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A Hank of Hair - An Exquisite Danse Macabre by Charlotte Jay
Category: Fiction | Series: Wakefield Crime Classics Ser.
Gilbert Hand hasn't been the same since his wife died. He's moved to a dull but respectable hotel where silence seems to brood in the hall and stairway. In a secret drawer he discovers a long, thick hank of human hair, and his world narrows down to two people - himself and the murderer.
A Voice Like Velvet (Detective Club Crime Classics) by Donald Henderson; Martin Edwards (Introduction by)
Category: Crime | Series: Detective Club Crime Classics Ser.
A sensational wartime crime novel about a BBC announcer who abuses his position to commit crimes against the rich and famous... By day Ernest Bisham is a velvet-voiced announcer for the BBC; the whole country recognises the sound of his meticulous pronouncements. By night, however, Mr Bisham is a cat-bu ...Show more
An Amateur Cracksman by E. W. Hornung; Judith John (Contribution by)
Category: Fiction | Series: Flame Tree Collectable Crime Classics Ser.
The FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CRIME CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library of classic crime and mystery thrillers. Each stunning unabridged edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. In this collection of thrilling tales, E.W. ...Show more
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser; Judith John (Contribution by)
Category: Fiction | Series: Flame Tree Collectable Crime Classics Ser.
The FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CRIME CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library of classic crime and mystery thrillers. Each stunning unabridged edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy w ...Show more
Antidote to Venom by Freeman Wills Crofts; Martin Edwards (Introduction by)
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: British Library Crime Classics Ser.
Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder Crofts makes great use of the 'inverted mystery' structure (he was among the first to employ the technique) in which the traditional whodunit is turned on its head, with the reader following the murderer through temptation and commission and the ...Show more
Bats in the Belfry by Martin Edwards (Introduction by); E. C. R. Lorac
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: British Library Crime Classics Ser.
Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of MurderThe intricacies of the characters' relationships and the trove of secrets Scotland Yard Inspector Macdonald uncovers make for riveting reading. --BooklistBruce Attleton dazzled London's literary scene with his first two novels--but his early promi ...Show more
Beat Not the Bones by Charlotte Jay
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Wakefield Crime Classics Ser.
People changed; they were no longer recognisable as Australians. Frustrations and misfortunes festered into wounds here, deranged the mind and poisoned the blood.Suicide, or murder? Newly arrived in Papua, where even the luscious vegetation conspires with the bureaucrats to bewilder her, Stella Warwick ...Show more
Below the Clock by J. V. Turner; David Brawn (Introduction by)
Category: Fiction | Series: Detective Club Crime Classics Ser.
A classic Golden Age detective novel set at the heart of Westminster, when the murder of the Chancellor of the Exchequer threatens to topple the whole House of Cards... Many highly dramatic and historic scenes have been enacted below the clock of Big Ben, but none more sensational than on that April aft ...Show more
Checkmate to Murder by E.C.R. Lorac
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: British Library Crime Classics Ser.
On a foggy night during the London Blitz, a special constable arrests a young Canadian soldier standing over the dead body of his elderly great uncle in a rundown house in Hampstead. The only other possible suspects are the inhabitants of the art studio next door, a celebrated painter, his sister a ...Show more
Crook o' Lune - A Lancashire Mystery by E.C.R. Lorac
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: British Library Crime Classics Ser.
Renowned for its authentic characters and settings based partly on the author's own experiences of life in the Lune Valley, E. C. R. Lorac's classic rural mystery returns to print for the first time since 1953. This edition includes an introduction by award-winning author Martin Edwards."I'm minded of t ...Show more
Death of a Busybody - A British Library Crime Classic by George Bellairs
Category: Fiction | Series: British Library Crime Classics Ser.
Miss Tither, the village busybody, is not the best-loved resident of Hilary Magna. She has made many enemies: bombarding the villagers with religious tracts, berating drunkards, and informing the spouses of cheating partners. Her murder, however, is still a huge shock to the Reverend Ethelred Claplady a ...Show more
Death of an Author by E.C.R. Lorac
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: British Library Crime Classics Ser.
E. C. R. Lorac spins a twisting tale full of wry humor and red herrings, poking some fun at her contemporary reviewers, who long suspected the Lorac pseudonym to belong to a male author.Vivian Lestrange--celebrated author of the popular mystery novel The Charterhouse Case and total recluse--has apparent ...Show more