title: Classic Crime Stories (Collector's Library)
author: David Stuart Davies
description: David Stuart Davies (born 1946) is a British writer. He worked as a teacher of English before becoming a full-time editor, writer, and playwright. Davies has written extensively about Sherlock Holmes, both fiction and non-fiction. He is the editor of Red Herrings, the monthly in-house publication of the Crime Writers' Association.
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   _To my grandmother, who encouraged me to pursue stories that had been
  forgotten_
  
   **A NOTE TO READERS**
  
  This book, a work of nonfiction, is the result of three years of reporting. I
  conducted repeated interviews with selected family members, friends, and
  associates of the victims, as well as dozens of law enforcement officials. In
  order to flesh out the contours of each homicide investigation, I relied on
  trial transcripts; hundreds of stories culled from newspapers and maga