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Talented sportsmen inexplicably go absent without leave, crafty gamblers conspire in the hope of making a killing, and personal rivalries and jealousies come to a head on fields of play... The classic stories in this new British Library anthology show that crime is a game for all seasons.
A not entirely successful collection. I think a lot of these are almost too short to fit in a mystery, a detection and any kind of resolution. There is a wide range of authors, most of which I'd not previously heard of. Linking them by the fact that the story or title contains a reference to a sport is also somewhat tenuous. It was light enough, but I can't say that very many really stood out. The Holmes example and the story focussed on The Boat Race were probably the pick of the bunch. ( )
Talented sportsmen inexplicably go absent without leave, crafty gamblers conspire in the hope of making a killing, and personal rivalries and jealousies come to a head on fields of play... The classic stories in this new British Library anthology show that crime is a game for all seasons.
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