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Crime fiction
This collection includes fiction featuring professional, private, or amateur detectives, and criminous acts.
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Richardson scores again
Dean Street Press
2016
Richardson's second case starts with a murder and robbery in a quiet house in Hampstead.
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.
The Bishop murder case: a Philo Vance story
Charles Scribner's Sons
1929
The first in a series of murders is accompanied by a note signed 'The Bishop', with an extract from the nursery rhyme, 'Who Killed Cock Robin'.
The Canary murder case: a Philo Vance story
Charles Scribner's Sons
1927
Margaret Odell, a famous Broadway beauty known as 'The Canary', is found murdered in her apartment.
The Benson murder case
Franklin Library
1990
Alvin Benson, a playboy stockbroker, who is found dead in his New York brownstone mansion, shot in the head.
Murder in the millions: Erle Stanley Gardner, Mickey Spillane, Ian Fleming
Frederick Ungar Publishing Co.
1984
An analysis of three of the most successful fictional heroes: Perry Mason, James Bond, and Mike Hammer.
The bedside book of great detective stories
Arthur Barker Limited
1976
A collection of old and new short stories.
Murdering Mr. Velfrage
Faber and Faber Ltd
1950
A solicitor responsible for the care of a famous diamond disappears.
Tramp's evidence
Ward, Lock & Co., Limited
1937
A secretly taken film of Muslim holy sites and rites leads to murder.
Don among the dead men: a satirical thriller
Michael Joseph
1952
An eminent chemist at Oxham University develops, and then utilises, an undetectable poison.
Agatha Christie : a reader's companion
Aurum Press
2004
An extensively illustrated introduction to Christie's works with images of all the first edition dustwrappers.
The jig-saw murder
Samuel Gabriel Sons & Company
1933
A young woman's body is found sprawled over an almost completed jigsaw puzzle. A jigsaw puzzle help solve the mystery is contained in a hollowed out box after the text.
Express delivery
Collins
1946
Gillon receives a mysterious message to go to the Gulf Stream night-club in Soho and pick up a book from a Tony Morini.
The Wyndham case : an Imogen Quy mystery
Hodder & Stoughton
1993
A student is found dead in a locked library of arcane books.
A piece of justice: the second Imogen Quy mystery
Hodder & Stoughton
1995
A biography of a leading mathematician is dogged by mysterious deaths and disappearances.
The bad quarto: an Imogen Quy mystery
Hodder & Stoughton
2007
An experienced night climber unexpectedly falls to his death.
The man in brown
W. & R. Chambers, Ltd.
1945
A young man, on trial for the second time for the murder of his uncle, steps down free, but a marked man.
The dark window
Hamish Hamilton
1956
A security officer has his hands full when a bishop who has escaped from behind the Iron Curtain stays at his hotel.
