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The Anatomy of Murder (a Detection Club anthology) by The Detection Club, Dorothy L. Sayers, Francis Iles, Freeman Wills Crofts, Helen Simpson, John Rhode
$22.99 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Collins Crime Club Ser.
A unique anthology for crime aficionados - seven of the world's most notorious genuine murder mysteries retold by the most accomplished classic crime writers of their generation. A manipulative murderer who stalked the streets of Paris; a young wife who poisoned her eccentric husband; a bank cashier's m ...Show more
The Cask by Freeman Wills Crofts
$24.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Collins Crime Club Ser.
From the Collins Crime Club archive, the seminal first novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed 'The King of Detective Story Writers' and recognised as one of the 'big four' Golden Age crime authors. The unloading of a consignment of French wine from the steamship Bullfinch is interrupted by a gruesom ...Show more
The Crime at Guildford (#13 Inspector French) by Freeman Wills Crofts
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Collins Crime Club Ser.
To mark the publishing centenary of Freeman Wills Crofts, 'The King of Detective Story Writers', this is one of six classic crime novels being issued in 2020 featuring Inspector French, coming soon to television. A weekend board meeting brings a jewellery firm's accountant to the managing director's im ...Show more
The Detection Collection (The Detection Club) by The Detection Club (includes Colin Dexter; Robert Goddard; Reginald Hill; P. D. James; ed. Simon Brett)
$23.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Collins Crime Club Ser.
Ten years since it was first published in hardback, and now for the first time in mass market paperback, this volume of short stories by the cream of British crime writing talent celebrates 75 years of the quintessential Detection Club. The Detection Club represents the cream of British crime writing ta ...Show more
The Loss of the Jane Vosper (#14 Inspector French) by Freeman Wills Crofts
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Collins Crime Club Ser.
To mark the publishing centenary of Freeman Wills Crofts, 'The King of Detective Story Writers', this is one of six classic crime novels being issued in 2020 featuring Inspector French, coming soon to television. The Jane Vosper is plunged to the bottom of the Atlantic by a series of explosions in her ...Show more
The Mystery on Southampton Water (#12 Inspector French) by Freeman Wills Crofts
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Collins Crime Club Ser.
To mark the publishing centenary of Freeman Wills Crofts, 'The King of Detective Story Writers', this is one of six classic crime novels being issued in 2020 featuring Inspector French, coming soon to television.The Joymount Rapid Hardening Cement Manufacturing Company on the Solent is in serious financ ...Show more
The Paddington Mystery by John Rhode; Tony Medawar (Introduction by)
$22.99 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Collins Crime Club Ser.
A special release of the very first crime novel by John Rhode, introducing Dr Priestley, the genius detective who would go on to appear in more than 70 bestselling crime novels during the Golden Age. When Harold Merefield returned home in the early hours of a winter morning from a festive little party a ...Show more
The Ponson Case by Freeman Wills Crofts
$24.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Collins Crime Club Ser.
From the Collins Crime Club archive, the forgotten second novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed 'The King of Detective Story Writers' and recognised as one of the 'big four' Golden Age crime authors. When the body of Sir William Ponson is found in the Cranshaw River near his home of Luce Manor, it ...Show more
The Silk Stocking Murders by Anthony Berkeley
$25.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Collins Crime Club Ser.
A classic British crime novel from the Golden Age - one of the first to feature a serial killer - by the founder of the Detection Club, marking 50 years since the death of the author. Investigating the disappearance of a vicar's daughter in London, the popular novelist and amateur detective Roger Sherin ...Show more
The Wychford Poisoning Case by Anthony Berkeley; Tony Medawar (Introduction by)
$23.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Collins Crime Club Ser.
A classic British crime novel from the Golden Age - perhaps the first ever psychological crime novel - by the founder of the Detection Club, marking 50 years since the death of the author. Mrs Bentley has been arrested for murder. The evidence is overwhelming: arsenic she extracted from fly papers was i ...Show more