Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey
$26.00 NZD
Category: Penguin Modern Crime Classics
An imposter has a fortune to win and his life to lose in this gripping country house mysteryA stranger enters the Ashby family home posing as Patrick Ashby, the heir to the family's sizeable fortune. The stranger, Brat Farrar, has been carefully coached on Patrick's mannerisms, appearance and every sign ...Show more
The Black Lizard by Edogawa Rampo
$26.00 NZD
Category: Penguin Modern Crime Classics | Series: Penguin Crime Ser.
One of the classic works by the master of Japanese detective fictionA super-criminal - as deadly as she is beautiful - wagers all in an epic battle with a master detective, Akechi Kogoro. No trick is too elaborate, no disguise too fantastic as the two perfectly matched antagonists take turns to outwit e ...Show more
Beast in the Shadows (Green Crime Modern Classics) by Edogawa Rampo
$26.00 NZD
Category: Penguin Modern Crime Classics
'The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect' Daily Telegraph A mystery writer turns detective to protect the woman he loves. But is he hunter or hunted?The chance meeting between a crime novelist and a married woman blossoms into friendship. When she co ...Show more
Maigret and the Headless Corpse: Inspector Maigret #47 by Georges Simenon
$26.00 NZD
Category: Penguin Modern Crime Classics
One of Inspector Maigret's strangest and most compelling cases, now part of a new crime series in Penguin Modern ClassicsThe discovery of a dismembered body in the Canal Saint Martin leads Maigret into a tangled, baffling case involving a taciturn bistro-owner and a mysterious inheritance.
Game Without Rules by Michael Gilbert
$26.00 NZD
Category: Penguin Modern Crime Classics
Two secret agents living in the English countryside try - and fail - to live a quiet life, in these hugely enjoyable crime storiesBehrens and Calder are two secret agents living in the English countryside, desperately seeking a quiet life. But despite their best efforts, they find themselves repeatedly ...Show more
SS-GB (Green Crime Modern Classics) by Len Deighton
$26.00 NZD
Category: Penguin Modern Crime Classics
A chilling alternative history in which the Nazis have conquered Britain, now in the iconic Penguin Crime seriesIt is 1941 and Germany has won the war. Britain is occupied, Churchill executed and the King imprisoned in the Tower of London. At Scotland Yard, Detective Inspector Archer tries to do his job ...Show more
The Drowning Pool (Green Crime Modern Classics) by Ross Macdonald
$26.00 NZD
Category: Penguin Modern Crime Classics
A gripping tale of adultery and murder served hard-boiled, now part of a new crime series in Penguin Modern ClassicsWhen Maude Slocum - beautiful, frightened and angry - comes to Lew Archer's office with a poison pen letter intended for her husband, he reluctantly agrees to help her. As he follows the S ...Show more
In a Lonely Place (Green Crime Modern Classics) by Dorothy B. Hughes
$26.00 NZD
Category: Penguin Modern Crime Classics
A chilling, stylish piece of LA noirAfter the war, cynical veteran Dix Steele has moved to L.A., a city terrified by a strangler preying on young women. Bumping into an old friend, now a detective working on the case, Dix is thrilled by closely following the progress of the police. And meeting his new n ...Show more
The Night of the Hunter (Green Crime Modern Classics) by Davis Grubb
$26.00 NZD
Category: Penguin Modern Crime Classics
A rediscovered diabolical slice of great American noir'What kind of a man would have his fingers tattooed that way? ... What kind of a man? What kind of a preacher?'One of the great chase novels, The Night of the Hunter centres on the ferocious, unforgettable figure of Preacher, a psychopath who relentl ...Show more
Other Paths to Glory by Anthony Price
$26.00 NZD
Category: Penguin Modern Crime Classics
A murderer targets British historians of the First World War in this 1974 classicPaul Mitchell spends his days researching the carnage of the First World War in the silence of the library. But his peace is shattered by an unexpected visit from a man with a fragment of a German trench map - and a lot of ...Show more
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 Mask of Dimitrios (Crime & Espionage Clasics) by Eric Ambler
$26.00 NZD
Category: Penguin Modern Crime Classics
An English novelist uncovers a trail of crime in Istanbul - and all roads lead to the mysterious master criminal DimitriosEnglish crime novelist Charles Latimer is travelling in Istanbul when he makes the acquaintance of Turkish police inspector Colonel Haki. It is from him that he first hears of the my ...Show more
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