Crippen & Landru Update from Doug Greene

Dear Mystery Fan

For quite a few years, mystery readers have been asking us to publish a collection of Vincent Cornier’s extraordinary Barnabas Hildreth stories. Ellery Queen said that they constituted “one of the great series of modern detective stories,” but the actual stories, originally published in a British magazine in the 1930's, have been virtually unobtainable – until now.


THE DUEL OF SHADOWS
The Extraordinary Cases of Barnabas Hildreth
By Vincent Cornier, edited by Mike Ashley

Barnabas Hildreth faced (and solved) some of most bizarre cases ever to confront a sleuth – a bullet fired three centuries earlier wounds a man; an ancient Egyptian curse strikes the members of an archeological expedition; a man is transformed into stone; an ancient Aztec cloak laughs; and other extraordinary tales.

The Duel of Shadows is the 33d in Crippen & Landru’s "Lost Classics" series. It is edited by the great British scholar and researcher, Mike Ashley, who his best known for his many Mammoth Book of anthologies.

Trade softcover, $18.00 (978-1-932009-98-9)

Cloth in dust jacket, $28.00 (978-1- 932009-97-2)

You can use the secure order form on our website,www.crippenlandru.com.