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Crime fiction
This collection includes fiction featuring professional, private, or amateur detectives, and criminous acts.
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Blood in their ink: the march of the modern mystery novel
Stanley Paul and Co. Ltd
1953
An assessment of crime fiction which contains numerous references to Doyle and Holmes.
Railways in British crime fiction
CADS
2004
A compilation of articles that originally appeared in the Journal of the Railway and Canal Historical Society.
The detective in fiction a posse of eight
G. Bell & Sons Ltd
1950s
Includes 'Silver Blaze' and the parody 'The great detective'.
The man they couldn't arrest
Hodder & Stoughton Limited
1930s
Valman Dain, an inventor, develops a mechanism for eavesdropping on conversations and sets about tracking down the various criminal gangs which are plaguing London, and then sends anonymous tip-offs to Scotland Yard.
Danger is my business: an illustrated history of the fabulous pulp magazines 1896-1953
Chronicle Books
1993
An in-depth look at possibly the most outrageous literary phenomenon of the twentieth century : pulp magazines.
The Thinking Machine: Jacques Futrelle: discovering the titanic talent of a pioneer American mystery author
Graphic Illusions
1995
The first authorised biography of Jacques Futrelle.
Unexpected death
Victor Gollancz Ltd
1971
Mendoza's team are involved in no less than eighteen investigations at once.
The motive on record
Victor Gollancz Ltd
1982
A typical range of crimes need to be dealt with by Mendoza's team, as well as domestic challenges.
England expects: a Mirabelle Bevan mystery
Polygon
2014
The murders of a journalist and a cleaning woman lead from Brighton Pavilion to a Cambridge college, and into the world of freemasonry, and further deaths.
Maigret's revolver
Hamish Hamilton
1956
Murder, robbery and violence are all part of Maigret's trip to London, but the greatest crime is being forced to abandon his pipe in the Savoy Grill.
Maigret in society
Hamish Hamilton
1962
A seventy-eight year-old Comte is found dead in his library.
Maigret travels south
George Routledge & Sons Ltd.
1940
Contains two Maigret novels: 'Liberty Bar' and 'The mad man of Bergerac'.
Maigret and the loner
Hamish Hamilton
1975
The body of a vagrant is found in a derelict house near Les Halles.
Maigret and the spinster
Hamish Hamilton
1977
A spinsterish young woman appeals to Maigret for help and is later found dead in a broom cupboard at the Quai de Orfèvres.
Maigret victorious : a sixth omnibus. Comprising : Maigret's memoirs ; Maigret and the headless corpse ; and, Maigret and the Saturday caller
Hamish Hamilton
1975
An omnibus edition containing three novels.
A Maigret Christmas
Penguin Books
2017
A collection of three stories originally published in France in 1951.
Maigret's pipe : complete Maigret short stories. Volume 2
Hamish Hamilton
1977
A collection of short stories featuring the famous French detective.
Maigret's rival
Hamish Hamilton
1979
Maigret is asked to look into the apparent accidental death of a young man, and finds that a former colleague is also investigating the case.
Maigret and the Saturday caller
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
1991
Maigret has to deal with a murder confessed in advance.
Maigret's Christmas: complete Maigret short stories. Volume 1
Hamish Hamilton
1976
A collection of nine short stories.
The patience of Maigret
Franklin Library
1987
Contains two Maigret novels: 'A battle of nerves' and 'A face for a clue'.
Maigret and the man on the boulevard
Hamish Hamilton
1975
A man is stabbed to death in Paris and it is discovered that he has spent the last three years pretending he is going to work.
