The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits Volume 3

by Mike Ashley, Mike Ashley (Editor)

Overview

The third new collection of historical murder and mystery stories A brilliant new collection of thirty stories of mystery and intrigue spread over three thousand years, from Ancient Egypt to spies on the Titanic. Selected by bestselling editor Mike Ashley, the stories include brand new contributions as well as rare reprints, from writers such as Ian Rankin, Lynda Robinson, Sharan Newman, Gail Frazer, Gillian Linscott and Peter Tremayne. Among the characters featured are the Queen of Sheba, Attila the Hun, Hildegarde of Bingen, Geoffrey Chaucer, Henry the Navigator and Benjamin Franklin. And with settings as far-ranging as Botany Bay and ancient Pisa, New Amsterdam and old Edinburgh, ancient Greece and the court of Kublai Khan.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781472114815
Publisher:	Little, Brown Book Group
Publication date:	02/27/2015
Series:	Mammoth Books , #176
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Pages:	512
Sales rank:	565,019
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Mike Ashley is editor of previous volumes of The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits, as well as The Mammoth Book of Roaring Twenties Whodunnits and The Mammoth Book of Roman Whodunnits.
Mike Ashley is the author and editor of more than 100 books, and is one of the foremost historians of popular fiction. He is the author of two books on the kings and queens of Britain. He lives in Chatham, Kent.