The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
$14.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good-very good
Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep is the definitive hardboiled detective story and Philip Marlowe the perfect expression of the cynical, world-weary gumshoe. Hired by the crippled General Sternwood to shake off a blackmailer, Marlowe also has to deal with the general's two rebellious daughters, the gamb ...Show more
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
$21.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Classics Ser.
A collection of the most famous cases faced by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's peerless creation This collection of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes includes many of the famous cases - and great strokes of brilliance - that made the legendary detective one of fiction's mos ...Show more
Something Fishy by Shane Maloney
$29.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Murray Whelan
The Hon. Murray Whelan MP. Respectability at last. And true love, what's more, in the person of the salty-tongued Lyndal Luscombe-who has in her possession a highly significant ultrasound photo. There must be a catch. And Murray's about to reel it in.
Death in Fancy Dress by Anthony Gilbert
$24.00 NZD
Category: British Library Crime Classics
With an introduction by Martin Edwards and featuring the short stories 'Horseshoes for Luck' and 'The Cockroach and the Tortoise'The British Secret Service, working to uncover a large-scale blackmail ring and catch its mysterious mastermind 'The Spider', find themselves at the country residence Feltham ...Show more
The Division Bell Mystery by Ellen Wilkinson
$25.00 NZD
Category: British Library Crime Classics
Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder'Wilkinson deftly tacks between satirizing the stolid Ministers who get ensnared in these crimes and plotting a sturdy detective story.' --Kirkus Reviews'Through the double clamour of Big Ben and the shrill sound of the bell rang a revolver shot.' ...Show more
Fire in the ThatchA Devon Mystery by E. C. R. Lorac
$26.00 NZD
Category: British Library Crime Classics
"The Second World War is drawing to a close. Nicholas Vaughan, released from the army after an accident, takes refuge in Devon - renting a thatched cottage in the beautiful countryside at Mallory Fitzjohn. Vaughan sets to work farming the land, rearing geese and renovating the cottage. Hard work and rur ...Show more
Foreign Bodies by Martin Edwards
$26.00 NZD
Category: British Library Crime Classics
"Today, translated crime fiction is in vogue -- but this was not always the case. A century before Scandi noir, writers across Europe and beyond were publishing detective stories of high quality. Often these did not appear in English and they have been known only by a small number of experts. This is th ...Show more
Plain Murder by C. S. Forester
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
At the Universal Advertising Agency on the Strand, London, a murder is being planned. Three men have been discovered taking bribes and face the grim prospect of the dole queue, unless they can get rid of the person who caught them. Their ringleader, thick-set and vicious Mr Morris, soon discovers that k ...Show more
A Modern Detective : Little Black Classic by Edgar Allan Poe
$5.99 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics | Reading Level: very good
In these two stories gentleman sleuth C. Auguste Dupin, the first fictional detective, investigates the death of a young girl and the grisly murders in the Rue Morgue.
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
$14.99 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Daniel Defoe's bawdy tale of a woman's struggle for independence and redemption, "Moll Flanders" is edited with an introduction and notes by David Blewett in "Penguin Classics". Born in Newgate prison and abandoned six months later, Moll Flanders' drive to find and hold on to a secure place in society p ...Show more
Miss Kopp’s Midnight Confessions (Constance Kopp #3) by Amy Stewart
$37.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime
The best-selling author of Girl Waits with Gun and Lady Cop Makes Trouble continues her extraordinary journey into the real lives of the forgotten but fabulous Kopp sisters.Deputy sheriff Constance Kopp is outraged to see young women brought into the Hackensack jail over dubious charges of waywardness, ...Show more
Maigret and the Headless Corpse : Inspector Maigret #47 by Georges Simenon; Howard Curtis (Translator)
$21.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Inspector Maigret Ser.
"One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories." --The GuardianA man's dismembered body is found in a canal, and only Maigret can uncover the killer Whe ...Show more