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Crime fiction
This collection includes fiction featuring professional, private, or amateur detectives, and criminous acts.
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Inspector French's greatest case
W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd.
1926
French investigates murder, jewel theft, and impersonation.
The cask : a story of crime
Collins Crime Club
2016
When four casks fall to the deck of a ship during unloading, one is found to contain gold coins and a corpse.
Inspector French: fatal venture
Collins Crime Club
2022
French's holiday on a tourist ship is interrupted by the murder of the owner.
A losing game
House of Stratus
2001
The victim of a moneylender and blackmailer is falsely accused of murder when he perishes when his cottage burns down.
The Groote Park murder
Collins Crime Club
2020
The discovery of a mutilated body inside a railway tunnel leads from South Africa to Scotland in the quest for the murderer.
The players come again
Virago Press Limited
1990
Kate is commissioned to write a biography of Gabrielle Foxx and uncovers a startling mystery.
Derry down death
W.H. Allen
1960
A distinguished collector of folk-songs dies under mysterious circumstances in the small village of Westerhalton.
The deadly climate
Eyre & Spottiswoode
1955
Caroline Emmett witnesses a murder in the fog.
The Chelsea murders
Jonathan Cape
1978
A serial killer is plying his terrible trade in Chelsea.
Dorothy L. Sayers in Galloway
Dumfries and Galloway Museums Service
2005
Explores the background to Sayers' visits to Galloway and her own family connection to the area.
Murder - all kinds
Crippen & Landru Publishers
2003
A collection of short stories including some Holmesian pastiches.
Death is my bridegroom
Published for the Crime Club by Collins
1969
The daughter of a rich businessman is kidnapped and then murdered.
End games
Faber and Faber
2007
An American Italian is killed on his return to his homeland in Calabria.
A long finish
Faber and Faber
1998
Zen is assigned to prove that the son of an important wine-grower is innocent of a brutal murder.
And then you die
Faber and Faber
2002
Zen is recovering from an attempt on his life but soon finds that people are dropping dead around him.
Back to Bologna
Faber and Faber
2005
A wealthy industrialist who owns Bologna's local football team is found shot and stabbed.
Blood rain
Faber and Faber
1999
An unidentified, decomposed corpse is found sealed in a railway wagon on a disused Sicilian branch line.
Dead lagoon
Faber and Faber
1994
A skeletal corpse is found on the ossuary island in Venice's northern lagoon.
Medusa
Faber and Faber
2003
A body is found in abandoned military tunnels in the Italian Alps.
Ratking
Faber and Faber
1988
Zen is transferred to Perugia to take over a kidnapping case.
Vendetta
Faber and Faber
1990
Zen investigates the murder of a construction company owner in his Sardinian hideaway.
Cabal
Faber and Faber
1992
Prince Ludovico Ruspanti falls to his death in St Peter's Chapel.
