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Head of a traveller
Published for the Crime Club by Collins
1949
A young couple punting on the Thames discover the headless corpse of a man tangled in the weeds.
Murder for pleasure: the life and times of the detective story
Peter Davies
1942
An influential and early history of the detective story as a literary form.
The private wound
Published for The Crime Club by Collins
1968
A young novelist is seduced by the wife of the local squireen, with violent consequences.
