The Lock and Key Library: Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English

Step back into the golden age of the mystery story with this complete, unabridged edition of The Lock and Key Library: Classic Mystery and Detective Stories — Modern English, the celebrated 1909 anthology that gathered the finest British tales of crime, deduction, and the uncanny. Here are haunted hotels and midnight confessions, master detectives and impossible crimes, written by the architects of the genre: Wilkie Collins, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, and their contemporaries. This volume reproduces the original text in full, exactly as first published, and adds a new introduction placing the stories in their historical moment, along with reader's notes illuminating the people, places, and conventions of early detective fiction. Whether you are discovering these classics for the first time or returning to old favorites, this is the definitive reading copy for lovers of atmospheric, old-fashioned suspense. Part of The Founding Texts Library.