The streets of London have been home to many great detectives since the days of Sherlock Holmes and Watson with some of the best authors in the genre taking to the short story form to pit their sleuths against crimes ranging from murders on the Tube to heists from the capital's finest jewellers. Featuring a roster of Scotland Yard's meticulous best a cohort of daring doctors and a cadre of characterful private investigators this new selection by Martin Edwards includes 18 vintage mystery stories which showcase the city's most compelling classic cases. With contributions by Margery Allingham John Dickson Carr and Dorothy L. Sayers along with rare finds by Raymond Postgate J. Jefferson Farjeon and many more this anthology invites you to join some of the greatest detectives ever written on their perilous trail through London's darker underside.

Part of the British Library Crime Classics series.