British Library Crime Classics
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The Ten Teacups
$15.99 Add to cartFirst published in 1937, this classic mystery shines on today as one of the great masterpieces of the impossible crime genre.
“There will be ten teacups at number 4, Berwick Terrace, W.8, on Wednesday,
- Series: British Library Crime Classics
- Author: Dickson, Carter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 1464253773
- Language: English
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Not to Be Taken: A Puzzle in Poison
$15.99 Read more“The murder is by arsenic; and although the number of suspects is strictly limited the construction is so ingenious that to attain the correct solution of the problem requires all the reader’s concent
- Series: British Library Crime Classics
- Author: Berkeley, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 26 2026
- ISBN10: 1464253803
- Language: English
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Murder as a Fine Art
$15.99 Read moreThis 1953 classic featuring Julian Rivers of Scotland Yard by Carol Carnac (a pen name of Edith Caroline Rivett, who also wrote under the name E. C. R. Lorac) was first published in Britain by Collins
- Series: British Library Crime Classics
- Author: Carnac, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 31 2026
- ISBN10: 1464253749
- Language: English
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Tea on Sunday
$15.99 Add to cartFirst published in 1973 but written in the vintage mystery mode by Lettice Cooper, Tea on Sunday draws on a life lived in Leeds and London to deliver an authentic, literary detective story with a well
- Series: British Library Crime Classics
- Author: Cooper, Lettice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1464253714
- Language: English
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Murder in Vienna
$15.99 Add to cartThis exceedingly rare mystery, first published in 1956, makes its triumphant return to print for the first time since its original appearance.
On a bright autumn morning, Superintendent Macdonald board
- Series: British Library Crime Classics
- Author: Lorac, E. C. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 1464253684
- Language: English
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Mr. Pottermack’s Oversight
$15.99 Add to cartOn a sultry afternoon in July, a man stumbles through thick foliage and rough ground, making for the coast. He wears prisoner’s garb and the guards are hot on his heels. Happening upon a bather’s clot
- Series: British Library Crime Classics
- Author: Freeman, R. Austin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1464237700
- Language: English
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Metropolitan Mysteries: A Casebook of London’s Detectives
$15.99 Add to cart“A welcome look at a distinctive turn in the history of detective fiction., the stories offer ample local color, highlighting for the most part the ordinary folk–shopkeepers, ticket-takers, hairdress
- Series: British Library Crime Classics
- Author: Edwards, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1464237735
- Language: English
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Who Killed Father Christmas?: And Other Seasonal Mysteries
$15.99 Add to cartThe answer to any classic crime fiction fan’s Christmas wish – and the only way for you to answer Who Killed Father Christmas? – this new anthology is set to muddle, befuddle, surprise and delight.
‘Th
- Series: British Library Crime Classics
- Author: Edwards, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1464230463
- Language: English
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Tour de Force
$15.99 Add to cartFirst published in 1955, Christianna Brand’s classic novel skewers the package holiday experience while unravelling one of the most audacious and devilish mysteries in the history of the genre. This e
- Series: British Library Crime Classics
- Author: Brand, Christianna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1464237670
- Language: English
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Lessons in Crime: Academic Mysteries
$15.99 Add to cartDelving into the stacks and tomes of the British Library collections, Martin Edwards invites you to a course on the darker side of scholarly ambition with an essential reading list of fifteen masterfu
- Series: British Library Crime Classics
- Author: Edwards, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 1464237646
- Language: English
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Before the Fact
$15.99 Add to cartUnsettling and gripping, this innovative classic first published in 1932 was the basis for Alfred Hitchcock’s film Suspicion, and remains an arresting and unique work of literary artistry. Anthony Ber
- Series: British Library Crime Classics
- Author: Iles, Francis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1464237611
- Language: English
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Big Ben Strikes Eleven: A London Mystery
$15.99 Add to cartSir Robert Boniface, the industrial and financial tycoon–and stalwart of the British Cabinet–has been found shot dead in his blue limousine on a warm Friday evening in the Vale of Health, Hampstead
- Series: British Library Crime Classics
- Author: Magarshack, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1464230404
- Language: English
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He Who Whispers
$15.99 Add to cart“Fiendishly ingenious…originally published in 1946, Carr upends the standard locked-room mystery by setting a murder in a totally exposed space: the top of a tower, in broad daylight, and with witne
- Series: British Library Crime Classics
- Author: Dickson Carr, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1464216479
- Language: English
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Death of Mr. Dodsley: A London Bibliomystery
$15.99 Read more“Golden Age fans with a taste for deferred gratification are in for another unexpected treat.”-Kirkus Reviews
A fair play, double twist mystery where a beloved London bookseller with a passion for rare
- Series: British Library Crime Classics
- Author: Ferguson, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 1464216290
- Language: English
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The Black Spectacles
$15.99 Add to cartEverything you could ever want in a Golden Age of Detective Fiction novel. — Booklist
Also known by its US title The Problem of the Green Capsule, this classic novel is widely regarded as one of John
- Series: British Library Crime Classics
- Author: Dickson Carr, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1464216320
- Language: English
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The Theft of the Iron Dogs: A Lancashire Mystery
$15.99 Add to cartFirst published in 1946 and set in the fell country of Lunesdale over the course of a rainy September, The Theft of the Iron Dogs is the very picture of a cosy crime mystery and showcases Lorac’s mast
- Series: British Library Crime Classics
- Author: Lorac, E. C. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1464216509
- Language: English
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Murder of a Lady: A Scottish Mystery
$14.99 Add to cartMystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder
“This 1931 novel, now republished as part of the British Library’s Crime Classics series, is a cunningly concocted locked-room mystery, a stapl
- Series: British Library Crime Classics
- Author: Wynne, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 02 2016
- ISBN10: 146420571X
- Language: English
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Miraculous Mysteries: Locked-Room Murders and Impossible Crimes
$14.99 Add to cartMystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder
“[R]eaders who appreciate careful plot development, slightly unusual detectives, and logical denouements will relish this volume.” —Library Jo
- Series: British Library Crime Classics
- Author: Edwards, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 358
- Publish Date: June 06 2017
- ISBN10: 1464207445
- Language: English
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The Santa Klaus Murder
$18.99 Read moreMystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder
“Despite its title, this British Library Crime Classics reissue of a 1936 novel isn’t just an entertaining Christmas read. It’s a fine example
- Series: British Library Crime Classics
- Author: Hay, Mavis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: October 06 2015
- ISBN10: 1464204950
- Language: English
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Till Death Do Us Part
$14.99 Add to cartThis “[Is a] nail-biting locked room puzzle…Carr’s gift for creating a creepy atmosphere again meshes with a brilliantly constructed and eminently fair whodunit.” — Publishers Weekly, Starred Revie
- Series: British Library Crime Classics
- Author: Dickson Carr, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1728261120
- Language: English
