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Another of the series' popular anthologies celebrating forgotten classics and material not printed since its original publication. Perfect bitesize holiday reading for the Classic Crime enthusiast and the casual sleuther alike, featuring mysteries focused on British holidays and abroad.

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A classic mystery reprinting for the first time since the 1950s copies of the original are extremely scarce. One of our reader favourites of the Crime Classics series returns, with the third Carnac novel starring Julian Rivers to join the Crime Classics series. From a London political setting, sending up the machinations of the civil service and the ego-driven world of fine art.

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One of the greatest locked-room mysteries of all time, often cited as the epitome of the sub-genre. Featuring Carter Dickson's signature flair for jaw-dropping twist after twist, especially in the novel's thrilling courtroom section. The Judas Window adds another Henry Merrivale classic to the series, alongside the immensely popular The White Priory Murders and The Ten Teacups.

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This intricate mystery from a classic writer is set in a superbly evoked London of the 1930s.

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Crimson Snow brings together a dozen vintage crime stories set in winter

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This theatrical Christmas murder, truly lost in the British Library collection, will provide entertainment throughout the festive season.A Christmas party on a private Scottish island gets off to a bad start in the latest addition to the British Library Crime Classics.

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This new collection gathers together stories written over a span of about 65 years, during which British society, and life in country houses, was transformed out of all recognition. It includes fascinating and unfamiliar twists on the classic 'closed circle' plot.

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Chief Inspector Brett Nightingale and Sergeant Beddoes find the body of Princess Olga Karukhin, who fled from Russia at the time of the Revolution. Taking place in the three days leading up to Christmas, Nightingale's enquiry takes him to a gramophone shop and a jewellers, culminating in the wrapping of the mystery on Christmas Eve.

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This book tells the story of crime fiction published during the first half of the twentieth century. The diversity of this much-loved genre is breathtaking, and so much greater than many critics have suggested.

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Jim Henderson is one of six guests summoned by the mysterious Edwin Carson, a collector of precious stones, to a weekend party at his country house, Thrackley.

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The eponymous nosy parker Miss Ethel Tither, who has made herself deeply unpopular by going out of her way to snoop on people, is found floating in a cesspool, having been bludgeoned prior to drowning in the drainage water. A case of murder and intrigue.

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The Female Detective introduces the first professional female detective in British fiction, Mrs Gladden. She uses similar methods to her male counterparts - enterring scenes of crime incognito, tracking down killers while trying to conceal her own tracks and her identity from others.