The Life of Crime: Unravelling the Mysteries of Fiction’s Favourite Genre
By: Martin Edwards
4.02
Format: 724 pages, Hardcover
In the first major history of crime fiction in fifty years, The Life of Crime: Detecting the Histor…
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1. The Secret Vanguard (Sir John Appleby, #5)
By: Michael Innes
3.65
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Successful minor poet, Philip Ploss, lives a peaceful existence in ideal surroundings, until his li… read more
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2. The Poisoned Chocolates Case (Roger Sheringham Cases, #5)
By: Anthony Berkeley
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Reissue of one of the great puzzle mystery classics of England's Golden Age of crime fiction; plot … read more
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3. Death on the Riviera (Superintendent Meredith, #4)
By: Martin Edwards , John Bude
5.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
When a counterfeit currency racket comes to light on the French Riviera, Detective Inspector Meredi… read more
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4. The Problem of the Green Capsule (Dr. Gideon Fell, #10)
By: John Dickson Carr
4.75
Format: None pages,
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5. Artists in Crime (Roderick Alleyn, #6)
By: Ngaio Marsh
3.91
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
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6. The Chinese Orange Mystery (Ellery Queen Detective, #8)
By: Ellery Queen
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
An unknown dead man is found in the office of a prosperous publisher. His clothes are on backward, … read more
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7. The Papers of Tony Veitch (Jack Laidlaw, #2)
By: William McIlvanney
3.61
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
The dying words of an alcoholic tramp set Jack Laidlaw onto the trail of a certain Tony Veitch, a y… read more
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8. The Dead Shall be Raised and Murder of a Quack
By: George Bellairs
3.87
Format: 288 pages,
Two classic cases featuring Detective-Inspector Littlejohn. In the winter of 1940, the Home Guard u… read more
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9. The Roman Hat Mystery (Ellery Queen Detective, #1)
By: Ellery Queen
4.04
Format: None pages, Paperback
A fine silk custom top-hat is missing from a crooked lawyer who was poisoned by lead alcohol in the… read more
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10. The Murder of My Aunt
By: Richard Hull
3.85
Format: 238 pages,
In this darkly comic, quite immoral masterwork, Edward is an effete, poor young man who has somethi… read more
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11. Brat Farrar
By: Josephine Tey , Robert Barnard
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Listening Length: 7 hours and 55 minutes Brat Farrar has been carefully coached to assume the ident… read more
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12. Close to Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #5)
By: Anthony Horowitz
4.18
Format: 419 pages, Hardcover
In New York Times–bestselling author Anthony Horowitz’s ingenious fifth literary whodunit in the Ha… read more
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13. Murder In The Basement (Roger Sheringham Cases, #8)
By: Anthony Berkeley
3.57
Format: 233 pages, Paperback
A ROGER SHERINGHAM MYSTERY.Roger and Molly Dane have something of a surprise in their new house. Wh… read more
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14. Death of an Author
By: E.C.R. Lorac
3.99
Format: 222 pages, Kindle Edition
'I hate murders and I hate murderers, but I must admit that the discovery of a bearded corpse would… read more
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15. A Midnight Puzzle (Secret Staircase Mystery, #3)
By: Gigi Pandian
3.94
Format: 342 pages, Kindle Edition
In heroine Tempest Raj, modern-day queen of the locked room mystery Gigi Pandian has created a bril… read more
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- audiobook
16. The Lady in the Silver Cloud (Stewart Hoag, #13)
By: David Handler
3.85
Format: 279 pages, Kindle Edition
"This is confection in the guise of a mystery novel; it goes down easy as a milkshake."—Sarah Weinm… read more
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17. Death Under a Little Sky (Jake Jackson #1)
By: Stig Abell
3.72
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A detective ready for a new life…For years, Jake Jackson has been a high-flying detective in London… read more
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- audiobook
18. Death and the Conjuror (A Spector Locked-Room Mystery, #1)
By: Tom Mead
3.55
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A magician-turned-sleuth in pre-war London solves three impossible crimes. In 1930s London, cele… read more
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- crime
- audiobook
19. Oranges and Lemons (Bryant & May, #17)
By: Christopher Fowler
4.36
Format: 464 pages, ebook
"The most delightfully, wickedly entertaining duo in crime fiction." The Plain Dealer When a pr… read more
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- crime
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20. The Knowledge (Richard Jury #24)
By: Martha Grimes
4.01
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
With their signature wit, sly plotting, and gloriously offbeat characters, Martha Grimes’s New York… read more
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"It’s just,"-Martha Grimes, The Knowledge (Richard Jury #24)
"Melrose winced. He lived in a world of dried-up pheasant and one-liners."-Martha Grimes, The Knowledge (Richard Jury #24)
"Before Ernest could start walking back the cat, Melrose put in, “But isn’t it rather we who have come here, Mrs. Attaboy?"-Martha Grimes, The Knowledge (Richard Jury #24)
21. The Life of Crime: Unravelling the Mysteries of Fiction’s Favourite Genre
By: Martin Edwards
4.02
Format: 724 pages, Hardcover
In the first major history of crime fiction in fifty years, The Life of Crime: Detecting the Histor… read more
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- anthologies
- nonfiction
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- mystery
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