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The Mystery of the Yellow Room by GASTON LEROUX JOHN CURRAN IN
Category: Crime | Thriller | 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 Paddington Mystery by John Rhode; Tony Medawar (Introduction by)
Category: No Category | Series: Detective Club Crime Classics Ser.
A special release of the very first crime novel by John Rhode, introducing Dr Priestley, the genius detective who would go on to appear in more than 70 bestselling crime novels during the Golden Age. When Harold Merefield returned home in the early hours of a winter morning from a festive little party a ...Show more
The Rogue's Syndicate by Frank Froest
Category: No Category | Series: Detective Club Crime Classics Ser.
This exciting thriller by the late Frank Froest, himself a detective of international fame, will satisfy the most exacting of detective story connoisseurs. Against a familiar London background we have here a tale of breath-taking adventure - knifing, arson, racing-taxicabs, and shooting-to-kill.Lost in ...Show more
The Shop Window Murders by Vernon Loder; Nigel Moss (Introduction by)
Category: No Category | Series: Detective Club Crime Classics Ser.
The Silk Stocking Murders by Anthony Berkeley; Tony Medawar (Introduction by)
Category: No Category | Series: Detective Club Crime Classics Ser.
A classic Golden Age crime novel, and one of the first to feature a serial killer. Investigating the disappearance of a vicar's daughter in London, the popular novelist and amateur detective Roger Sheringham is shocked to discover that the girl is already dead, found hanging from a screw by her own silk ...Show more
The Wychford Poisoning Case - A Detective Story Club Classic Crime Novel by Anthony Berkeley; Tony Medawar (Introduction by)
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One of the earliest psychological crime novels, back in print after more than 80 years. Mrs Bentley has been arrested for murder. The evidence is overwhelming: arsenic she extracted from fly papers was in her husband's medicine, his food and his lemonade, and her crimes are being plastered across the ne ...Show more
Trent Intervenes by E. C. Bentley; Ben Ray Redman (Introduction by)
Category: No Category | Series: Detective Club Crime Classics Ser.
Twelve stories from the celebrated author of one of the most famous mystery classics ever written, Trent's Last Case. Philip Trent is an artist, a journalist, and an urbane unraveller of highly problematical crimes. Here the unshakable sleuth appears in twelve tales of misadventure, where the crimes tha ...Show more
Trent's Last Case by E. C. Bentley; John Curran (Introduction by); Dorothy L. Sayers (Afterword by)
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Written in 1912 as a light-hearted reaction against the solemnity of the Sherlock Holmes stories, Trent's Last Case, with its ingeniously twisting plot and cheerfully self-mocking hero, is the first classic of the golden age of English detective fiction. When a powerful and ruthless American millionaire ...Show more
Trent's Own Case by E. C. Bentley
Category: No Category | Series: Detective Club Crime Classics Ser.
The second novel from the celebrated author of one of the most famous mystery classics ever written, Trent's Last Case. James Randolph is murdered early one evening and his body is found a few hours later. When the police arrive they discover that Randolph's safe has been ransacked and discarded wrappin ...Show more