Crime Stories from the Strand

This anthology collects crime and detective stories first printed in the Strand Magazine from the 1890s into the 1940s. Typical pieces include consulting detectives, gentleman thieves, country-house murders, and wartime intrigue. Contributors include Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, G.K. Chesterton, Edgar Wallace, and others who wrote for the same popular monthly. Each story is independent; there is no frame beyond the magazine origin. The book is a period sampler of Strand crime fiction, not a single detective cycle and not a history of the magazine.

Bound in blue-grey cloth, covers blocked in black and gold with a picture. Maroon endpapers and page tops. Gold or blue slipcase.