The topic is plagiarism, intentional and otherwise. The editor gives some of the authors the benefit of the doubt, but in some cases, Agatha Christie for instance, a notorious plagiarist AND recycler of her own oeuvre, he gives no excuses to. These stories run from the better known to the, in some cases, deservedly obscure.

The fare is the usual Ash Tree fare but the stories are generally quite better than the usual.. Nothing is newer than 1945 and most are late nineteenth to the first third of the twentieth century.

The editor is a delight and a real wit. Get out the dictionary though.

Loses one star for cheapness in not including the [a:Arthur Conan Doyle|2448|Arthur Conan Doyle|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1495008883p2/2448.jpg], [a:Agatha Christie|123715|Agatha Christie|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1589991473p2/123715.jpg], and [a:Daphne du Maurier|2001717|Daphne du Maurier|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1422444467p2/2001717.jpg] stories, forcing you to look them up elsewhere (they didn’t want to pay the royalties). Fortunately most of these you will have read before. The only one I hadn’t read was the Christie, whom I despise.

An unusually lengthy annual for Ash Tree. It was sadly their last.

I just edited this. I’m not sure whether to blame auto fill or operator. Really looses for loses! ( )