Twelve Mystery Stories by Jack Adrian
'The hand moved ...an awful, brooding, vengeful presence was hidden within the smiling doll -- a sinister spirit from behind the veil, swift and relentless in its message of doom.' The twelve mystery stories in this collection relate inexplicable episodes of madness and revenge, terror and obsession, the grotesque and the arabesque, the scientific and the supernatural. Sometimes we find ghosts or other phantoms at the heart of the mystery, but in other cases eerie incidents arise out of apparently everyday situations and these ordinary origins make the uncanniness even more chilling. Jack Adrian brings together stories by well-known writers in the crime and mystery genre, such as Wilkie Collins and Conan Doyle, and rarer stories which have for decades been unavailable to readers.Bill Pronzini is a well-known mystery and suspense writer of over forty novels, and is best known as the creator of the Nameless Detective series. He served as the first president of the Private Eye Writers of America, and won that organization's Lifetime Achievement Award in 1987. Jack Adrian is
an authority on popular and genre fiction in the twentieth century, and is the author of many books, and editor and co-editor of numerous anthologies, including Crime at Christmas, The Art of the Impossible, and The Oxford Book of Historical Stories.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780192880741 |
| ISBN 10 | 0192880748 |
| Title | Twelve Mystery Stories |
| Author | Jack Adrian |
| Series | Oxford Twelves S |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 1998-04-23 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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