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      BODIES FROM THE LIBRARY

      3

      Forgotten stories of mystery and suspense by the Queens of Crime and other Masters of the Golden Age

      Selected and introduced by

      Tony Medawar

       Copyright

      COLLINS CRIME CLUB

      An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers

      1 London Bridge Street

      London SE1 9GF

       www.harpercollins.co.uk

      Published by Collins Crime Club 2020

      Selection, introduction and notes © Tony Medawar 2020

      For copyright acknowledgements, see Acknowledgements

      Cover design by Holly Macdonald © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2020

      Cover illustrations © Shutterstock.com

      A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.

      All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins.

      Source ISBN: 9780008380939

      Ebook Edition © July 2020 ISBN: 9780008380946

      Version: 2020-05-28

      CONTENTS

       Cover

       Title Page

      Copyright

      Introduction

       Christopher Bush

       THE SCARECROW MURDERS

       Joseph Commings

       THE INCIDENT OF THE DOG’S BALL

       Agatha Christie

       THE CASE OF THE UNLUCKY AIRMAN

       Christopher St John Sprigg

       THE RIDDLE OF THE BLACK SPADE

       Stuart Palmer

       A TORCH AT THE WINDOW

       Josephine Bell

       GRAND GUIGNOL

       John Dickson Carr

       A KNOTTY PROBLEM

       Ngaio Marsh

       THE ORANGE PLOT MYSTERIES:

       THE ORANGE KID

       Peter Cheyney

       AND THE ANSWER WAS …

       Ethel Lina White

       HE STOOPED TO LIVE

       David Hume

       MR PRENDERGAST AND THE ORANGE

       Nicholas Blake

       THE YELLOW SPHERE

       John Rhode

       THE ‘EAT MORE FRUIT’ MURDER

       William A. R. Collins

      Footnotes

      Acknowledgements

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