The Crime Wave Crashes

THE CRIME WAVE RISES
THE CRIME WAVE CRESTS

Moriarty had competition!

The Curated Crime Collection showcases works of fiction whose central characters are criminals, culled from a wave of such literature that rose in the late 1800s and subsided in the early 1900s. “A Searchlight Can Serve as a Spotlight: An Introduction to the Curated Crime Collection,” by editor Tim Prasil, is available here and in the first volume. The three volumes below comprise the final phase of releases: The Crime Wave Crashes.

Members of the Burglars’ Club are drawn to that clandestine group to experience a new kind of thrill: a test of cunning with the threat of imprisonment. After a magazine run of six adventures, Henry A. Hering’s Burglars’ Club garnered another series. Those first twelve stories were then collected into a book, one translated into six languages! A few years afterward, Hering penned yet another series. Very likely for the first time, this book offers all eighteen of Hering’s exciting tales to form The Complete Crimes of the Burglars’ Club.

Frederick Irving Anderson opens this series with a mystery: who exactly is the Infallible Godahl? Is he a creation of Oliver Armiston, Anderson’s fictional mystery writer? Or did a master thief existing in Armiston’s world steal the name of this character? Letting readers decide, Anderson continues this criminal’s exploits by often blurring the line between who is real and who is imitation. For the first time, all of Anderson’s Godahl short stories join his novella-length sequel in The Complete Crimes of the Infallible Godahl.

FORTHCOMING!

THE CRIME WAVE RISES
THE CRIME WAVE CRESTS

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