Family Matters

Anthony Rolls

• Paperback | British Library Crime Classics
• This richly characterised and elegantly written crime novel from 1933 is a true forgotten classic. Lees meer

Impact of Evidence: A Mystery in Wales

Carol Carnac

• Paperback | Engels | British Library Crime Classics
• 'It was a chill afternoon in February, and the sun was just setting in a rose-pink haze behind the tors of Creffyn…' In the Welsh borders, isolated by... Lees meer

Surfeit of Suspects

George Bellairs

• Paperback | British Library Crime Classics
• Superintendent Littlejohn is summoned to Surrey to investigate murder by explosion in Bellairs’ novel of small-town grudges with calamitous consequenc... Lees meer

Death in Captivity

Michael Gilbert

• Paperback | Engels | British Library Crime Classics
• Discover the captivating treasures buried in the British Library's archives. Largely inaccessible to the public until now, this classic crime novel, f... Lees meer

The Division Bell Mystery

Ellen Wilkinson

• Paperback | Engels | British Library Crime Classics
• Originally published in 1932, this was the only mystery novel to be written by Ellen Wilkinson, one of the first women to be elected to Parliament. Wi... Lees meer

Smallbone Deceased

Michael Gilbert

• Paperback | British Library Crime Classics
• A masterpiece of the genre in which Inspector Hazlerigg must unravel a gruesome murder at the heart of the double-crossing, high-stakes microcosm of a... Lees meer

The Santa Klaus Murder

Mavis Doriel Hay

• Paperback | British Library Crime Classics
• Aunt Mildred declared that no good could come of the Melbury family Christmas gatherings at their country residence Flaxmere. So when Sir Osmond Melbu... Lees meer

Portrait of a Murderer

Anne Meredith, Anthony Gilbert

• Paperback | British Library Crime Classics
• 'Powerful and impressive ... there is a fine inevitability in the plot structure which gives it true tragic quality' - Dorothy L. Sayers Adrian Gray w... Lees meer

Calamity in Kent

John Rowland

• Paperback | British Library Crime Classics
• In the peaceful seaside town of Broadgate, an impossible crime occurs. The operator of the cliff railway locks the empty carriage one evening; when he... Lees meer

Big Ben Strikes Eleven

David Magarshack

• Paperback | British Library Crime Classics
• First published in 1934, this novel is now extremely rare, and is long overdue its rediscovery. Lees meer

The Lake District Murder

John Bude

• Paperback | Engels | British Library Crime Classics
• When a body is found at an isolated garage, Inspector Meredith is drawn into a complex investigation where every clue leads to another puzzle: was thi... Lees meer

Antidote to Venom

Freeman Wills Crofts

• Paperback | British Library Crime Classics
• George Surridge, director of the Birmington Zoo, is a man with many worries: his marriage is collapsing; his finances are insecure; and an outbreak of... Lees meer

Murder by Matchlight

E. C. R. Lorac

• Paperback | British Library Crime Classics
• This atmospheric mystery set against the backdrop of 1945 blackout London sees Lorac's CID man MacDonald pit his considerable wits against a host of c... Lees meer

The Pocket Detective

• Paperback | British Library Crime Classics
• Polish off your magnifying glass and step into the shoes of your favourite detectives as you unlock tantalising clues and solve intricate puzzles. The... Lees meer

Crime Classics 102: he Edinburgh Mystery: And Other Tales of Scottish Crime

artin Edwards

• Paperback | Engels | British Library Crime Classics
• This new collection presents seventeen classic stories, spanning a period from the 1880s to the 1970s, by a host of Scottish authors alongside writers... Lees meer

Capital Crimes

• Paperback | British Library Crime Classics
• Capital Crimes is an eclectic collection of London-based crime stories, blending the familiar with the unexpected in a way that reflects the personali... Lees meer

Crime Classics 115: Suddenly at His Residence

Christianna Brand

• Paperback | Engels | British Library Crime Classics
• Also known by its American title The Crooked Wreath, this classic mystery novel from 1947 is loaded with sharply drawn characters and devilish misdire... Lees meer

Seven Dead

J. Jefferson Farjeon

• Paperback | Engels | British Library Crime Classics
• While hunting for silverware to steal, amateur thief Ted Lyte stumbles upon a locked room containing seven dead bodies.Seven Dead is an atmospheric cr... Lees meer

Murder Underground

Mavis Doriel Hay

• Paperback | British Library Crime Classics
• When Miss Pongleton is found murdered on the stairs of Belsize Park station, her fellow-boarders in the Frampton Hotel are not overwhelmed with grief ... Lees meer

Death on the Cherwell

Mavis Doriel Hay

• Paperback | British Library Crime Classics
• For Miss Cordell, principal of Persephone College, there are two great evils to be feared: unladylike behaviour among her students, and bad publicity ... Lees meer

Somebody at the Door

Raymond Postgate

• Paperback | Engels | British Library Crime Classics
• 'The death was an odd one, it was true; but there was after all no very clear reason to assume it was anything but natural.' First published in 1943, ... Lees meer

Surfeit of Suspects

George Bellairs

• Paperback | Engels | British Library Crime Classics
• Discover the captivating treasures buried in the British Library's archives. Largely inaccessible to the public until now, these enduring classics wer... Lees meer

Crime Classics: Castle Skull

John Dickson Carr

• Paperback | Engels | British Library Crime Classics
• That is the case. Alison has been murdered. His blazing body was seen running about the battlements of Castle Skull. And so a dark shadow looms over t... Lees meer

The Cornish Coast Murder

John Bude

• Paperback | Engels | British Library Crime Classics
• The Reverend Dodd, vicar of the quiet Cornish village of Boscawen, spends his evenings reading detective stories by the fireside - but the peace is sh... Lees meer