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Crime fiction
This collection includes fiction featuring professional, private, or amateur detectives, and criminous acts.
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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.
Why Jane Matcham disappeared
Ward, Lock & Co., Limited
1907
Inspector Denning unravels a complex case of an apparent murder, theft and impersonation.
In spite of thunder: a Dr. Fell detective novel
Hamish Hamilton
1960
Somebody is committing murder with an invisible weapon.
The blind barber
Hamish Hamilton
1974
A series of extraordinary crimes and misadventures dog the voyage of the Queen Victoria.
The dead sleep lightly
Published for The Crime Club by Doubleday & Company, Inc.
1983
Nine never-before-published radio plays.
The door to doom, and other detections
Hamish Hamilton
1981
A collection of short stories, Sherlockian parodies, and radio plays.
The black spectacles
Four Square Book
1965
Fell investigates the poisoning of children from chocolate creams laced with strychnine, and the murder of the richest man in the district in full view of three other people.
The seat of the scornful
Four Square Book
1965
A judge tries to buy off an unwanted suitor of his daughter, who is then found murdered at the judge's home.
The man who could not shudder
Bantam Books
1964
When a man is found shot, a young girl claims that the room did it.
The problem of the green capsule: being the psychologist's murder case
International Polygonics, Ltd.
1986
Fell investigates the poisoning of children from chocolate creams laced with strychnine, and the murder of the richest man in the district in full view of three other people.
Fell and foul play
International Polygonics, Ltd.
1991
A collection of short stories including previously unpublished material.
The case of the perfect alibi
W. Foulsham & Co. Ltd.
1960
A lawyer is suspected of murder but has a water-tight alibi: he was at police headquarters at the time.
Georges Simenon
Pocket Essentials
2003
A concise guide to the major Maigret works, films, and television adaptations.
Zarkon, Lord of the Unknown in invisible death: a case from the files of Omega
Doubleday & Company, Inc.
1975
The men of Omega were up against the Grim Reaper who could reach helpless victims behind walls and closed doors.
Trouble on Tuesday
Andrew Melrose Ltd
1952
An accidental meeting with a crime reporter leads Carver to the uncovering of a gang of international criminals.
Stranger than truth: a novel
Eyre & Spottiswoode
1947
A magazine editor solves an old unsolved murder.
Norton Vyse: psychic
Ash-Tree Press
1999
A volume of short stories featuring a psychic detective. Limited edition of 500.
Lady in a frame
Robert Hale Limited
1960
When a young woman is dumped by her fiancé the night before her wedding, she finds that he was not what he said he was.
The long goodbye
Hamish Hamilton
1953
Some books need little introduction: this classic won the 1954 Edgar.
