{"product_id":"9781464203756","title":"Resorting to Murder: Holiday Mysteries: A British Library Crime Classic","description":"\u003cp\u003eHolidays offer us the luxury of getting away from it all. So, in a different way, do detective stories. This collection of vintage mysteries combines both those pleasures. From a golf course at the English seaside to a pension in Paris, and from a Swiss mountain resort to the cliffs of Normandy, this new selection shows the enjoyable and unexpected ways in which crime writers have used summer holidays as a theme.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese fourteen stories range widely across the golden age of British crime fiction. Stellar names from the past are well represented – Arthur Conan Doyle and G. K. Chesterton, for instance – with classic stories that have won acclaim over the decades. The collection also uncovers a wide range of hidden gems: Anthony Berkeley – whose brilliance with plot had even Agatha Christie in raptures – is represented by a story so (undeservedly) obscure that even the British Library does not own a copy. The stories by Phyllis Bentley and Helen Simpson are almost equally rare, despite the success which both writers achieved, while those by H. C. Bailey, Leo Bruce and the little-known Gerald Findler have seldom been reprinted.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach story is introduced by the editor, Martin Edwards, who sheds light on the authors' lives and the background to their writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Poisoned Pen Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47052137332976,"sku":"9781464203756","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781464203756_p0.jpg?v=1763682524","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781464203756","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}