Classic Tales of Mystery

A superstar lineup of detectives--including Sherlock Holmes, C. Auguste Dupin, and Hercule Poirot--headlines this elegant leather-bound edition of classic mystery stories. Short stories such as Edgar Allan Poe`s "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and G. K. Chesterton`s "The Blue Cross" are ideal for a cozy evening by the fire, while novels like Agatha Christie`s The Murder on the Links and Jules Verne`s An Antarctic Mystery will keep you engrossed for days. The eleven works in this volume are preceded by a scholarly introduction that explores the origins of the genre, as well as the development of the modern mystery story and the contributions made by each author.