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Crime fiction
This collection includes fiction featuring professional, private, or amateur detectives, and criminous acts.
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The skeleton in the clock : another adventure of Sir Henry Merrivale
William Heinemann Ltd
1973
The accidental death of Sir George Fleet becomes a murder investigation when new evidence is uncovered. From the library of Michael Hastilow.
The Department of Queer Complaints
Gregg Press
1981
Selected by Ellery Queen as one of 106 great detective fiction short story collections.
Nine - and death makes ten
International Polygonics, Ltd.
1987
A murder is committed on board a converted liner but none of the passengers or crew match the fingerprints found at the scene.
The peacock feather murders
International Polygonics, Ltd.
1987
A man is found shot dead in a room whose only door has been guarded and whose only window (forty feet from the ground) was under observation.
The Punch and Judy murders
International Polygonics, Ltd.
1988
A dead man is found in two places at the same time.
The White Priory murders
International Polygonics, Ltd.
1991
A cold-blooded murder has taken place in a house surrounded by unmarked snow.
Merrivale holds the key: two classic locked-room murders: The Plague Court murders; The Red Widow murders
International Polygonics
1995
Facsimile reprints of two of Dickson's classic tales, with an introduction by Douglas G. Greene
Death in the quadrangle
Faber and Faber
1956
A retired Professor encounters murder when he is invited back to give a series of lectures.
In search of Dr Thorndyke: the story of R. Austin Freeman's great scientific investigator and his creator.
Battered Silicon Dispatch Box
1998
A biography of R. Austin Freeman and discussion of the origins of his most famous fictional character. Gift inscription (to Bob Aucott) from the author to the half-title page.
Who is Nemo?
George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.
1937
Mrs Gannett, the brains behind a gang of thieves, rescues a young boy from a murderous attack.
The sign of four
Charles Scribner's Sons
1928
A double decker edition in art deco binding with an introduction by S. S. Van Dine.
Such a nice family
Victor Gollancz Ltd
1980
A forty-year old poisoning case is revisited when the history of a clinic is being written.
Keeps death his court
John Crowther
1946
While a murder game is being played at a Christmas party, the host lies dead on the terrace from a battered skull.
Dead yesterday, and other stories
Crippen & Landru Publishers
2007
A collection of short stories.
All the lonely people
Piatkus
1991
Harry Devlin finds himself a murder suspect when his estranged wife disappears after turning up at his flat.
Eve of destruction
Piatkus
1996
A trespasser makes a shocking discovery in a converted church.
Yesterday's papers
Piatkus
1994
An amateur criminologist tries to persuade Harry that the perpetrator of a thirty-year-old murder is still at large.
The Saint Valentine's Day murders
Quartet Qrime
1984
Six boxes of poisoned chocolates are sent to the homes of employees of the same company.
The Anglo-Irish murders
HarperCollinsPublishers
2000
A delegate falls from a building at an Anglo-Irish political summit.
Murdering Americans
Poisoned Pen Press
2007
An English academic finds middle America difficult to deal with, not least because she thinks the Provost of her host university has been murdered.
Carnage on the committee
HarperCollinsPublishers
2004
The chairperson of a book award committee is murdered.
