Bodies from the Library 4

This annual anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together tales from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including full-length novellas by **Christianna Brand** and **Julian Symons**. Mystery stories have been around for centuries—there are whodunits, whydunits and howdunits, including locked-room puzzles, detective stories without detectives, and crimes with a limited choice of suspects. Countless volumes of such stories have been published, but some are still impossible to find: stories that appeared in a newspaper, magazine or an anthology that has long been out of print; ephemeral works such as plays not aired, staged or screened for decades; and unpublished stories that were absorbed into an author's archive when they died . . . Here for the first time are three never-before-published mysteries by **Edmund Crispin, Ngaio Marsh** and **Leo Bruce**, and two pieces written for radio by **Gladys Mitchell** and **H. C. Bailey**—the latter featuring Reggie Fortune. Together with a newly unearthed short story by **Ethel Lina White** that inspired Hitchcock’s *The Lady Vanishes*, and a complete short novel by Christianna Brand, this d