Adrian, Jack (Ed) - Detective Stories From The Strand Magazine (1991)

With a Foreword by Julian Symons

Twenty-six stories, ranging from the obscure to the extremely well-known, and covering a period from 1904 to 1948. Apart from the Holmes stories, The Strand was not especially noted for detective fiction, and these represent the best of a relatively small set. Unfortunately not all of them are detective stories -- the ring-ins are noted with an asterisk below, while those which conceal information from the reader or rely on devices such as Poisons Unknown to Science get a question-mark -- but those which are may include some unfamilar and pleasant surprises. A brief biography of each writer is given, and an Introduction sets out the history of the magazine. Symons's brief Foreword appears to have been merely a way to get his name on the cover.

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The Vampire of the Village - GK Chesterton

The Dream - Agatha Christie

The Ginger King - AEW Mason

The Ministering Angel - EC Bentley

?Tokay of the Comet Year - H Warner Allen

*A Point of Law - W Somerset Maugham

*Not Guilty - Will Scott

?The Idol's Eye - Sapper

*The Perfect Crime - Seamark

Cast-Iron Alibi - Richard Keverne

*A Deal in Old Masters - Aldous Huxley

?Private Water - AJ Alan

*The Episcopal Seal - J Maclaren-Ross

*The Interruption - WW Jacobs

The Chobham Affair - Edgar Wallace

*By Kind Permission of the Murdered Man - Hylton Cleaver

?In View of the Audience - Marguerite Steen

*The Man Who Dreamed Too Much - Quentin Reynolds

?Inquest - Loel Yeo

The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton - Arthur Conan Doyle

The Adventure of the Creeping Man - Arthur Conan Doyle

The Adventure of the Lion's Mane - Arthur Conan Doyle

The Adventure of the First Class Carriage - Ronald Knox