1929 The Omnibus of Crime Edited by Dorothy L. Sayers – Harcourt, Brace & Co. – Early Detective & Horror Anthology
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1929 The Omnibus of Crime Edited by Dorothy L. Sayers – Harcourt, Brace & Co. – Early Detective & Horror Anthology
Description
Vintage 1929 hardcover anthology The Omnibus of Crime, edited and introduced by Dorothy L. Sayers, one of the major figures of Golden Age detective fiction.
This large collection surveys the development of crime, detective, mystery, and supernatural fiction and includes works by authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, G. K. Chesterton, Bram Stoker, Wilkie Collins, Robert Louis Stevenson, M. R. James, Arthur Machen, Sax Rohmer, and others. Contemporary bibliographic records describe the work as a substantial anthology of more than 900 pages, while the principal U.S. first-edition issue ran to over 1,100 pages depending on publisher/issue.