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Crime fiction
This collection includes fiction featuring professional, private, or amateur detectives, and criminous acts.
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A shocking affair
Macmillan
1999
Sir Peter Hay dies mysteriously when training a new spaniel provided by the Cunninghams.
Trouble comes double
Arthur Barker Limited
1955
Ebon Sickel pursues his partner's killers, and is led into the world of smuggling and dope running.
An English murder
Faber and Faber
1951
Robert Warbeck, the only son and heir of Lord Warbeck, dies in front of the dinner guests at Warbeck Hall, which has been cut-off by heavy snow.
Case of the wounded mastiff
Arthur Barker Ltd.
1947
Protection Ltd. consists of a retired colonel, a professor, a commando, and a young lady. One of the first Museum Street Thrillers.
The exploits of Chevalier Dupin
Mycroft & Moran
1968
A collection of short stories including 'The mystery of the Fulton documents'.
Rope over Jezebel
Jarrolds Publishers (London) Ltd
1950
An urgent call takes Bastion to a remote village on the edge of an airport where a young woman has been found dead on the common.
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.
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 Abbey Court murders
Dean Street Press
2015
The first book in the Inspector Furnival series.
Go down, death
Hammond, Hammond & Co. Ltd.
1948
An old blackmailing reprobate is murdered and the local Sheriff is no hurry to find the killer until another local is brutally killed.
Pel and the perfect partner
Constable
1994
Inspector Pel disappears, re-appears and re-captures the Poltergeist, France's most dangerous criminal.
Pel among the pueblos
Constable
1987
Two ageing crooks die in a double shooting, and the main suspect can't be found.
Pel and the party spirit
Constable
1989
A thirty-year-old corpse is discovered in a thirteenth century tower.
Pel and the picture of innocence
Constable
1988
A notorious gangster is ambushed and assassinated in his car.
Pel and the touch of pitch
Constable
1987
A member of the French National Assembly is kidnapped.
Cavalier of crime
George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.
1937
Milton Deen is a man with a 'plane and a penchant for attracting trouble.
Plenty under the counter
Imperial War Museum
2019
A pilot on convalescent leave investigates a murder in the garden of his boarding house.
The Zanzibar shirt, and other stories
Crippen & Landru
2018
A collection of short stories featuring two collaborative mystery writers and cases they solve on their round-the-world cruise.
The case of the perplexing pen-names: an index to the 3rd and 5th series of the Sexton Blake Library and a guide to their authors together with an index of the Press Editorial Syndicate titles
CADS
1994
Sheds light on the various pseudonyms and house-names used by the authors of Sexton Blake stories.
Bad vibes
Headline
1998
An elderly tourist is found dead in his bath in an Edinburgh hotel.
Hidden depths
Allison & Busby
2004
A restorer disappears at the same time as a valuable Rubens.
A thief in the night: further adventures of A.J. Raffles cricketer and cracksman
Charles Scribner's Sons
1907
A collection of short stories featuring the amateur cracksman.
