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Crime fiction
This collection includes fiction featuring professional, private, or amateur detectives, and criminous acts.
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Where there's a will
Tom Stacey Ltd
1971
Three sisters hire Wolfe to investigate the murder of their brother.
Too many cooks
Tom Stacey
1973
Ten world-famous chefs gather at Kanawha Spa, and Nero Wolfe is on hand to solve a double murder.
Murder in manuscript
Rich and Cowan
1948
A private detective finds a novelist he dislikes sitting at a desk, with a bullet in his brain.
Dr Poggioli: criminologist
Crippen & Landru Publishers
2004
A collection of short stories published in book form for the first time.
The poison tree
Doubleday
1997
Terry Williams returns to Oxford to complete a doctorate in detective fiction only to find that fact is far more frightening than fiction.
The missing money-lender
John Lane the Bodley Head Limited
1931
A doctor apparently dies of meningitis but re-appears when his wife makes an insurance claim.
The detective story in Britain
Published for The British Council and the National Book League by Longmans, Green & Co.
1962
An introduction to the British detective story.
Criminal practices: Symons on criminal writing 60s to90s
Macmillan
1994
A collection of articles, reviews, interviews and essays on crime fiction.
The detections of Francis Quarles
Crippen & Landru Publishers
2006
A collection of 42 short stories that originally appeared in the Evening Standard.
The man who killed himself
Published for The Crime Club by Collins
1967
Arthur Brownjohn finds he is as hapless a murderer as a husband when he tries to kill his wife.
The man whose dreams came true
Published for The Crime Club by Collins
1968
Tony Scott-Williams dreams of a rich and easy life, which leads him to forgery, gambling and finally murder.
Mortal mischief: volume one of the Liebermann papers
Century
2005
A beautiful medium is found shot dead in a locked room.
Vienna blood: volume two of the Liebermann papers
Century
2006
A serial killer embarks upon a bizarre series of murders in Vienna.
The daughter of time
Franklin Library
1990
Inspector Grant investigates a centuries-old murder from his hospital bed.
How to enjoy detective fiction
Rockliff
1947
An early study of the genre with numerous references to Doyle and Holmes.
A cup of death: a Dade Cooley mystery
Victor Gollancz Ltd
1988
A professor of classics is shot dead in an apparent robbery, but a piece of costume jewellery is all that is taken.
Anatomy of a murder
Franklin Library
1988
A tale of deceit, murder, and a sensational trial in which the murderer is known from the very beginning.
Dead knock
Collins
1982
A woman walks into a police station to report her own forthcoming murder. Gift inscription from the author on front free endpaper.
Two way cut
St. Martin's Press
1988
A body is found on a piece of waste ground in Glasgow, but the victim has been killed elsewhere and then dressed in a neatly pressed suit.
The casino murder case: a Philo Vance story
Charles Scribner's Sons
1934
Philo Vance witnesses the death by poisoning of the son and heir to a family fortune at a casino.
