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Crime fiction
This collection includes fiction featuring professional, private, or amateur detectives, and criminous acts.
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Criminal practices: Symons on criminal writing 60s to90s
Macmillan
1994
A collection of articles, reviews, interviews and essays on crime fiction.
The detections of Francis Quarles
Crippen & Landru Publishers
2006
A collection of 42 short stories that originally appeared in the Evening Standard.
The man who killed himself
Published for The Crime Club by Collins
1967
Arthur Brownjohn finds he is as hapless a murderer as a husband when he tries to kill his wife.
The man whose dreams came true
Published for The Crime Club by Collins
1968
Tony Scott-Williams dreams of a rich and easy life, which leads him to forgery, gambling and finally murder.
Mortal mischief: volume one of the Liebermann papers
Century
2005
A beautiful medium is found shot dead in a locked room.
Vienna blood: volume two of the Liebermann papers
Century
2006
A serial killer embarks upon a bizarre series of murders in Vienna.
The daughter of time
Franklin Library
1990
Inspector Grant investigates a centuries-old murder from his hospital bed.
How to enjoy detective fiction
Rockliff
1947
An early study of the genre with numerous references to Doyle and Holmes.
A cup of death: a Dade Cooley mystery
Victor Gollancz Ltd
1988
A professor of classics is shot dead in an apparent robbery, but a piece of costume jewellery is all that is taken.
The case of Naomi Clynes
Dean Street Press
2016
Richardson suspects that an apparent suicide was murder.
Richardson's first case
Dean Street Press
2016
A man is killed by a car in front of Richardson after having just declared that he would 'call a policeman'.
Richardson scores again
Dean Street Press
2016
Richardson's second case starts with a murder and robbery in a quiet house in Hampstead.
Anatomy of a murder
Franklin Library
1988
A tale of deceit, murder, and a sensational trial in which the murderer is known from the very beginning.
Dead knock
Collins
1982
A woman walks into a police station to report her own forthcoming murder. Gift inscription from the author on front free endpaper.
Two way cut
St. Martin's Press
1988
A body is found on a piece of waste ground in Glasgow, but the victim has been killed elsewhere and then dressed in a neatly pressed suit.
The casino murder case: a Philo Vance story
Charles Scribner's Sons
1934
Philo Vance witnesses the death by poisoning of the son and heir to a family fortune at a casino.
The Bishop murder case: a Philo Vance story
Charles Scribner's Sons
1929
The first in a series of murders is accompanied by a note signed 'The Bishop', with an extract from the nursery rhyme, 'Who Killed Cock Robin'.
The Canary murder case: a Philo Vance story
Charles Scribner's Sons
1927
Margaret Odell, a famous Broadway beauty known as 'The Canary', is found murdered in her apartment.
The Benson murder case
Franklin Library
1990
Alvin Benson, a playboy stockbroker, who is found dead in his New York brownstone mansion, shot in the head.
Murder in the millions: Erle Stanley Gardner, Mickey Spillane, Ian Fleming
Frederick Ungar Publishing Co.
1984
An analysis of three of the most successful fictional heroes: Perry Mason, James Bond, and Mike Hammer.
The bedside book of great detective stories
Arthur Barker Limited
1976
A collection of old and new short stories.
