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Crime fiction
This collection includes fiction featuring professional, private, or amateur detectives, and criminous acts.
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The door
Franklin Library
1990
Widely considered as the source of the phrase "The butler did it".
A trust betrayed
Heinemann
2000
A merchant is stabbed to death in mediaeval Edinburgh, and his wife resolves to find his murderer. With a loosely inserted slipe signed by the author.
Bad penny blues
Constable
2000
An Australian social historian researching a book finds that her enquiries about a transported criminal open up a hornet's nest.
Bad blood
Headline
1991
Jean Montrose happens upon an upturned car whose driver has been shot.
Death by fire
Headline
1990
An unpopular man is found dead from spontaneous combustion, but when a similar death turns up, questions have to be asked.
The Lumsden baby
Headline
1990
A young boy is found dead in his cot, but not from natural causes.
The hanging woman
Geoffrey Bles
1965
A young girl abandons her baby and then is found hanged in an apparent suicide.
The insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu: being a somewhat detailed account of the amazing adventures of Nayland Smith in his trailing of the sinister Chinaman
Franklin Library
1990
Nayland Smith seeks to protect various men associated with India who are the target of assassination by the Chinese master criminal Dr. Fu Manchu.
The Granchester mysteries: Sidney Chambers and the shadow of death
Bloomsbury
2012
The third collection of short stories featuring the vicar of Granchester.
The Granchester mysteries: Sidney Chambers and the perils of the night
Bloomsbury
2013
The first collection of short stories featuring the vicar of Granchester.
The Granchester mysteries: Sidney Chambers and the problem of evil
Bloomsbury
2014
The second collection of short stories featuring the vicar of Granchester.
Rivals of Sherlock Holmes two : forty six stories of crime and detection from original illustrated magazines
Castle Books
1979
A collection of short stories drawn from the illustrated magazines of the late 19th and early 20th century.
Rivals of Sherlock Holmes : forty stories of crime and detection from original illustrated magazines
Castle Books
1979
A collection of short stories drawn from the illustrated magazines of the late 19th and early 20th century.
Telling of murder
Faber and Faber
1952
Who is behind the repeated attempts to kill Osborne Vandervell, wealthy London ship-owner?
Deadly jade
Herbert Jenkins Limited
1947
The only tangible link in a chain of baffling circumstances is a jade necklace which is the rightful property of the girl who steals it.
A policeman in post-war Paris: the Saturnin Dax novels of Marten Cumberland
CADS
2000
A guide to the people, places, and social context encountered in the Saturnin Dax stories.
Punshon's policemen: the two detective series of E. R. Punshon
CADS
1995
A guide to works featuring Bobby Owen and Carter and Bell.
Danger : great stories of mystery and suspense from the Saturday Evening Post
Victor Gollancz Ltd
1968
A collection of short stories commencing with Poe's 'The black cat'
Murder for fun
Jarrolds Publishers (London) Ltd
1947
A staged murder turns into reality at an actor's country house.
The Sayers holiday book. Containing: Gaudy night, a novel; Strong poison, a novel; and, In the teeth of the evidence, seventeen stories
Victor Gollancz Ltd
1963
An omnibus edition containing two full length novels and seventeen short stories.
A treasury of Sayer's stories
Victor Gollancz Ltd
1967
A collection of short stories mainly featuring Lord Peter Wimsey and Montague Egg.
Great short stories of detection, mystery and horror. Part 1: Detection and mystery
Victor Gollancz Ltd
1946
An anthology of twenty-nine short stories.
The new Sayers omnibus. Containing: The five red herrings; Have his carcass; and, Murder must advertise
Victor Gollancz Ltd
1956
A collected edition containing three long stories.
Striding folly, including three final Lord Peter Wimsey stories
New English Library
1991
Includes three short stories featuring Lord Peter Wimsey, and an essay by Janet Hitchman.
