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Crime fiction
This collection includes fiction featuring professional, private, or amateur detectives, and criminous acts.
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Black as he's painted
Collins
1974
Alleyn helps a former school pal with security at his embassy, but is embarrassed when a murder is committed.
The Datchet diamonds
Ward, Lock & Co., Limited
1898
Cyril Paxton finds himself the unwitting possessor of half a million in stolen jewels after a luggage mix-up.
The strange case of Vintrix Polbarton: a novel
Thomas Nelson & Sons, Ltd.
1929
Vintrix Polbarton's wife is found dead, with puncture marks on her arms.
Snakehead
Hodder & Stoughton
2002
A truck full of dead Chinese is found in Southern Texas.
Coffin road
Quercus
2016
A man is washed up, near death, on a deserted beach on the Isle of Harris.
Two-thirds of a ghost
Tom Stacey
1972
A celebrated author is murdered in the middle of a party game.
The early McCloy comprising three novels : Dance of Death ; Deadly truth ; Who's calling
Victor Gollancz Ltd
1973
Three of McCloy's early novels in the Basill Willing series.
The pleasant assassin and other cases of Dr. Basil Willing
Crippen & Landru Publishers
2003
A collection of short stories.
Booked for murder
Women's Press
1996
An author is killed in an exact replica of the murder in her forthcoming book.
Death pays the wages
Victor Gollancz Ltd
1970
An investigation into the smuggling of contraceptives results in the murder of two industrialists.
Conundrums for the long week-end: England, Dorothy L. Sayers and Lord Peter Wimsey
Kent State University Press
2000
An exploration of how Sayers used her fictional hero to comment on, and come to terms with, the social upheaval of the time.
The papers of Tony Veitch
Hodder and Stoughton
1983
Inspector Laidlaw is summoned to the death bed of an alcoholic vagrant who insists that "the wine he gave me wisnae wine".
The harper's quine
Constable
2004
The body of a runaway woman is found in the newly built Glasgow Cathedral.
The museum murder
Geoffrey Bles
1930
A plan to steal a picture turns sour when one of the partners in crime gets greedy.
Ashton-Kirk: secret agent
Penn Publishing Company
1912
A wealthy medical man proposes to write a book on the secrets of the Russian Army, and is promptly murdered.
A likely story
Berkley Prime Crime
2015
Librarian Lindsey Norris solves a shooting and a missing person's case involving two reclusive brothers. The sixth library lover's mystery.
Bull-dog Drummond's third round
George H. Doran Company
1924
A Professor develops a method for producing cheap diamonds, which is not to the liking of the Metropolitan Diamond Syndicate.
The detections of Miss Cusak
Battered Silicon Dispatch Box
1998
An anthology of short stories that originally appeared in the Harmsworth Magazine.
The Saint
Boxtree
1989
A review of the life and times of one of fiction and television's most ageless and debonair heroes.
Gwendoline Butler: the inventor of the women's police procedural
John Kennedy Melling
1993
An assessment of a key aspect of Butler's contribution to crime fiction. Limited edition of 150.
There lies your love
Michael Joseph
1965
Deerham Hills is visited by murder, suicide, a threatening letter-writer and a peeping tom.
The mauve front door
Published for The Crime Club by Collins
1967
A murder takes place in a quarry near a village being used by an Italian film company.
Death of a philanderer
Published for The Crime Club by Collins
1968
A blackmailer and seducer of a schoolgirl dies in violent, if justified, circumstances.
