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THE SEXTON BLAKE CASEBOOK · 1987 · Galley Press · £9.95 Edited by Mike Higgs THE MYSTERY OF GLYN CASTLE by Leonard H. Brooks · Illustrator: Unknown THE CASE OF THE SOCIETY BLACKMAILER by William Murray Graydon · Illustrator: Unknown THE CRIME IN THE WOOD by William Murray Graydon · Illustrator: Unknown DOWN AND OUT by William J. Bayfield · Illustrator: Unknown THE MISSING MILLIONAIRE by Hal Meredeth (Harry Blyth) · Illustrator: Unknown Other content: None Notes: Four reprints of SEXTON BLAKE LIBRARY adventures from the 1920s (all with the covers reproduced in black and white) plus a reprint of the first ever Sexton Blake story. Rating:  An excellent opportunity to read some hard-to-find early stories but the lack of extra material - or even an introductory essay - is disappointing.
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VINTAGE DETECTIVE STORIES · 1987 · Galley Press · £9.95 Edited by Mike Higgs THE EPISODE OF THE BLACK DIAMOND by Anon. (Cecil Hayter) · Illustrator: Unknown Other content: The Tea-Leaf by Edgar Jepson & Robert Eustace; The Face in the Dark by L. T. Meade & Robert Eustace; The Wrong House by E. W. Hornung; The Cyprian Bees by Anthony Wynne; Prince Charlie's Dirk by Eden Phillpotts; The Mysterious Death in Percy Street by Baroness Orczy; A Happy Solution by Raymond Allen; Sir Gilbert Murrell's Picture by Victor Whitechurch; The Ace of Trouble by Hedley Barker; The Hanover Court Murder by Sir Basil Thomson; The English Filter by Bechhofer Roberts; The Mystery of Marie Roget by Edgar Allan Poe; The Blue Sequin by Austin Freeman; The Clever Cockatoo by E. C. Bently; The Absent Minded Coterie by Robert Barr; The Secret of the Singular Cipher by F. A. M. Webster; Coincidence by J. Storer Clouston; The Ebony Box by Mrs. Henry Wood; The Adventure of the Fallen Angels by Percival Wilde; The Ghost of Massingham Mansions by Ernest Bramah; The Long Barrow by H. C. Bailey. Notes: This is a reprint of THE EPISODE OF THE BLACK DIAMOND from PENNY PICTORIAL issue 515 (April, 1909). In the anthology it is mistakenly stated to have been originally published in 1920. Apparently this story also appeared in a 1930 anthology edited by Dorothy L. Sayers, though I have no further information about that. Unrated |
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