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Crime fiction
This collection includes fiction featuring professional, private, or amateur detectives, and criminous acts.
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Murdering Mr. Velfrage
Faber and Faber Ltd
1950
A solicitor responsible for the care of a famous diamond disappears.
Tramp's evidence
Ward, Lock & Co., Limited
1937
A secretly taken film of Muslim holy sites and rites leads to murder.
Don among the dead men: a satirical thriller
Michael Joseph
1952
An eminent chemist at Oxham University develops, and then utilises, an undetectable poison.
Agatha Christie : a reader's companion
Aurum Press
2004
An extensively illustrated introduction to Christie's works with images of all the first edition dustwrappers.
The jig-saw murder
Samuel Gabriel Sons & Company
1933
A young woman's body is found sprawled over an almost completed jigsaw puzzle. A jigsaw puzzle help solve the mystery is contained in a hollowed out box after the text.
Express delivery
Collins
1946
Gillon receives a mysterious message to go to the Gulf Stream night-club in Soho and pick up a book from a Tony Morini.
The Wyndham case : an Imogen Quy mystery
Hodder & Stoughton
1993
A student is found dead in a locked library of arcane books.
A piece of justice: the second Imogen Quy mystery
Hodder & Stoughton
1995
A biography of a leading mathematician is dogged by mysterious deaths and disappearances.
The bad quarto: an Imogen Quy mystery
Hodder & Stoughton
2007
An experienced night climber unexpectedly falls to his death.
The man in brown
W. & R. Chambers, Ltd.
1945
A young man, on trial for the second time for the murder of his uncle, steps down free, but a marked man.
The dark window
Hamish Hamilton
1956
A security officer has his hands full when a bishop who has escaped from behind the Iron Curtain stays at his hotel.
A force of innocence
George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd
1966
Professor David Connell investigates the case of an ex-university friend who has been found guilty of murder.
Latter end
Hodder & Stoughton Ltd.
1949
Two weeks after Lois Latter is told by a fortune-teller to be careful of poison, her husband consults Miss Silver.
The Alington inheritance
Hodder and Stoughton
1960
An orphan recruits Miss Silver to help prove that she is the rightful heir to the Alington estate.
Call the lady indiscreet
Francis Aldor
1946
An investigative journalist has to resign when his story about goings on outside a bank is killed by the city editor.
The sign at six
A. L. Burt Company
1910s
A revengeful old man threatens to disrupt New York with his death ray.
Confidential mission
Forbes Robertson Ltd
1951
Inspector Fereday investigates death among the members of a WWII Survivor's Club.
P. Moran, operative
Random House
1947
A correspondence student studying detection has an enviable record: he is never right.
A borderline case
M.S. Mill Company and William Morrow & Company
1960
Why would anyone wish to murder a 104 year old Countess?
Silk rope
Gerald Duckworth & Co., Ltd.
1947
Two servants are found strangled at a teacher training college.
The search for Ernest Bramah
Creighton & Read
2007
A biography of the famous author who battled to conceal any personal information.
John P. Marquand and Mr. Moto: spy adventures and detective films
Ball State University
1990
An assessment of the spy novels of John P. Marquand and their film adaptations.
