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Crime fiction
This collection includes fiction featuring professional, private, or amateur detectives, and criminous acts.
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The traces of Brillhart: a novel of suspense, detection and a curious immortality
Heinemann
1961
A man impersonates a dead song-writer. Each section is introduced by a quote from Doyle.
A decent interval: a Charles Paris novel
2013
Charles Paris has been cast as the ghost of Hamlet's father, but soon finds that he must reprise his role as an amateur detective when a death occurs on tour.
Not dead, only resting: a crime novel
Victor Gollancz Ltd
1984
Charles Paris tracks down the murderer of a London restaurateur.
A reconstructed corpse
Victor Gollancz
1993
Charles Paris takes on the part of a victim in a true crime series, with inevitable results.
A series of murders: a crime novel
Victor Gollancz Ltd
1989
Charles Paris plays a Sergeant in a TV series and plays detective when a young actress is killed.
Corporate bodies: a crime novel
Victor Gollancz Ltd
1991
Charles Paris stumbles across a body while making a promotional video.
Dead giveaway: a crime novel
Victor Gollancz Ltd
1985
It's murder when Charles Paris appears on a TV game show.
Four complete mysteries: An amateur corpse, Star trap, So much blood, Cast in order of disappearance
Wings Books
1993
Omnibus edition of the first four Charles Paris novels.
Murder unprompted: a crime novel
Victor Gollancz Ltd
1982
Charles Paris finally gets a lead role when an actor is shot dead on stage.
So much blood: a crime novel
Victor Gollancz Ltd
1976
Murder is in the background of Charles Paris's Fringe performance of his one man show.
The dead side of the mike
Charles Scribner's Sons
1980
Charles Paris takes on a radio job and finds a young studio manager dead with her wrists slashed. Gift inscription from the author on title page.
Trouble a-brewing: a novel of detection
Macdonald & Co. (Publishers) Ltd.
1946
Chief Inspector Meredith pursues a murderer who poisoned his victim and then hid the body in a hogshead of beer.
The murder of Lalla Lee
Arrowsmith
1931
A detective is invited to meet a potential client for tea but finds her murdered.
The case of the jumbo sandwich
Macdonald
1965
A con man persuades a wealthy woman to invest in a horse, then disappears.
The baby in the icebox, and other short fiction
Robert Hale
1982
A collection of short stories.
Murder goes to press
Constable
1950
Murder takes place in the offices of a national daily newspaper.
The voice of the violin
Picador
2005
Montalbano investigates the murder of a young doctor's wife in her new house.
The shape of water
Picador
2003
Silvio Luparello, a civic dignitary, is found dead in a notorious part of Vigata.
Take thee a sharp knife: a detective story
John Westhouse
1946
A night club customer is killed with a knife while alone at his table. (Todd, Main and Gibb, RT16 ; Main, JW16).
Unholy dying: a detective story
John Westhouse
1945
Death stalks the corridors of the 18th Congress of Geneticists. (Todd, Main and Gibb, RT15 ; Main, JW8).
Unholy dying: a detective story
John Westhouse
1945
Death stalks the corridors of the 18th Congress of Geneticists. (Todd, Main and Gibb, RT15 ; Main, JW8).
Unholy dying: a detective story
John Westhouse
1945
Death stalks the corridors of the 18th Congress of Geneticists. (Todd, Main and Gibb, RT15 ; Main, JW8).
The death cap: a detective story
Lomax Press
2013
An actress dies after eating deadly mushrooms. Limited and numbered edition of 300.
Take thee a sharp knife: a detective story
Lomax Press
2011
A night club customer is killed with a knife while alone at his table. Limited and numbered edition of 300.
