First published to great success in 1985 The Mammoth Book of Great Detectives is the best collection of detective stories ever produced. This giant and unique volume, collecting together all four of Herbert van Thals popular books of great detective stories, features 35 of the best detective stories ever told. The stories range in style and setting from the mean streets of Raymond Chandlers New York to the classic English whodunnit by Agatha Christie. Includes such gems as Arnold Bennetts Murder!, Edgar Wallaces The Treasure Hunt, Ellergy Queens The Black Cats Vanished, P D James The Victim, E C Bentleys The Inoffensive Captain, H R F Keatings Inspector Ghote and the Miracle Baby, Agatha Christies Sing a Song of Sixpence, G K Chestertons The Eye of Apollo, Raymond Chandlers Goldfish and Georges Simenons The Evidence of the Altar-Boy. The Mammoth Book of Great Detectives also includes contributions from such famous names as Leslie Charteris, E W Hornung, Dorothy L Sayers, Julian Symons, Roy Vickers, Wilkie Collins, Michael Innes, Baroness Orczy, Edmund Crispin, Freeman Willis Croft, Antonia Fraser and many more.