Crime fiction


This collection includes fiction featuring professional, private, or amateur detectives, and criminous acts.

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Conscience makes heroes

Conscience makes heroes

Abrahams, Gerald
Eyre & Spottiswoode
1945
A judge is found dead after he is threatened in court by a conscientious objector.
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art of the impossible : an extravaganza of miraculous murders, fantastic felonies and incredible criminals

The art of the impossible: an extravaganza of miraculous murders, fantastic felonies and incredible criminals

Adrian, Jack
Xanadu
1990
A collection of impossible crime short stories.
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Rome Express : based on the famous Gaumont-British film of Clifford Grey's play

The Rome Express: based on the famous Gaumont-British film of Clifford Grey's play

Alexander, Ruth
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.
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Evening Standard detective book second series

Evening Standard detective book second series

Alington, Adrian
Victor Gollancz Ltd
1951
A collection of short stories that first appeared in the Evening Standard newspaper.
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Evening Standard detective book

Evening Standard detective book

Alington, Adrian
Victor Gollancz Ltd
1950
A collection of short stories that first appeared in the Evening Standard newspaper.
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Dennisdale tragedy

The Dennisdale tragedy

Andover, Henry
Eyre and Spottiswoode
1936
A London lawyer inherits a Cumbrian estate and arrives to find the butler murdered.
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Stars in the water

Stars in the water

Appleby, John
Werner Laurie
1952
A jealous husband takes revenge.
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case of the vanishing women

The case of the vanishing women

Archer, Robert
Gerald G. Swan
1950
The body of a famous inventor is found on a Hudson River pier.
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Herefordshire Magazine

The Herefordshire Magazine

Arkwright, John Stanhope
Compton Reade
1907
Contains the complete sequence of detective stories featuring Nicholas Saunders.
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Dead man's bay

Dead man's bay

Arley, Catherine
Published for The Crime Club by Collins
1959
A jealous husband seeks revenge on his wife.
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casebook of the black widowers

The casebook of the black widowers

Asimov, Isaac
Victor Gollancz Ltd
1980
A collection of short stories featuring problems presented by diners at the Black Widowers club. Includes one bibliomystery.
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Tales of the black widowers

Tales of the black widowers

Asimov, Isaac
Victor Gollancz Ltd
1975
A collection of short stories featuring problems presented by diners at the Black Widowers club.
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More tales of the black widowers

More tales of the black widowers

Asimov, Isaac
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.
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Aylmer Vance : ghost-seer

Aylmer Vance: ghost-seer

Askew, Alice
Ash-Tree Press
1998
A collection of supernatural short stories featuring an occult detective. Limited edition of 500.
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My best thriller: a collection of stories chosen by their own authors

My best thriller: a collection of stories chosen by their own authors

Austin, F. Britten
Faber and Faber Limited
1947
A collection of twenty-six short stories.
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tooth and the nail

The tooth and the nail

Ballinger, William Sanborn
Max Reinhardt
1955
A magician avenges a murder and is then murdered himself.
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wife of the red-haired man

The wife of the red-haired man

Ballinger, William Sanborn
Max Reinhardt
1957
A freed prisoner finds that his wife has remarried and murders her wealthy husband.
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Return to Cottington

Return to Cottington

Bamford, Francis
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'.
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suit of diamonds : a commemorative volume of specially commissioned short stories, published to celebrate the Crime Club's diamond jubilee

A suit of diamonds : a commemorative volume of specially commissioned short stories, published to celebrate the Crime Club's diamond jubilee

Barnard, Robert
Collins
1990
A collection of thirteen short stories especially written to commemorate the Crime Club Diamond Jubilee.
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Francis Durbridge : a centenary appreciation with an annotated listing of his novels and his works for radio, television, the stage and cinema

Francis Durbridge: a centenary appreciation with an annotated listing of his novels and his works for radio, television, the stage and cinema

Barnes, Melvyn
Netherhall Books
2015
An annotated checklist of the works and dramatisations by Francis Durbridge. Signed by the author on the title page.
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Classic stories of crime and detection

Classic stories of crime and detection

Barzun, Jacques
Garland Publishing, Inc.
1976
A collection of 14 short stories.
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billiard table murders : a Gladys Babbington Morton mystery

The billiard table murders: a Gladys Babbington Morton mystery

Baxter, Glen
Bloomsbury
1990
Inspector Trubcock investigates foul deeds at Morton Manor.
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Jodhpurs in the Quantocks

Jodhpurs in the Quantocks

Baxter, Glen
Jonathan Cape
1986
Another of Glen Baxter's surreal comic crime stories.
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Who killed Roger Ackroyd? The mystery behind the Agatha Christie mystery

Who killed Roger Ackroyd? The mystery behind the Agatha Christie mystery

Bayard, Pierre
Fourth Estate
2000
A discussion of, and proposed answer o, 'Who killed Roger Ackroyd.'
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