Classic Mysteries

Here are the stories that follow the classic format, including the golden age classics, the hardboiled private detectives, the police detectives and the amateur sleuths who stumble into shenanigans.

New Hardcovers

The latest detective fiction

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Country spotlight: Japan

Japan has a great tradition of murder mysteries, and many of them are now translated into English. They follow the rules of the great detective novels, and often involve either locked rooms, or settings on islands, or in remote country houses... 

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British Library Crime Classics

The British Library Crime Classics series, edited by Martin Edwards, makes novels and stories from the 1890s to 1960s available to the modern reader. A new title is published each month.

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Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie is still the best-selling fiction writer of all time, and new editions and collections are published regularly.

Secondary literature can be found on our About Agatha Christie page.

There are pages for the lovely special hardback editions, Miss Marple, Hercule Poirot, and the standalones.

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