Guilty Creatures (British Library Crime Classics): A Menagerie of Mysteries: 91

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But insurance investigator Benjamin B. Count Fosco, the brilliantly characterized villain in Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White was surrounded by a cockatoo, two canary-birds and a whole family of white mice, while the hound of the Baskervilles famously terrorised Dartmoor in Arthur Conan Doyle's superb Sherlock Holmes novel. "An unusually rewarding anthology whose most dangerous species remain Homo sapiens. Tennyson Jesse through to more modern masterpieces of the subgenre from Christianna Brand and Penelope Wallace, this anthology celebrates one of the liveliest and most imaginative species of classic crime fiction. From the first detective story, Edgar Allan Poe's locked room puzzle 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' onwards, animals, birds, and insects have played a memorable part in countless mysteries, and in a wide variety of ways. Free Local Delivery to Selected SE Postcodes only (*SE22,SE23,SE4,SE5,SE14,SE15) Please do not choose this option if you live out of these zones. Since then, many crime writers have written about members of the animal kingdom.