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Crime fiction
This collection includes fiction featuring professional, private, or amateur detectives, and criminous acts.
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Telling of murder
Faber and Faber
1952
Who is behind the repeated attempts to kill Osborne Vandervell, wealthy London ship-owner?
Deadly jade
Herbert Jenkins Limited
1947
The only tangible link in a chain of baffling circumstances is a jade necklace which is the rightful property of the girl who steals it.
A policeman in post-war Paris: the Saturnin Dax novels of Marten Cumberland
CADS
2000
A guide to the people, places, and social context encountered in the Saturnin Dax stories.
Punshon's policemen: the two detective series of E. R. Punshon
CADS
1995
A guide to works featuring Bobby Owen and Carter and Bell.
Danger : great stories of mystery and suspense from the Saturday Evening Post
Victor Gollancz Ltd
1968
A collection of short stories commencing with Poe's 'The black cat'
Murder for fun
Jarrolds Publishers (London) Ltd
1947
A staged murder turns into reality at an actor's country house.
The Sayers holiday book. Containing: Gaudy night, a novel; Strong poison, a novel; and, In the teeth of the evidence, seventeen stories
Victor Gollancz Ltd
1963
An omnibus edition containing two full length novels and seventeen short stories.
A treasury of Sayer's stories
Victor Gollancz Ltd
1967
A collection of short stories mainly featuring Lord Peter Wimsey and Montague Egg.
Great short stories of detection, mystery and horror. Part 1: Detection and mystery
Victor Gollancz Ltd
1946
An anthology of twenty-nine short stories.
The new Sayers omnibus. Containing: The five red herrings; Have his carcass; and, Murder must advertise
Victor Gollancz Ltd
1956
A collected edition containing three long stories.
Striding folly, including three final Lord Peter Wimsey stories
New English Library
1991
Includes three short stories featuring Lord Peter Wimsey, and an essay by Janet Hitchman.
Blood in their ink: the march of the modern mystery novel
Stanley Paul and Co. Ltd
1953
An assessment of crime fiction which contains numerous references to Doyle and Holmes.
Railways in British crime fiction
CADS
2004
A compilation of articles that originally appeared in the Journal of the Railway and Canal Historical Society.
The detective in fiction a posse of eight
G. Bell & Sons Ltd
1950s
Includes 'Silver Blaze' and the parody 'The great detective'.
The man they couldn't arrest
Hodder & Stoughton Limited
1930s
Valman Dain, an inventor, develops a mechanism for eavesdropping on conversations and sets about tracking down the various criminal gangs which are plaguing London, and then sends anonymous tip-offs to Scotland Yard.
Danger is my business: an illustrated history of the fabulous pulp magazines 1896-1953
Chronicle Books
1993
An in-depth look at possibly the most outrageous literary phenomenon of the twentieth century : pulp magazines.
The Thinking Machine: Jacques Futrelle: discovering the titanic talent of a pioneer American mystery author
Graphic Illusions
1995
The first authorised biography of Jacques Futrelle.
Unexpected death
Victor Gollancz Ltd
1971
Mendoza's team are involved in no less than eighteen investigations at once.
The motive on record
Victor Gollancz Ltd
1982
A typical range of crimes need to be dealt with by Mendoza's team, as well as domestic challenges.
England expects: a Mirabelle Bevan mystery
Polygon
2014
The murders of a journalist and a cleaning woman lead from Brighton Pavilion to a Cambridge college, and into the world of freemasonry, and further deaths.
Maigret's revolver
Hamish Hamilton
1956
Murder, robbery and violence are all part of Maigret's trip to London, but the greatest crime is being forced to abandon his pipe in the Savoy Grill.
Maigret in society
Hamish Hamilton
1962
A seventy-eight year-old Comte is found dead in his library.
Maigret travels south
George Routledge & Sons Ltd.
1940
Contains two Maigret novels: 'Liberty Bar' and 'The mad man of Bergerac'.
