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A Voice Like Velvet (Detective Club Crime Classics) by Donald Henderson; Martin Edwards (Introduction by)
Category: No Category | Series: Detective Club Crime Classics Ser.
A sensational wartime crime novel about a BBC announcer who abuses his position to commit crimes against the rich and famous... By day Ernest Bisham is a velvet-voiced announcer for the BBC; the whole country recognises the sound of his meticulous pronouncements. By night, however, Mr Bisham is a cat-bu ...Show more
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: Crime | Thriller | 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 Bravo of London - And 'the Specimen Case' by Ernest Bramah; Tony Medawar (Introduction by)
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The classic crime novel featuring blind detective Max Carrados, whose popularity rivalled that of Sherlock Holmes, complete with a new introduction and an extra short story.In his dark little curio shop Julian Joolby is weaving an extravagant scheme to smash the financial machinery of the world by flood ...Show more
The Case of the Gilded Fly by Edmund Crispin; Douglas G. Greene (Introduction by)
Category: No Category | Series: Detective Club Crime Classics Ser.
The very first case for Oxford-based sleuth Gervase Fen, one of the last of the great Golden Age detectives. As inventive as Agatha Christie, as hilarious as P.G. Wodehouse, this is the perfect entry point to discover the delightful detective stories of Edmund Crispin - crime fiction at its quirkiest an ...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 Groote Park Murder by Freeman Wills Crofts
Category: No Category | Series: Detective Club Crime Classics Ser.
From a murder in South Africa to the tracking down of a master criminal in northern Scotland, this is a true classic of Golden Age detective fiction by one of its most accomplished champions. When a signalman discovers a mutilated body inside a railway tunnel near Groote Park, it seems to be a straightf ...Show more
The Lyttleton Case by R. A. V. Morris; Douglas A. Anderson (Introduction by)
Category: No Category | Series: Detective Club Crime Classics Ser.
The latest in the series of classic crime novels from the vaults of HarperCollins for the detective connoisseur is the only novel by the Welsh writer R.A.V. Morris. The chance discovery of a young man's body floating in a Sussex stream provides the first clue to the mysterious disappearance of Sir James ...Show more
The Middle Temple Murder by J. S. Fletcher; Nigel Moss (Introduction by)
Category: No Category | Series: Detective Club Crime Classics Ser.
A special 100th anniversary edition of J.S. Fletcher's best detective novel, recognised as one of the Golden Age's earliest and most successful classic stories. An unidentified elderly gentleman is found bludgeoned to death in London's Middle Temple, that enclave of justice between Fleet Street and the ...Show more
The Moonstone (the Detective Club) by Wilkie Collins
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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 Mud Flats by Maurice Drake; Nigel Moss (Introduction by)
Category: No Category | Series: Detective Club Crime Classics Ser.
The latest in a new series of classic detective stories from the vaults of HarperCollins is a thrilling mystery concerning twentieth-century pirates smuggling secret cargo across the English Channel. James Carthew-West, the penniless skipper of the Exmouth coasting vessel Luck and Charity, is chartered ...Show more
The Mystery of the Skeleton Key by Bernard Capes; G. K. Chesterton (Introduction by); Hugh Lamb (Preface by)
Category: No Category | 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