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Antidote to Venom by Freeman Wills Crofts; Martin Edwards (Introduction by)
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: British Library Crime Classics Ser.
Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder Crofts makes great use of the 'inverted mystery' structure (he was among the first to employ the technique) in which the traditional whodunit is turned on its head, with the reader following the murderer through temptation and commission and the ...Show more
Bats in the Belfry by Martin Edwards (Introduction by); E. C. R. Lorac
Category: No Category | Series: British Library Crime Classics Ser.
Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of MurderThe intricacies of the characters' relationships and the trove of secrets Scotland Yard Inspector Macdonald uncovers make for riveting reading. --BooklistBruce Attleton dazzled London's literary scene with his first two novels--but his early promi ...Show more
Death of a Busybody - A British Library Crime Classic by George Bellairs
Category: Fiction | Series: British Library Crime Classics Ser.
Miss Tither, the village busybody, is not the best-loved resident of Hilary Magna. She has made many enemies: bombarding the villagers with religious tracts, berating drunkards, and informing the spouses of cheating partners. Her murder, however, is still a huge shock to the Reverend Ethelred Claplady a ...Show more
Death on the Riviera by John Bude; Martin Edwards (Introduction by)
Category: No Category | Series: British Library Crime Classics Ser.
Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder "There are occasional splashes of witty dialogue and luscious descriptions of the French Riviera; also, every suspect has at least one guilty secret." --Publishers Weekly When a counterfeit currency racket comes to light on the French Riviera, De ...Show more
Fire in the Thatch by E. C. R. Lorac; Martin Edwards (Introduction by)
Category: No Category | Series: British Library Crime Classics Ser.
Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of MurderReaders will enjoy watching the conflicts that arise between the wary country folk and the cocktail-drinking Londoners invading their habitat. In sum, this is jolly good fun. --Publishers WeeklyThe Second World War is drawing to a close. Nicholas ...Show more
Murder in Piccadilly by Charles Kingston
Category: No Category | Series: British Library Crime Classics Ser.
'Scores of men and women died daily in London, but on this day of days one of them had died in the very midst of a crowd and the cause of his death was a dagger piercing his heart. Death had become something very real.' When Bobbie Cheldon falls in love with a pretty young dancer at the Frozen Fang nig ...Show more
Murder in the Mill-Race by E.C.R. Lorac
Category: No Category | Series: British Library Crime Classics Ser.
Discover the captivating treasures buried in the British Library's archives. Largely inaccessible to the public until now, these enduring crime classics were written in the golden age of detective fiction. Never make trouble in the village is an unspoken law, but it's a binding law. You may know about ...Show more
The Cheltenham Square Murder by John Bude
Category: No Category | Series: British Library Crime Classics Ser.
Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of MurderAn absorbing head-scratcher. --BooklistIn the seeming tranquility of Regency Square in Cheltenham live the diverse inhabitants of its ten houses. One summer's evening, the square's rivalries and allegiances are disrupted by a sudden and unusual de ...Show more
The Cornish Coast Murder by John Bude
Category: Crime Fiction | 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 Cornish Coast Murder - A British Library Crime Classic by John Bude; Martin Russ Edwards (Introduction by)
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: British Library Crime Classics Ser.
'Never, even in his most optimistic moments, had he visualised a scene of this nature - himself in one armchair, a police officer in another, and between them a mystery.' The Reverend Dodd, vicar of the quiet Cornish village of Boscawen, spends his evenings reading detective stories by the fireside - b ...Show more
The Dead Shall Be Raised and Murder of a Quack - A British Library Crime Classic by George Bellairs; Martin Edwards (Introduction by)
Category: Fiction | Series: British Library Crime Classics Ser.
With an Introduction by Martin Edwards Two classic cases featuring Detective Inspector Littlejohn. In the winter of 1940, the Home Guard unearth a skeleton on the moor above the busy town of Hatterworth. Twenty-three years earlier, the body of a young textile worker was found in the same spot, and the ...Show more
The Notting Hill Mystery by Charles Adams
Category: No Category | Series: British Library Crime Classics Ser.
The Notting Hill Mystery was first published between 1862 and 1863 as an eight-part serial in the magazine Once a Week. Widely acknowledged as the first detective novel, the story is told by insurance investigator Ralph Henderson, who is building a case against the sinister Baron R-, who is suspected of ...Show more