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From: The Spectator
Date: 20040103
Author:Mitchell, Charlotte
THAT AFFAIR NEXT DOOR AND LOST MAN'S LANE by Anna Katharine Green, with an introduction by Catherine Ross Nickerson Durham, New York and London, Duke University Press, $21.95, pp. 446, ISBN 082233190X
THE DEAD LETTER AND THE FIGURE EIGHT by Metta Fuller Victor, with an introduction by Catherine Ross Nickerson Durham, New York and London, Duke University Press, $21.95, pp. 388, ISBN 0822331659
Paving the way for Miss Marple
Who cares who killed Roger Ackroyd?' asked Edmund Wilson, crossly. Actually I find the pleasure I get from reading murder stories has very little to do with wondering who ...
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