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The best-selling Extinction Cycle series by Nicholas Sansbury Smith first introduced listeners to a world ravaged by an engineered virus that turned men into monsters. Now, for the first time ever, comes a collection of Extinction Cycle short stories that explore the human spirit and the fight for survival in the face of overwhelming odds from some of the leading voices in the post-apocalyptic genre.

This anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together a selection of rare tales by masters of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including a newly discovered Agatha Christie crime story that has not been seen since 1922. At a time when crime and thriller writing has once again overtaken the sales of general and literary fiction, Bodies from the Library unearths lost stories from the Golden Age, that period between the World Wars when detective fiction captured the public’s imagination.

Felix Lane is bent upon revenge for the death of his young son in a hit-and-run accident, and uses all the knowledge he has gained as a well-known crime writer to track down the culprit . The plot features amateur sleuth Nigel Strangeways, a character modelled on W.H. Auden.

»Frohes neues Jahr und eine gute Jagd« Der legendäre Privatdetektiv Nigel Strangeways verbringt die Silvesternacht in einem stattlichen Herrenhaus aus dem achtzehnten Jahrhundert im ländlichen England. Doch während überall im Land die Menschen das neue Jahr einläuten, läuft ihm die Zeit davon – denn das Leben eines Kindes steht auf dem Spiel. Nigel Strangeways reist auf Bitte der britischen Regierung über die Weihnachtsferien ins verschneite Südengland, um den Professor Alfred Wragby und seine Familie zu schützen.

Private detective Nigel Strangeways attends a dinner with an elite group of detective fiction writers, known as The Assassins’ Club. A room full of crime enthusiasts seems like an amusing setting for a murder...until one happens at the dinner table. With no shortage of suspects capable of thinking up a murder plot, Strangeways must quickly deduce who in the room could be responsible for the crime.