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Crime fiction
This collection includes fiction featuring professional, private, or amateur detectives, and criminous acts.
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Best American detective stories of the year (12th annual collection)
T.V. Boardman & Company Limited
1965
An anthology of eighteen short stories.
The Dashiell Hammett story omnibus
Cassell
1966
A collection of nine stories, none of which have appeared in hardback form before.
The glass key
Orion
2002
Ned Beaumont must find out whether his boss has committed murder.
Woman in the dark: a novel of dangerous romance
Headline
1988
The first hardback edition of this novella.
Give a dog a name
Macmillan
1992
A wounded springer spaniel is brought in for treatment to the Cunninghams, and they then find that they have become victims of an elaborate scam.
The curse of the cockers
Macmillan
1993
A friend of the Cunningham's is implicated in a hit and run death.
Twice bitten
Macmillan
1998
The Cunninghams are surprised when a supposedly gun-shy dog begins to win at field trials.
A shocking affair
Macmillan
1999
Sir Peter Hay dies mysteriously when training a new spaniel provided by the Cunninghams.
Trouble comes double
Arthur Barker Limited
1955
Ebon Sickel pursues his partner's killers, and is led into the world of smuggling and dope running.
An English murder
Faber and Faber
1951
Robert Warbeck, the only son and heir of Lord Warbeck, dies in front of the dinner guests at Warbeck Hall, which has been cut-off by heavy snow.
Case of the wounded mastiff
Arthur Barker Ltd.
1947
Protection Ltd. consists of a retired colonel, a professor, a commando, and a young lady. One of the first Museum Street Thrillers.
The exploits of Chevalier Dupin
Mycroft & Moran
1968
A collection of short stories including 'The mystery of the Fulton documents'.
Rope over Jezebel
Jarrolds Publishers (London) Ltd
1950
An urgent call takes Bastion to a remote village on the edge of an airport where a young woman has been found dead on the common.
Murder for pleasure: the life and times of the detective story
Peter Davies
1942
An influential and early history of the detective story as a literary form.
Murder for pleasure: the life and times of the detective story
Peter Davies
1942
An influential and early history of the detective story as a literary form.
The Abbey Court murders
Dean Street Press
2015
The first book in the Inspector Furnival series.
Go down, death
Hammond, Hammond & Co. Ltd.
1948
An old blackmailing reprobate is murdered and the local Sheriff is no hurry to find the killer until another local is brutally killed.
Pel and the perfect partner
Constable
1994
Inspector Pel disappears, re-appears and re-captures the Poltergeist, France's most dangerous criminal.
Pel among the pueblos
Constable
1987
Two ageing crooks die in a double shooting, and the main suspect can't be found.
Pel and the party spirit
Constable
1989
A thirty-year-old corpse is discovered in a thirteenth century tower.
Pel and the picture of innocence
Constable
1988
A notorious gangster is ambushed and assassinated in his car.
Pel and the touch of pitch
Constable
1987
A member of the French National Assembly is kidnapped.
Cavalier of crime
George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.
1937
Milton Deen is a man with a 'plane and a penchant for attracting trouble.
