English Country House Murders: Tales of Perfidious Albion

This anthology gathers twenty short stories from the golden age of detective fiction, united by the setting of the English country house. Contributors range from foundational figures like Arthur Conan Doyle, Wilkie Collins, and Agatha Christie to mid-century masters such as Dorothy L. Sayers, Ngaio Marsh, and P. D. James. Each tale transplants the classic whodunit into the isolated, often decaying grandeur of manors and estates, where social hierarchies, hidden secrets, and locked-room puzzles collide with the pastoral landscape.

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