The red robe concealed the blood until it made my hand sticky. Father Christmas had been stabbed in the back, and he was certainly dead. The murder of Father Christmas at one of Londons great toy shops is just one of many yuletide disasters in thi...Daugiau...
First published in 1955, Christianna Brands classic novel skewers the package holiday experience while unravelling one of the most audacious and devilish mysteries in the history of the genre. This edition includes an introduction by CWA Diamond...Daugiau...
With a teaching cohort including esteemed writers such as Dorothy L Sayers, Ethel Lina White, Michael Innes and the commanding Arthur Conan Doyle, this new anthology offers an education in the beguiling art of mystery writing-- Provided by publishe...Daugiau...
Some women give birth to murderers, some go to bed with them, and some marry them. Lina Aysgarth had lived with her husband for nearly eight years before she realized that she was married to a murderer. With these opening words, Before the Fact us...Daugiau...
Often cited as the epitome of locked-room mysteries, featuring Carter Dicksons signature flair for jaw-dropping twist after twist, especially in the novels thrilling courtroom section. The Judas Window adds another Merrivale classic to the series,...Daugiau...
Another of the series popular anthologies celebrating forgotten classics and material not printed since its original publication. Perfect bitesize holiday reading for the Classic Crime enthusiast and the casual sleuther alike, featuring mysteries f...Daugiau...
First published in 1952, London Particular was Christianna Brands favorite among her own books, and it remains a fast-paced and witty masterpiece of the genre, showing off the authors signature flair for the ruthless twist. This edition includes...Daugiau...
A playful and experimental novel in which Brand sets out to combine Gothic melodrama with her signature style of mystery complete with astonishing twists and bombshell clues hiding in plain sight....Daugiau...
A forgotten book revived for the Crime Classics series for a new readership to enjoy. Described by Martin Edwards as similar in tone and style to early P. D. James fiction....Daugiau...
Near St. Brynneys in the Welsh border country, isolated by heavy snow and flooding from the thaw, a calamity has occurred. Old Dr. Robinson, a known menace on the roads, has met his end in a collision with a jeep on a hazardous junction. But when...Daugiau...
A true challenge to Golden Age fans, famous for its light-touch clues hidden through the narrative, and an ending that still resonates today. Set in the countryside of Dorset and Somerset, with lashings of international intrigue....Daugiau...
Regarded as one of the great Carr/Dickson locked-room mysteries among Carr connoisseurs, one of the highest-rated authors of the genre. The Ten Teacups features one of his famous series detectives Henry Merrivale (previously appearing in The White P...Daugiau...
A classic mystery reprinting for the first time since the 1950s copies of the original are extremely scarce. One of our reader favourites of the Crime Classics series returns, with the third Carnac novel starring Julian Rivers to join the Crime Cla...Daugiau...
First published in 1973 but written in the vintage mystery mode, Lettice Cooper uses her literary sensibilities to deliver a strong detective story with a well-brewed psychological depth....Daugiau...
First published in 1956, this classic mystery leaps out of rarity to join the British Library Crime Classics series. Inspector McDonald ventures abroad into Ally occupied Vienna on this busmans holiday. ...Daugiau...
This theatrical Christmas murder, truly lost in the British Library collection, will provide entertainment throughout the festive season. A Christmas party on a private Scottish island gets off to a bad start in the latest addition to the British Lib...Daugiau...
First published in 1956, Brands classic novel skewers the package holiday experience while unravelling one of the most audacious and devilish mysteries in the history of the genre....Daugiau...
Also known by its US title The Problem of the Green Capsule, this classic novel is widely regarded as one of John Dickson Carrs masterpieces and remains among the greatest impossible crime mysteries of all time.A...Daugiau...
With a teaching cohort including esteemed writers such as Dorothy L Sayers, Celia Fremlin, Michael Innes and the commanding Arthur Conan Doyle, this new anthology offers an education in the beguiling art of mystery writing....Daugiau...
This atmospheric and ingenious fair-play bibliomystery was first published in 1937. This edition includes an introduction by CWA Diamond Dagger and Edgar® Awardwinning author Martin Edwards.A bookshop is a first-rate place for unobtrusive...Daugiau...
Unsettling and gripping for its incisive portrayal of human emotion and fears, this experimental classic of crime fiction was the basis for Alfred Hitchcocks film Suspicion, but remains an arresting literary read today....Daugiau...
E. C. R. Lorac spins a twisting tale full of wry humor and red herrings, poking some fun at her contemporary reviewers, who long suspected the Lorac pseudonym to belong to a male author.Vivian Lestrangecelebrated author of...Daugiau...
First published in 1952, London Particular was Brands favourite among her own books, and it remains a fast-paced and witty masterpiece of the genre, showing off the authors signature flair for the ruthless twist....Daugiau...
Ambling along the lanes of a sleepy village in the Downs, passing cozy Tudor cottages rustling with wisteria, a novelist imagines the sordid truth hidden behind the quaint, rustic facade. Her musings are confirmed when a spate of anonymous poison pe...Daugiau...
Undeterred, the formidable French detective embarks on a thrilling race to discover the truth in this rare and spirited mystery novel, first published in 1956....Daugiau...
Sarah has been receiving threatening anonymous letters, seemingly from a former lover. Just one day after revealing this information to her coworker Nancy, Sarah is found shot in her bedroom by one of her past flames, Donald. Hearing the news and de...Daugiau...
As the local inspectors dive into the muddy waters of this strange crime, Chief Inspector Julian Rivers and Inspector Lancing of Scotland Yard are called to investigate, with danger and deceit lying in wait among the lonely hills and authentically ev...Daugiau...
Ethel Lina Whites 1932 classic is one of the foundation stones of the village mystery sub-genre of crime fiction. Revelling in the delicious contrast of angelic outer appearances and the wickedness behind the facade, Whites novel is a witty and sat...Daugiau...
As the real killer uses the situation to their advantage, Bennett crafts a tense and nuanced story through flashbacks to Sarahs life and loves in this Gold-Dagger-award-winning, Hitchcockian story of deceit and murder....Daugiau...
First published in a limited run in 1934, this exceedingly rare bibliomystery will delight fans of bookish mysteries as well as devotees of the classic crime genre. While on holiday visiting his nephew, Athelstan Digby agrees to look after the old b...Daugiau...
While hot on the heels of serial coupon-racketeer Gordon Ginner, Chief Inspector Macdonald of Scotland Yard receives word of a peculiar incident up in Lancashire-the fishing cottage of a local farmer has been broken into, with an assortment of seemi...Daugiau...
When Miles Hammond is invited to a meeting of the Murder Club in London, he is met instead with just two other guests and is treated to a strange tale of an impossible crime in France from years before-the murder of a man on a tower with only one st...Daugiau...
James Bennett has been invited to stay at White Priory for Christmas among the retinue of the glamorous Hollywood actress Marcia Tait. Her producer, her lover, the playwright for her next hit and her agent are all here, soon to become so many suspec...Daugiau...
Iris Carrs holiday in the mountains of a remote corner of Europe has come to an end, and since her friends left two days before, she faces the journey home alone. Stricken by sunstroke at the station, Iris catches the express train to Trieste by th...Daugiau...
Behind the stage lights and word-perfect soliloquies, sinister secrets are lurking in the wings. The mysteries in this collection reveal the dark side to theatre and performing arts: a world of backstage dealings, where unscrupulous actors risk ever...Daugiau...
The answer to any classic crime fiction fans Christmas wish - and the only way for you to answer Who Killed Father Christmas? - this new anthology is set to muddle, befuddle, surprise and delight....Daugiau...
While the Blitz bombards London, the boisterous grandchildren of Sir Richard March have descended upon Swanswater Manor in Kent for a family gathering and the finalizing of the patriarchs will. Disgruntled by the behavior and life choices of his he...Daugiau...
First published in 1946 and set in the fell country of Lunesdale over the course of a rainy September, The Theft of the Iron Dogs is the very picture of a cosy crime mystery and showcases Loracs masterful attention to detail and deep affection for b...Daugiau...
This addition to the Crime Classics series is an immersive musical mystery, featuring diagrams of the orchestra arrangement and four pages of musical notation with relevance to the plot. First published in 1941 but out-of-print since, this is by a l...Daugiau...
First published in 1946, in later years Carr considered this novel one of his finest works. It shows the masterful author at the height of his powers, boasting an ingenious plot delivered with an astounding pace and striking characters including none...Daugiau...
Ahoy, my lad! he bellowed back.I didnt expect you so early. Come for a dip! The waters fine. Everything isThen it happened.Mystery and murder run amok amidst ominous pe...Daugiau...
First published in Britain in 1949, Brands exuberant novel is still regarded as one of the great masterpieces of the classic mystery genre for its fiendishly constructed puzzle, memorable setting, dumbfounding acts of misdirection and thrilling den...Daugiau...
First published in 1936 and adapted for the screen as The Lady Vanishes by Alfred Hitchcock in 1938, Ethel Lina Whites suspenseful mystery remains her best-known novel, worthy of acknowledgement as a classic of the genre in its own right....Daugiau...
It is past the half-hour. My time is coming nearer with every tick of the clock.Horace Manning, scientist, recluse and closed book even to his friends is found dead in his study at 4am, following a dinner in honor of his daught...Daugiau...
Also known by its American title The Crooked Wreath, this classic mystery novel from 1947 is loaded with sharply drawn characters and devilish misdirection, all capped by one of the genres most thrilling denouements....Daugiau...
First published in 1942, this reissue of one of Carrs most highly rated mysteries featuring series detective Gideon Fell offers readers a tense and enjoyable game of cat and mouse between the detective and the chief suspect. The supreme conjuror;...Daugiau...
