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A Voice Like Velvet by Donald Henderson; Martin Edwards (Introduction by)
$0.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Detective Club Crime Classics Ser.
A sensational wartime crime novel about a BBC announcer who abuses his position to commit crimes against the rich and famous... By day Ernest Bisham is a velvet-voiced announcer for the BBC; the whole country recognises the sound of his meticulous pronouncements. By night, however, Mr Bisham is a cat-bu ...Show more
A Voice Like Velvet (Detective Club Crime Classics) by Donald Henderson; Martin Edwards (Introduction by)
$23.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Detective Club Crime Classics Ser.
A sensational wartime crime novel about a BBC announcer who abuses his position to commit crimes against the rich and famous... By day Ernest Bisham is a velvet-voiced announcer for the BBC; the whole country recognises the sound of his meticulous pronouncements. By night, however, Mr Bisham is a cat-bu ...Show more
Below the Clock by J. V. Turner; David Brawn (Introduction by)
$22.99 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Detective Club Crime Classics Ser.
A classic Golden Age detective novel set at the heart of Westminster, when the murder of the Chancellor of the Exchequer threatens to topple the whole House of Cards... Many highly dramatic and historic scenes have been enacted below the clock of Big Ben, but none more sensational than on that April aft ...Show more
Dark Days by Hugh Conway; Andrew Lang; David Brawn (Introduction by)
$29.99 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Detective Club Crime Classics Ser.
A 'shilling shocker' from the late 19th century, a macabre novel of murder and its consequences, originally published as a Christmas Annual for adults and now reissued complete with a hilarious parody by satirist Andrew Lang released the same Christmas. In the eyes of the law, murder is murder. When Dr ...Show more
Murder in the Bookshop by Carolyn Wells; Curtis Evans (Introduction by)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Detective Club Crime Classics Ser.
Book 50 in the Detective Club Crime Classics series is Carolyn Wells' Murder in the Bookshop, a classic locked room murder mystery which will have a special resonance for lovers and collectors of Golden Age detective fiction. Includes a bonus murder story: 'The Shakespeare Title-Page Mystery'. When Phil ...Show more
The Bravo of London - And 'the Specimen Case' by Ernest Bramah; Tony Medawar (Introduction by)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Detective Club Crime Classics Ser.
The classic crime novel featuring blind detective Max Carrados, whose popularity rivalled that of Sherlock Holmes, complete with a new introduction and an extra short story.In his dark little curio shop Julian Joolby is weaving an extravagant scheme to smash the financial machinery of the world by flood ...Show more
The Case of the Gilded Fly by Edmund Crispin; Douglas G. Greene (Introduction by)
$22.99 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Detective Club Crime Classics Ser.
The very first case for Oxford-based sleuth Gervase Fen, one of the last of the great Golden Age detectives. As inventive as Agatha Christie, as hilarious as P.G. Wodehouse, this is the perfect entry point to discover the delightful detective stories of Edmund Crispin - crime fiction at its quirkiest an ...Show more
The Crime Club by Frank Froest; George Dilnot; David Brawn (Introduction by)
$29.99 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Detective Club Crime Classics Ser.
The Detective Story Club's first short story anthology is based around a London detective club and includes three newly discovered tales unpublished for 100 years, plus a story bearing an uncanny resemblance to a Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes story but written some seven years earlier.'You will seek in va ...Show more
The Deductions of Colonel Gore by Lynn Brock; Rob Reef (Introduction by)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Detective Club Crime Classics Ser.
This brand new edition of the first novel to feature the officer and gentleman detective Colonel Wickham Gore includes the first ever reprint of the only Colonel Gore novella, Too Much Imagination. Colonel Gore is reunited with old friends at a dinner party to mark his return from service in Africa, but ...Show more
The Groote Park Murder by Freeman Wills Crofts
$29.99 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Detective Club Crime Classics Ser.
From a murder in South Africa to the tracking down of a master criminal in northern Scotland, this is a true classic of Golden Age detective fiction by one of its most accomplished champions. When a signalman discovers a mutilated body inside a railway tunnel near Groote Park, it seems to be a straightf ...Show more
The Leavenworth Case by Anna K. Green; John Curran (Introduction by)
$32.99 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Detective Club Crime Classics Ser.
THIS DETECTIVE STORY CLUB CLASSIC is introduced by Dr John Curran, who looks at how Anna Katherine Green was a pioneer who inspired a new generation of crime writers, in particular a young woman named Agatha Christie. When the retired merchant Horatio Leavenworth is found shot dead in his mansion librar ...Show more
The Lyttleton Case by R. A. V. Morris; Douglas A. Anderson (Introduction by)
$27.99 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Detective Club Crime Classics Ser.
The latest in the series of classic crime novels from the vaults of HarperCollins for the detective connoisseur is the only novel by the Welsh writer R.A.V. Morris. The chance discovery of a young man's body floating in a Sussex stream provides the first clue to the mysterious disappearance of Sir James ...Show more