The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
$21.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Classics Ser.
A collection of the most famous cases faced by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's peerless creation This collection of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes includes many of the famous cases - and great strokes of brilliance - that made the legendary detective one of fiction's mos ...Show more
After You with the Pistol: The Second Charlie Mortdecai Novel by Kyril Bonfiglioli
$26.00 NZD
Category: General Crime/Mystery | Series: Mortdecai
After you with the Pistol - the second Charlie Mortdecai novel by Kyril Bonfiglioli, soon to be a major film starring Johnny Depp. "Some of the nastiest, funniest and most enjoyable crime writing of the last fifty years". (Guardian). 'Mr Mortdecai, why do you suppose I and my superiors have preserved yo ...Show more
A Spy In The House Of Love by Anais Nin
$26.00 NZD
Category: Spy | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Sabrina is a firebird blazing through 1950s New York: she is a woman daring to enjoy the sexual licence that men have always known. Wearing extravagant outfits and playing dangerous games of desire, she deliberately avoids committment, gripped by the pursuit of pleasure for its own sake.
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré
$26.00 NZD
Category: Spy | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
Alex Leamas is tired. It's the 1960s, he's been out in the cold for years, spying in Berlin for his British masters, and has seen too many good agents murdered for their troubles. Now Control wants to bring him in at last - but only after one final assignment. He must travel deep into the heart of Commu ...Show more
Something Fishy by Shane Maloney
$29.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Murray Whelan
The Hon. Murray Whelan MP. Respectability at last. And true love, what's more, in the person of the salty-tongued Lyndal Luscombe-who has in her possession a highly significant ultrasound photo. There must be a catch. And Murray's about to reel it in.
Slaughter Park (Belltree Trilogy #3) by Barry Maitland
$26.00 NZD
Category: Crime Writers From Down Under | Series: The\Belltree Trilogy Ser.
Harry Belltree's obsessive pursuit of justice has cost him everything - his job in homicide, his marriage and his newborn child. He has nothing left to lose, or so he thinks. Then his estranged wife disappears, leaving their baby daughter behind. The police think Jenny has murdered a man. Harry thinks s ...Show more
The New York Times Book of Crime: More Than 166 Years of Covering the Beat by Price, Richard
$58.00 NZD
Category: Crime Writer Biographies
For 166 years, The New York Times has been a rich source of information about crime. This fascinating compilation-edited by seasoned Times crime-beat veteran Kevin Flynn-captures the full sweep of the newspaper's coverage of the subject, from vice, serial killers, and white-collar crimes to kidnapping, ...Show more
Death in Fancy Dress by Anthony Gilbert
$24.00 NZD
Category: British Library Crime Classics
With an introduction by Martin Edwards and featuring the short stories 'Horseshoes for Luck' and 'The Cockroach and the Tortoise'The British Secret Service, working to uncover a large-scale blackmail ring and catch its mysterious mastermind 'The Spider', find themselves at the country residence Feltham ...Show more
The Division Bell Mystery by Ellen Wilkinson
$25.00 NZD
Category: British Library Crime Classics
Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder'Wilkinson deftly tacks between satirizing the stolid Ministers who get ensnared in these crimes and plotting a sturdy detective story.' --Kirkus Reviews'Through the double clamour of Big Ben and the shrill sound of the bell rang a revolver shot.' ...Show more
Fire in the ThatchA Devon Mystery by E. C. R. Lorac
$26.00 NZD
Category: British Library Crime Classics
"The Second World War is drawing to a close. Nicholas Vaughan, released from the army after an accident, takes refuge in Devon - renting a thatched cottage in the beautiful countryside at Mallory Fitzjohn. Vaughan sets to work farming the land, rearing geese and renovating the cottage. Hard work and rur ...Show more
Foreign Bodies by Martin Edwards
$26.00 NZD
Category: British Library Crime Classics
"Today, translated crime fiction is in vogue -- but this was not always the case. A century before Scandi noir, writers across Europe and beyond were publishing detective stories of high quality. Often these did not appear in English and they have been known only by a small number of experts. This is th ...Show more
Plain Murder by C. S. Forester
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
At the Universal Advertising Agency on the Strand, London, a murder is being planned. Three men have been discovered taking bribes and face the grim prospect of the dole queue, unless they can get rid of the person who caught them. Their ringleader, thick-set and vicious Mr Morris, soon discovers that k ...Show more