The Groote Park Murder. Freeman Crofts Wills
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Название: The Groote Park Murder
Автор: Freeman Crofts Wills
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Полицейские детективы
isbn: 9780008159344
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‘THE DETECTIVE STORY CLUB is a clearing house for the best detective and mystery stories chosen for you by a select committee of experts. Only the most ingenious crime stories will be published under the THE DETECTIVE STORY CLUB imprint. A special distinguishing stamp appears on the wrapper and title page of every THE DETECTIVE STORY CLUB book—the Man with the Gun. Always look for the Man with the Gun when buying a Crime book.’
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First published in Great Britain by The Crime Club by W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd 1923
Copyright © Estate of Freeman Wills Crofts 1923
Introduction © Estate of Freeman Wills Crofts 1937
Cover design © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 1923, 2017
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Source ISBN: 9780008159337
Ebook Edition © April 2017 ISBN: 9780008159344
Version: 2017-03-07
Contents
VIII. VANDAM MAKES UP HIS MIND
XIV. INSPECTOR ROSS TAKES CHARGE
XVI. INTRODUCING SIR ANTHONY SWAYNE
XVIII. ENLIGHTENMENT AND MYSTIFICATION
THE WRITING OF A DETECTIVE NOVEL
WE are going, you and I, to write a detective novel, or so I am informed. Let us see, then, how we would set about it and what we would find ourselves up against.
Necessarily we must follow a hypothetical method, for if we asked a hundred detective-novelists how they worked, we should probably get a hundred quite different replies. And we are going to write a detective story, which we are doubtless СКАЧАТЬ