The Red Lamp by Mary Roberts Rinehart; Otto Penzler
$28.99 NZD
Category: Classic Crime
A professor tries to stop a murder spree, uncertain whether the culprit is man or ghost. An all-around skeptic when it comes to the supernatural, literature professor William Porter gives no credence to claims that Twin Towers, the seaside manor he's just inherited, might be haunted. He finds nothing m ...Show more
The Puzzle of the Happy Hooligan by Stuart Palmer; Otto Penzler
$28.99 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: A\Hildegarde Withers Mystery Ser.
After a screenwriter is murdered on a film set, a street-smart school teacher searches for the killer. Hildegarde Withers is just your average school teacher?with above-average skills in the art of deduction. The New Yorker often finds herself investigating crimes led only by her own meddlesome curiosi ...Show more
Home Sweet Homicide by Craig Rice; Otto Penzler
$29.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime
When your mom's a mystery writer, a talent for detection is only natural. So when the three children of prolific whodunit author Marion Carstairs become material witnesses in a neighborhood murder, they launch their own investigation. And why not? They know everything about baffling mysteries from readi ...Show more
Death from a Top Hat by Clayton Rawson; Anon; Otto Penzler
$28.99 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: A\Great Merlini Mystery Ser.
A detective steeped in the art of magic solves the mystifying murder of two occultists. Now retired from the tour circuit on which he made his name, master magician The Great Merlini spends his days running a magic shop in New York's Times Square and his nights moonlighting as a consultant for the NYPD ...Show more
The Unsuspected by Charlotte Armstrong; Otto Penzler
$28.99 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: American Mystery Classics Ser.
To catch a murderous theater impresario, a young woman takes a deadly new role The note discovered beside Rosaleen Wright's hanged body is full of reasons justifying her suicide--but it lacks her trademark vitality and wit, and, most importantly, her signature. So the note alone is far from enough to c ...Show more
Garnethill by Denise Mina
$26.00 NZD
Category: General Crime/Mystery | Series: Garnethill Ser.
With a new introduction by VAL McDERMID When psychiatric patient Maureen O'Donnell finds her boyfriend dead in her living room, she is faced with a difficult situation. Glasgow police view her as both a suspect and an unstable witness - and even her mother is convinced of her involvement. Feeling betray ...Show more
Bad Intentions by Karin Fossum
$28.00 NZD
Category: Scandinavian Crime & Thrillers | Series: Inspector Sejer
An outstanding psychological crime novel from Karin Fossum. When a body surfaces in a lake Inspector Sejer must uncover a dark secret of betrayal and paranoia.
This Mortal Boy by Fiona Kidman
$37.99 NZD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: very good
An utterly compelling recreation of the events that led to one of the last executions in New Zealand. Albert Black, known as the 'jukebox killer', was only twenty when he was convicted of murdering another young man in a fight at a milk bar in Auckland on 26 July 1955. His crime fuelled growing moral pa ...Show more
This Storm (#2 Second LA Quartet) by James Ellroy
$38.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: #2 in the second L.A. Quartet
From 'one of the great American writers of our time' (Los Angeles Times Book Review) - a brilliant historical crime novel, a pulse-pounding, as-it-happens narrative that unfolds in Los Angeles and Mexico in the wake of Pearl Harbor. New Year's Eve 1941, war has been declared and the Japanese internment ...Show more
Sherlock Holmes The Complete Novels and Stories Volume I by Arthur Conan Doyle
$18.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Bantam Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The eccentric detective Sherlock Holmes with the aid of Dr. Watson investigates strange and baffling mysteries.
Sherlock Holmes The Complete Novels and Stories Volume 2 by Sir Doyle
$18.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Bantam Classics Ser.
Sherlock HolmesThe Complete Novels and StoriesVolume IISince his first appearance in Beeton's Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created. Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam presents all fifty-six short stories ...Show more
Sanctum by Denise Mina
$26.00 NZD
Category: General Crime/Mystery
PERFECT WIFE. PERFECT KILLER? From the two-time winner of the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award Susie Harriot, a respected psychiatrist, has been convicted of the brutal murder of a serial killer in her care. It looks certain that she will be given a life sentence, depriving her of h ...Show more