An earlier British Library Crime Classics short story collection today, with The Long Arm of the Law [ss] (2017) featuring 15 stories of professional police selected by the hugely knowledgeable Martin Edwards. Like, I imagine, a lot of GAD readers, I was drawn to the genre by the histrionics of private investigators like Hercule Poirot … Continue reading #1318: “That’s the worst of these detective stories; every criminal knows that trick.” – The Long Arm of the Law [ss] (2017) ed. M...
