Murder Most Foul: A Collection of Great Crime Stories by Agatha Christie, W. Somerset Maugham, Dorothy L. Sayers

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Demographic Details

• Authors Include: Agatha Christie; W. Somerset Maugham; Dorothy L. Sayers
• Title: Murder Most Foul: A Collection Of Great Crime Stories
• Publisher: ‎Gallery Books
• Publication Date: January 1987
• Language: ‎English
• Format: Hardcover – ??? pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0831761555
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0831761554
• Item Weight: ‎ 1.95 pounds
• Dimensions: 7.75" x 9.75" 
• Book Condition: Used – Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No dust jacket on this edition, printing is directly on boards. 

Synopsis:

The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl / Ray Bradbury

Murder! / Arnold Bennett

The Kennel / Maurice Level

'We Know You're Busy Writing…' / Edmund Crispin

A Thousand Deaths / Jack London

Back for Christmas / John Collier

Before the Party / W. Somerset Maugham

The Tell-Tale Heart / Edgar Allan Poe

The Evidence of the Alter-Boy / Georges Simenon

The Hand / Guy de Maupassant

Tickled to Death / Simon Brett

Miss Marple Tells a Story / Agatha Christie

Browdean Farm / A.M. Burrage

A Nice Touch / Mann Rubin

Light Verse / Isaac Asimov

Composed of Cobwebs / Eddy C. Bertin

The Boscombe Valley Mystery / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Man Who Knew How / Dorothy L. Sayers

The Hands of Mr. Ottermole / Thomas Burke

You Got to Have Brains / Robert Bloch

How the Third Floor Knew the Potteries / Amelia B. Edwards

The Invisible Man / G.K. Chesterton

The Hound / William Faulkner

Three is a Lucky Number / Margery Allingham

First Hate / Algernon Blackwood

The Victim / P.D. James

The Mystery of the Sleeping-Car Express / Freeman Wills Crofts

Moxon's Master / Ambrose Bierce

The Basket Chair / Winston Graham

The Drop of Blood / Mor Jokai

About the Authors:

Agatha Christie is nearly synonymous with upper-class British mysteries, for good reason. She set the standard for the genre in over 60 novels and dozens of short stories, also creating two classic detectives: the fastidious Belgian, Hercule Poirot, and English spinster Jane Marple. No one could match Christie's knack for weaving clues into her stories, then turning the whole thing inside out — shocking her readers every time.

William Somerset Maugham was born in Paris in 1874. He spoke French even before he spoke a word of English, a fact to which some critics attribute the purity of his style.

His parents died early and, after an unhappy boyhood, which he recorded poignantly in Of Human Bondage, Maugham became a qualified physician. But writing was his true vocation. For ten years before his first success, he almost literally starved while pouring out novels and plays.

Maugham wrote at a time when experimental modernist literature such as that of William Faulkner, Thomas Mann, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf was gaining increasing popularity and winning critical acclaim. In this context, his plain prose style was criticized as 'such a tissue of clichés' that one's wonder is finally aroused at the writer's ability to assemble so many and at his unfailing inability to put anything in an individual way.

During World War I, Maugham worked for the British Secret Service . He travelled all over the world, and made many visits to America. After World War II, Maugham made his home in south of France and continued to move between England and Nice till his death in 1965.

Dorothy L. Sayers

A refined author with a talent for wry mysteries spiced with quotations of verse and observations about English society, Dorothy L. Sayers created aristocratic sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey. Though best known for her entertaining crime novels, the lively minded Sayers also wrote plays, poetry and essays on Christianity.