes, many writers borrowed him to be the hero of their stories. The anthology offers a selection, old and new.

The Mammoth Book of Dark Magic

The Mammoth Book of Dark Magic
Author: Mike Ashley
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 407
Release: 2013-04-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1780339925
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Twenty-three spellbinding tales of sorcery, wizardry and witchcraft, of the ceaseless battle between good and evil. From dark lords and epic clashes between the forces of good and evil to a child's struggle to control magical powers for the first time this wonderfully varied collection comprises stories by the most outstanding writers of fantasy: A. C. Benson, James Bibby, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Louise Cooper, Ralph Adams Cram, Peter Crowther, Esther M. Friesner, Tom Holt, Doug Hornig, Diana Wynne Jones, Michael Kurland, Tim Lebbon, Ursula K. Le Guin, Richard A. Lupoff, Michael Moorcock, John Morressy, Tim Pratt, David Sandner, Lawrence Schimel and Mike Resnick, Darrell Schweitzer, Clark Ashton Smith, Steve Rasnic Tem and Robert Weinberg.