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Guilty Creatures: A Menagerie of Mysteries

Martin Edwards

3.75/5 (119 ratings)

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"Curiously enough," said Dr. Manners, "I know a story in which the detection of a murder turned on the behaviour of a bird: in this instance a jackdaw." Since the dawn of the crime fiction genre, animals of all kinds have played a memorable part in countless mysteries, and in a variety of roles: the perpetrator, the key witness, the sleuth's trusted companion. This collection of fourteen stories corrals plots centred around cats, dogs and insects alongside more exotic incidents involving gorillas, parakeets and serpents - complete with a customary shoal of red herrings. From the animal mysteries of Arthur Conan Doyle and F. Tennyson Jesse through to more modern masterpieces of the sub-genre from Christianna Brand and Penelope Wallace, this anthology celebrates one of the liveliest and most imaginative species of classic crime fiction.

Format:: Paperback

Pages:: 315 pages

Publication:: 2021

Publisher:: British library crime

Edition:

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0712353445

ISBN13:: 9780712353441

kindle Asin:: B09DTJBT4P

Guilty Creatures: A Menagerie of Mysteries

Martin Edwards

3.75/5 (119 ratings)

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"Curiously enough," said Dr. Manners, "I know a story in which the detection of a murder turned on the behaviour of a bird: in this instance a jackdaw." Since the dawn of the crime fiction genre, animals of all kinds have played a memorable part in countless mysteries, and in a variety of roles: the perpetrator, the key witness, the sleuth's trusted companion. This collection of fourteen stories corrals plots centred around cats, dogs and insects alongside more exotic incidents involving gorillas, parakeets and serpents - complete with a customary shoal of red herrings. From the animal mysteries of Arthur Conan Doyle and F. Tennyson Jesse through to more modern masterpieces of the sub-genre from Christianna Brand and Penelope Wallace, this anthology celebrates one of the liveliest and most imaginative species of classic crime fiction.

Format:: Paperback

Pages:: 315 pages

Publication:: 2021

Publisher:: British library crime

Edition:

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0712353445

ISBN13:: 9780712353441

kindle Asin:: B09DTJBT4P

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