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Crime fiction
This collection includes fiction featuring professional, private, or amateur detectives, and criminous acts.
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The lodger
Franklin Library
1990
A story inspired by the Whitechapel murders of 1888, committed by Jack the Ripper.
Murder gone mad
Published for The Crime Club Ltd. by W. Collins Sons & Co Ltd
1931
A long knife, with a brilliant but perverted brain directing it, is terrorising the suburb of Holmdale.
Shaken down: a novel
Hutchinson & Co.
1925
Patrolman Boyne investigates a murder and kidnapping.
Water on the brain
Cassell and Company Ltd.
1933
An absurdist parody highlighting the inadequacies of the British secret services, between the wars, within whose ranks Compton Mackenzie served.
The lonely side of the river
Hodder and Stoughton
1965
A selfish and amoral man plans a brutal insurance fraud.
The nominative case
Macmillan
1990
A lecturer is found dead after failing a student, who demanded that his grade is changed, and then the Dean is found dead in a lift.
The tough and the tender
Dennis Dobson
1960
The murder of a Highland factor reveals bitter feuds between the crofters and the estate.
The mystery of Captain Burnaby
Pawling and Ness Ltd.
1934
Captain Burnaby is an odd, and soon very dead, lodger.
The life of Raymond Chandler
Jonathan Cape
1976
A biography of the creator of Philip Marlowe.
A charitable end
Collins
1971
A series of poison-pen letters to comfortable Edinburgh citizens escalates to murder.
Rogues' holiday
Ipso Books
2017
Inspector Blest investigates a mysterious death at the Senior Buffs Club.
Adventure mysterious
Arthur Gray (Books) Ltd.
1934
A ruthless gang is intent on thwarting a deal to sell a secret formula.
The double thirteen
Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd.
1947
The Double Thirteen Club was founded for members born on the 26th of a month.
A knife for your heart: a case for Superintendent Frank Drury
John Gifford Limited
1966
A young woman receives a Stone Age knife through the post, and is soon its victim.
Thank you, Mr. Moto ; and, Mr. Moto is so sorry
Franklin Library
1990s
Contains the second and fourth books to feature Mr Moto.
Gideon's lot
Hodder and Stoughton
1965
Gideon is warned that a consignment of criminals is arriving on the Queen Elizabeth.
The Gideon omnibus
Hodder and Stoughton
1964
Three classic J.J. Marric novels on one volume.
Gideon's risk
Hodder and Stoughton
1960
An influential millionaire is suspected of killing his wife.
Gideon's month
Hodder and Stoughton
1958
One month in the life of Commander George Gideon.
Death at peak hour
John Long
1957
Two TV personalities are murdered outside Lime Grove studios.
Clutch of constables
Published for The Crime Club by Collins
1968
Alleyn's wife Troy joins a canal cruise which provides two murders and a master criminal.
Overture to murder
Franklin Library
1990
Alleyn and Fox are sent to investigate a murder during an amateur theatrical performance in a Dorset village.
Photo-finish
Collins
1980
World famous soprano Isabella Sommita is found dead in her bedroom, stabbed with a stiletto.
Money in the morgue
Collins Crime Club
2018
A payroll goes missing and bodies start to pile up in a quarantine hospital.
