British Library Crime Classics – serie
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Magic-Lantern Murders
Av Carter Dickson, John Dickson Carr
Häftad, 2026
154 kr
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On the eve of his wedding to Evelyn Cheyne, who he met and fell in love with during the course of The Unicorn Murders, former spy Kenwood Blake is summoned to Devon by spymaster Sir Henry Merrivale, and asked to take part in an undercover operation. Despite being assured he'll be back in London in …
As If By Magic
Locked-Room Mysteries and Other Miraculous Crimes
Av John Dickson Carr, Carter Dickson m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
150 kr
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Impossible crime stories have delighted readers since the invention of detective fiction as puzzle-lovers sought more cerebral entertainment. Following on from Miraculous Mysteries, CWA Diamond Dagger Award-winning crime writer Martin Edwards brings together a whole new casebook of mystifying …
Death on the Riviera
Av John Bude
Häftad, 2016
152 kr
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When a counterfeit currency racket comes to light on the French Riviera, Detective Inspector Meredith is sent speeding southwards - out of the London murk to the warmth and glitter of the Mediterranean. Along with Inspector Blampignon - an amiable policeman from Nice - Meredith must trace the …
Mystery in White
A Christmas Crime Story
Inbunden, 2025
190 kr
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'The horror on the train, great though it may turn out to be, will not compare with the horror that exists here, in this house.'On Christmas Eve, heavy snowfall brings a train to a halt near the village of Hemmersby. Several passengers take shelter in a deserted country house, where the fire has …
Death of an Author
Av E.C.R. Lorac
Häftad, 2023
138 kr
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'I hate murders and I hate murderers, but I must admit that the discovery of a bearded corpse would give a fillip to my jaded mind.' Vivian Lestrange - celebrated author of the popular mystery novel The Charterhouse Case and total recluse - has apparently dropped off the face of the Earth. Reported …
Unicorn Murders
Av Carter Dickson, John Dickson Carr
Häftad, 2026
150 kr
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The diplomat Sir George Ramsden is returning to Britain from France with the mysterious "unicorn" in tow. The legendary thief Flamande has declared that he will be on the same flight as Ramsden, in disguise, and that the unicorn will be his. His arch-rival and head of the Srete Nationale, Gasquet, …
Still Waters
Av E.C.R. Lorac
Häftad, 2025
150 kr
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Trouble is brewing once more for the Hoggetts and their friend Chief Inspector Macdonald in Lunesdale, deep in the Lancashire fell country. The treacherous slopes and still waters of a quarry pool have become the backdrop for strange happenings by night, and after an architect surveying the area is …
Jack on the Gallows Tree
Av Leo Bruce
Häftad, 2026
150 kr
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"If Carolus Deene catches so much as a whiff of murder he will be on the scent with all the persistence and gusto of a dachshund in search of truffles."While Senior History Master of Queen's School, Newminster, Carolus Deene has a troubling hobby as a criminologist and sometime sleuth. Even more …
Puzzles of the Parish
Short Tales of Ministers, Murder and Mystery
Av G. K. Chesterton, Michael Gilbert m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
142 kr
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"I think that it is desirable to discuss the affair - here, in the room in which the Bishop's body was found."A pernicious parson outwits the thieves of a priceless chalice from the parish treasury. A beloved vicar contemplates a perfect crime when a blackmailer comes knocking. Poisoned pen letters …
Crook o' Lune
A Lancashire Mystery
Av E.C.R. Lorac
Häftad, 2022
144 kr
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“I’m minded of the way a fire spreads in dry bracken when we burn it off the fellside: tongues of flame this way and that – ’tis human tongues and words that’s creeping like flames in brushwood.”It all began up at High Gimmerdale with the sheep-stealing, a hateful act in the shepherding lands …
Murder in the Basement
Häftad, 2021
130 kr
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When two newlyweds discover that a corpse has been buried in the basement of their new home, a gruelling case begins to trace the identity of the victim. With all avenues of investigation approaching exhaustion, a tenuous piece of evidence offers a chance for Chief Inspector Moresby and leads him …
Tea on Sunday
Häftad, 2024
144 kr
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On a cold winter's afternoon, Alberta Mansbridge waits at a table set with teacups for eight, musing over her guests. The ex-jailbird Barry, the nephew and his ghastly new flibbertijibbet of a wife, the Italian playboy, the old friend with whom she had so recently fallen out... Alberta returns …
Party at No 5
Häftad, 2026
142 kr
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Sharing your home with an unwanted guest can be murder.Elderly Mrs. Rampage lives alone in a large London house full of the antiques and heirlooms she's collected over the years. But she's struggling to cope, and as her only daughter lives thousands of miles away, she is persuaded to advertise for …
London Particular
Häftad, 2024
126 kr
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“You have to reach for the greatest of the Great Names (Agatha Christie, John Dickson Carr, Ellery Queen) to find Christianna Brand‘s rivals in the subtleties of the trade.”– Anthony Boucher in the New York TimesNight falls in the capital, and a “London particular” pea-souper fog envelops the city. …
Jumping Jenny
Häftad, 2022
138 kr
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'Mr. Anthony Berkeley deserves all gratitude for his energetic efforts to escape from the thraldom of formula... If you are hard-boiled and disillusioned about detectives, you will find this tale very refreshing.' - Dorothy L. SayersAt a costume party with the dubious theme of 'famous murderers and …
Santa Klaus Murder
A Christmas Crime Story
Inbunden, 2026
187 kr
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First published in 1936, this classic country-house mystery has enjoyed renewed success as part of the British Library Crime Classics series. Now, with an introduction by CWA Diamond Dagger Award–winning crime writer and President of the Detection Club, Martin Edwards, The Santa Klaus Murder is …
Double Turn
Av Carol Carnac, E. C. R. Lorac
Häftad, 2026
150 kr
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At Firenze, the reclusive artist Adrian Delafield's Florentine enclave in St John's Wood, the whispers of an impending tragedy are growing louder. The tension between the fanatical zealot of a housekeeper Miss Trimming and Delafield's sister Virgilia is just shy of fever pitch, when a cold morning …
Mysterious Mr. Badman
A Yorkshire Bibliomystery
Av W. F. Harvey
Häftad, 2022
138 kr
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On holiday in Keldstone visiting his nephew, Jim, blanket manufacturer Athelstan Digby agrees to look after the old bookshop on the ground floor of his lodgings while his hosts are away. On the first day of his tenure, a vicar, a chauffeur and an out-of-town stranger enquire after The Life and …
These Names Make Clues
Av E.C.R Lorac
Häftad, 2021
152 kr
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'Should detectives go to parties? Was it consistent with the dignity of the Yard? The inspector tossed for it-and went.'Chief Inspector Macdonald has been invited to a treasure hunt party at the house of Graham Coombe, the celebrated publisher of Murder by Mesmerism. Despite a handful of …
Death in Ambush
A Lost Christmas Murder Mystery
Häftad, 2025
150 kr
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In a tranquil Kentish village, Dr. Sandys and his wife are preparing for Christmas with their guest, Liane 'Lee' Craufurd. Festivities start badly when their party is spoiled by an enigmatic widow new to the village, and the atmosphere hits rock bottom when the pompous local nobleman and …
Two-Way Murder
Av E.C.R. Lorac
Häftad, 2021
126 kr
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A lost novel from the golden age of crime, published for the very first time.It happened on a dark and misty night; the night of the ball at The Prince’s Hall, Fordings. Abuzz with rumours surrounding the disappearance of Rosemary Reeve on the eve of last year’s ball, the date proves ill-fated …
Eat, Drink and Be Murdered
A Feast of Fatal Fare
Av Michael Gilbert, E.C. Bentley m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
139 kr
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A mouth-watering feast of crime fiction, including stories of mushroom murders, brown bread spread with bacillus botulinus, and tales in which the identity of killers is proved by a purchase of fillet steak or an inexpert knowledge of fine wines.This new collection from British Library Crime …
Judas Window
Av Carter Dickson, John Dickson Carr
Häftad, 2025
155 kr
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One of the greatest locked-room murder mysteries of all time, hailing from 1938, returns to baffle a new bevy of armchair detectives. James Answell, visiting his father-in-law Avery Hume in his locked study, has the misfortune to wake up from a drugged-Whisky swoon to find his host dead, skewered …
Scandalize My Name
Häftad, 2025
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144 kr
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"Caroline, too, stared out at the restless traffic, her mind's eye revolted by the memory of Ivan Sweet's pale cold face and the explosive malice that had seethed behind his dead brown eyes..."On the eve of Elaine Southey's 21st birthday, Ivan Sweet has been found dead in his flat in the basement …
Death on the Down Beat
An Orchestral Fantasy of Detection
Häftad, 2022
138 kr
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As a rousing Strauss piece is reaching its crescendo in Maningpool Civic Hall, the talented yet obnoxious conductor Sir Noel Grampian is shot dead in full view of the Municipal Orchestra and the audience. It was no secret that he had many enemies – musicians and music critics among them – but to be …
Ten Teacups
Av Carter Dickson, John Dickson Carr
Häftad, 2025
140 kr
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"There will be ten teacups at number 4, Berwick Terrace, W. 8, on Wednesday, July 31, at 5 p.m. precisely. The presence of the Metropolitan Police is respectfully requested."Writing as Carter Dickson, the master of the locked room mystery John Dickson Carr returns to the Crime Classics series, …
Black Spectacles
Häftad, 2023
138 kr
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A sinister case of deadly poisoned chocolates from Sodbury Cross’s high street shop haunts the group of friends and relatives assembled at Bellegarde, among the orchards of ‘peach-fancier’ Marcus Chesney. To prove a point about how the sweets could have been poisoned under the nose of the …
Castle Skull
A Rhineland Mystery
Häftad, 2019
126 kr
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'That is the case. Alison has been murdered. His blazing body was seen running about the battlements of Castle Skull.'And so a dark shadow looms over the Rhineland where Inspector Henri Bencolin and his accomplice Jeff Marle have arrived from Paris. Entreated by the Belgian financier D'Aunay to …
White Priory Murders
A Mystery for Christmas
Av Carter Dickson, John Dickson Carr
Häftad, 2022
139 kr
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James Bennett has been invited to stay at White Priory for Christmas among the retinue of the glamorous Hollywood actress Marcia Tait. Her producer, her lover, the playwright for her next hit and her agent are all here, soon to become so many suspects when Tait is found murdered on a cold December …
Seat of the Scornful
A Devon Mystery
Häftad, 2022
142 kr
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Over a long career in the courts Justice Horace Ireton has a garnered a reputation for merciless rulings and his dedication to meting out strict, impartial justice. Taking a break from his duty after a session of assizes, Ireton retreats to his seaside bungalow in Devon and turns his attention to …
