Crime Classics Updated
to 2026
British Library Crime Classics
Since 2014, the British Library Crime Classics series has ushered the Golden Age of crime and mystery writing back into the limelight. Novels by beloved writers of the genre share the stage with the works of unjustly neglected authors, rediscovered in the stacks of the British Library’s collection. The series also contains a number of choice short story anthologies on classic themes such as impossible crimes, Christmas crimes and railway mysteries, edited by the award-winning crime author Martin Edwards.
This catalogue contains information on all of the new titles released in 2026, along with bibliographic details on previously published titles currently available to order from British Library Publishing.
A full list of all books published in the Crime Classics series can be found at issuu.com/bl_publishing.
The Santa Klaus Murder
Mavis Doriel Hay
Final cover TBC
Hardback £14.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 6946 6 282 pages, 216 x 138 mm
Publishing October 2026
Mavis Doriel Hay (1894–1979) was a novelist of the golden age of British crime fiction. Her three detective novels were published in the 1930s and are now rare and highly collectable books. She was an expert on rural handicraft and wrote several books on the subject.
First published in 1936, this classic country-house mystery has enjoyed renewed success as part of the British Library Crime Classics series. Now, with an introduction by CWA Diamond Dagger Award–winning crime writer and President of the Detection Club, Martin Edwards, The Santa Klaus Murder is given a third life as a beautiful hardback special edition – making this cosy whodunnit the perfect Christmas gift for any lover of ingenious puzzles.
At the Melbury family’s Christmas gathering at their country house, Flaxmere, the formidable family patriarch Sir Osmond Melbury is discovered dead by a guest dressed as Santa Klaus. Almost everyone present has something to gain from Sir Osmond’s death. As private accusations and longstanding resentments surface, the Chief Constable of Haulmshire begins his investigation, ruefully observing that he knows the family too well for his own good but perhaps not as well as he thought. Amid mistrust, hatred, and halfhidden truths, one startling fact comes to light: there was not one Santa Klaus at Flaxmere, but two.
Forthcoming British Library Crime Classics
Sky High
Michael Gilbert
For the villagers of Brimberley, the worst thing looming on the horizon is the chance of being outshone by the rival village choir – that is, until Brimberley’s lead tenor is blown up in his home by an explosion that rocks the whole community. The motorcycling choir leader Liz enlists her son and a retired general to help investigate the shocking murder.
First published in 1955, this classic village mystery showcases Gilbert’s clever plotting, sharp humour, and ability to blow the reader’s expectations sky high.
ISBN 978 0 7123 5594 0 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Publishing January 2026
The Double Turn
Carol Carnac
At the reclusive painter Adrian Delafield’s home, tension has been simmering away and two tenants have been found sprawled at either end of the staircase – one seriously injured, the other dead. The windows and doors were all secured from the inside, and yet Inspector Julian Rivers suspects a murder – a seemingly impossible crime.
Exploring art-world secrets, religious mania and family ties, this rare mystery novel by one of the great writers of classic British detective fiction makes its longawaited return to print.
ISBN 978 0 7123 6900 8 240 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Publishing February 2026
Airing in a Closed Carriage
Joseph Shearing
When Tyler meets his end from an overdose of arsenic – the drug which he prescribed himself as a kind of panacea – his wife May is dragged into a trial coloured by the public’s hunger to paint her as a beguiling murderess.
Based on the real-life trial of Florence Maybrick in 1899, this novel unfolds the gripping tale of a case clouded by sensation, its unsolved mysteries and the untold story of the human being at its heart. First published in 1943 and filmed as The Mark of Cain in 1947, this edition marks the return of a classic.
ISBN 978 0 7123 6910 7
496 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Publishing March 2026
Jack on the Gallows Tree
Leo Bruce
Senior History Master Carolus Deene has a troubling hobby as a criminologist and sometime sleuth. Even more troublingly, he has jaundice. But with the papers shouting of a crimewave sweeping the seaside resorts of England, sending him to the coast to recover is too risky for the Headmaster – he will be far away from trouble in the inland spa resort of Buddington.
But before long Buddington is rocked when two elderly women are found dead on the same night each with a white lily by their side. Perhaps things are looking up for the curious Deene?
ISBN 978 0 7123 6920 6
256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Publishing April 2026
The Unicorn Murders
Carter Dickson
A legendary thief and his arch-rival in the Sûreté Nationale compete to take ownership of the mysterious ‘unicorn’. When a storm forces an emergency landing, they take refuge at the Chateau de l’Ile, where ex-spy Kenwood Blake and Henry Merrivale get caught up in events. Cut off by floodwaters, the guests are drawn into a deadly battle of wits, as an apparently impossible murder reveals the true secret of the unicorn.
Carter Dickson’s brilliantly intricate mystery remains a testament to his unique talent for wrangling audacious levels of devilishness into a masterpiece.
ISBN 978 0 7123 6930 5 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Publishing May 2026
Puzzles of the Parish
Short Tales of Ministers, Murder and Mystery
Edited by Martin Edwards
A pernicious parson outwits the thieves of a priceless chalice from the parish treasury. A beloved vicar contemplates a perfect crime when a blackmailer comes knocking.
Gathered here in this new collection are some of the greatest mystery tales in which the tendrils of crime steal into the churchyard, featuring clergymen and nuns as victims, amateur sleuths and perpetrators of the devil’s work. This anthology delivers cosy brainteasers and fiendishly fashioned stories with a sting in the tail.
ISBN 978 0 7123 6940 4 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Publishing June 2026
The Magic-Lantern Murders
Carter Dickson
A fiendish, twisty-turny serving of ‘impossible crime’ that sees the return of characters Kenwood Blake, Evelyn Cheyne and Sir Henry Merrivale from The Unicorn Murders, this novel sees ex-secret agent Blake’s wedding plans interrupted as he is summoned by spymaster Merrivale to Devon to take part in an undercover operation – the starting point for a breathtaking chase around the West Country. Ideal for those who love John Dickson Carr and Christianna Brand, Agatha Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and The Honjin Murders by Seishi Yokomizo.
ISBN 978 0 7123 6955 8 304 pages, 190 x 130 mm Publishing July 2026
The Party at No 5
Shelley Smith
A tense, chilling story of two women trapped in a toxic, interdependent relationship that culminates in murder. This is the first novel by Shelley Smith, one of the great ‘lost’ authors of the 1940s and 1950s, in the series. Her writing stands out for its vivid yet nuanced characterisation, her mastery of plotting and her evocation of English suburban life. It’s perfect for those who love a mix of crime and psychological suspense, such as Josephine Tey’s To Love and Be Wise and Ruth Rendell’s A Judgement in Stone as well as None of This is True by Lisa Jewell and The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides.
ISBN 978 0 7123 6970 1 240 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Publishing August 2026
Eat, Drink and Be Murdered
A Food and Drink Anthology
Edited by Martin Edwards
This mouth-watering feast of short stories includes tales of mushroom murders, brown bread spread with bacillus botulinus, and tales in which the identity of killers is proved by a purchase of fillet steak or an inexpert knowledge of fine wines. This new collection, which includes an introduction by Martin Edwards, features some of the greatest mystery tales from the golden age of detective fiction to be based around food and drink. It includes stories from the likes of Dorothy L Sayers, Michael Gilbert and E C Bentley, and is sure to leave readers hungry and wanting more.
ISBN 978 0 7123 6985 5
352 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Publishing September 2026
Call a Hearse
A Lost Christmas Murder Mystery
Jonathan Stagge
There are just a few days to go till Christmas in snowy upstate New York and Dr Hugh Westlake is looking forward to enjoying the festive season with his daughter when a young woman arrives at his surgery. Asking for sleeping pills, she recounts that she’s being stalked by a New York City taxi – the same car that drove two of her friends to their deaths. And so begins the ultimate Christmas murder mystery, ideal for those who love festive crime stories such as Envious Casca by Georgette Heyer, The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L Sayers and Hercule Poirot’s Christmas by Agatha Christie.
ISBN 978 0 7123 6941 1
416 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Publishing October 2026
CALL A HEARSE
JONATHAN STAGGE
Sweet Revenge
Susan Gilruth
From the moment that Liane Crauford and her husband arrive in the Cornish fishing village of Poltruan, it’s obvious something is wrong. And when Sandra Cazalet, the beautiful but spoilt stepdaughter of Liane’s friend, is found dead, everyone in Poltruan is a suspect. Thankfully, detective Hugh Gordon, who’s on holiday in the village, is on hand to start asking questions – aided by Liane, his ‘Mrs Watson’ and new best friend. Can the unlikely duo unravel the mystery – or will their growing feelings for each other get in the way? Sweet Revenge is the first novel by Death in Ambush author Susan Gilruth.
ISBN 978 0 7123 6971 8
480 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Publishing November 2026
When the Devil Was Sick
Carol Carnac
Clere House is a place rife with superstition, and every Lammas Night a meal is laid out there for a ghostly monk, thought to haunt the building. But this year at Lammastide, the phantom’s repast is accompanied by Mrs Saint Claire, owner of the property, falling to her death. Then another corpse is discovered at Clere House – that of a man in monk’s costume. The gripping, page-turning story draws on superstition and the supernatural, and is ideal for those who love country-house murder mysteries such as Agatha Christie’s The Body in the Library and The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton.
ISBN 978 0 7123 6986 2
288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Publishing December 2026
WHEN THE DEVIL WAS SICK
CARNAC
SWEET REVENGE SUSAN GILRUTH
Still Waters
A Lake District Mystery
E C R Lorac
ISBN 9780712355346
240 pages, 190 x 130 mm
As If by Magic
Locked Room Mysteries and Other Miraculous Crimes
Edited by Martin Edwards
ISBN 9780712355636
352 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Death in High Heels
Christianna Brand
ISBN 9780712355247
256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
The Odd Flamingo
Nina Bawden
ISBN 9780712355438
256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Death in Ambush
A Lost Christmas Murder Mystery
Susan Gilruth
ISBN 9780712355889
288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
The Judas Window
Carter Dickson
ISBN 9780712355339
304 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Cyanide in the Sun
And Other Stories of Summertime Crime
Edited by Martin Edwards
ISBN 9780712355575
240 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Not to Be Taken
A Puzzle in Poison
Anthony Berkeley
ISBN 9780712355421
256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Cat and Mouse
A Mystery in
Wales
Christianna Brand
ISBN 9780712355520
256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
The Ten Teacups
Carter Dickson
ISBN 9780712355278
256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Scandalize My Name
Fiona Sinclair
ISBN 9780712355476
240 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Murder as a Fine Art
Carol Carnac
ISBN 9780712355179
240 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Tea on Sunday
Lettice Cooper
ISBN 9780712355667
272 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Metropolitan Mysteries
A Casebook of London’s Detectives
Edited
by Martin Edwards
ISBN 9780712355513
320 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Murder in Vienna
E C R Lorac
ISBN 9780712355612
240 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Mr. Pottermack’s Oversight
R Austin Freeman
ISBN 9780712355469
304 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Dramatic Murder
A Lost Christmas Murder Mystery
Elizabeth Anthony
ISBN 9780712355568
256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Tour de Force
Christianna Brand
ISBN 9780712355360
272 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Lessons in Crime
Academic Mysteries
Edited by Martin Edwards
ISBN 978 0 7123 5545 2
336 pages, 190 x 130 mm
A Telegram from Le Touquet
John Bude
ISBN 978 0 7123 5535 3 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Before the Fact
Adapted for film by Alfred Hitchcock as Suspicion
Francis Iles
ISBN 978 0 7123 5550 6 304 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Impact of Evidence
A Welsh Borders Mystery
Carol Carnac
ISBN 978 0 7123 5525 4 224 pages, 190 x 130 mm
London Particular
Christianna Brand
ISBN 978 0 7123 5540 7 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Fear Stalks the Village
Ethel Lina White
ISBN 978 0 7123 5530 8 304 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Someone from the Past
Margot Bennett
ISBN 978 0 7123 5473 8 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
The Theft of the Iron Dogs
A Lancashire Mystery
E C R Lorac
ISBN 978 0 7123 5463 9 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Big Ben Strikes Eleven
A London Mystery
David Magarshack
ISBN 978 0 7123 5483 7 336 pages, 190 x 130 mm
He Who Whispers
John Dickson Carr
ISBN 978 0 7123 5468 4 272 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Who Killed Father
Christmas?
And Other Seasonal Mysteries
Edited by Martin Edwards
ISBN 978 0 7123 5478 3 272 pages, 190 x 130 mm
The Wheel Spins
Adapted for film by Alfred Hitchcock as The Lady Vanishes
Ethel Lina White
ISBN 978 0 7123 5488 2 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Suddenly at His Residence
A Mystery in Kent
Christianna Brand
ISBN 978 0 7123 5423 3
240 pages, 190 x 130 mm
The Black Spectacles
John Dickson Carr
ISBN 978 0 7123 5482 0
272 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Crimes of Cymru
Classic Mystery Tales
of Wales
Edited by Martin Edwards
ISBN 978 0 7123 5408 0
288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Death of Mr Dodsley
A London Bibliomystery
John Ferguson
ISBN 978 0 7123 5472 1 304 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Twice Round the Clock
Billie Houston
ISBN 978 0 7123 5403 5
256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Death of an Author
E C R Lorac
ISBN 978 0 7123 5467 7
240 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Crook o’ Lune
A Lancashire Mystery
E C R Lorac
ISBN 978 0 7123 5486 8 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Final Acts
Theatrical Mysteries
Edited by Martin Edwards
ISBN 978 0 7123 5407 3 352 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Death of Jezebel
Christianna Brand
ISBN 978 0 7123 5491 2 224 pages, 190 x 130 mm
The White Priory Murders
A Mystery for Christmas
Carter Dickson
ISBN 978 0 7123 5422 6 272 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Death on the Down Beat
An Orchestral Fantasy of Detection
Sebastian Farr
ISBN 978 0 7123 5402 8 208 pages, 190 x 130 mm
The Mysterious Mr Badman
A Yorkshire Bibliomystery
W F Harvey
ISBN 978 0 7123 5437 0 208 pages, 190 x 130 mm
The Seat of the Scornful
A Devon Mystery
John Dickson Carr
ISBN 978 0 7123 5480 6
240 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Death of a Bookseller
Bernard J Farmer
ISBN 978 0 7123 5328 1
256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
The Edinburgh Mystery
And Other Tales of Scottish Crime
Edited by Martin Edwards
ISBN 978 0 7123 5485 1
272 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Post After Post-Mortem
An Oxfordshire Mystery
E C R Lorac
ISBN 978 0 7123 5475 2
304 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Green for Danger
Christianna Brand
ISBN 978 0 7123 5490 5
256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Jumping Jenny
Anthony Berkeley
ISBN 978 0 7123 5470 7
256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Murder in the Basement
Anthony Berkeley
ISBN 978 0 7123 5394 6
256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Till Death Do Us Part
John Dickson Carr
ISBN 978 0 7123 5379 3
256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Murder After Christmas
Rupert Latimer
ISBN 978 0 7123 5389 2
320 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Murder by the Book
Mysteries for Bibliophiles
Edited by Martin Edwards
ISBN 978 0 7123 5369 4
304 pages, 190 x 130 mm
These Names Make Clues E C R Lorac
ISBN 978 0 7123 5384 7
256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
The Widow of Bath
Margot Bennett
ISBN 978 0 7123 5374 8
256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Guilty Creatures
A Menagerie of Mysteries
Edited by Martin Edwards
ISBN 978 0 7123 5344 1 320 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Two-Way Murder
E C R Lorac
ISBN 978 0 7123 5383 0 240 pages, 190 x 130 mm
The Chianti Flask
Marie Belloc Lowndes
ISBN 978 0 7123 5329 8 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Murder’s a Swine
A Second World War Mystery
Nap Lombard
ISBN 978 0 7123 5378 6 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Due to a Death
Mary Kelly
ISBN 978 0 7123 5314 4 224 pages, 190 x 130 mm
The Corpse in the Waxworks
A Paris Mystery John Dickson Carr
ISBN 978 0 7123 5373 1
256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
The Lost Gallows
A London Mystery
John Dickson Carr
ISBN 978 0 7123 5363 2
256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
The Progress of a Crime
A Fireworks Night Mystery
Julian Symons
ISBN 978 0 7123 5372 4 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
A Surprise for Christmas
And Other Seasonal Mysteries
Edited by Martin Edwards
ISBN 978 0 7123 5337 3 320 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Checkmate to Murder
A Second World War Mystery
E C R Lorac
ISBN 978 0 7123 5352 6 224 pages, 190 x 130 mm
The Port of London Murders
Josephine
Bell
ISBN 978 0 7123 5361 8 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
The Man Who Didn’t Fly
Margot Bennett
ISBN 978 0 7123 5341 0 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Mystery in the Channel
Freeman Wills Crofts
ISBN 978 0 7123 5651 0
288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Settling Scores
Sporting Mysteries
Edited by Martin Edwards
ISBN 978 0 7123 5321 2
352 pages, 190 x 130 mm
The Spoilt Kill
A Staffordshire Mystery
Mary Kelly
Crossed Skis
An Alpine Mystery
Carol Carnac
ISBN 978 0 7123 5336 6
224 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Death in White Pyjamas
with Death Knows
No Calendar
John Bude
ISBN 978 0 7123 5316 8
448 pages, 190 x 130 mm
ISBN 978 0 7123 5331 1
256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Castle Skull
A Rhineland Mystery
John Dickson Carr
ISBN 978 0 7123 5326 7
240 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Mystery in White
A Christmas Crime Story
J Jefferson Farjeon
ISBN 978 0 7123 5770 8 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
The Measure of Malice
Scientific Detection Stories
Edited by Martin Edwards
ISBN 978 0 7123 5289 5 352 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Death in Fancy Dress
Anthony Gilbert
ISBN 978 0 7123 5340 3 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
It Walks by Night
A Paris Mystery
John Dickson Carr
ISBN 978 0 7123 5264 2 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
The Christmas Egg
A Seasonal Mystery
Mary Kelly
ISBN 978 0 7123 5310 6 224 pages, 190 x 130 mm
The Body in the Dumb River
A Yorkshire Mystery
George Bellairs
ISBN 978 0 7123 5214 7 208 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Fell Murder
A Lancashire Mystery
E C R Lorac
ISBN 978 0 7123 5204 8 240 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Surfeit of Suspects
George Bellairs
ISBN 978 0 7123 5238 3 224 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Deep Waters
Mysteries on the Waves
Edited by Martin Edwards
ISBN 978 0 7123 5288 8 368 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Death Has Deep Roots
A Second World War Mystery
Michael Gilbert
ISBN 978 0 7123 5228 4
288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Murder in the Mill-Race
A Devon Mystery
E C R Lorac
ISBN 978 0 7123 5268 0 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Death in Captivity
A Second World War Mystery
Michael Gilbert
ISBN 978 0 7123 5213 0 272 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Smallbone Deceased
A London Mystery
Michael Gilbert
ISBN 978 0 7123 5297 0
272 pages, 190 x 130 mm
The Division Bell Mystery
Ellen Wilkinson
ISBN 978 0 7123 5241 3
256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Antidote to Venom
Freeman Wills Crofts
ISBN 978 0 7123 5779 1
288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
The Arsenal Stadium Mystery
Leonard Gribble
ISBN 978 0 7123 5226 0
256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
The Z Murders
J Jefferson Farjeon
ISBN 978 0 7123 5621 3
256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
The 12.30 from Croydon
Freeman Wills Crofts
ISBN 978 0 7123 5649 7
352 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Fire in the Thatch
A Devon Mystery
E C R Lorac
ISBN 978 0 7123 5260 4
240 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Family Matters
Anthony Rolls
ISBN 978 0 7123 5669 5
256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
The Christmas Card Crime and Other Stories
Edited by Martin Edwards
ISBN 978 0 7123 5247 5
256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Murder by Matchlight
E C R Lorac
ISBN 978 0 7123 5222 2
256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Verdict of Twelve
Raymond Postgate
ISBN 978 0 7123 5674 9
256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Scarweather
Anthony Rolls
ISBN 978 0 7123 5664 0
272 pages, 190 x 130 mm
The Incredible Crime
A Cambridge Mystery
Lois Austen-Leigh
ISBN 978 0 7123 5602 2 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Continental Crimes
Edited by Martin Edwards
ISBN 978 0 7123 5679 4 352 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Sergeant Cluff Stands Firm
Gil North
The Methods of Sergeant Cluff
Gil North
ISBN 978 0 7123 5646 6 176 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Miraculous Mysteries
Edited by Martin Edwards
ISBN 978 0 7123 5673 2 328 pages, 190 x 130 mm
ISBN 978 0 7123 5647 3 176 pages, 190 x 130 mm
The Hog’s Back Mystery
Freeman Wills Crofts
ISBN 978 0 7123 5797 5 336 pages, 190 x 130 mm
The Murder of My Aunt
Richard Hull
Excellent Intentions
Richard Hull
ISBN 978 0 7123 5280 2 240 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Weekend at Thrackley
Alan Melville
ISBN 978 0 7123 5201 7 240 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Bats in the Belfry
A London Mystery
E C R Lorac
ISBN 978 0 7123 5211 6 240 pages, 190 x 130 mm
ISBN 978 0 7123 5255 0 240 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Blood on the Tracks
Railway Mysteries
Edited by Martin Edwards
ISBN 978 0 7123 5270 3 384 pages, 190 x 130 mm
The Notting Hill Mystery
Charles Warren Adams
ISBN 978 0 7123 5626 8 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Seven Dead
J Jefferson Farjeon
ISBN 978 0 7123 5688 6 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Calamity in Kent
John Rowland
ISBN 978 0 7123 5783 8 272 pages, 190 x 130 mm
The Long Arm of the Law
Classic Police Stories
Edited by Martin Edwards
ISBN 978 0 7123 5687 9 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Foreign Bodies
Edited by Martin Edwards
Somebody at the Door
Raymond Postgate
ISBN 978 0 7123 5235 2 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Death in the Tunnel
Miles Burton
ISBN 978 0 7123 5699 2 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
ISBN 978 0 7123 5641 1 224 pages, 190 x 130 mm
The Secret of High Eldersham
Miles Burton
ISBN 978 0 7123 5609 1
272 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Death on the Cherwell
Mavis Doriel Hay
ISBN 978 0 7123 5726 5
288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
The Poisoned Chocolates Case
Anthony Berkeley
ISBN 978 0 7123 5653 4
272 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Murder
Underground
Mavis Doriel Hay
ISBN 978 0 7123 5725 8
288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
The Santa Klaus Murder
Mavis Doriel Hay
ISBN 978 0 7123 5630 5
288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
The Sussex Downs Murder
John Bude
ISBN 978 0 7123 5796 8
288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
The Cornish Coast Murder
John Bude
The Lake District Murder
Death on the Riviera
ISBN 978 0 7123 5715 9
288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
The Cheltenham Square Murder
John Bude
ISBN 978 0 7123 5648 0
288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
John Bude
John Bude
ISBN 978 0 7123 5716 6
288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Portrait of a Murderer
A Christmas Crime Story
Anne Meredith
Hardback with jacket
ISBN 978 0 7123 5245 1
Paperback
ISBN 978 0 7123 5686 2
288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
ISBN 978 0 7123 5637 4
224 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Serpents in Eden Countryside Crimes
Edited by Martin Edwards
ISBN 978 0 7123 5794 4
304 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Crimson Snow
Winter Mysteries
Edited
by
Martin Edwards
ISBN 978 0 7123 5665 7
320 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Death of Anton
Alan Melville
Murder at the Manor
Country House Mysteries
Edited
by
Martin Edwards
ISBN 978 0 7123 0993 6 384 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Quick Curtain
Alan Melville
ISBN 978 0 7123 5788 3
288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
ISBN 978 0 7123 5789 0 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Murder of a Lady
A Scottish Mystery
Anthony Wynne
ISBN 978 0 7123 5623 7 272 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Silent Nights
Christmas Mysteries
Edited by Martin Edwards
ISBN 978 0 7123 5610 7 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Capital Crimes
London Mysteries
Edited by Martin Edwards
ISBN 978 0 7123 5749 4 320 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Resorting to Murder
Holiday Mysteries
Edited by Martin Edwards
ISBN 978 0 7123 5748 7 320 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Thirteen Guests
J Jefferson Farjeon
ISBN 978 0 7123 5601 5 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
The Golden Age of Classic Crime Puzzle Book
Kate Jackson
You may know your Marple from your Maigret, your Christie from your Chandler and your Wimsey from your Wexford, but just how much of a real classic crime expert are you?
This beautifully illustrated and painstakingly researched book will tax your grey cells to the limit with 50 quizzes made up of questions all about the writers, detectives and – of course – the victims from over 100 years of literature and on big and small screens. Rounds include Unusual Murder Methods (boiling, jellyfish, ice!), Agatha Christie’s Deadliest Rooms (you’ll be dying to find out) and European Crime Fiction (featuring Wallander, Wahlöö and Warsaw). There are multiple-choice quizzes, picture rounds and enough bonus questions to keep even the most rabid reader and sofa sleuth challenged and entertained.
Final cover TBC
Flexibound £14.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 6921 3
224 pages, 216 x 143 mm
40+ colour illustrations
Publishing October 2026
The Classic Crime Companion
Martin Edwards
This brand-new guide is a muchexpanded, revised and updated edition of The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books – winner of the Macavity award from Mystery Readers International for best book about the crime genre and shortlisted for four other awards in Britain and the US. Now drawing on 125 works of vintage crime, acclaimed author and editor Martin Edwards tells the story of how crime developed as a literary genre in Britain during the first half of the 20th century.
Final cover TBC
Hardback
£24.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 6995 4
320 pages, 234 x 156 mm
45+ colour illustrations
Publishing September 2026
Hardback with jacket £25
ISBN 978 0 7123 5696 1
Paperback £14.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5221 5
288 pages, 210 x 148 mm
New Edition
How to Survive a Classic Crime Novel
Kate Jackson
Paperback with flaps £12.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5438 7 192 pages, 190 x 130 mm
The Pocket Detective
100+ Puzzles
Compiled by Kate Jackson
Flexibound £7.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5296 3 144 pages, 155 x 100 mm
The Pocket Detective 2
100+ More Puzzles, Brainteasers and Conundrums
Compiled by Kate Jackson
Flexibound £8.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5315 1 160 pages, 155 x 100 mm
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