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Crime fiction
This collection includes fiction featuring professional, private, or amateur detectives, and criminous acts.
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Prelude to murder
Random House
1959
A number of deaths are closely associated with a middle-aged couple of carers.
The visitor
Random House
1967
The mother of a blackmailed man visits the blackmailer to pay him off, but finds him murdered.
Petrella at Q
Hodder and Stoughton
1977
A collection of twelve stories featuring Detective Inspector Patrick Petrella.
Crime in good company: essays on criminals and crime writing
Constable
1959
A collection of fourteen essays on crime writing including contributions by Raymond Chandler, Josephine Bell, Cyril Hare and Julian Symons.
The death of a Joyce scholar: a Peter McGarr mystery
Macmillan
1989
Professor Coyle, an eminent Joyce scholar, is found dead after Bloomsday.
The Newtonian egg and other cases of Rolf le Roux
Crippen & Landru Publishers
2001
A collection of short stories. Limited edition of 200.
The coming of Carew: a fantasy in crime
Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd.
1945
An author gets a shock when one of his characters, the fiendish 'Criminal Carew' comes to life!
Hit me hard: a 'Solo' Malcolm thriller
John Long
1958
Solo Malcolm is hired to protect a rich man's daughter, aided by Chief Inspector Nicholas Bogardus.
That way murder lies
Headline
2004
A campaign of anonymous hate mail leads to a murder investigation. Signed by the author on the title page.
Murder in Melbourne
Arthur Barker Limited
1958
Richard Quayle finds his girlfriend dead in the bedroom of a cheap hotel.
The death of Abbé Didier : a novel
Victor Gollancz Ltd
1981
The vicar of Sainte Clothilde is found stabbed to death in a confession box. Gift inscription from the author on front free endpaper.
Cosmopolitan crimes : foreign rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Pantheon Books
1971
A collection of short stories originally published between 1891 and 1914.
The American rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Bodley Head
1976
A collection of short stories originally published between 1891 and 1914.
The rivals of Sherlock Holmes : early detective stories
Pantheon Books
1970
A collection of short stories originally published between 1891 and 1914.
More rivals of Sherlock Holmes : cosmopolitan crimes
Bodley Head
1971
A collection of short stories originally published between 1891 and 1914.
Boardman crime and science fiction 1942-1967: a checklist of the first editions
Dragonby Press
1991
A guide to the publications of T.V. Boardman and Company Limited.
A deadly brew
Little, Brown and Company
1998
Three members of Cambridge University die from poisoned wine.
A masterly murder
Little, Brown and Company
2000
Matthew Bartholomew investigates murder and intrigue at Michaelhouse College.
The yellow bungalow mystery: another case for Anthony Slade and Department X2
George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.
1933
Rosa Lee, adventuress and woman of mystery, is stabbed to death in her home, the Yellow Bungalow.
Death pays the piper: a case for Superintendent Slade
Roy Publishers
1958
Rival gangs believe Laurie Piper has double-crossed them in a smuggling venture. A Superintendent Slade story.
A crime of one's own: a novel
Chatto & Windus
1967
A young bookseller is convinced that an espionage ring is operating in his shop.
Over the sea to die
Macmillan
1989
Charles Macmillan, acting as a locum on Skye, is convinced that he saw a man being thrown off a cliff.
The lacquer screen: a Chinese detective story
Heinemann
1969
Three cases from the time when Judge Dee was in his first post as magistrate of Peng-Lai.
The curious incident of the dog in the night-time
Jonathan Cape
2003
A first printing of the best-selling book featuring a 15 year-old boy with Asperger's and his detecting adventures.
