The Top 10 Short Stories - English Murder: The ten best murder short stories of all time by English authors

Written by G.K. Chesterton, Edith Nesbit, Saki and 7 more

Narrated by Bill Wallis, Patrick Barlow and Mark Rice-Oxley

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.

In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?

The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature.

Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something.

In this volume the pens of our English authors examine murder. This dark and evil deed is carried out with many motives. Our authors, including G K Chesterton, A M Burrage, Amelia Edwards, Algernon Blackwood and many others are those charged with revealing each and every crime scene.

1 - The Top 10 Short Stories - The English Murder - An Introduction

2 - Father Brown - The Blue Cross by G K Chesterton

3 - In The Dark by Edith Nesbit

4 - The Hounds of Fate by Saki

5 - Cheating The Gallows by Israel Zangwill

6 - The Acquittal by A M Burrage

7 - The Kit Bag by Algernon Blackwood

8 - The Three Sisters by W W Jacobs

9 - August Heat by W F Harvey

10 - The Green Light by Barry Pain

11 - No 5 Branch Line. The Engineer by Amelia Edwards

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Copyright Group
• Release date: Nov 11, 2023
• ISBN: 9781835478257

G.K. Chesterton

G.K. Chesterton (1874–1936) was an English writer, philosopher and critic known for his creative wordplay. Born in London, Chesterton attended St. Paul’s School before enrolling in the Slade School of Fine Art at University College. His professional writing career began as a freelance critic where he focused on art and literature. He then ventured into fiction with his novels The Napoleon of Notting Hill and The Man Who Was Thursday as well as a series of stories featuring Father Brown.