Reading: Resorting to Murder

[white_hart]

I picked this anthology, published by the British Library in their Crime Classics series, up in the BL shop on a whim on Monday as it seemed like good holiday reading. An enjoyable collection, of which I'd only read the Sherlock Holmes story (The Adventure of the Devil's Foot) and the Chesterton (The Finger of Stone) before; the rest were new to me, and with the exception of EW Horning, by writers I'd never read before. I'm not a great fan of short stories - I prefer longer formats with their greater opportunity to develop plot and character - but this was fun, although I'm not certain, on the strength of it, that I'd seek out any of the authors' other work.