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Crime fiction
This collection includes fiction featuring professional, private, or amateur detectives, and criminous acts.
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The Anglo-Irish murders
HarperCollinsPublishers
2000
A delegate falls from a building at an Anglo-Irish political summit.
Murdering Americans
Poisoned Pen Press
2007
An English academic finds middle America difficult to deal with, not least because she thinks the Provost of her host university has been murdered.
Carnage on the committee
HarperCollinsPublishers
2004
The chairperson of a book award committee is murdered.
The merchant's house
Piatkus
1998
A young woman is found brutally murdered on a cliff path.
The plague maiden
Piatkus
2004
A letter arrives at Tradmouth police station claiming that a convicted murderer is innocent.
Harriet farewell
Hodder and Stoughton
1975
Harriet Buckler has a lonely struggle to prove her sanity, and that she is innocent of a murder.
Frames: a Valentino mystery
Tom Doherty Associates
2008
An archivist finds a skeleton and a rare film in the basement of a derelict movie palace.
A smile on the face of the tiger
Warner Books
2000
Walker is hunting for a man who used to write steamy crime fiction.
Was Corinne's murder clued? The Detection Club and fair play, 1930-1953
CADS
2011
A discussion of the fair play concept amongst Detection Club members.
The good thief's guide to Berlin
Minotaur Books
2013
The UK Government enlists a part-time writer and thief to burgle the homes of four of their embassy employees.
Murder brewing
World's Work (1913) Ltd
1947
George Mawson, a clerk in a brewery order office, is murdered and his body placed on a lorry delivering beer.
The bigger they come
William Morrow and Company
1939
Serving a set of divorce papers seems a simple enough job for Donald Lam.
A turf mystery
Philip Allan
1934
Missing papers, a foreign potentate, and a winning horse combine to create a turf mystery.
Murder off Broadway
John Hamilton Ltd
1930
Art connoisseur John Ballinger helps solve the murder of a friend's sister.
Moonrakers and mischief
Chapman and Hall
1961
A visit to George Loder's future in-laws is disrupted by attempted murder and a kidnapping.
The casebook of Jonas P. Jonas and other mysteries
Crippen & Landru Publishers
2012
A collection of short stories.
A murder too many
Collins [for] The Crime Club
1988
A retired Professor of Botany is asked for advice concerning a convicted murderer.
Thy brother death
Collins [for] The Crime Club
1993
A Professor receives a letter intended for his brother, and the authoress is promptly murdered.
My old man's badge
Reinhardt & Evans
1950
The Manhattan police hunt a fanatical killer who has vowed to kill one of them.
The Burma ruby
Ernest Benn Limited
1932
The Mayor of Heatherstone is found dead in his private room at the Town Halland a valuable ruby is missing.
