Murder on Deck!: Shipboard & Shoreline Mystery Stories

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Rosemary Herbert
Oxford University Press, 1998 - 330 Seiten
The sea itself has always been a mystery--cold, dark, vast, and unfathomable--indifferent to human wishes and perilous to the ill-prepared. So what more appropriate setting for the ultimate human mystery, the seemingly unsolvable murder.
In Murder on Deck! Rosemary Herbert proves that the opulence of the cruise ship and seaside resort has attracted some of the greatest writers in the genre. From Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, and Viola Brothers Shore to William Faulkner, Ellery Queen, John Mortimer, Susan Moody, and many others, Murder on Deck! offers 25 stories that plumb the depths of ghastly crimes. Many of these stories take place on luxury liners, or holiday shorelines, where mostly privileged vacationers have sought a pleasant and highly civilized escape from their daily lives. Imagine their chagrin when murder is thrust into their midst and the high tide of anxiety rolls in. Our detectives, too, are often on vacation, taking time off from pondering the impenetrable and are thus forced into a busman's holiday of restoring order and calm to a shattered idyll. In addition to acclaimed stories in English, Murder on Deck! sails into international waters with stories by Gabriel García Márquez (Colombia), Saho Sasazawa (Japan), and for the first time ever in English, Chris Rippen (The Netherlands). Dutch author Janwillem van de Wetering rewrote his 1985 story "Messing About in Boats," especially for this anthology.
A marvelous collection for the mystery lover or armchair traveler, and perfect reading for any vacation, especially the ocean cruise or trip to the beach, Murder on Deck! weighs anchor and heads for the high seas of unforgettable intrigue and watertight suspense.

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Inhalt

McDonnell Bodkin The Ships Run
19
Viola Brothers Shore The Mackenzie Case
34
Agatha Christie Problem at Sea
51
Lester Dent Sail
64
William Faulkner Hand upon the Waters
92
Ellery Queen The Adventure of the Murdered Ship
114
Georges Simenon Two Bodies on a Barge
127
David Ely The Sailing Club
153
Peter Lovesey Where Is Thy Sting?
199
John Mortimer Rumpole at Sea
225
Susan Moody Oh Who Hath Done This Deed?
257
Janwillem van de Wetering Messing About in Boats
275
Martin Edwards With a Little Help from My Friends
292
Chris Rippen Ferry Noir
309
Credits
329
Urheberrecht

Gabriel García Márquez The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship
179

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Autoren-Profil (1998)

Rosemary Herbert is mystery book review columnist for the Boston Herald, coeditor with Tony Hillerman of The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories, editor of Twelve American Crime Stories, and editor in chief of the forthcoming Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing. She lives in Newtonville, Massachusetts.

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