Murder in a Heatwave: Classic Crime Mysteries for the Holidays (Paperback)
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Murder in a Heatwave: Classic Crime Mysteries for the Holidays (Paperback)

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Paperback 256 Pages
Published: 04/05/2023
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Waterstones Says

Featuring fiendish whodunits from Dorothy L. Sayers, Arthur Conan Doyle and Ian Rankin amongst others, this delicious anthology of summertime slayings makes for wickedly wonderful beach reading.

As the days get longer, escape your troubles and take a trip to the desperately hot towns where nightfall lingers and a sun-drenched picnic can end in panic. No matter how murderously high the temperatures rise, these stories will chill you to the bone. So grab a cool drink and step into the shade... if you dare.

Featuring terrifying tales of summertime murder and mayhem from Dorothy L. Sayers, Arthur Conan Doyle, Carter Dickson, Michael Innes, Baroness Orczy, Margery Allingham, Ian Rankin, Julian Symons, Ethel Lina White and Rex Stout.

Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
ISBN: 9781800817746
Number of pages: 256
Weight: 200 g
Dimensions: 196 x 128 x 22 mm
Edition: Main


MEDIA REVIEWS

With Cecily Gayford in charge, we are on safe ground - Daily Mail

Praise for the Vintage Murder series - :

Has everything you might want ... take this little book to the beach [and] relax in the sun while reading of battered corpses - Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday

An excellent collection of short stories by ten top-class writers - Marcel Berlins, Times Books of the Year

Perfect for a quick fix of golden-age crime. This collection of short winter chills is well worth reading by candlelight before turning in on Christmas Eve - Janice Hallett, author of The Appeal and The Twyford Code, The Sunday Times

Short, clever and puzzling murder tales test the brains of the most avid crime reader ... delectable - On Magazine

Looking forward to Christmas? [The Vintage Murder series] is a fine way to start it. It's a cracker. - Amy Myers

An impressive tome by some great names ... there isn't actually a bum note in the entire collection, not a single one you could skip through and not miss it - which is quite some feat. To paraphrase Nick Cook's famous Crimewatch sign off, just don't have nightmares after reading it. - Sarah Morgan, On Magazine

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The latest collection from profile books features stories from and around the golden age of crime and one modern story. Most of the book is very good. The weakest is the Rex Stout story, but I have read Nero Wolfe... More

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