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Over half a century before the rise of the great Queens of Crime , Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers, Amelia B. Edwards was an expert practitioner of crime fiction and murder mysteries, of which the best dozen are included in this volume. These gripping tales range from ingenious whodunnits - All Saints Eve and The Tragedy in the Palazzo Bardello - to encounters with homicidal lunatics - Cain and A Railway Panic - clairvoyant visions preventing disaster or imminent murder - The Professor s Story and A Night on the Borders of the Black Forest - and ghost stories The Four-fifteen Express , Number Three , In the Confessional , Sister Johanna s Story , and Was It An Illusion? - in which supernatural visitations explain earlier crimes and murders. These tales, many of which have been long out of print, are an ideal read for those who like their mystery stories tinged with a touch of the supernatural.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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It is so fortunate that these stories are available in an inexpensive format. All Saint's Eve is a useful collection of Amelia B Edwards' short stories for which she made her name, before she went to Egypt and became a valuable patron of Egyptology. So few of her novels are availabe that this access to her fiction is a boon for students of her life and work.
She was popular with Dickens and he published her stories in his editions but her work is more direct and less bogged down with description than the Master's. Have a crack at Miss Edwards, she is not going to make you lose sleep but they are well told.
She was popular with Dickens and he published her stories in his editions but her work is more direct and less bogged down with description than the Master's. Have a crack at Miss Edwards, she is not going to make you lose sleep but they are well told.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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Amelia Edwards was a true pioneer. She was a renowned Eygptologist and archaelogist in a male-dominated era for both fields. Here, we are interested in her work as a mystery writer. Her tales are not as polished and complete as later writers in the genre, but she writes with an energy, unobtrusive knowledge, and an ability to tell a good tale. Edwards seems to have been feeling her way in establishing the rules for the mystery story. Railways seem to have inspired her with the two best tales (both classics) "The 4:15 Express" and " A Railway Panic".
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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All Saints Eve represents a collection of Victorian writing at it's best. Amelia B Edward's descriptive prose and satisifying plots are still fresh and combine the genres of travel writing and detective/ghost story seamlessly. One always feels the sense of place and the demise of the characters in the story are in harmony, wether a village on the Rhine, a Worcestershire pottery, or, that old victorian stalwart, the railway carriage. Edward's often contributed to Dicken's periodicals and her writing often rivals his in quality. Nineteenth century story writing dosn't come much better.
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