Long before Sherlock Holmes, six sleuths on either side of the Atlantic thrilled readers of early crime fiction - Inspector Bucket, C. Augustine Dupin, Amelia Butterworth, Sergeant Cuff, Loveday Brooke and Lady Molly of Scotland Yard.
Here they all are, together in one impressive collection of 24 novellas, two novels and 190 original illustrations. Six crime fighters who paved the way for Holmes, Watson et al.
An extraordinary anthology from six Masters of Mystery including Edgar Allan Poe and Wilkie Collins.
Included in this awesome 4,000 page plus collection:
*Inspector Bucket in ‘Bleak House – Special Edition’ by Charles Dickens.
*C. Augustine Dupin is the star of the ‘C. Augustine Dupin Collection – The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Murder of Roger Marie and The Purloined Letter’ by Edgar Allan Poe.
*Sergeant Cuff appears in ‘The Moonstone – Special Edition’ by Wilkie Collins.
*Lady Molly of Scotland Yard. All 12 Titles featuring Baroness Orczy’s intrepid sleuth of Inverness, Scotland are included here: The Ninescore Mystery, The Frewin Miniatures, The Irish Tweed Coat, The Fordwych Castle Mystery, A Day’s Folly, A Castle In Brittany, A Christmas Tragedy, The Bag of Sand, The Man in the Inverness Cape, The Woman in the Big Hat, Sir Jeremiah’s Will and The End.
*Loveday Brooke - The popular female detective created by C. L. Pirkis appeared in six stories in Ludgate Magazine in the 1890s. All six mysteries are included here: THE BLACK BAG LEFT ON A DOOR-STEP, THE REDHILL SISTERHOOD, A PRINCESS'S VENGEANCE, DRAWN DAGGERS, THE GHOST OF FOUNTAIN LANE and MISSING!
*Amelia Butterworth solves crimes in a trilogy by Anna Katharine Greene - ‘That Affair Next Door,’ ‘Lost Man’s Lane’ and ‘The Circular Study.’
Product details
Format: Kindle Edition
File Size: 29014 KB
Publisher: Enhanced Media Publishing (22 Dec. 2016)
Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
Language: English
ASIN: B01N34PPOL
Text-to-Speech: Enabled
9 comments
Boz
6 Feb 17#1
hotukdeals4life
6 Feb 171#2
Longest title I have seen for a while on this site
Boz to hotukdeals4life
6 Feb 17#3
Yes the freebies are getting bigger and bigger :smile:
Forgottenshopper
6 Feb 171#4
Thanks Boz..
Need more hours in my day to read all these books :smiley:
3guesses
6 Feb 173#5
Great detective work, Boz.
richziller
6 Feb 171#6
Awesome thank you!
jadamso
6 Feb 171#7
God Boz! The way things are going I'm actually going to have to start reading!
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Here they all are, together in one impressive collection of 24 novellas, two novels and 190 original illustrations. Six crime fighters who paved the way for Holmes, Watson et al.
An extraordinary anthology from six Masters of Mystery including Edgar Allan Poe and Wilkie Collins.
Included in this awesome 4,000 page plus collection:
*Inspector Bucket in ‘Bleak House – Special Edition’ by Charles Dickens.
*C. Augustine Dupin is the star of the ‘C. Augustine Dupin Collection – The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Murder of Roger Marie and The Purloined Letter’ by Edgar Allan Poe.
*Sergeant Cuff appears in ‘The Moonstone – Special Edition’ by Wilkie Collins.
*Lady Molly of Scotland Yard. All 12 Titles featuring Baroness Orczy’s intrepid sleuth of Inverness, Scotland are included here: The Ninescore Mystery, The Frewin Miniatures, The Irish Tweed Coat, The Fordwych Castle Mystery, A Day’s Folly, A Castle In Brittany, A Christmas Tragedy, The Bag of Sand, The Man in the Inverness Cape, The Woman in the Big Hat, Sir Jeremiah’s Will and The End.
*Loveday Brooke - The popular female detective created by C. L. Pirkis appeared in six stories in Ludgate Magazine in the 1890s. All six mysteries are included here: THE BLACK BAG LEFT ON A DOOR-STEP, THE REDHILL SISTERHOOD, A PRINCESS'S VENGEANCE, DRAWN DAGGERS, THE GHOST OF FOUNTAIN LANE and MISSING!
*Amelia Butterworth solves crimes in a trilogy by Anna Katharine Greene - ‘That Affair Next Door,’ ‘Lost Man’s Lane’ and ‘The Circular Study.’
Product details
Format: Kindle Edition
File Size: 29014 KB
Publisher: Enhanced Media Publishing (22 Dec. 2016)
Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
Language: English
ASIN: B01N34PPOL
Text-to-Speech: Enabled
9 comments
Need more hours in my day to read all these books :smiley: