Dorothy Sayers – The Anatomy of Murder (страница 3)

Taken together, the stories told in The Anatomy of Murder represent a significant contribution to our understanding of the cases discussed, and their interest has scarcely diminished as a result of the passage of time. Many collections of essays about famous murder cases appeared during the twentieth century, but few match the quality of those in this book. The Detection Club’s members were novelists first and foremost, but The Anatomy of Murder reveals, most pleasingly, that they possessed at least some of the detective instincts and skills of their fictional heroes and heroines.

FOREWORD

SEVEN members of the Detection Club here offer commentaries upon an equal number of murders, some famous, others unknown to the general public. In each case the writer has not been content simply to re-tell the story of the crime, but has endeavoured to throw light upon it; either by revelation of new facts, or by application of psychological tests to the mind of the criminal, or by comparison of the resources of present-day investigation with those of the past.

Sir Thomas Browne provides the writers with a common viewpoint, and the book with its motto:

Tis not only the mischief of diseases, and the villany of poysons, that make an end of us; we vainly accuse the fury of Gunnes, and the new invention of death; it is in the power of every hand to destroy us, and we are beholding unto every one we meet, he doth not kill us.

31 GERRARD STREET,

LONDON.

August, 1936.

PART I

DEATH OF HENRY KINDER

by Helen Simpson

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