Lessons in Crime

“The Master? Dr. Greeby? You don’t say so! Murdered? Dear me! PoorGreeby! This will upset my whole day’s work.” An Oxford Master is slain on campus during Pentecost. A headmasterfaces off in a deadly battle of wits with a disgruntled parent. A sixth-formpublic school prank courts a murderous consequence. In this new anthology theft, blackmail, murder and mystery run amokthrough the hush of the university library, the cacophonies of schoolcorridors and the simmering tensions of the staff room. Delving into thestacks and tomes of the British Library collections, Martin Edwards invitesyou to a course on the darker side of scholarly ambition with an essentialreading list of fifteen masterful short stories. With a cohort of writers including Dorothy L. Sayers, Ethel LinaWhite, Jacqueline Wilson, Michael Innes and Edmund Crispin, this newanthology offers a selection of classics and rarities to provide a rewardingeducation in the beguiling art of mystery writing.