English Country House Murders Author:Thomas Godfrey, Ed. From the back cover. — Nothing could seem more civilized, more orderly and sedate than a weekend at one of Great Britain's country estates. Yet these staid, conservative houses play host to a wider variety of murders than do the mean streets of America's darkest cities. What with cyanide in the teapot, curare in the gorse, a dagger in the library... more » desk, a mastiff prowling the grounds, and blunt instruments of every description throughout the house, the temptation to do away with a doddering aunt or a stodgy uncle--wealthy, of course--can prove deliciously irresistible. Anthologist Thomas Godfrey here offers short works by the finest authors in the English Country House tradition, including Agatha Christie, P. D. James, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, P. G. Wodehouse, Ruth Rendell, John Dickson Carr, and Dorothy L. Sayers. Fine company indeed if rainy weather spoils the day's shooting (of grouse, of course).
From the table of contents:
"The Adventure of the Abbey Grange," Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"A Marriage Tragedy," Wilkie Collins
"Lord Chizelrigg's Missing Fortune," Robert Barr
"The Fordwych Castle Mystery," Emmuska, Baroness Orczy
A fun collection of murder mysteries....all sharing the theme of a Manor house.
Short Stories by:Marsh, Christie, Sayers, Allingham, Chesterton, Conan Doyle, R. Austin Freeman, John Dickson Carr, Rendell, James, Wodehouse, and many others.