A wonderful selection of fictional detectives, all together in one superb collection of unabridged short stories. Find Sherlock Holmes with his long-suffering colleague, Dr. Watson, in “The Dying Detective”, Father Brown as a witness in court in “The Man in the Passage” and everyone's favourite Inspector Morse in “The Burglar”. Appreciate Dame Muriel Spark's foray into the genre in “Chimes” and meet Nigel Strangeways, C. Day Lewis' (here writing as Nicholas Blake) young sleuth. Reader Edward Hardwicke, who played Watson to Jeremy Brett's Holmes in the early 1990s, makes an ideal reader for the genre.
The unabridged stories here are:
“The Green Mamba” by Edgar Wallace
“The Poetical Policeman” by Edgar Wallace
“The Dying Detective” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
“The Burglar” by Colin Dexter
“The Man in the Passage” by G.K. Chesterton
“The Assassins' Club” by C. Day Lewis writing as Nicholas Blake
“The Case of the Tragedles of the Greek Room” by Sax Rohmer
