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Crime fiction
This collection includes fiction featuring professional, private, or amateur detectives, and criminous acts.
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Murder minus motive
Herbert Jenkins Limited
1943
Two apparently harmless citizens run amok and commit murder.
Death is my shadow
Herbert Jenkins Limited
1947
The world's smartest crook steals the Crowther collection of jewels and implicates an innocent man.
The duel of shadows: the extraordinary cases of Barnabas Hildreth
Crippen & Landru Publishers
2011
A collection of short stories.
Private passions, guilty pleasures
CADS
2006
A celebration of the first 50 issues of CADS.
The naked lady
Werner Laurie
1954
The naked lady is a silver statuette, which holds a secret.
Thirty-three teeth
Quercus
2007
Laos's only coroner is spirited away on a matter of National Security.
Curse of the pogo stick
Quercus
2009
Siri is kidnapped and must rid a woman of demonic possession to get free.
Disco for the departed
Quercus
2008
A mummified arm is found near caves in which the new government hid during the revolution.
Slash and burn
Quercus
2011
Siri is sent to the north of Laos to look for a US pilot shot down in the 60s.
The coroner's lunch
Quercus
2007
The wife of a Party leader is wheeled into Laos's only morgue.
The merry misogynist
Quercus
2009
Someone is wooing, marrying and then murdering Laotian country girls.
Anarchy and old dogs
Quercus
2008
A letter written in invisible ink is found in the pocket of a blind dentist run down by a logging truck.
The woman who wouldn't die
Quercus
2013
Dr Siri falls under the spell of a woman who has been shot dead, twice.
The Oxford book of British detective stories
Oxford University Press
1990
A collection of thirty-three short stories.
The theft of Magna Carta: the 41st story of Roger West
Hodder and Stoughton
1973
A country copper thwarts the sale of a priceless document.
The third mystery bedside book
Hodder & Stoughton
1962
A selection of short stories from John Creasey's Mystery Magazine.
Holy disorders
J. B. Lippincott Company
1946
A church organist is subjected to dangerous doings when he accepts an invitation to play at Tolnbridge Cathedral.
The long divorce
Franklin Library
1990
Fen adopts the persona of Mr Datchery when he is called to investigate a series of poison pen letters.
Gollancz detective omnibus
Victor Gollancz Ltd
1951
A collection of three classic detective stories.
Inspector French's greatest case
W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd.
1926
French investigates murder, jewel theft, and impersonation.
The cask : a story of crime
Collins Crime Club
2016
When four casks fall to the deck of a ship during unloading, one is found to contain gold coins and a corpse.
Inspector French: fatal venture
Collins Crime Club
2022
French's holiday on a tourist ship is interrupted by the murder of the owner.
A losing game
House of Stratus
2001
The victim of a moneylender and blackmailer is falsely accused of murder when he perishes when his cottage burns down.
