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Another Woman's Shoes - Based on Paul Temple and the Gilbert Case by Francis Durbridge; Melvyn Barnes (Introduction by)
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Collins Crime Club Ser.
This novelisation of the radio serial Paul Temple and the Gilbert Case also includes a bonus short story, 'Paul Temple and the Nightingale'. It was an open-and-shut case: Lucy Staines was murdered by her hot-headed fianc#65533; Harold Weldon. But something about it is troubling ex-Fleet Street crime rep ...Show more
Ask a Policeman (The Detection Club) by Detection Club Staff; Agatha Christie; Dorothy L. Sayers; Anthony Berkeley; Gladys Mitchell; Helen Simpson
$23.00 NZD
Category: Agatha Christie | Series: Collins Crime Club Ser.
This classic crime novel by six different authors is introduced by Martin Edwards, archivist of the Detection Club, and includes a never-before-published Preface by Agatha Christie, 'Detective Writers in England', in which she discusses her approach to writing and her fellow writers in the Detection Clu ...Show more
Beware of Johnny Washington: Based on 'Send for Paul Temple' by Francis Durbridge; Melvyn Barnes (Introduction by)
$23.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Collins Crime Club Ser.
Republished for the first time since 1951, Beware of Johnny Washington is Francis Durbridge's clever reworking of the very first Paul Temple radio serial using his new characters, the amiable Johnny Washington and newspaper columnist Verity Glyn. Includes as a bonus the first Paul Temple short story, 'A ...Show more
Bodies from the Library 2 - Forgotten Stories of Mystery and Suspense by the Queens of Crime and other Masters of Golden Age Detection by Tony Medawar (Editor)
$27.99 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Collins Crime Club Ser.
This anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together 15 tales from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including a newly discovered Gervase Fen novella by Edmund Crispin that has never previously been published. With the Golden Age of detective ficti ...Show more
Bodies from the Library 5: Forgotten Stories of Mystery and Suspense from the Golden Age of Detection by Tony Medawar (Editor)
$40.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Collins Crime Club Ser.
Classic crime fiction's 'Indiana Jones' Tony Medawar unearths more unpublished and uncollected stories from the Golden Age of suspense, including John Bude, John Dickson Carr, Dorothy L. Sayers and Julian Symons.The end of the First World War saw the rise of an insatiable public appetite for clever and ...Show more
Dead to the World - Based on Paul Temple and the Jonathan Mystery by Francis Durbridge; Melvyn Barnes (Introduction by)
$22.99 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Collins Crime Club Ser.
This novelisation of the radio serial Paul Temple and the Jonathan Mystery also includes a Paul Temple short story, 'The Ventriloquist's Doll'. Photographer and amateur detective Philip Holt is asked to investigate the unexplained murder of an American student at an English university. With a postcard s ...Show more
Death on the Way (#9 Inspector French) by Freeman Wills Crofts
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Collins Crime Club Ser.
To mark the publishing centenary of Freeman Wills Crofts, 'The King of Detective Story Writers', this is one of six classic crime novels being issued in 2020 featuring Inspector French, coming soon to television.Work on the widening of the Southern Railway's route along the Dorset coast is halted when a ...Show more
Design for Murder - Based on 'Paul Temple and the Gregory Affair' by Francis Durbridge; Melvyn Barnes (Introduction by)
$23.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Collins Crime Club Ser.
Never before published in paperback, and back in print for the first time since 1951, this long-lost novelisation reworks the nail-biting radio serial 'Paul Temple and the Gregory Affair' with new and original characters. The Assistant Commissioner of Scotland Yard visits retired Detective Lionel Wyatt ...Show more
Man Overboard! (#15 Inspector French) by Freeman Wills Crofts
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Collins Crime Club Ser.
To mark the publishing centenary of Freeman Wills Crofts, 'The King of Detective Story Writers', this is one of six classic crime novels being issued in 2020 featuring Inspector French, coming soon to television.When the Ulster Sovereign docks in Liverpool, one of its passengers from Belfast is missing. ...Show more
Mr Bowling Buys a Newspaper by Donald Henderson; Martin Edwards (Introduction by)
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Collins Crime Club Ser.
In Raymond Chandler's favourite novel, Mr Bowling buys the newspapers only to find out what the latest is on the murders he's just committed... Mr Bowling is getting away with murder. On each occasion he buys a newspaper to see whether anyone suspects him. But there is a war on, and the clues he leaves ...Show more
Six Against the Yard (a Detection Club Anthology) by The Detection Club; Margery Allingham, Anthony Berkeley, Freeman Wills Crofts, Ronald Knox, Dorothy L. Sayers and Russell Thorndike
$22.99 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Collins Crime Club Ser.
A unique anthology for crime aficionados - six 'perfect murder' stories written by the most accomplished crime writers of the 1930s, designed to fox real-life Scotland Yard Superintendent Cornish, who comments on whether or not these crimes could have genuinely been solved. Is the 'perfect murder' possi ...Show more
Sudden Death (#8 Inspector French) by Freeman Wills Crofts
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Collins Crime Club Ser.
To mark the publishing centenary of Freeman Wills Crofts, 'The King of Detective Story Writers', this is one of six classic crime novels being issued in 2020 featuring Inspector French, coming soon to television.Anne Day is the new housekeeper at Frayle, the home of Mr Grinsmead and his invalid wife. To ...Show more