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Crime fiction
This collection includes fiction featuring professional, private, or amateur detectives, and criminous acts.
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Plenty under the counter
Imperial War Museum
2019
A pilot on convalescent leave investigates a murder in the garden of his boarding house.
The Zanzibar shirt, and other stories
Crippen & Landru
2018
A collection of short stories featuring two collaborative mystery writers and cases they solve on their round-the-world cruise.
The case of the perplexing pen-names: an index to the 3rd and 5th series of the Sexton Blake Library and a guide to their authors together with an index of the Press Editorial Syndicate titles
CADS
1994
Sheds light on the various pseudonyms and house-names used by the authors of Sexton Blake stories.
Bad vibes
Headline
1998
An elderly tourist is found dead in his bath in an Edinburgh hotel.
Hidden depths
Allison & Busby
2004
A restorer disappears at the same time as a valuable Rubens.
A thief in the night: further adventures of A.J. Raffles cricketer and cracksman
Charles Scribner's Sons
1907
A collection of short stories featuring the amateur cracksman.
Raffles: further adventures of the amateur cracksman
Charles Scribner's Sons
1907
A collection of short stories featuring the amateur cracksman.
Raffles : further adventures of the amateur cracksman
Franklin Library
1990
A collection of short stories featuring the amateur cracksman.
The murder of my aunt
Hamish Hamilton
1975
A dilettante poet makes several attempts to murder his aunt.
Gently to the summit
Cassell
1961
A climber returns from the dead, and is then accused of the murder of another climber.
Gently with love
Cassell
1975
Gently goes to the assistance of friends in Scotland, where he has no official standing.
Carson's conspiracy
Victor Gollancz Ltd
1984
A retired Sir John Appleby finds conspiracy and murder on his doorstep.
The Appleby file : detective stories
Victor Gollancz Ltd
1975
A collection of short stories featuring the Commissioner of Metropolitan Police, Sir John Appleby.
Lament for a maker
Victor Gollancz Ltd
1971
Reclusive Ranald Guthrie, the laird of Erchany, is seen falling from the highest tower of his run-down castle and is found dead in the snow below.
The lonely skier
Collins
1947
A demobbed officer is hired as a script writer and finds himself on the trail of Nazi gold.
Phantom lady
Tom Stacey
1973
Scott Henderson searches for an elusive woman he met in a bar who is the only person that can give an alibi for the murder of his wife.
Nine points of the law
John Lane
1903
The adventures of Richard Wayzgoose, a bank clerk who is inadvertently involved with a burglary.
Great British fictional detectives
Remember when
2008
An introduction to over 400 fictional detectives.
Skinner's round
Headline
1995
One of the partners in a new country club is found dead in the clubhouse the day before the grand opening.
Thursday legends
Headline
2000
One of Skinner's indoor football friends is found brutally murdered.
