{"product_id":"9780712357487","title":"Resorting to Murder","description":"Holidays offer us the luxury of getting away from it all. So, in a different way, do detective stories. This collection of vintage mysteries combines both those pleasures. From a golf course at the English seaside to a pension in Paris, and from a Swiss mountain resort to the cliffs of Normandy, this new selection shows the enjoyable and unexpected ways in which crime writers have used summer holidays as a theme.  These fourteen stories range widely across the golden age of British crime fiction. Stellar names from the past are well represented  -  Arthur Conan Doyle and G. K. Chesterton, for instance  -  with classic stories that have won acclaim over the decades. The collection also uncovers a wide range of hidden gems: Anthony Berkeley  -  whose brilliance with plot had even Agatha Christie in raptures  -  is represented by a story so (undeservedly) obscure that even the British Library seems not to own a copy. The stories by Phyllis Bentley and Helen Simpson are almost equally rare, despite the success which both writers achieved, while those by H. C. Bailey, Leo Bruce and the little-known Gerald Findler have seldom been reprinted.","brand":"Martin Edwards","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45810062164286,"sku":"9780712357487","price":278.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4357\/7662\/products\/9780712357487_461b102e-476b-4924-9542-468a6e0fe1ee.jpg?v=1707313182","url":"https:\/\/exclusivebooks.co.za\/products\/9780712357487","provider":"Exclusive Books Online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}