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Crime fiction
This collection includes fiction featuring professional, private, or amateur detectives, and criminous acts.
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Conscience makes heroes
Eyre & Spottiswoode
1945
A judge is found dead after he is threatened in court by a conscientious objector.
The art of the impossible: an extravaganza of miraculous murders, fantastic felonies and incredible criminals
Xanadu
1990
A collection of impossible crime short stories.
The Rome Express: based on the famous Gaumont-British film of Clifford Grey's play
Reader's Library Publishing Company Ltd.
1933
On the Paris-Rome express train, a number of individuals become involved in the theft of a valuable painting and an ensuing murder.
Evening Standard detective book second series
Victor Gollancz Ltd
1951
A collection of short stories that first appeared in the Evening Standard newspaper.
Evening Standard detective book
Victor Gollancz Ltd
1950
A collection of short stories that first appeared in the Evening Standard newspaper.
The Dennisdale tragedy
Eyre and Spottiswoode
1936
A London lawyer inherits a Cumbrian estate and arrives to find the butler murdered.
The case of the vanishing women
Gerald G. Swan
1950
The body of a famous inventor is found on a Hudson River pier.
The Herefordshire Magazine
Compton Reade
1907
Contains the complete sequence of detective stories featuring Nicholas Saunders.
Dead man's bay
Published for The Crime Club by Collins
1959
A jealous husband seeks revenge on his wife.
The casebook of the black widowers
Victor Gollancz Ltd
1980
A collection of short stories featuring problems presented by diners at the Black Widowers club. Includes one bibliomystery.
Tales of the black widowers
Victor Gollancz Ltd
1975
A collection of short stories featuring problems presented by diners at the Black Widowers club.
More tales of the black widowers
Victor Gollancz Ltd
1977
A collection of short stories including 'The ultimate crime' which features the Baker Street Irregulars and references to the canon. All the stories are book-related.
Aylmer Vance: ghost-seer
Ash-Tree Press
1998
A collection of supernatural short stories featuring an occult detective. Limited edition of 500.
My best thriller: a collection of stories chosen by their own authors
Faber and Faber Limited
1947
A collection of twenty-six short stories.
The tooth and the nail
Max Reinhardt
1955
A magician avenges a murder and is then murdered himself.
The wife of the red-haired man
Max Reinhardt
1957
A freed prisoner finds that his wife has remarried and murders her wealthy husband.
Return to Cottington
Longmans, Green and Co.
1946
Revisits a fictitious unsolved 18th century murder. Also of Sherlockian interest with a brief reference to 'The case of the crippled bridegroom'.
A suit of diamonds : a commemorative volume of specially commissioned short stories, published to celebrate the Crime Club's diamond jubilee
Collins
1990
A collection of thirteen short stories especially written to commemorate the Crime Club Diamond Jubilee.
Francis Durbridge: a centenary appreciation with an annotated listing of his novels and his works for radio, television, the stage and cinema
Netherhall Books
2015
An annotated checklist of the works and dramatisations by Francis Durbridge. Signed by the author on the title page.
Classic stories of crime and detection
Garland Publishing, Inc.
1976
A collection of 14 short stories.
The billiard table murders: a Gladys Babbington Morton mystery
Bloomsbury
1990
Inspector Trubcock investigates foul deeds at Morton Manor.
Jodhpurs in the Quantocks
Jonathan Cape
1986
Another of Glen Baxter's surreal comic crime stories.
Who killed Roger Ackroyd? The mystery behind the Agatha Christie mystery
Fourth Estate
2000
A discussion of, and proposed answer o, 'Who killed Roger Ackroyd.'
