Crime

Raymond Chandler - Trouble is my Business

Vintage Penguin Crime edition , 1962 reprint. Penguin number 741. Creasing and darkening to spine, slight curl to spine.    I need a man good-looking enough to pick up a dame who has a sense of...

Ngaio Marsh - Surfeit Of Lampreys (Vintage Penguin Crime PB - 1959) (Originally 1941)

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John Sweetman / The Crimean War (Coffee Table Book)

This bitter war between Russia and Turkey, aided by Britain and France, was the setting for the stuff of legends. This book details the gallant yet suicidal Charge of the Light Brigade, now...

Richard Platt / Crime Scene (Coffee Table Book)

A fascinating, richly illustrated introduction to the high-tech world of forensic science shows how the latest methods of scientific detection are used to uncover the truth about a crime scene to...

Frank Smyth / Real Life Crime (Coffee Table Book)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Marcello Fois / The Advocate

The incident occurred in N-oro, Sardinia, about a hundred years ago. A prosperous farmer was shot dead in his olive grove, and his hired hand, a young man called Zenobi, was found guilty In absentia...

Marion Todd / Next in Line

A murder victim with celebrity connections spells trouble for DI Clare Mackay... Gaby Fox is known to many due to her successful TV career, so when her brother and his pals hire the salubrious Lamond...

William M. Bass / Death's Acre

On a wooded hillside in Tennessee blowflies, bacteria and buzzards feast on human flesh, unhindered by coffins or mausoleums. They're buried in shallow graves; submerged in tanks of water; concealed...

Robert Edric / Swan Song

Hull, autumn 2005,  and private investigator Leo Rivers finds himself at the overheated heart of an inquiry into the savage killing of several young women. Approached by the mother of the chief...

Ellen Godfrey / Murder Behind Locked Doors

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David Baldacci / Walk the Wire

Amos Decker --? the FBI consultant with a perfect memory -- r eturns to solve a gruesome murder in a booming North Dakota oil town in the newest thriller in David Baldacci's #1 New York Times...

Agatha Christie / A Haunting in Venice

The inspiration for A Haunting in Venice - now a major motion picture. When a Hallowe'en party turns deadly, it falls to Hercule Poirot to unmask a murderer... During a night of party games, Joyce...

Mariah Stewart / Dead End

From New York Times bestselling author Mariah Stewart comes a novel of sexy romantic suspense for fans of Nora Roberts, Catherine Coulter, and Karen Robards. Bestselling author Mariah Stewart proved...

Carl Chinn / Peaky Blinders

The third book in the incredible Sunday Times bestselling series, which once again dives into Britain's murky underworld, uncovering the country's worst criminals in the mid-twentieth century    ...

Murder Squad / Best Eaten Cold

INCLUDING 'THE MESSAGE' BY MARGARET MURPHY AND 'LAPTOP' BY CATH STAINCLIFFE, BOTH WINNERS OF THE CWA SHORT STORY DAGGER AWARD 2012'Best Eaten Cold' and Other Stories showcases a group of highly...

Donn Cortez / CSI Miami Harm For the Holidays

Christmas in Miami is a time of good cheer for one and all – except, that is, for the members of the Miami-Dade Crime Lab. They have to deal with the Red Menace: the annual gathering of hundreds of...

Sue Grafton / Kinsey and Me

In 1982, Sue Grafton introduced us to Kinsey Millhone. Over thirty years later, Kinsey is an established international icon and Sue, a number-one bestselling author. To mark this anniversary, Sue has...

Robert F. Kennedy / Crimes Against Nature (Hardback)

Crimes against Nature reveals the hidden history behind three of the nation's first parklands: the Adirondacks, Yellowstone, and the Grand Canyon. Focusing on conservation's impact on local...

Elmore Leonard / Rum Punch (Hardback)

After 20 years as a flight attendant, Jackie is arrested with $50,000 when she lands at Palm Beach. The police know that Jackie works for a man who sells machine guns to bad guys but they don't know...

North Patterson / Conviction (Hardback)

When the body of eleven-year-old Thuy Sen is found in San Francisco Bay, the police swiftly charge Rennell and Payton Price with her grisly murder. A twelve-person jury, helped along by an...

Mark Timlin / Find My Way Home (Hardback)

When ex-cop Harry Stonehouse is found dead, Nick Sharman feels obliged to investigate the murder of his friend. However, his investigations get him involved in the aftermath of a #20 million heist...

Marek Krajewski / The Minotaur's Head (Hardback)

When Abwehr Captain Eberhard Mock is called from his New Year's Eve revelries to attend a particularly grisly crime scene, his notoriously robust stomach is turned. A young girl - and suspected spy -...

Agatha Christie / Sleeping Murder (Hardback)

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Vicky Halls / Cat Detective (Hardback)

Does your cat scratch your carpets? Or soil in the house? Or perhaps your cat's behaviour has changed recently - becoming withdrawn or aggressive towards you or another member of your family? Or...

Angela Gallop / How to Solve a Crime (Hardback)

Pre-order now: The gripping new book by the UK's most eminent forensic scientists, Angela Gallop__________CRIME [Noun]: An action or omission which constitutes an offence and is punishable by...

Mary Higgins Clark / The Cinderella Murder (Hardback)

In a first-time collaboration, 'Queen of Suspense' Mary Higgins Clark partners with bestselling author Alafair Burke to deliver a brand new suspense series about a television program featuring cold...

Philip Kerr / Field Grey (Hardback)

It's 1954 and Bernie has tired of his increasingly dangerous work spying on Meyer Lansky for Cuban Intelligence. He secretly buys a boat and sails to Florida, where he's arrested, sent back to Cuba...

Claudia Rowe / The Spider and the Fly (Hardback)

Winner of the Washington State Book Award for Memoir “Extraordinarily suspenseful and truly gut-wrenching. . . . A must-read.”—Gillian Flynn, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Gone Girl In...

Walter Mosley / Trouble Is What I Do (Hardback)

From innovative bestselling novelist Walter Mosley comes the return of the beloved Leonid McGill detective series featuring a morally ambiguous P.I. who solves crimes and whose victims are society's...

Anne Perry / Corridors of the Night (Hardback)

One night, in a corridor of the Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, nurse Hester Monk is approached by a terrified girl. She's from a hidden ward of children, all subject to frequent blood-letting, and...

Walter Mosley / When the Thrill is Gone (Hardback)

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Andrea Barton / A Killer Among Friends (Large Paperback)

The Jade Riley Mysteries - Book 2 Murder. Music. Company secrets.Soon after journalist Jade returns from abroad to her hometown, Melbourne, her friend Nick is found dead in a dumpster. She turns to...

Satu Ramo / The Grave in the Ice

THE BRILLIANT SECOND BOOK IN THE BESTSELLING HILDUR SERIES Detective Hildur Runarsdottir and her trainee Jakob are plagued by their own demons while working on the chilly west coast of Iceland:...

Agatha Christie - After the Funeral ( HB Foyle's Book Club Edition - 1954)

Time to bury the hatchet… In a dead man's sisterThere are certain things that are best left unsaid. Though tragedy had touched the life of the wealthy Richard Abernethie, his sudden death seemed...

Agatha Christie - Destination Unknown ( HB 1955 Foyle's Book Club Edition)

When a number of leading scientists disappear without trace, concern grows within the intelligence services. Are they being kidnapped? Blackmailed? One woman appears to hold the key to the mystery...

Agatha Christie - Hickory Dickory Dock ( HB - 1956)

There’s more than petty theft going on in a London youth hostel… An outbreak of kleptomania at a student hostel was not normally the sort of crime that aroused Hercule Poirot’s interest. But when he...

Agatha Christie - The Mystery of the Blue Train (Vintage Penguin Crime 1952)

The daughter of an American millionaire dies on a train en route for Nice…When the luxurious Blue Train arrives at Nice, a guard attempts to wake serene Ruth Kettering from her slumbers. But she will...

Agatha Christie - Problem at Pollensa Bay (and other stories) - PB - 1994

Paperback, published by Harper Collins UK , 1994 ( THIS PARTICULAR BOOK WAS PART OF A LARGER SET)  A collection of 8 short stories, mostly originally publsihed in the 1930's 

Mark Billingham - Sleepyhead - HB SIGNED NUMBERED 2OTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION - 2020

Hardcover, a handsome hardcover red cloth edition from Sphere UK, with printed text to page block ends ( NIGHT NIGHT), SIGNED AND NUMBERED (this being copy 868 of the numbered 1000) signed by the...

Agatha Christie - Elephants Can Remember - Vintage PAN PB ( Originally 1972)

Hercule Poirot is determined to solve an old husband and wife double murder that is still an open verdict...Hercule Poirot stood on the cliff-top. Here, many years earlier, there had been a tragic...

Richard Coles / Murder Under the Mistletoe: A Canon Clement Christmas Novella

It is Christmas Day and at Champton Rectory, Canon Daniel Clement and his mother Audrey are joined by the residents and guests of the big house to drink, eat and be merry.At the festive feast, peace...

Helen McCloy - He Never Came Back - (Vintage Penguin Crime PB 1961)

Pubished by Penguin Crime UK, 1961. Originally 1954.  Small ghostmark from an old sticker on front cover, some uneven darkening to spine and adjacent areas.  The tagline is ' a shortsighted girl buys...

Gerald Heard (H.F Heard) - A Taste For Honey - Vintage Penguin Crime - 1961

First published in 1942, this is the first Penguin UK CRIME PAPERBACK EDITION, 1961.  Three horizontal green and white bands, Penguin number 1624, Small areas of edgewear to head and tail of spine...

Walter Mosley / Blonde Faith (Hardback)

Easy Rawlins #11

Lisa Lutz / Heads You Lose (Large Paperback)

Stef Penney / The Beasts of Paris (Large Paperback)

In Paris 1870, three wandering souls find themselves in a city set to descend into war.Anne is a former patient from a women's asylum trying to carve out a new life for herself in a world that...

Stuart MacBride / A Song for the Dying (Hardback)

  Ash Henderson Novels - Book 2 - A Song for the Dying

Nicci French / Saturday Requiem (Hardback)

Frieda Klein #6

Janet Evanovich / The Recovery Agent (Hardback)

Recovery Agent #1

George P. Pelecanos / Drama City (Hardback)

In DRAMA

David Rosenfelt / Dead Center (Hardback)

Andy Carpenter #5

Dick Francis / Odds Against. (Vintage Paperback)

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