Foreign Bodies - (British Library Crime Classics) by Martin Edwards (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"This is the first ever collection of classic crime in translation from the golden age of the genre in the 20th century. Many of these stories are exceptionally rare, and several have been translated for the first time to appear in this volume"--Amazon.com.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>EDITED AND INTRODUCED BY MARTIN EDWARDS</p> <p>Today, translated crime fiction is in vogue - but this was not always the case. A century before Scandi noir, writers across Europe and beyond were publishing detective stories of high quality. Often these did not appear in English and they have been known only by a small number of experts. This is the first ever collection of classic crime in translation from the golden age of the genre in the 20th century. Many of these stories are exceptionally rare, and several have been translated for the first time to appear in this volume.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>...most of these stories have long been forgotten, and most of them richly deserve another look.-- "<b><i>Kirkus Reviews</i></b>"<br><br>Edwards (<i>Continental Crimes</i>) has done mystery readers a great service by providing the first-ever anthology of golden age short stories in translation, with 15 superior offerings from authors from France, Japan, Denmark, Austria, Germany, Holland, Mexico, Russia, and elsewhere; even Anton Chekhov makes a contribution ('The Swedish Match'). <b>(starred review)</b>-- "<b><i>Publishers Weekly</i></b>"<br><br>Two years in the making, the international crime short story collection <i>Foreign Bodies</i> from British Library Crime Classics (U.K) and Poisoned Pen Press (U.S.) answers an intriguing question: what do Golden Age mystery tales from other countries look like?...It turns out, as curator and editor Martin Edwards notes in his informative introduction, that those familiar Golden Age mystery stories from England had a far-flung effect on writers around the world...Martin Edwards and his partners in international crime are to be commended for gathering and sharing these intriguing, relatively unknown stories from around the world. Even while a few authors lean a bit too heavily on the familiar British mystery fiction that clearly inspired them and mute the originality of their own settings and cultures, there is much here to enjoy, explore, and celebrate.--Jason Half "<b>NetGalley</b>"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><strong>MARTIN EDWARDS</strong> is an award-winning crime writer best known for two series of novels set in Liverpool and the Lake District. He is a series consultant for British Library Crime Classics, Chair of the Crime Writers' Association, and President of the Detection Club. <em>The Golden Age of Murder</em>, his study of the Detection Club, was published in 2015 to international acclaim, and won the Edgar, Agatha, H.R.F. Keating and Macavity awards for the year's best book about the genre.</p>
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