British Library Crime Classics: The Long Arm of the Law (Paperback)

from BrianEWilliams

Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for providing me with a copy of this book to review. I liked this mixed bag collection of short stories by Golden Age crime fiction writers. The common element in each story is that the mystery is solved by a policeman, rather than a private detective. In man...

from annarellix

An interesting collection of short stories but mystery writers of the Golden Age. The stories are good, easy to read and entertaining. Surely we are not on the level of a Christie or a Sayers but each of them has a well devised plot. A good and entertaining book. Many thanks to Netgalley and Pois...

from antiquary

I tagged this "police procedural" but many of these stories, though involving the police, do not rely on the realistic description of police teamwork that typify the "procedural." However, all these stores where chosen because the detection is done by professional policemen, not amateurs or priva...

from Liz1564

The book was sent to me by Poisoned Pen Press via NetGalley. Thank you. Long Arm of the Law is an addition to the British Library Crime Classics series. Martin Edwards chooses sixteen short stories published from 1908 to 1966 to illustrate the evolution of the policeman in mysteries. It is not u...