Glyn Daniel, bekannt für seine archäologische Arbeit und seine Fernsehpräsenz, verfolgte auch die Kriminalliteratur als geschätztes Hobby. Dieses literarische Streben verlieh seinem Schreiben eine einzigartige Perspektive, die seine breite intellektuelle Neugier und seine vielfältigen Erfahrungen widerspiegelt. Sein Engagement für das Genre bot eine ausgeprägte Stimme in der literarischen Landschaft. Daniels Werk zeichnet sich durch profundes Wissen und eine besondere Weltsicht aus.
Die Archäologie leistet einen unschätzbaren Beitrag zu dem Gesamtbild, das wir uns vom Menschen, seinen Ursprüngen und seiner kulturellen Entwicklung machen. Die Enzyklopädie der Archäologie versammelt in übersichtlicher und verständlicher Form und reich illustriert den heutigen Kenntnisstand. Wo immer der Leser das Buch aufschlägt, wird er gefesselt, informiert und zu neuen Entdeckungen angeregt.
Eine lebendige und kenntnisreiche Einführung in die Geschichte der Archäologie, von der Schatzsuche bis zu den wissenschaftlichen Methoden der Gegenwart.
"For nearly thirty years, until his death in 1986, the well-known scholar, writer and broadcaster Glyn Daniel was editor of Antiquity, the influential review of archaeology. Under his guidance, it became a journal with a difference. In each issue the editor would air eloquently his decided views on matters not just archaeological--finds, hypotheses, personalities--but of interest or amusement to all: the pleasures of the French countryside, the follies of government policy, the five golden rules that a lecturer should observe." "Here is a collection of the very best of these entertaining, often passionately written essays. Glyn Daniel's range was wide, his tastes eclectic; but he came back again and again to favorite themes--travel, national attitudes, Stonehenge, the return of the Elgin marbles, smuggling, forgery. Forgery especially fascinated him: "I suppose," he wrote once, "that it is my interest in reading and writing detective stories that rubs off onto the study of archaeological forgery." He also loved to see "those on the edge of the lunatic fringes of archaeology plunge headlong down the lush grass that leads to Atlantis and Tiahuanaco and by long straight green tracks to Glozel and the Druids at Stonehenge."" "Writing for Antiquity presents Glyn Daniel exactly as he was--a man of letters, a brilliant raconteur and a wit. This is a volume to keep on one's bedside table, to read or dip into for amusement, enlightenment and the charm of the unexpected."--Jacket
Cambridge Don, Sir Richard Cherrington is invited by his aunt to her small sleepy village in the Vale of Glamorgan, in Wales, to solve a poison-pen mystery. Little did he expect his ingenuity as a detective to be used to solve a murder! No death could have been more widely welcome than Evan Morgan's. For Morgan had spent the war making money and enemies with about equal facility. On the night of the "Welcome Home" celebrations for returned soldiers, a whole posse of murderers beat a path to the door of the Manor House. Sir Richard solved this intricate puzzle of motives and alibis.