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Murder in Piccadilly by Charles Kingston
Category: No Category | Series: British Library Crime Classics Ser.
'Scores of men and women died daily in London, but on this day of days one of them had died in the very midst of a crowd and the cause of his death was a dagger piercing his heart. Death had become something very real.' When Bobbie Cheldon falls in love with a pretty young dancer at the Frozen Fang nig ...Show more
Murder in the Mill-Race by E.C.R. Lorac
Category: No Category | Series: British Library Crime Classics Ser.
Discover the captivating treasures buried in the British Library's archives. Largely inaccessible to the public until now, these enduring crime classics were written in the golden age of detective fiction. Never make trouble in the village is an unspoken law, but it's a binding law. You may know about ...Show more
Post after Post-Mortem - An Oxfordshire Mystery by E.C.R. Lorac; Martin Edwards (Introduction by)
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: British Library Crime Classics Ser.
"Now tell us about your crime novel. Take my advice and don't try to be intellectual over it. What the public likes is blood."The Surrays and their five children form a prolific writing machine, with scores of treatises, reviews, and crime thrillers published under their family name. Following a rare co ...Show more
Silent Nights by Martin Edwards (Editor)
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: British Library Crime Classics Ser.
Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder"Like an assortment of presents under a Christmas tree, there's something for everyone in this Yule-themed reprint anthology in the British Library Crime Classics series from Edwards." --Publishers WeeklyChristmas is a mysterious, as well as magic ...Show more
The Cheltenham Square Murder by John Bude
Category: No Category | Series: British Library Crime Classics Ser.
Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of MurderAn absorbing head-scratcher. --BooklistIn the seeming tranquility of Regency Square in Cheltenham live the diverse inhabitants of its ten houses. One summer's evening, the square's rivalries and allegiances are disrupted by a sudden and unusual de ...Show more
The Christmas Egg by Mary Kelly; Martin Edwards (Introduction by)
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: British Library Crime Classics Ser.
Discover the captivating treasures buried in the British Library's archives. Largely inaccessible to the public until now, these enduring crime classics were written in the golden age of detective fiction.London. 22nd December.Chief Inspector Brett Nightingale and Sergeant Beddoes have been called to a ...Show more
The Cornish Coast Murder by John Bude
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: British Library Crime Classics Ser.
The Reverend Dodd, vicar of the quiet Cornish village of Boscawen, spends his evenings reading detective stories by the fireside - but heaven forbid that the shadow of any real crime should ever fall across his seaside parish. The vicar's peace is shattered one stormy night when Julius Tregarthan, a sec ...Show more
The Cornish Coast Murder - A British Library Crime Classic by John Bude; Martin Russ Edwards (Introduction by)
Category: No Category | Series: British Library Crime Classics Ser.
'Never, even in his most optimistic moments, had he visualised a scene of this nature - himself in one armchair, a police officer in another, and between them a mystery.' The Reverend Dodd, vicar of the quiet Cornish village of Boscawen, spends his evenings reading detective stories by the fireside - b ...Show more
The Dead Shall Be Raised and Murder of a Quack - A British Library Crime Classic by George Bellairs; Martin Edwards (Introduction by)
Category: Fiction | Series: British Library Crime Classics Ser.
With an Introduction by Martin Edwards Two classic cases featuring Detective Inspector Littlejohn. In the winter of 1940, the Home Guard unearth a skeleton on the moor above the busy town of Hatterworth. Twenty-three years earlier, the body of a young textile worker was found in the same spot, and the ...Show more
The Notting Hill Mystery by Charles Adams
Category: No Category | Series: British Library Crime Classics Ser.
The Notting Hill Mystery was first published between 1862 and 1863 as an eight-part serial in the magazine Once a Week. Widely acknowledged as the first detective novel, the story is told by insurance investigator Ralph Henderson, who is building a case against the sinister Baron R-, who is suspected of ...Show more
The Santa Klaus Murder by Mavis Hay
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: British Library Crime Classics Ser.
Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of MurderDespite its title, this British Library Crime Classics reissue of a 1936 novel isn't just an entertaining Christmas read. It's a fine example of the old-time country-house murder mystery, with loads of suspects, lots of period atmosphere, and much ...Show more
The Secret of High Eldersham - A British Library Crime Classic by Miles Burton
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: British Library Crime Classics Ser.
'They're terrible mistrustful of strangers in these parts.' Samuel Whitehead, landlord of the Rose and Crown, is a stranger in the lonely East Anglian village of High Eldersham. When the newcomer is stabbed to death in his pub, and Scotland Yard is called to the scene, it seems that the veil dividing Hi ...Show more