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Crime fiction
This collection includes fiction featuring professional, private, or amateur detectives, and criminous acts.
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Maigret
Hamish Hamilton
1983
A collection of six Maigret stories as featured in the Michael Gambon television adaptations.
Rex mundi
Victor Gollancz Ltd
1978
An antiquarian bookseller witnesses a murder in Greece.
Inspector Frost in Crevenna Cove
Ernest Benn Limited
1933
Inspector Frost and Sergeant Billy Smith are sent to the Cornish village of Crevenna, where the body of a holiday-maker has been discovered stabbed on the beach.
A masculine ending
Faber and Faber
1987
A university lecturer finds a tangle of blood-soaked sheets in a flat she has borrowed while at a conference in Paris.
Crime in Kensington
Moonstone Press
2019
A murder takes place in a hotel which is not quite what it seems.
Oxford letters
Headline
2005
Novelist Kate Ivory becomes concerned about the influence of a married couple on her mother.
Oxford proof
Headline
2002
Novelist Kate Ivory is head-hunted by an ambitious young book editor who then falls foul of financial fraudsters.
Oxford shift
Headline
2000
Novelist Kate Ivory comes to the rescue of a respectable widow in her sixties disappears in Oxford, and is then suspected of murder.
The new adventures of Jimmie Lavender
Metropolitan Toronto Reference Library
1995
A collection of short stories most of which originally appeared in pulp magazines.
The memoirs of Jimmie Lavender
Metropolitan Toronto Reference Library
1996
A collection of short stories most of which originally appeared in pulp magazines.
The eleventh juror and other crime classics
Metropolitan Toronto Reference Library
1995
A collection of short stories including some which have never before appeared in hardback.
The return of Jimmie Lavender
Metropolitan Toronto Reference Library
1997
A collection of short stories most of which originally appeared in pulp magazines.
The man who wrote detective stories, and other stories
Victor Gollancz Ltd
1959
An anthology of short stories by an author better known as Michael Innes.
And always a detective: chapters on the history of detective fiction
Battered Silicon Dispatch Box
2000
A discussion of the similarities between Victorian sensation and detective fiction.
Fer-de-lance : a Nero Wolfe mystery
Franklin Library
1988
The disappearance of a metalworker seems connected to the death of a college president while playing golf in Westchester County, New York.
Red threads
Tom Stacey Ltd
1971
A gambler is found clubbed to death at his wife's tomb, the only clue being a red thread in his hand.
Where there's a will
Tom Stacey Ltd
1971
Three sisters hire Wolfe to investigate the murder of their brother.
Too many cooks
Tom Stacey
1973
Ten world-famous chefs gather at Kanawha Spa, and Nero Wolfe is on hand to solve a double murder.
Murder in manuscript
Rich and Cowan
1948
A private detective finds a novelist he dislikes sitting at a desk, with a bullet in his brain.
Dr Poggioli: criminologist
Crippen & Landru Publishers
2004
A collection of short stories published in book form for the first time.
The poison tree
Doubleday
1997
Terry Williams returns to Oxford to complete a doctorate in detective fiction only to find that fact is far more frightening than fiction.
The missing money-lender
John Lane the Bodley Head Limited
1931
A doctor apparently dies of meningitis but re-appears when his wife makes an insurance claim.
The detective story in Britain
Published for The British Council and the National Book League by Longmans, Green & Co.
1962
An introduction to the British detective story.
