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Crime fiction
This collection includes fiction featuring professional, private, or amateur detectives, and criminous acts.
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The death box
Sphere
2017
When a young woman approaches Joe Trayne for assistance she mysteriously disappears leaving him with a body in a box.
The corpse was no lady
Sampson Low
1950
An elderly woman is found dead in a dinghy at sea with daffodils at her feet.
John Dickson Carr's The three coffins: a hollow victory?
CADS
2011
An assessment of what is often described as the finest locked-room mystery ever written.
Burgle the Baron: the 45th story of the Baron
Hodder and Stoughton
1973
Burglars are tempted to rob Mannering of jewels that he keeps in safe-keeping for clients.
Career for the Baron
Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd.
1946
Mannering is persuaded by his wife to buy an antique shop, with unexpected consequences.
The Baron again
Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd.
1940s
Mannering forces himself to revive his activities in order to prove the innocence of a man accused of murder.
Murder cavalcade: an anthology
Duell, Sloan and Pearce
1946
A collection of twenty short stories including 'The adventure of the Sotheby salesman' and essays Ellery Queen and Howard Haycraft.
20 great tales of murder
Hammond, Hammond & Company
1952
An anthology of twenty short stories.
All but impossible! An anthology of locked room and impossible crime stories
Ticknor & Fields
1981
A collection of short stories. Signed by the editor on the front free endpaper.
The old man in the corner
Greening & Co., Ltd.
1909
A collection of short stories, and a Queen's Quorum title.
The man in the corner
Franklin Library
1990
A collection of short stories, and a Queen's Quorum title.
The shadowy third
Garland Publishing, Inc.
1976
A stolen Stradivarius leads, inevitably, to murder.
The puzzle of the briar pipe
Tom Stacey
1972
Violet Feverel is last seen on her horse in Central Park before being discovered dead in trampled mud.
Hildegarde Withers: uncollected stories
Crippen & Landru Publishers
2002
A collection of short stories never before published in book form.
Killing orders: a novel
Victor Gollancz Ltd
1986
VI Warshawski investigates the theft of 3 million dollars in share certificates.
Mysterious railway stories
W.H. Allen
1984
A collection of spine-tingling stories drawn mainly from the steam age.
Sleeping partner
Constable
1996
An old woman is battered to death, and DCI Fyfe is called in to investigate.
Dance of death
Severn House
1991
Gorbachov attends the Edinburgh Festival performance of the Bolshoi Ballet despite a rumour of an assassination attempt.
Sleeping dogs
Constable
1994
DCI Fyfe becomes involved with a former flame who has blood on her hands and a suitcase of money.
Sleeping dogs
St. Martin's Press
1995
DCI Fyfe becomes involved with a former flame who has blood on her hands and a suitcase of money.
