Miss Kopp’s Midnight Confessions (Constance Kopp #3) by Amy Stewart
$37.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime
The best-selling author of Girl Waits with Gun and Lady Cop Makes Trouble continues her extraordinary journey into the real lives of the forgotten but fabulous Kopp sisters.Deputy sheriff Constance Kopp is outraged to see young women brought into the Hackensack jail over dubious charges of waywardness, ...Show more
Maigret and the Headless Corpse : Inspector Maigret #47 by Georges Simenon; Howard Curtis (Translator)
$21.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Inspector Maigret Ser.
"One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories." --The GuardianA man's dismembered body is found in a canal, and only Maigret can uncover the killer Whe ...Show more
The Long Good-bye by Raymond Chandler
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Phillip Marlowe Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Down-and-out drunk Terry Lennox has a problem: his millionaire wife is dead and he needs to get out of LA fast. So he turns to his only friend in the world: Philip Marlowe, Private Investigator. He's willing to help a man down on his luck, but later, Lennox commits suicide in Mexico and things start to ...Show more
The Black Dahlia: The first book in the classic L.A. Quartet crime series by James Ellroy
$27.99 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: L.A. Quartet | Reading Level: General Adult
Los Angeles, 15th January 1947: a beautiful young woman walked into the night and met her horrific destiny. Five days later, her tortured body was found drained of blood and cut in half. The newspapers called her 'The Black Dahlia'. Two cops are caught up in the investigation and embark on a hellish jou ...Show more
Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s by Leslie S. Klinger; Otto Penzler
$71.99 NZD
Category: Classic Crime
American crime writing was reborn in the 1920s. After years of dominance by British authors, new American writers--with fresh ideas about the detective and the mystery--appeared on the scene and rose to heights of popularity not witnessed since the success of the Sherlock Holmes tales in America. Class ...Show more
The Chinese Orange Mystery by Ellery Queen; Otto Penzler
$29.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: An\Ellery Queen Mystery Ser.
A puzzling publishing murder attracts the eye of Ellery Queen. Mandarin Press is a premier publishing house for foreign literature, but to those at the top of this enterprise, there is little more beautiful than a rare stamp. As Donald Kirk, publisher and philatelist, prepares his office for a banquet, ...Show more
DEATH ON AISLE PB by Lockridge Frances And Richard
$28.99 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: American Mystery Classics Ser.
They say Broadway is a graveyard of hopes and dreams, but someone's adding corpses to its tombs... Mr. and Mrs. North live as quiet a life as a couple can amidst the bustle of New York City. For Jerry, a publisher, and Pamela, a homemaker, the only threat to their domestic equilibrium comes in the form ...Show more
The Red Lamp by Mary Roberts Rinehart; Otto Penzler
$28.99 NZD
Category: Classic Crime
A professor tries to stop a murder spree, uncertain whether the culprit is man or ghost. An all-around skeptic when it comes to the supernatural, literature professor William Porter gives no credence to claims that Twin Towers, the seaside manor he's just inherited, might be haunted. He finds nothing m ...Show more
The Puzzle of the Happy Hooligan by Stuart Palmer; Otto Penzler
$28.99 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: A\Hildegarde Withers Mystery Ser.
After a screenwriter is murdered on a film set, a street-smart school teacher searches for the killer. Hildegarde Withers is just your average school teacher?with above-average skills in the art of deduction. The New Yorker often finds herself investigating crimes led only by her own meddlesome curiosi ...Show more
Home Sweet Homicide by Craig Rice; Otto Penzler
$29.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime
When your mom's a mystery writer, a talent for detection is only natural. So when the three children of prolific whodunit author Marion Carstairs become material witnesses in a neighborhood murder, they launch their own investigation. And why not? They know everything about baffling mysteries from readi ...Show more
Death from a Top Hat by Clayton Rawson; Anon; Otto Penzler
$28.99 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: A\Great Merlini Mystery Ser.
A detective steeped in the art of magic solves the mystifying murder of two occultists. Now retired from the tour circuit on which he made his name, master magician The Great Merlini spends his days running a magic shop in New York's Times Square and his nights moonlighting as a consultant for the NYPD ...Show more
The Unsuspected by Charlotte Armstrong; Otto Penzler
$28.99 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: American Mystery Classics Ser.
To catch a murderous theater impresario, a young woman takes a deadly new role The note discovered beside Rosaleen Wright's hanged body is full of reasons justifying her suicide--but it lacks her trademark vitality and wit, and, most importantly, her signature. So the note alone is far from enough to c ...Show more