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A Scream in Soho by John G. Brandon; Martin Edwards (Introduction by)
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Category: No Category | Series: British Library Crime Classics Ser.
Soho during the blackouts of the Second World War. When a piercing scream rends the air and a bloodied knife is found, Detective Inspector MacCarthy is soon on the scene. He must move through the dark, seedy Soho underworld - peopled by Italian gangsters, cross-dressing German spies and glamorous Austri ...Show more
Death on the Cherwell by Mavis Doriel Hay
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Category: British Library Crime Classics | Series: British Library Crime Classics Ser.
For Miss Cordell, principal of Persephone College, there are two great evils to be feared: unladylike behaviour among her students, and bad publicity for the college. So her prim and cosy world is turned upside down when a secret society of undergraduates meets by the river on a gloomy January afternoon ...Show more
Fell Murder by E.C.R. Lorac; Martin Edwards (Editor)
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Category: Classic Crime | Series: British Library Crime Classics Ser.
Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder A classic Golden Age mystery from acclaimed author E.C.R. Lorac '...this crime is conditioned by the place. To understand the one you've got to study the other.' The Garths had farmed their fertile acres for generations, and fine land it was ...Show more
Murder Underground by Mavis Doriel Hay
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Category: British Library Crime Classics | Series: British Library Crime Classics
'This detective novel is much more than interesting. The numerous characters are well differentiated, and include one of the most feckless, exasperating and lifelike literary men that ever confused a trail.' Dorothy L. Sayers, Sunday Times, 1934 When Miss Pongleton is found murdered on the stairs of Be ...Show more
Murder of a Lady by Anthony Wynne
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Category: British Library Crime Classics | Series: British Library Crime Classics
Duchlan Castle is a gloomy, forbidding place in the Scottish Highlands. Late one night the body of Mary Gregor, sister of the laird of Duchlan, is found in the castle. She has been stabbed to death in her bedroom - but the room is locked from within and the windows are barred. The only tiny clue to the ...Show more
Mystery in White - A Christmas Crime Story by J. Jefferson Farjeon
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Category: British Library Crime Classics | Series: British Library Crime Classics Ser.
'The horror on the train, great though it may turn out to be, will not compare with the horror that exists here, in this house.'On Christmas Eve, heavy snowfall brings a train to a halt near the village of Hemmersby. Several passengers take shelter in a deserted country house, where the fire has been li ...Show more
The Cornish Coast Murder by John Bude
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Category: British Library Crime Classics | 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 Edinburgh Mystery - And Other Tales of Scottish Crime by Martin Edwards (Editor)
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Category: British Library Crime Classics | Series: British Library Crime Classics Ser.
From the Highlands to the borders, the bustling cities to the remote isles in cold seas, the unique landscapes and locales of Scotland have long inspired writers of the very best Golden Age mysteries. Beginning with the adventures of Sherlock Holmes from Edinburgh-born Arthur Conan Doyle, this new colle ...Show more
The Female Detective by Andrew Forrester
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Category: British Library Crime Classics | Series: British Library Crime Classics Ser.
The Female Detective is the first novel in British fiction to feature a professional female detective. Written by Andrew Forrester, it was originally published in 1864. The protagonist is Miss Gladden, or 'G' as she is also known - the precursor to Miss Marple, Mma Ramotswe and Lisbeth Salander. Miss Gl ...Show more
The Lake District Murder by John Bude
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Category: British Library Crime Classics | Series: British Library Crime Classics Ser.
When a body is found at an isolated garage, Inspector Meredith is drawn into a complex investigation where every clue leads to another puzzle: was this a suicide, or something more sinister? Why was the dead man planning to flee the country? And how is this connected to the shady business dealings of th ...Show more
The Z Murders by J. Jefferson Farjeon
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Category: British Library Crime Classics | Series: British Library Crime Classics
'Jefferson Farjeon is quite unsurpassed for creepy skill in mysterious adventures.'Dorothy L. SayersRichard Temperley arrives at Euston station early on a fogbound London morning. He takes refuge in a nearby hotel, along with a disagreeable fellow passenger, who had snored his way through the train jour ...Show more
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