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Crime fiction
This collection includes fiction featuring professional, private, or amateur detectives, and criminous acts.
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Maigret travels south
George Routledge & Sons Ltd.
1940
Contains two Maigret novels: 'Liberty Bar' and 'The mad man of Bergerac'.
Maigret and the loner
Hamish Hamilton
1975
The body of a vagrant is found in a derelict house near Les Halles.
Maigret and the spinster
Hamish Hamilton
1977
A spinsterish young woman appeals to Maigret for help and is later found dead in a broom cupboard at the Quai de Orfèvres.
Maigret victorious : a sixth omnibus. Comprising : Maigret's memoirs ; Maigret and the headless corpse ; and, Maigret and the Saturday caller
Hamish Hamilton
1975
An omnibus edition containing three novels.
A Maigret Christmas
Penguin Books
2017
A collection of three stories originally published in France in 1951.
Maigret's pipe : complete Maigret short stories. Volume 2
Hamish Hamilton
1977
A collection of short stories featuring the famous French detective.
Maigret's rival
Hamish Hamilton
1979
Maigret is asked to look into the apparent accidental death of a young man, and finds that a former colleague is also investigating the case.
Maigret and the Saturday caller
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
1991
Maigret has to deal with a murder confessed in advance.
Maigret's Christmas: complete Maigret short stories. Volume 1
Hamish Hamilton
1976
A collection of nine short stories.
The patience of Maigret
Franklin Library
1987
Contains two Maigret novels: 'A battle of nerves' and 'A face for a clue'.
Rex mundi
Victor Gollancz Ltd
1978
An antiquarian bookseller witnesses a murder in Greece.
Inspector Frost in Crevenna Cove
Ernest Benn Limited
1933
Inspector Frost and Sergeant Billy Smith are sent to the Cornish village of Crevenna, where the body of a holiday-maker has been discovered stabbed on the beach.
A masculine ending
Faber and Faber
1987
A university lecturer finds a tangle of blood-soaked sheets in a flat she has borrowed while at a conference in Paris.
Oxford letters
Headline
2005
Novelist Kate Ivory becomes concerned about the influence of a married couple on her mother.
Oxford proof
Headline
2002
Novelist Kate Ivory is head-hunted by an ambitious young book editor who then falls foul of financial fraudsters.
Oxford shift
Headline
2000
Novelist Kate Ivory comes to the rescue of a respectable widow in her sixties disappears in Oxford, and is then suspected of murder.
The new adventures of Jimmie Lavender
Metropolitan Toronto Reference Library
1995
A collection of short stories most of which originally appeared in pulp magazines.
The memoirs of Jimmie Lavender
Metropolitan Toronto Reference Library
1996
A collection of short stories most of which originally appeared in pulp magazines.
The eleventh juror and other crime classics
Metropolitan Toronto Reference Library
1995
A collection of short stories including some which have never before appeared in hardback.
The return of Jimmie Lavender
Metropolitan Toronto Reference Library
1997
A collection of short stories most of which originally appeared in pulp magazines.
The man who wrote detective stories, and other stories
Victor Gollancz Ltd
1959
An anthology of short stories by an author better known as Michael Innes.
And always a detective: chapters on the history of detective fiction
Battered Silicon Dispatch Box
2000
A discussion of the similarities between Victorian sensation and detective fiction.
Fer-de-lance : a Nero Wolfe mystery
Franklin Library
1988
The disappearance of a metalworker seems connected to the death of a college president while playing golf in Westchester County, New York.
Red threads
Tom Stacey Ltd
1971
A gambler is found clubbed to death at his wife's tomb, the only clue being a red thread in his hand.
