Robinson Publishing Ltd.

Introduction THE CHRONICLES OF CRIMEThis anthology is the first of a kind. It's the first to bring together a selection of stories featuring detectives from the entire history of the civilised world.Stories about historical detectives are relatively new, though they are not as new as some may feel....

INTRODUCTION A man walks on the moon. To the crowds which gathered in London and New York to see the new century on the winter's evening of 31 December 1899, such an event was the stuff of the wildest fantasy. The aeroplane itself was still on the drawing board of an obscure duo of North...

IntroductionAnd Edgar Allan Poe begat the Chevalier Dupin, and Dupin begat Lecoq, and Lecoq begat Sherlock Holmes, and Sherlock Holmes begat - oh, dozens and dozens of detectives, and the Golden Age of the Detective Story was upon us.I'm probably in trouble already. The Golden Age is generally...