Mystery Classics, A Collection — The Middle Temple Murder, The Moon Rock, and The Thirty-nine Steps

by J.M. Francis (Editor), J. S. Fletcher, Arthur J. Rees, John Buchan

Overview

This edition includes three complete books:
The Middle Temple Murder
The Moon Rock
The Thirty-nine Steps

Product Details

BN ID:	2940012806055
Publisher:	Omnibus Select
Publication date:	06/29/2011
Series:	Mystery Classics , #10
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	669 KB

About the Author

JOSEPH SMITH FLETCHER was a British journalist and writer. He wrote both fiction and non-fiction. Some of his works are historical fiction, others are on history. He was a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He wrote over a hundred detective novels, many featuring his charachter Ronald Camberwell, private investigator.

ARTHUR J. REES was an Australian who moved to England where he was a journalist for the London Times. He wrote mystery novels, many of which are set in either England or Wales. His work is included in Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror. His books have been translated into French and German. Several of his books were published in America.

JOHN BUCHAN, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, was a Scottish novelist, and politician who served as the fifteenth Governor General of Canada. He is noted for the espionage novel The Thirty-nine Steps, and horror fiction: Witch Wood, Skule Skerry, The Wind in the Portico and The Green Wildebeest.
"During World War I, he wrote for the War Propaganda Bureau and was a correspondent for The Times in France. In 1915, he published his most famous book The Thirty-nine Steps, a spy thriller set just before the outbreak of World War I, featuring his hero Richard Hannay, who was based on a friend from South African days, Edmund Ironside. The following year he published a sequel Greenmantle. In 1916, he joined the British Army Intelligence Corps where as a 2nd Lieutenant he wrote speeches and communiques for Sir Douglas Haig."—Wikipedia