About the book: 1993 / This two-volume set consists of works written in the best traditions of the detective genre and, after publication in the series “Modern Foreign Detective” by the publishing house “Rainbow”, received the most widely recognized by our readers. The first volume opens with the novel “Cake in a Hatbox” by Australian writer Arthur Upfield, which, having appeared in 1955, has still not lost its merits as an example of a well-written detective story and has gone through more than one reprint - and not only in Australia. The Dutch writer W. H. van Emlandt is the author of two dozen detective novels (“Treacherous Ice” is one of them), which earned him fame as a recognized master of the genre.