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Crime fiction
This collection includes fiction featuring professional, private, or amateur detectives, and criminous acts.
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Only darkness
HarperCollinsPublishers
1999
A young college lecturer is unwittingly drawn in to the orb of a brutal killer, dubbed the Strangler, who dumps the bodies of his victims on railway tracks.
The Bethlehem murders
Atlantic Books
2006
A schoolmaster comes to the aid of a former pupil when he is arrested for murder.
The ginger cat
William Morrow & Company
1929
The theft of jewels leads from Paris to London.
Constable on the prowl
Robert Hale
1980
Constable Rhea has to deal with incidents as diverse as speeding cars, blazing buildings, and poaching.
Constable by the sea
Robert Hale
1985
Constable Rhea has to deal with crimes as diverse as lost false teeth and a stray labrador.
Constable in the dale
Robert Hale
1983
Constable Rhea has to deal with crimes as diverse as lost sheep and a criminal mother-in-law.
Murder at Bratton Grange
P. F. Collier & Son Company
1929
An unpleasant businessman is stabbed to death on his journey from the train station to his house.
Murder, mystery and Malone
Crippen & Landru Publishers
2002
A collection of short stories featuring the bibulous lawyer John J. Malone.
The Oxford of Inspector Morse
Irregular Special Press
1998
An illustrated guide to key locations from the Morse stories with appendices listing books, and television, radio and musical productions.
Let dead enough alone: a Captain Heimrich mystery
Hutchinson
1958
Captain Heimrich investigates a dual murder in a snowbound country house.
A plate of red herrings
John Long
1969
A cocktail party is used to announce the sacking of the staff of a popular magazine, and the messenger is promptly murdered.
The frightened wife and other murder stories
Cassell & Company Limited
1954
A volume of short stories.
The door
Franklin Library
1990
Widely considered as the source of the phrase "The butler did it".
A trust betrayed
Heinemann
2000
A merchant is stabbed to death in mediaeval Edinburgh, and his wife resolves to find his murderer. With a loosely inserted slipe signed by the author.
Bad penny blues
Constable
2000
An Australian social historian researching a book finds that her enquiries about a transported criminal open up a hornet's nest.
Bad blood
Headline
1991
Jean Montrose happens upon an upturned car whose driver has been shot.
Death by fire
Headline
1990
An unpopular man is found dead from spontaneous combustion, but when a similar death turns up, questions have to be asked.
The Lumsden baby
Headline
1990
A young boy is found dead in his cot, but not from natural causes.
The hanging woman
Geoffrey Bles
1965
A young girl abandons her baby and then is found hanged in an apparent suicide.
The insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu: being a somewhat detailed account of the amazing adventures of Nayland Smith in his trailing of the sinister Chinaman
Franklin Library
1990
Nayland Smith seeks to protect various men associated with India who are the target of assassination by the Chinese master criminal Dr. Fu Manchu.
The Granchester mysteries: Sidney Chambers and the shadow of death
Bloomsbury
2012
The third collection of short stories featuring the vicar of Granchester.
The Granchester mysteries: Sidney Chambers and the perils of the night
Bloomsbury
2013
The first collection of short stories featuring the vicar of Granchester.
The Granchester mysteries: Sidney Chambers and the problem of evil
Bloomsbury
2014
The second collection of short stories featuring the vicar of Granchester.
Rivals of Sherlock Holmes two : forty six stories of crime and detection from original illustrated magazines
Castle Books
1979
A collection of short stories drawn from the illustrated magazines of the late 19th and early 20th century.
