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Crime fiction
This collection includes fiction featuring professional, private, or amateur detectives, and criminous acts.
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A coffin for two
Headline
1997
Prim and Oz try to authenticate a previously unknown Dali painting.
Head shot
Headline
2002
Skinner has to identify the strangled bodies of his wife's parents at their American lakeside cabin.
Autographs in the rain
Headline
2001
A stalker takes a pot-shot at Skinner and his lady-friend.
The ambiguity of murder: an Inspector Alvarez novel
HarperCollinsPublishers
1999
A retired Bolivian diplomat is found dead in his swimming pool.
An artful death: an Inspector Alvarez novel
HarperCollinsPublishers
2000
The boat of a missing expat is found empty and drifting out to sea, then his body turns up.
The ambiguity of murder
St. Martin's Minotaur
1999
A retired Bolivian diplomat is found dead in his swimming pool.
An enigmatic disappearance: an Inspector Alvarez novel
HarperCollinsPublishers
1998
A wealthy British man reports the disappearance of his wife, and shortly after a body is found in a gorge.
Malcolm Sage, detective
Herbert Jenkins Limited
1950
A volume of short stories featuring the Malcolm Sage Detective Bureau.
Stop thief!
H. K. Fly Company
1913
A thief plants stolen goods on guests in a boarding house.
The Victory murders
George G. Harrap & Company Ltd.
1927
A woman is killed with poison by a man dressed as a woman.
The blood tree
Hodder & Stoughton
2000
Edinburgh's brightest teenagers are abducted to the much-feared city of Glasgow.
The bone yard
Hodder & Stoughton
1998
A series of murders take place in 21st century Edinburgh, in which music tapes are planted inside the victims.
The house of dust
Hodder & Stoughton
2001
The university-state of Oxford is brought in to advise on the mounting crime-wave in Edinburgh. Signed by the author on title page.
Water of death
Hodder & Stoughton
1999
A body is found in the Water of Leith, the only clue being a bottle of contraband whisky.
Alias Mr. Death
Fiction League
1932
James Quincy Gilmore vows to track down the members of the Murder Club, who were responsible for his father's death.
Cheating death
Hutchinson
1992
Ghote is sent to investigate the theft of examination papers from an Indian College.
Poison and poisoners in the mysteries of John Dickson Carr
CADS
1996
Brings together references to poisons and poisoners in the works of John Dickson Carr and his writings as Carter Dickson.
John Dickson Carr in paperback: an English language bibliography. A guide to the English language paperback editions, printings and cover varieties of that grand master of mystery, John Dickson Carr (1906-1977)
CADS
2009
A checklist of paperback editions of works by Carr.
Saturday the rabbi stayed home
Hutchinson
1969
Unorthodox sleuth Rabbi David Small becomes involved in the problems of a group of students and is surprised to find they include drugs and murder.
Karmesin: world's greatest criminal - or most outrageous liar
Crippen & Landru Publishers
2003
The first collection of all seventeen stories featuring master thief and self-confessed genius Karmesin.
Sad road to the sea: a collection of stories
William Heinemann Ltd
1947
A collection of thirty-five very short stories, including horror, dark fantasy, and crime.
A guide to the first editions of Edgar Wallace
Ivory Head Press
1981
With a loosely inserted list of corrigenda and additions.
Enter second murderer : an Inspector Faro novel
Macmillan
1988
Inspector Faro re-opens 'The gruesome convent murders' case, for which one murderer has already been executed.
