edited by Martin Edwards
5/5 stars
This anthology by British Crime Classics is a fun read. There are stories by both well known and currently obscure crime writers, from the Victorian age to the Golden Age, and slightly later. The collection is has a variety of stories, with murder, theft, and suspense represented. Some are not as mysterious as others, but all were entertaining. I discovered several authors whose novels I now plan to read.
The stories are as follows:
"The Blue Carbuncle" by Arthur Conan Doyle 5/5 stars
"Parlour Tricks" by Ralph Plummer 3/5 stars
"A Happy Solution" by Raymond Allen 3/5 stars
"The Flying Stars" by G. K. Chesterton 4/5 stars
"Stuffing" by Edgar Wallace 4/5 stars
"The Unknown Murderer" by H.C. Bailey 4/5 stars
"The Absconding Treasurer" by J. Jefferson Farjeon 3/5 stars
"The Necklace of Pearls" by Dorothy L. Sayers 5/5 stars
"The Case is Altered" by Margery Allingham 4/5 stars
"Waxworks" by Ethel Lina White 5/5 stars
"Cambric Tea" by Marjorie Bowen 4/5 stars
"The Chinese Apple" by Joseph Shearing 4/5 stars
"A Problem in White" by Nicholas Blake 4/5 stars
"The Name on the Window" by Edmund Crispin 4/5 stars
"Beef for Christmas" by Leo Bruce 4/5 stars
The variety of the collection is definitely five stars. The average of the stories is four stars, giving the book a total of four and a half stars, so I rounded it off to five stars.
