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Below the Clock by J. V. Turner; David Brawn (Introduction by)
Category: No Category | Series: Detective Club Crime Classics Ser.
A classic Golden Age detective novel set at the heart of Westminster, when the murder of the Chancellor of the Exchequer threatens to topple the whole House of Cards... Many highly dramatic and historic scenes have been enacted below the clock of Big Ben, but none more sensational than on that April aft ...Show more
Murder in the Bookshop by Carolyn Wells; Curtis Evans (Introduction by)
Category: Fiction | Series: Detective Club Crime Classics Ser.
Book 50 in the Detective Club Crime Classics series is Carolyn Wells' Murder in the Bookshop, a classic locked room murder mystery which will have a special resonance for lovers and collectors of Golden Age detective fiction. Includes a bonus murder story: 'The Shakespeare Title-Page Mystery'. When Phil ...Show more
The Deductions of Colonel Gore by Lynn Brock; Rob Reef (Introduction by)
Category: No Category | Series: Detective Club Crime Classics Ser.
This brand new edition of the first novel to feature the officer and gentleman detective Colonel Wickham Gore includes the first ever reprint of the only Colonel Gore novella, Too Much Imagination. Colonel Gore is reunited with old friends at a dinner party to mark his return from service in Africa, but ...Show more
The Leavenworth Case by Anna K. Green; John Curran (Introduction by)
Category: No Category | Series: Detective Club Crime Classics Ser.
THIS DETECTIVE STORY CLUB CLASSIC is introduced by Dr John Curran, who looks at how Anna Katherine Green was a pioneer who inspired a new generation of crime writers, in particular a young woman named Agatha Christie. When the retired merchant Horatio Leavenworth is found shot dead in his mansion librar ...Show more
The Moonstone (the Detective Club) by Wilkie Collins
Category: Classics | Series: Detective Club Crime Classics Ser.
First published in 1868, The Moonstone is considered the very first detective novel in the English language. Centred around a glorious yellow diamond that carries with it a menacing history, The Moonstone tells the story of Rachel Verinder, who inherits the stone on her eighteenth birthday. That very e ...Show more
The Mystery of the Skeleton Key by Bernard Capes; G. K. Chesterton (Introduction by); Hugh Lamb (Preface by)
Category: Classics | Series: Detective Club Crime Classics Ser.
The fourth in a new series of classic detective stories from the vaults of HarperCollins involves a tragic accident during a shooting party. As the story switches between Paris and Hampshire, the possibility of it not being an accident seems to grow more likely."The Detective Story Club", launched by Co ...Show more
The Mystery of the Yellow Room by GASTON LEROUX JOHN CURRAN IN
Category: Fiction | Series: Detective Club Crime Classics Ser.
Leroux was an early 20 th century writer, detective and journalist. He is best known for writing The Phantom of the Opera. This mystery is one of the first "locked room mysteries." A locked room mystery is one in which a crime is committed in what seems to be impossible circumstances. In this instance t ...Show more
The Shop Window Murders by Vernon Loder; Nigel Moss (Introduction by)
Category: No Category | Series: Detective Club Crime Classics Ser.
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