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Crime fiction
This collection includes fiction featuring professional, private, or amateur detectives, and criminous acts.
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Raffles: further adventures of the amateur cracksman
Charles Scribner's Sons
1907
A collection of short stories featuring the amateur cracksman.
Raffles : further adventures of the amateur cracksman
Franklin Library
1990
A collection of short stories featuring the amateur cracksman.
The murder of my aunt
Hamish Hamilton
1975
A dilettante poet makes several attempts to murder his aunt.
Gently to the summit
Cassell
1961
A climber returns from the dead, and is then accused of the murder of another climber.
Gently with love
Cassell
1975
Gently goes to the assistance of friends in Scotland, where he has no official standing.
Carson's conspiracy
Victor Gollancz Ltd
1984
A retired Sir John Appleby finds conspiracy and murder on his doorstep.
The Appleby file : detective stories
Victor Gollancz Ltd
1975
A collection of short stories featuring the Commissioner of Metropolitan Police, Sir John Appleby.
Lament for a maker
Victor Gollancz Ltd
1971
Reclusive Ranald Guthrie, the laird of Erchany, is seen falling from the highest tower of his run-down castle and is found dead in the snow below.
The lonely skier
Collins
1947
A demobbed officer is hired as a script writer and finds himself on the trail of Nazi gold.
Phantom lady
Tom Stacey
1973
Scott Henderson searches for an elusive woman he met in a bar who is the only person that can give an alibi for the murder of his wife.
Nine points of the law
John Lane
1903
The adventures of Richard Wayzgoose, a bank clerk who is inadvertently involved with a burglary.
Great British fictional detectives
Remember when
2008
An introduction to over 400 fictional detectives.
Skinner's round
Headline
1995
One of the partners in a new country club is found dead in the clubhouse the day before the grand opening.
Thursday legends
Headline
2000
One of Skinner's indoor football friends is found brutally murdered.
A coffin for two
Headline
1997
Prim and Oz try to authenticate a previously unknown Dali painting.
Head shot
Headline
2002
Skinner has to identify the strangled bodies of his wife's parents at their American lakeside cabin.
Autographs in the rain
Headline
2001
A stalker takes a pot-shot at Skinner and his lady-friend.
The ambiguity of murder: an Inspector Alvarez novel
HarperCollinsPublishers
1999
A retired Bolivian diplomat is found dead in his swimming pool.
An artful death: an Inspector Alvarez novel
HarperCollinsPublishers
2000
The boat of a missing expat is found empty and drifting out to sea, then his body turns up.
The ambiguity of murder
St. Martin's Minotaur
1999
A retired Bolivian diplomat is found dead in his swimming pool.
An enigmatic disappearance: an Inspector Alvarez novel
HarperCollinsPublishers
1998
A wealthy British man reports the disappearance of his wife, and shortly after a body is found in a gorge.
