Cotton Comes to Harlem (Green Crime Modern Classics) by Chester Himes
$26.00 NZD
Category: Penguin Modern Crime Classics
Scams, heists and murders abound in a high-energy caper from one of the great Black American crime writers, now part of a new crime series in Penguin Modern ClassicsA preacher called Deke O'Malley's been selling false hope- the promise of a glorious new life in Africa for just $1,000 a family. But when ...Show more
The Heat's On by Chester B. Himes
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'The greatest find in American crime fiction since Raymond Chandler' Sunday Times Detectives Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones have lost two criminals. Pinky ran off - but it shouldn't be hard to track down a giant albino in Harlem. Jake the drug dealer, though, isn't coming back - he died after Grave D ...Show more
The Real Cool Killers by Chester B. Himes
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'The toughest crime stories in print' Sunday Times The night's over for Ulysses Galen. It started going bad for the big Greek when a knife was drawn, then there was an axe, then he was being chased and shot at. Now Galen is lying dead in the middle of a Harlem street. But the night's just beginning for ...Show more
Payment Deferred (Crime & Espionage Claasics) by C. S. Forester
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Penguin Crime Ser.
A twisting psychological thriller of a family caught in a murderous trap of their own makingMr Marble is in serious debt, desperate for money to pay his family's bills, until the combination of a wealthy relative, a bottle of Cyanide and a shovel offer him the perfect solution. Slowly the Marble family ...Show more
Sleeping Dog by Dick Lochte
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime
A darkly comic thriller following a cynical LA gumshoe who makes the catastrophic mistake of helping a 14-year-old find her dog . . .Serendipity Dahlquist is a headstrong roller-blading 14-year-old living in LA who has lost her dog. She asks private investigator Leo Bloodworth to help her find the missi ...Show more
The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely (Crime & Espionage Classics) by Raymond Chandler
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime
Two great novels featuring hard-boiled Californian detective Philip MarloweRaymond Chandler created the fast talking, trouble seeking Californian private eye Philip Marlowe for his first great novel The Big Sleep in 1939. Marlowe's entanglement with the Sternwood family - and an attendant cast of colour ...Show more
Murder on the Mauretania (Ocean Liner Mysteries #2) by Edward Marston
$28.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Ocean Liner Mysteries Ser.
November 1907. George Dillman and Genevieve Masefield sail from Liverpool on the maiden voyage of the Mauretania. While posing as a passenger George is in fact an undercover detective hired by the Cunard Line. Dillman and Genevieve endure a nightmare voyage during which severe weather batters the vessel ...Show more
The Wheel Spins by Ethel Lina White
$26.00 NZD
Category: British Library Crime Classics
'Then the rhythm of the train changed, and she seemed to be sliding backwards down a long slope. Click-click-click-click. The wheels rattled over the rails, with a sound of castanets.' Iris Carr's holiday in the mountains of a remote corner of Europe has come to an end, and since her friends left two d ...Show more
Poirot Investigates - Large Print Edition by Agatha Christie; Mint Editions (Contribution by)
$50.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Mint Editions (Crime, Thrillers and Detective Work) Ser.
In the eleven short stories of Poirot Investigates, famed eccentric detective Hercule Poirot solves a variety of mysteries involving greed, jealousy, and revenge.
The Penguin Book of Murder Mysteries by Michael Sims
$48.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime
For classic murder mystery readers, a scintillating anthology of lost treasures to read alongside Edgar Allan Poe and Sherlock Holmes A Penguin Classic For The Penguin Book of Murder Mysteries, writer and anthologist Michael Sims did not summon the usual suspects. He sought the unfamiliar, the unjustly ...Show more
The Canary Murder Case by S. S. Van Dine; Leslie S. Klinger (Editor)
$30.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Library of Congress Crime Classics Ser.
At the height if his popularity, S.S. Vane Dine pens a locked-room mystery with a lethal dose of sex and sin where infamous actress, "The Canary," is murdered in her cage after a passionate night with her lover. Margaret Odell, the famous Broadway beauty and ex-Follies girl known as "The Canary", is fo ...Show more
Five Little Pigs (Special Edition) (Poirot #24) by Agatha Christie
$35.00 NZD
Category: Agatha Christie | Series: Poirot Ser.
Agatha Christie's ingenious murder mystery, now presented as a sumptuous special edition hardback. Beautiful Caroline Crale was convicted of poisoning her husband, yet there were five other suspects: Philip Blake (the stockbroker) who went to market; Meredith Blake (the amateur herbalist) who stayed at ...Show more