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
This Storm (#2 Second LA Quartet) by James Ellroy
$38.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: #2 in the second L.A. Quartet
From 'one of the great American writers of our time' (Los Angeles Times Book Review) - a brilliant historical crime novel, a pulse-pounding, as-it-happens narrative that unfolds in Los Angeles and Mexico in the wake of Pearl Harbor. New Year's Eve 1941, war has been declared and the Japanese internment ...Show more
Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories Volume II by Arthur Conan Doyle
$18.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Bantam Classics Ser.
Sherlock HolmesThe Complete Novels and StoriesVolume IISince his first appearance in Beeton's Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created. Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam presents all fifty-six short stories ...Show more
Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories Volume I by Arthur Conan Doyle
$18.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Bantam Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The eccentric detective Sherlock Holmes with the aid of Dr. Watson investigates strange and baffling mysteries.