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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
An Expert in Murder by Nicola Upson
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Josephine Tey Crime Series
"An Expert in Murder" is the first in a new series which features Golden Age crime writer Josephine Tey as its lead character, placing her in the richly peopled world of 1930s theatre which formed the other half of her writing life. It's March 1934, and Tey is travelling from Scotland to London to celeb ...Show more
Another Time, Another Life: (The Story of a Crime 2) by Leif G W Persson
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: The\Story of a Crime Ser.
Stockholm, 1975: Six young people take the entire staff of the West German embassy hostage. The long siege ends with the deaths of two hostages and the wounding of several others. Jump to 1989: When a Swedish civil servant is murdered, the two leading detectives on the case find their investigation hast ...Show more
Another Woman's Shoes - Based on Paul Temple and the Gilbert Case by Francis Durbridge; Melvyn Barnes (Introduction by)
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Collins Crime Club Ser.
This novelisation of the radio serial Paul Temple and the Gilbert Case also includes a bonus short story, 'Paul Temple and the Nightingale'. It was an open-and-shut case: Lucy Staines was murdered by her hot-headed fianc#65533; Harold Weldon. But something about it is troubling ex-Fleet Street crime rep ...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
Appointment With Death (Poirot Facsimile Edition) by Christie, Agatha
Category: Fiction | Series: The Crime Club
Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous swollen Buddha, sat the corpse of Mrs Boynton. A tiny puncture mark on her wrist was the only sign of the fatal injection that had killed her.With only 24 hours available to solve the mystery, Hercule Poirot recalled a chance remark he'd overhe ...Show more
Ask a Policeman (The Detection Club) by Detection Club Staff; Agatha Christie; Dorothy L. Sayers; Anthony Berkeley; Gladys Mitchell; Helen Simpson
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Collins Crime Club Ser.
This classic crime novel by six different authors is introduced by Martin Edwards, archivist of the Detection Club, and includes a never-before-published Preface by Agatha Christie, 'Detective Writers in England', in which she discusses her approach to writing and her fellow writers in the Detection Clu ...Show more
Aussie Prison Breaks by Joe Tog
Category: True Crime | Series: BROLGA TRUE CRIME SERIES
In Brisbane's maximum-security prison awaiting trial, Joe Tog composed a series of short narratives for his defence-barrister. The barrister said that the notes gave him a clarity that he did not normally get from cold, hard facts and dates. Out of that comment grew this story. 'Aussie Prison Breaks' fo ...Show more
BEYOND THE POINT by BOYD DAMIEN
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: DI Nick Dixon Crime Ser.
DI Nick Dixon is on the hunt for a vicious serial killer, following a trail of fingerprints and DNA across west Somerset.When the body of a young woman is found on the building site of a nuclear power station, work grinds to a halt. The body bears all the hallmarks of yet another random murder at the ha ...Show more
Barcelona by Gary McDonogh
Category: Travel | Series: Crime and Society Ser.
Barcelona is the second book in Polity's exciting new 'Cities in World History' series, which provides the general reader and traveller with historically informed companions to the world's greatest cities. These new books bridge the gap between guide and history by offering concise and accessible accoun ...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