SOURCE: Sayers, Dorothy. Introduction to The Second Omnibus of Crime, 1932, edited by Dorothy Sayers, pp. 1-16. New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1932.
In the following essay, Sayers elucidates the defining characteristics of the detective story and the virtual disappearance of the detective short story genre.
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