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    Two-Way Murder

    A lost novel from the golden age of crime, published for the very first time.It happened on a dark and misty night; the night of the ball at The Prince's Hall, Fordings. Abuzz with rumours surrounding the disappearance of Rosemary Reeve on the eve of...
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    Till Death Do Us Part

    Crime author Dick Markham is in love again; his fiance the mysterious newcomer to the village, Lesley Grant. When Grant accidentally shoots the fortune teller through the side of his tent at the local fair following a very strange reaction to his...
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    Murder's a Swine

    '"I should imagine this was murder, too, because it would be very difficult to build yourself into a heap of sandbags and then die..."'In the blackout conditions of a wintry London night, amateur sleuth Agnes Kinghof and a young air-raid warden have...
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    The Widow of Bath

    'There are a dozen clever deceptions in the book, twice as many as most writers would have given us.' Julian Symons in Bloody MurderHugh Everton was intent on nothing more than quietly drinking in the second-rate hotel he found himself in on England's...
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    The Corpse in the Waxworks

    '"The purpose, the illusion, the spirit of a waxworks. It is an atmosphere of death. It is soundless and motionless... Do you see?"'Last night Mademoiselle Duchne was seen heading into the Gallery of Horrors at the Muse Augustin waxworks, alive. Today...
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    The Progress of a Crime

    The murder, a brutal stabbing, definitely took place on Guy Fawkes' night. It was definitely by the bonfire on the village green. There were definitely a number of witnesses. And yet, was it definitely clear to anybody exactly what they had seen? In the...
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    Murder by the Book

    'If much of the action is set in a bookshop or a library, it is a bibliomystery, just as it is if a major character is a bookseller or a librarian.' Otto PenzlerA bookish puzzle threatens an eagerly awaited inheritance; a submission to a publisher...
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    The Lost Gallows

    As the thick, autumnal fog chokes the capital, within the fire-lit lounge of London's notorious Brimstone Club a bizarre tale is being spun for Inspector Bencolin and his friend Jeff Marle. A member of the club has been sent a model of a tiny gallows,...
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    The Port of London Murders

    When the San Angelo drifts into port in the Pool of London, telephones begin to ring across the capital and an intricate series of events is set in motion. Beset by dreadful storms in the Bay of Biscay, the ship, along with the 'mixed cargo' it carries,...
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    Checkmate to Murder

    On a dismally foggy night in Hampstead, London, a curious party has gathered in an artist's studio to weather the wartime blackout. A civil servant and a government scientist are matching wits in a game of chess, while an artist paints the portrait of...
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    A Guilty Creatures

    "Curiously enough," said Dr. Manners, "I know a story in which the detection of a murder turned on the behaviour of a bird: in this instance a jackdaw."Since the dawn of the crime fiction genre, animals of all kinds have played a memorable part in...
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    The Man Who Didn't Fly

    Four men were due to fly to Dublin. When disaster struck and the plane went down over the Irish sea, only three of them were on board. With the identities of the flyers scattered to the winds, the police turn to the patchy account of the Wade family,...
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    A Surprise for Christmas

    '"After all," said our host, "it's Christmas. Why not let the cat out of the bag?"'A Postman murdered while delivering cards on Christmas morning. A Christmas pine growing over a forgotten homicide. A Yuletide heist gone horribly wrong. When there's as...
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    The Spoilt Kill

    Staffordshire in the 1950s. Within the clay tanks at the pottery company Shentall's, a body has been found. Amid cries of industrial espionage and sabotage of this leader of the pottery industry, there is a case of bitter murder to solve for Inspector...
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    Crossed Skis

    In London's Bloomsbury, Inspector Julian Rivers of Scotland Yard looks down at a dismal scene. Here is the victim, burnt to a crisp. Here are the clues - clues which point to a good climber and expert skier, and which lead Rivers to the piercing sunshine...
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    The Chianti Flask

    "[Belloc Lowndes] brings to the making of a mystery a literary sense and an imagination that puts life into the tale and into the readers." The Observer An enigmatic young woman named Laura Dousland stands on trial for murder, accused of poisoning her...
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    Death of a Bookseller

    An honest policeman, Sergeant Wigan, escorts a drunk man home one night to keep him out of trouble and, seeing his fine book collection, slowly falls in to the gentle art of book collecting. Just as the friendship is blossoming, the policeman's...
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    Castle Skull

    'That is the case. Alison has been murdered. His blazing body was seen running about the battlements of Castle Skull.'And so a dark shadow looms over the Rhineland where Inspector Henri Bencolin and his accomplice Jeff Marle have arrived from Paris...
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    Settling Scores

    "The detective story is a game between two players, the author... and the reader." Ronald Knox From the squash court to the golf links, the football pitch to the swimming pool and the race course to the cricket square, no court, grounds, stadium or stand...
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    Death in White Pyjamas

    Death in White Pyjamas: A theatre-owner, a 'slightly sinister' producer, a burgeoning playwright and a cast of ego-driven actors have gathered at a country home to read through the promising script for Pigs in Porcelain. Before the production ever...
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    Due to a Death

    "Her writing is moment by moment intense, and successful as such... What propels the reader through the pages is not the tug of 'who done it' nor the excitement of men with guns coming through doors, but the sheer excellence of the writing." H.R.F...
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    The Murder of My Aunt

    'I should be very much happier if she were dead.' Edward Powell lives with his Aunt Mildred in the Welsh town of Lywll. His aunt thinks Lywll an idyllic place to live, but Edward loathes the countryside - and thinks the company even worse. In face,...
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    Fire in the Thatch

    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...
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    The Division Bell Mystery

    `Through the double clamour of Big Ben and the shrill sound of the bell rang a revolver shot.' A financier is found shot in the House of Commons. Suspecting foul play, Robert West, a parliamentary private secretary, takes on the role of amateur sleuth...
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    Somebody at the Door

    'The death was an odd one, it was true; but there was after all no very clear reason to assume it was anything but natural.' In the winter of 1942, England lies cold and dark in the wartime blackout. One bleak evening, Councillor Grayling steps off the 6...
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    The Arsenal Stadium Mystery

    The 1939 Arsenal side is firing on all cylinders and celebrating a string of victories. They appear unstoppable, but the Trojans - a side of amateurs who are on a winning streak of their own - may be about to silence the Gunners. Moments into the second...
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    Excellent Intentions

    'From the point of view of the nation, it's a good thing that he died.' Great Barwick's least popular man is murdered on a train. Twelve jurors sit in court. Four suspects are identified - but which of them is on trial? This novel has all the makings of...
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    Murder at the Manor

    The English country house is an iconic setting for some of the greatest British crime fiction. Short stories are an important part of this tradition, and writers from Agatha Christie to Margery Allingham became famous for the intricate cases which their...
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    No Funeral for Nazia
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    No Funeral for Nazia

    A witty and theatrical South Asian mystery novel set over the course of one single electrifying night, exploring the unfinished business death leaves in its wake.Nazia Sami is a celebrated author, but perhaps her greatest plot twist is yet to be produced...
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    Ashram Assassin

    Humorous cosy-crime caper in which a feisty, amoral book dealer uses her unique skills to catch a murderer, desperate to hide the secrets kept by the yoga-obsessed staff and students of a West London ashram.When a set of rare, impossible-to-find yoga...
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    Map Of My Escape

    The shooting of a homicide detective is captured on film by a mysterious figure from a second-floor window, implicating Riley Keane, an anti-gun activist and a school shooting survivor. Riley flees Chicago for a frozen island in Lake Superior. A race to...
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    The Serialist

    "A literary pulp fiction that flays and skewers post-Millennial New York and along the way reinvents the American detective novel." -Evan Wright,New York Timesbestselling authorHarry Bloch is a ghost-ghostwriter, that is. He's the man behind your...
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    Death Drops the Pilot

    Things get murky when a ferry captain is found dead in the water in this mystery starring Inspector Littlejohn, "the model of a calm, rational policeman" (Publishers Weekly).After a ferry to Falbright carrying forty people runs aground, the skipper is...
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    Intruder in the Dark

    A corpse in a country house brings Scotland Yard to an eerily quiet English village, in this tale by a master of British mystery.Cyril Savage has inherited the home of his wealthy and estranged aunt. But before Savage has the chance to discover her...
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    Death Treads Softly

    Two separate murders put CI Littlejohn on a devious killer's twisting path in this long-running British mystery series.Finlo Crennell, the former harbourmaster of Castletown, was reported missing one week ago. Now he's turned up in London, wandering the...
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    Death in the Fearful Night

    When a serial killer stalks a sleepy English village, a Scotland Yard detective must search for clues among terrified townsfolk in this classic mystery.Samuel Bracknell is found dead in his home with a knife in his back. It's the third murder of its kind...
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    Black Plumes

    A classic from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. "One of the best books by a mystery novelist whose work is always of first rank." -The New York TimesSomething is afoot at the Ivory Gallery in London. A string of suspicious incidents-a Kang-Tse vase...
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    The Allingham Casebook

    A classic collection of mystery stories: "With skillful plotting laced with tongue-in-cheek humor, Allingham never ceases to intrigue and surprise" (Daily Mail).This volume offer eighteen delightful mysteries from the Queen of Crime that will baffle the...
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    The Summer of Love and Death (Large Print Edition)

    "Refreshingly smart, witty, and sophisticated . . ." -Natalie Symons author of Lies in Bone, on The Disappearance of Trudy Solomon "Propulsive, addictive, with lush, visceral prose and richly-layered characters . . ." -May Cobb, author of My Summer...
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    Conversations with an Octopus
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    Conversations with an Octopus

    An addictive and cozy crime novel about female rage.Diana Parks is a beautician with a temper, and she's not the only member of Ottersea WI who's had enough of bullies and slimeballs. When the body of lecherous landlord Raj Sumal washes up on the beach,...
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    Death in Room Five

    Inspector Littlejohn confronts a challenging case across the Channel in this classic mystery from the "venerable" British author (Kirkus Reviews).When Alderman Dawson is stabbed to death while visiting the Riviera with a group of English tourists,...
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    How Can I Help You

    A razor-sharp psychological suspense about two librarians whose lives become dangerously intertwined, How Can I Help You explores the dark side of human nature and the dangerous pull of artistic obsession. No one knows Margo's real name. Her...
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  • The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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    The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

    One of the Guardian's novels everyone must read.This new edition ofStevenson's renowned gothicmasterpiece has a specially writtenintroduction by Denise Mina.In The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London lawyer Gabriel John Utterson investigates a...
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    Dark Encounters
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    Dark Encounters

    Tales of suspense for the twilight hour...Dark Encounters is a collection of classic and elegantly unsettling ghost stories. A spine-tingling collection, these tales are set in the brooding landscape of Scotland, with an air of historic authenticity -...
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  • Of Judgement Fallen
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    Of Judgement Fallen

    Spring, 1523. Henry VIII readies England for war with France. The King's chief minister, Cardinal Wolsey, prepares to open Parliament at Blackfriars. The eyes of the country turn towards London. But all is not well in Wolsey's household. A visiting...
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    The Paperback Sleuth - Death in Fine Condition

    Launching a new series, a cast of lovable rogues face fiendish puzzles and murderous villains in this love letter to Agatha Christie murder mysteries and classic whodunnits.Introducing a new series from the creator of the beloved, bestselling Vinyl...
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    Washboard Tales
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    Washboard Tales

    This sequel to Shadowy Tales opens with the brutal murder of Beverly St. John, the wife of the Piney Falls Chief of Police. Her death triggers fear among the women in this small rural community. Major changes are taking place in the lives of other...
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    Death of Television
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    Death of Television

    "This is a brilliant and sophisticated thriller. All the usual suspects feature in it: theft, murder, tragedy, drugs, deception, manipulation. There's also a dark and seedy cult (for want of a better word: the members are really just a bit deranged), and...
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Crime & Mystery Books – Best Crime Fiction, Thrillers, Detective Novels & Mystery Books in Australia

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