Murder at the Manor, ed. Martin Edwards
Another good collection of short stories, this time themed around that most Golden Age of set-ups: the country house mystery. I do have a weakness for those, and there are some fun ones here, though a surprising number that feel more like horror stories!
Individually, none of the stories really shone, but I really enjoy reading these collections. I’m rather enjoying seeing some of the serial detectives that existed in short fiction, after getting fairly familiar with some of the longer-form detectives — Raffles, for instance, who has appeared in at least one other anthology in this series.
A couple of the stories are a bit too histrionic — Ethel Lina White’s, for example — but mostly what you’d expect of classic crime stories (which is exactly what I want when I pick one up).
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