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Crime fiction
This collection includes fiction featuring professional, private, or amateur detectives, and criminous acts.
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The puzzle of the briar pipe
Tom Stacey
1972
Violet Feverel is last seen on her horse in Central Park before being discovered dead in trampled mud.
Hildegarde Withers: uncollected stories
Crippen & Landru Publishers
2002
A collection of short stories never before published in book form.
Killing orders: a novel
Victor Gollancz Ltd
1986
VI Warshawski investigates the theft of 3 million dollars in share certificates.
Arthur Morrison: a bibliography of first editions
Kakapo Press
2007
A bibliography of Morrison's first editions in book form. Morrison was perhaps best known for his Martin Hewitt detective stories. Number 14 in a limited edition of 500.
Mysterious railway stories
W.H. Allen
1984
A collection of spine-tingling stories drawn mainly from the steam age.
Sleeping partner
Constable
1996
An old woman is battered to death, and DCI Fyfe is called in to investigate.
Dance of death
Severn House
1991
Gorbachov attends the Edinburgh Festival performance of the Bolshoi Ballet despite a rumour of an assassination attempt.
Sleeping dogs
Constable
1994
DCI Fyfe becomes involved with a former flame who has blood on her hands and a suitcase of money.
Sleeping dogs
St. Martin's Press
1995
DCI Fyfe becomes involved with a former flame who has blood on her hands and a suitcase of money.
Jewel mysteries I have known: from a dealer's notebook
Ward, Lock & Co Limited
1900
A collection of mystery stories about gems in exotic settings.
The kingdom of death
T.V. Boardman & Company Limited
1961
A novelist tries to find out why his brother, a policeman, killed four men engrossed in a crap game
Sow death, reap death
Dodd, Mead & Company
1981
Julian Quist must find the weak spot in a terrorist's army to save three hundred hostages in a New York restaurant.
The homicidal horse
Dodd, Mead & Company
1979
A 60-1 horse wins a big race and then kicks a rich lady to death in its stall.
Ian Fleming's James Bond
Mysterious Press
1999
A guide to the first editions of Fleming's James Bond stories.
Earl Digger's Charlie Chan
Mysterious Press
1999
A guide to the first editions of Bigger's Charlie Chan stories. Limited to 250 copies.
Mickey Spillane
Mysterious Press
1999
A guide to the first editions of Mickey Spillane. Limited edition of 250.
Cornell Woolrich. Part I
Mysterious Press
1999
A guide to the first editions of Cornell Woolrich, written under his own name Limited to 250 copies.
Detectionary: a biographical dictionary of leading characters in mystery fiction
Overlook Press
1977
A guide to major fictional detectives, their assistants, and criminals.
The Caravaggio books
Crime Club
1992
An Assistant Professor is found stabbed to death in the depths of the library with a pile of books on Caravaggio by her side.
The drug-run
Arthur Barker Limited
1960
A suitcase on a wrecked bus is found to contain twenty pounds of marijuana.
The house of secrets
Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd.
1931
A mystery concerning missing diamonds and the Narracott inheritance.
My adventure in the Flying Scotsman: a romance of London & North-Western Railway shares
Aspen Press
1976
A reprint of Phillpotts' first published work, and one of the entries in Queen's Quorum. Limited edition of 500.
The short stories of Margery Allingham: a definitive listing
CADS
2013
A checklist of appearances of short stories by Margery Allingham.
The short stories of Michael Gilbert: an annotated checklist 1948-1997
CADS
1998
A checklist of the numerous appearances of Michael Gilbert's short stories. Signed by Michael Gilbert and Barry Pike.
