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Pulpmeister · 08-25-2018, 09:20 PM

Follow-up: I found a partial contents list of Tales of Detection, also known as Great Tales of Detection, which has 19 stories, and none of those mentioned are in Detective Cavalcade. So that's not the answer.

The early books are available second hand, and at least one has been reprinted lately.

PS: found full contents list of "Tales of Detection" 1936

The purloined letter / Edgar Allan Poe --
The biter bit / Wilkie Collins --
Was it murder? / Robert Louis Stevenson --
The man in the passage / Gilbert Keith Chesterton --
The clever cockatoo / Edmund Clerihew Bentley --
The ghost at Massingham mansions / Ernest Bramah --
The tea-leaf / Edgar Jepson and Robert Eustace --
The contents of a mare's nest / Richard Austin Freeman --
The hands of Mr. Ottermole / Thomas Burke --
Solved by inspection / Ronald Knox --
Philomel cottage / Agatha Christie --
The avenging chance / Anthony Berkeley --
The mystery of the sleeping-car express / Freeman Willis Crofts --
The elusive bullet / John Rhode --
The image in the mirror / Dorothy Leigh Sayers --
A matter of luck / Henry Wade --
Superfluous murder / Milward Kennedy --
The yellow slugs / Henry Christopher Bailey --
The episode of the nail and the requiem / C. Daly King.

One or two stories overlap Detective Cavalcade (the C Daly King, the Ernest Bramah, for instance). I am now thinking that Detective Cavalcade was a selection from all the above books, specially for The Evening Standard newspaper series.

If so, no need to worry about Detective Cavalcade: just round up copies of the four printed books and you have it!

08-25-2018, 09:20 PM	#7
Pulpmeister Wizard Posts: 2,835 Karma: 29145056 Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Perth Western Australia Device: kindle	Follow-up: I found a partial contents list of Tales of Detection, also known as Great Tales of Detection, which has 19 stories, and none of those mentioned are in Detective Cavalcade. So that's not the answer. The early books are available second hand, and at least one has been reprinted lately. PS: found full contents list of "Tales of Detection" 1936 The purloined letter / Edgar Allan Poe -- The biter bit / Wilkie Collins -- Was it murder? / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The man in the passage / Gilbert Keith Chesterton -- The clever cockatoo / Edmund Clerihew Bentley -- The ghost at Massingham mansions / Ernest Bramah -- The tea-leaf / Edgar Jepson and Robert Eustace -- The contents of a mare's nest / Richard Austin Freeman -- The hands of Mr. Ottermole / Thomas Burke -- Solved by inspection / Ronald Knox -- Philomel cottage / Agatha Christie -- The avenging chance / Anthony Berkeley -- The mystery of the sleeping-car express / Freeman Willis Crofts -- The elusive bullet / John Rhode -- The image in the mirror / Dorothy Leigh Sayers -- A matter of luck / Henry Wade -- Superfluous murder / Milward Kennedy -- The yellow slugs / Henry Christopher Bailey -- The episode of the nail and the requiem / C. Daly King. One or two stories overlap Detective Cavalcade (the C Daly King, the Ernest Bramah, for instance). I am now thinking that Detective Cavalcade was a selection from all the above books, specially for The Evening Standard newspaper series. If so, no need to worry about Detective Cavalcade: just round up copies of the four printed books and you have it! Last edited by Pulpmeister; 08-25-2018 at 09:56 PM.