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Crime fiction
This collection includes fiction featuring professional, private, or amateur detectives, and criminous acts.
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To the Queen's taste: a collection of the best detective and crime stories published in the first four years of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
Faber and Faber Limited
1949
An anthology of thirty-six short stories.
Queen's quorum: a history of the detective-crime short story as revealed by the 106 most important books published in this field since 1845
Victor Gollancz Ltd.
1953
A checklist of key crime fiction books.
Suspicious circumstances
Victor Gollancz Ltd
1957
A screen goddess who is beyond her days of glory plunges to her death in Hollywood.
The green-eyed monster: a mystery novel
Victor Gollancz Ltd
1960
A man fights against the evidence which points to him being a murderer.
The puzzles of Peter Duluth
Crippen & Landru Publishers
2016
A collection of short stories.
So deadly my love
Victor Gollancz Ltd
1957
A young wife, is kidnapped, ransomed and returned. But who took her?
Death from a top hat
Tom Stacey Ltd
1971
Dr Cesare Sabat is found strangled, spread-eagled in a chalk pentacle, inside his locked apartment.
Only darkness
HarperCollinsPublishers
1999
A young college lecturer is unwittingly drawn in to the orb of a brutal killer, dubbed the Strangler, who dumps the bodies of his victims on railway tracks.
The Bethlehem murders
Atlantic Books
2006
A schoolmaster comes to the aid of a former pupil when he is arrested for murder.
The ginger cat
William Morrow & Company
1929
The theft of jewels leads from Paris to London.
Maigret chez les Flamands
Claude Lefrancq ; Rocher
1994
A graphic adaptation of 'Maigret and the Flemish shop'.
Maigret et le corps sans tête
Rocher
1997
A graphic adaptation of 'Maigret and the headless corpse'.
Maigret et son mort
Claude Lefrancq ; Rocher
1992
A graphic adaptation of 'Maigret's special murder'.
Maigret tend un piège
Claude Lefrancq ; Rocher
1993
A graphic adaptation of 'Maigret sets a trap'.
Constable on the prowl
Robert Hale
1980
Constable Rhea has to deal with incidents as diverse as speeding cars, blazing buildings, and poaching.
Constable by the sea
Robert Hale
1985
Constable Rhea has to deal with crimes as diverse as lost false teeth and a stray labrador.
Constable in the dale
Robert Hale
1983
Constable Rhea has to deal with crimes as diverse as lost sheep and a criminal mother-in-law.
Murder at Bratton Grange
P. F. Collier & Son Company
1929
An unpleasant businessman is stabbed to death on his journey from the train station to his house.
Fatal descent
Dover Publications, Inc.
1987
A publishing magnate is found dead in his private lift.
Murder, mystery and Malone
Crippen & Landru Publishers
2002
A collection of short stories featuring the bibulous lawyer John J. Malone.
The Oxford of Inspector Morse
Irregular Special Press
1998
An illustrated guide to key locations from the Morse stories with appendices listing books, and television, radio and musical productions.
Let dead enough alone: a Captain Heimrich mystery
Hutchinson
1958
Captain Heimrich investigates a dual murder in a snowbound country house.
A plate of red herrings
John Long
1969
A cocktail party is used to announce the sacking of the staff of a popular magazine, and the messenger is promptly murdered.
The frightened wife and other murder stories
Cassell & Company Limited
1954
A volume of short stories.
