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Værker af Patricia Craig

The Oxford Book of English Detective Stories (1990) — Redaktør — 399 eksemplarer
The Oxford Book of Travel Stories (1996) — Redaktør — 74 eksemplarer
The Oxford Book of Modern Women's Stories (1994) — Redaktør — 71 eksemplarer
The Oxford Book of Detective Stories (2000) — Redaktør — 69 eksemplarer
The Oxford Book of Ireland (1998) — Redaktør — 69 eksemplarer
Three Theban Plays (1990) — Redaktør — 62 eksemplarer
Elizabeth Bowen (1986) 32 eksemplarer
The Penguin Book of Modern British Comic Writing (1992) — Redaktør — 30 eksemplarer
Brian Moore: A Biography (2002) 18 eksemplarer
The Oxford Book of Schooldays (1994) 13 eksemplarer
Bookworm (2015) 8 eksemplarer
The Belfast Anthology (1999) 7 eksemplarer
Julian Symons at 80: A Tribute (1992) — Redaktør — 4 eksemplarer
The Ulster Anthology (2006) 3 eksemplarer
Kilclief & Other Essays (2021) 3 eksemplarer
A Twisted Root 1 eksemplar

Associated Works

A Touch of Mistletoe (1967) — Introduktion, nogle udgaver119 eksemplarer
Death by Request (1933) — Introduktion, nogle udgaver35 eksemplarer
The Burnaby Experiments (1952) — Forord, nogle udgaver10 eksemplarer

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The Oxford Book of English Detective Stories gathers 33 engrossing tales of crime, ranging from the birth of the genre to the present day. Arthur Conan Doyle, G.K. Chesterton, Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, Margery Allingham, P.D. James, Ruth Rendell, Robert Barnard, and Simon Brett--all the giants of English mystery are here, as well as Christianna Brand, Ngaio Marsh, Michael Innes, Reginald Hill, Nicholas Blake, Michael Underwood, and many more
 
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CalleFriden | 4 andre anmeldelser | Feb 7, 2023 |
The best anthology of its kind, showing even more consistently good taste than Ellery Queen in their big Modern Library anthology. Those anthology staples "The Avenging Chance," "The Witness for the Prosecution," "The House in Goblin Wood," "Silver Blaze," and "Solved by Inspection" are all justifiably here to anchor the collection, while the less familiar selections generally testify to Craig's wide reading in the genre and excellent taste.

Some quibbles of course. Crime stories of the "biter is bit" genus are perhaps overrepresented leading to a bit of repetitiousness, nor do such stories really qualify as detective fiction. Craig complains that all but two or three of Chesterton's Father Brown stories are tedious and melodramatic "moral parables" rather than classical detective stories, then selects for inclusion one of the preachiest of them all ("The Oracle of the Dog"); I'd have selected "The Sign of the Broken Sword" or "The Invisible Man" or "The Queer Feet" or "The Eye of Apollo" or "The Miracle of Moon Crescent" or "The Dagger with Wings" myself. It would also have been nice to find space for "The Two Bottles of Relish" by Lord Dunsany, surely one of the top ten short stories in this genre.… (mere)
 
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middlemarchhare | 4 andre anmeldelser | Nov 25, 2015 |
Many famous authors, including Arthur Conan Doyle, R. Austin Freeman, Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner, Agatha Christie, Dashiell Hammett, James Thurber, Jorge Luis Borges ("Death and the Compass"), Georges Simenon, Ellery Queen, Sue Grafton, Sara Paretsky.

A quote from "Death and the Compass":
"You'll say reality is under no obligation to be interesting. To which I'd reply that reality may disregard the obligation but that we may not. . . ." [p. 240]
 
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raizel | Jul 4, 2014 |
Including stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, G.K. Chesterton, Dorothy Sayers, Margery Allingham, P.D. James, and many more this serves as a good introduction to British mystery writing.
 
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JereGenest | 4 andre anmeldelser | Mar 30, 2013 |

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Arthur Conan Doyle Contributor
R. Austin Freeman Contributor
Agatha Christie Contributor
Reginald Hill Contributor
H. R. F. Keating Contributor
Michael Gilbert Contributor
Robert Barnard Contributor
Nicholas Blake Contributor
Arthur Morrison Contributor
G. D. H. Cole Contributor
E. C. Bentley Contributor
Michael Innes Contributor
Edmund Crispin Contributor
Anthony Berkeley Contributor
Margery Allingham Contributor
Simon Brett Contributor
Gladys Mitchell Contributor
Christianna Brand Contributor
Cyril Hare Contributor
Julian Symons Contributor
John Rhode Contributor
Dorothy L. Sayers Contributor
H. C. Bailey Contributor
Geoffrey Bush Contributor
Ronald Knox Contributor
Clarence Rook Contributor
Ruth Rendell Contributor
Ngaio Marsh Contributor
Michael Underwood Contributor
P. D. James Contributor
Roy Vickers Contributor
Carter Dickson Contributor
Edith Wharton Contributor
Elizabeth Hardwick Contributor
Charles Dickens Contributor
Rachel Ingalls Contributor
J. I. M. Stewart Contributor
Jack Kerouac Contributor
Dan Jacobson Contributor
Zelda Fitzgerald Contributor
Benedict Kiely Contributor
William Plomer Contributor
William Sansom Contributor
V. S. Pritchett Contributor
Ring Lardner Contributor
Alice Adams Contributor
Beryl Bainbridge Contributor
Anita Desai Contributor
Flannery O'Connor Contributor
Paul Theroux Contributor
Wilkie Collins Contributor
John Cheever Contributor
Anthony Trollope Contributor
Penelope Lively Contributor
William Trevor Contributor
Raymond Carver Contributor
Elizabeth Bishop Contributor
Elizabeth Bowen Contributor
David Malouf Contributor
Jane Gardam Contributor
Rebecca West Contributor
Diane Johnson Contributor
Evelyn Waugh Contributor
Robert Van Gulik Contributor
Sue Grafton Contributor
Vincent Banville Contributor
Dashiell Hammett Contributor
John Charles Dent Contributor
Jorge Luis Borges Contributor
Émile Gaboriau Contributor
Ian Rankin Contributor
William MacHarg Contributor
Raymond Chandler Contributor
Palle Rosenkrantz Contributor
Paolo Levi Contributor
Pentti Kirstilä Contributor
Josef Škvorecký Contributor
Ted Wood Contributor
Shizuko Natsuki Contributor
Jacques Futrelle Contributor
Sarah Caudwell Contributor
Stuart M. Kaminsky Contributor
Maurice Leblanc Contributor
James Melville Contributor
Amanda Cross Contributor
Garry Disher Contributor
Matsumoto Seichō Contributor
Ellery Queen Contributor
Sara Paretsky Contributor
James Thurber Contributor
Georges Simenon Contributor
Gwendoline Butler Contributor
Peter Robinson Contributor
Edward D. Hoch Contributor
Elizabeth Ferrars Contributor
Donald E. Westlake Contributor
Karl Miller Contributor
Thomas Kinsella Contributor
John Fuller Contributor
Gavin Ewart Contributor
Nicolas Freeling Contributor
Thomas Narcejac Contributor
Patricia Highsmith Contributor
George Woodcock Contributor

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