In this collection of stories about the world of books and writing, authors kill and are killed, while books are stolen, hunted after, and found to provide intriguing clues to crime. Legendary detectives ranging from Sherlock Holmes and Father Brown to DCI Roderick Alleyn, Nigel Strangeways, and Superintendent Wilson pit their wits against ingenious criminals who don't always play it by the book... Continuing the miniseries of anthologies within the Crime Classics series, Murder by the Book focuses on the objects and processes at the heart of what we love about the mystery genre - the books themselves and their writers.