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Title: 12 English Detective Stories by Michael Cox ISBN: 0-19-288096-9 Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 January, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Murder and Mayhem and Grisly Thrills
Comment: Oxford University Press has enjoyed great success with their anthologies over the years, and the Oxford Twelves series is a shorter introduction to their collections of sensational fiction. The editors draw extensively from the golden age of the 19th century and find plenty of gems from the 20th to back them up. Michael Cox's volume of detective stories is a typically enjoyable example, with six stories from the period 1892-1923 and six later examples, including the relatively modern offering from Julian Symons dating from 1986 ("The Flaw", in which a man seeking to commit the perfect crime finds that he is not the only one with that objective in mind!). In my opinion, the newer stories in the collection are stronger (with the exception of "The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk," a fine example of Sherlock Holmes at work). The tales by Dorothy L. Sayers, H.C. Bailey, E.C. Bentley and Michael Innes are quite spectacular.

Rating: 4
Summary: nail biting experience
Comment: Reading this book was really a chilling experience. I really liked the book and I want each and every person interested in Detective stories to read this book.