Crime Fiction Paperbacks Catalogue
(October 2004)

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Crime Fiction Reference Books

The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Modern Crime Fiction
compiled by Mike ASHLEY
Robinson, New, a great resource Author A-Z with more than 500 entries.
£9.99

Crime Fiction Authors A - Z

AIRD Catherine
Henrietta Who?, Corgi 1988, Very Good, £5.00
His Burial Too, Fontana 1974, Very Good, £4.00
A Late Phoenix, Corgi 1987, Very Good, £5.00
Stiff News, Pan 2000, New, Sloan investigates death in an army retirement home £5.99
Chapter and Hearse and Other Mysteries Pan New a range of Insp Sloan Investigations £6.99

ALEXANDER Bruce
An Experiment in Treason Berkley Prime Crime 2003 NEW Sir John Fielding £5.60

ALLINGHAM Margery
Cargo of Eagles Penguin rep 1972 Very Good £4.50
The Case of the Late Pig, Penguin rep, Tv tie-in with Peter Davison, Very Good, £4.50
The Crime at Black Dudley Penguin rep 1971 Very Good £4.50
The Fashion in Shrouds Penguin Classic Crime Fine £4.00
The Mind Readers, Penguin Classic Crime 1987, B format, Very Good, £4.00
Sweet Danger Penguin rep 1972 Very Good £4.50
The Tiger in the Smoke Penguin Classic Crime rep Fine £4.00
The Tiger in the Smoke Penguin rep 1961 Good £3.50

AMES Delano
Corpse Diplomatique, Penguin #1804 1st 1962, Very Good, £4.00

APPLEBY John
Aphrodite Means Death, Penguin #1009 1st 1954, Very Good, £4.00

ARTHUR Frank
The Suva Harbour Mystery Penguin #664 1st thus 1948 Good £4.00

ASHLEY Mike ed
The Mammoth Book of Egyptian Whodunits,
Robinson rep, New, Mystery and murder through the sands of time,
£7.99
The Mammoth Book of Locked-Room Mysteries and Impossible Crimes,
Robinson 2000 rep, New, great value,
£7.99
The Mammoth Book of Roaring Twenties Whodunits,
Robinson 2004, New, murder mysteries from the age of bright young things,
£7.99
The Mammoth Book of Roman Whodunits,
with an introduction by Steven Saylor, Robinson 2003, NEW 525pp,
£6.99

BANVILLE Vincent
Death by Design No Exit Press 1993 Fine set in the back streets of Dublin hardboiled £3.50

BARRON Stephanie
Jane and the Prisoner of Wool House, Bantam 2002, the sixth Jane Austen Mystery, NEW, £6.50
Jane and the Ghosts of Netley Bantam 2004 New £5.60

BASTABLE Bernard
Too Many Notes, Mr Mozart Warner Books 1998 Fine £3.50

BATEMAN Colin
Murphy’s Law, Headline 4th as new, Detective Murphy is mad and bad,
Described as a cross between Roddy Doyle and Carl Hiasson, £3.50

BENTLEY E.C. and H. Warner ALLEN
Trent’s Own Case Penguin #543 1st 1946 Very Good £6.00

BENTON Kenneth
Death on the Appian Way, New English Library 1977, scarce,
featuring Cicero and Claudius in an intense political thriller, Fine, £4.50

BERKELEY Anthony
Death in the House Stratus New the Secretary of State for India dies in the House of Commons £6.99
Jumping Jenny, Penguin reprint 1947, Very Good, £10.00
Jumping Jenny Stratus New Roger Sheringham is at a fancy dress party where the
Theme is murderers and victims £6.99
Murder in the Basement Stratus New Roger Sheringham is investigating a case in
Which a body is found in a basement £6.99
Not to be Taken Stratus New Douglas Sewell finds his brother has died from arsenic
Poisoning and he investigates to find out why £6.99
Panic Party Stratus New Mr Pidgeon owns a large yacht and a desert island. He
conducts an experiment involving Roger Sheringham £6.99
Piccadilly Murder Stratus New Prussic acid is not usually served at the Piccadilly
Palace Hotel £6.99
Poisoned Chocolates Case Stratus New probably the most famous Roger Sheringham
deduction £6.99
Roger Sheringham and the Vane Mystery Stratus New Mrs Vane is found dead at
the bottom of a cliff £6.99
The Second Shot Stratus New Sheringham tackles the mysterious death of Eric
Scott Davies £6.99
Top Storey Murder Stratus New Roger Sheringham finds the top floor flat at
Monmouth Mansions has been burgled and the occupant murdered £6.99
Trial and Error, Penguin #590 1st 1947, Very Good, £10.00
Trial and Error, Penguin #590 reprint 1954, Good, spine slant, £8.00
Trial and Error Stratus NewTodhunter commits a murder and has to prove he is
Guilty £6.99

BLOCK Lawrence
Ariel Carroll & Graf, US 1997, Fine, £4.00
The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling, No Exit Press, Fine, £4.00
The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian, No Exit, reprint, Very Good, £4.00
The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart, No Exit Press 1996, Very Good, £4.00
A Dance at the Slaughterhouse, Orion 1995, Very Good, a Matt Scudder Mystery, £4.50
A Long Line of Dead Men, Orion 1999, Fine, a Matt Scudder mystery, £4.00
Time to Murder and Create, Orion 1999, Very Good, a Matt Scudder mystery, £4.00

BOLITHO Janie
The Cornish Novels, a Rose Trevelyan trilogy, comprising:
Snapped in Cornwall, Framed in Cornwall and Buried in Cornwall, Alison and Busby 2003, New, £10.99


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