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Classic Crime Novels
LP 05141 ANATOMY OF A MURDER
AUTHOR: TRAVER, ROBERT
ABSTRACT: A suspenseful account of a murder and the trial which followed it, as seen by the criminal lawyer who defends the accused.
LP 03819 BLACK AS HE'S PAINTED
AUTHOR: MARSH, NGAIO
ABSTRACT: The president of an African republic plans a good-will mission to England, but someone seems intent on including murder in his itinerary.
Inspector Alleyn of Scotland Yard, finds himself in a ticklish predicament. LP 01222 THE BODY IN THE LIBRARY
AUTHOR: CHRISTIE, AGATHA
ABSTRACT: The body of a dancing hostess from a seaside resort turns up in the library of a married colonel. Miss Marple is her customary uncanny self in aiding the local police find the killer.
LP 03231 THE CASE BOOK OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
AUTHOR: DOYLE, ARTHUR CONAN
ABSTRACT: This final volume of cases completes the amazing career of
Sherlock Holmes.
LP 04062 THE CASE OF THE CARELESS CUPID
AUTHOR: GARDNER, ERLE STANLEY
ABSTRACT: A widow in distress, her attentive wealthy swain and his
overly-protective nieces and nephews are involved as Mrs. Anson, the widow, comes to Perry Mason for advice.
LP 04541 THE CASE OF THE DARING DECOY
AUTHOR: GARDNER, ERLE STANLEY
ABSTRACT: A company chief with an enemy, a series of mysterious warning phone calls from an unknown female, a couple of guns and a very dead
generously curved blonde--a murder case that is almost too hot to handle, but not for Perry Mason.
LP 04593 THE CASE OF THE DUPLICATE DAUGHTER
AUTHOR: GARDNER, ERLE STANLEY
ABSTRACT: Being warned off a case by an unsavory detective just made
Perry Mason more anxious than ever to find out if Carter Gilman's wife was really being blackmailed, and why.
LP 01274 THE CASE OF THE HORRIFIED HEIRS
AUTHOR: GARDNER, ERLE STANLEY
ABSTRACT: The case of the Horrified Heirs finds Perry Mason trying to
solve the mystery surrounding a wealthy widow who gets ill from eating the wrong food.
LP 01275 THE CASE OF THE LAZY LOVER
AUTHOR: GARDNER, ERLE STANLEY
ABSTRACT: A unexplained check from a wealthy matron, her angry husband Who says she has run off with his best friend, and a man found dead in a
car—just the sort of case for Perry Mason.
LP 01276 THE CASE OF THE SUBSTITUTE FACE
AUTHOR: GARDNER, ERLE STANLEY
ABSTRACT: Perry Mason, the famous criminal lawyer, is returning from an Hawaiian holiday with his assistant, Della Street, when they encounter a
shipboard murder.
LP 01224 THE CLOCKS
AUTHOR: CHRISTIE, AGATHA
ABSTRACT: Young Colin Lamb, working on an espionage case, happens on a murder which has more than its share of baffling clues. Eventually Hercule Poirot sifts out the relevant details, and Colin also catches his spy.
LP 00347 COVER HER FACE
AUTHOR: JAMES, P. D.
ABSTRACT: A sly and sensuous young woman who had used body and her brains to make her way up the social ladder is found strangled in her bed.
Chief Inspector Adam Dalgliesh must find the person who decided that the
wages of sin should be death.
LP 03390 CURTAIN
AUTHOR: CHRISTIE, AGATHA
ABSTRACT: The final case of Hercule Poirot, the Belgian detective. Old and
arthritic, he returns to Styles court, the scene of his first case in England.
When it becomes evident that someone at Styles is a murderer, he sends for
his friend Captain Hastings.
LP 01503 THE DAUGHTER OF TIME
AUTHOR: TEY, JOSEPHINE
ABSTRACT: Scotland Yard's detective Alan Grant uses modern methods of detection to reevaluate one of history's vilest crimes--the murder of the little
princes by Richard III.
LP 01372 DEATH AT THE BAR
AUTHOR: MARSH, NGAIO
ABSTRACT: Luke Watchman, K.C., spent his holiday as usual at the Plume Feathers, a small inn in Devon. Among the other guests he recognizes a man with a past criminal record.
LP 01137 DEATH IS A LONELY BUSINESS
AUTHOR: BRADBURY, RAY
ABSTRACT: An atmospheric detective novel blending the mysterious and the macabre. In the dilapidated pier district of Venice, California, in 1949, a killer stalks and murders the town's old eccentrics. A naive young writer teams up
with a world-weary detective to uncover a chilling motive for the brutal
murders.
LP 01316 DEATH OF AN EXPERT WITNESS
AUTHOR: JAMES, P. D.
ABSTRACT: When a much disliked pathologist is murdered with a weapon he is studying, Commander Adam Dalgliesh is called in from Scotland Yard. The victim is known to bully his unstable assistant, but secret relationships also
point to other suspects.
LP 01226 DESTINATION UNKNOWN
AUTHOR: CHRISTIE, AGATHA
ABSTRACT: A famous scientist has been mysteriously wafted away. An
exciting and surprising narrative with an authentic Moroccan setting.
LP 01308 DETECTION UNLIMITED
AUTHOR: HEYER, GEORGETTE
ABSTRACT: Chief Inspector Hemingway travels to his staid English village when a charmless social climber whom no one likes is killed in his garden.
LP 03393 ELEPHANTS CAN REMEMBER
AUTHOR: CHRISTIE, AGATHA
ABSTRACT: Mrs. Oliver, an elderly writer of detective stories, and Hercule Poirot collaborate to find out what really happened to the parents of Mrs.
Oliver's goddaughter.
LP 04702 THE DOOR
AUTHOR: RINEHART, MARY ROBERTS
ABSTRACT: Middle-aged spinster, Elizabeth Jane Bell, leads a quiet,
contented life until the night a strange man appears on her staircase.
LP 01227 ENDLESS NIGHT
AUTHOR: CHRISTIE, AGATHA
ABSTRACT: In a house, once known as "Gypsy's Acre," Michael Rogers
meets and marries an American oil heiress despite gypsies' warnings and
other sinister omens.
LP 04131 ENVIOUS CASCA
AUTHOR: HEYER, GEORGETTE
ABSTRACT: When Inspector Hemingway arrived at Lexham Manor, he
discovered the guest trading insults around the wassail bowl while the host lay in his bedroom stabbed to death.
LP 03778 FAREWELL, MY LOVELY
AUTHOR: CHANDLER, RAYMOND
ABSTRACT: Los Angeles in the 1930's. A redheaded warbler named
Velma is the only lead hard-boiled investigator Philip Marlowe has
to Moose Malloy. Malloy is sixe feet five inches tall, about as
wide as a bear truck, and wanted for murder. The trail to Malloy is
strewn with cops and dames and leads right through the gambling
rackets.
LP 02495 HAVE HIS CARCASE: A LORD PETER WIMSEY MYSTERY
AUTHOR: SAYERS, DOROTHY L.
ABSTRACT: Harriet Vane needs time to think--away from the comforting
presence of Lord Peter Wimsey. A hiking trip seems just the thing--until she finds the body of a bearded man on an empty beach.
LP 01228 HERCULE POIROT'S EARLY CASES
AUTHOR: CHRISTIE, AGATHA
ABSTRACT: A collection of 18 of the short stories which introduced the
shrewd little Belgian detective to mystery fans all over the world.
LP 04244 HIGH WINDOW
AUTHOR: CHANDLER, RAYMOND
ABSTRACT: Search for a priceless gold coin takes private detective Philip Marlowe into the California underworld and the tangled affairs of a murdered coin collector.
LP 01229 THE HOLLOW
AUTHOR: CHRISTIE, AGATHA
ABSTRACT: Death is no laughing matter, especially at a luncheon party in an English country house. When Poirot finds a handsome young man lying on the edge of the swimming pool with blood dripping into the water, he thinks his hostess is staging a "murder" for his benefit. But he soon realizes the man is really dying.
LP 03765 LAST DITCH
AUTHOR: MARSH, NGAIO
ABSTRACT: Superintendent Roderick Alleyn of Scotland Yard becomes
entangled in a murder involving his son, an aspiring writer.
LP 09515 LET'S ALL KILL CONSTANCE
AUTHOR: BRADBURY, RAY
ABSTRACT: The screenwriter hears a knocking on his door during a violent thunderstorm. Constance Rattigan, a washed-up movie star of yesteryear
appears, demanding that the screenwriter save her. Rattigan is tortured by the receipt of a Book of the Dead, a phone-book listing of long-dead Hollywood stars, with the names of those still living marked. Rattigan believes she and
other stars are marked for death. The screenwriter and Detective Elmo
Crumley, move through the Hollywood netherworld for clues.
LP 04142 MISS MARPLE: THE COMPLETE SHORT STORIES
AUTHOR: CHRISTIE, AGATHA
ABSTRACT: All 20 of Christie's short stories featuring Miss Jane
Marple, spinster sleuth extraordinaire.
LP 04471 MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLES
AUTHOR: CHRISTIE, AGATHA
ABSTRACT: Styles court was a magnificent English estate. Its owner a rich,
strong-willed matron who, to the dismay of her stepson, had recently married a fortune hunter. The scene was set for murder, and the crime took place.
LP 03387 NEMESIS
AUTHOR: CHRISTIE, AGATHA
ABSTRACT: Miss Marple receives a letter from a wealthy businessman
whom she knew briefly and whose death she has recently read about. His
letter gives the code word "Nemesis" and states that he will bequeath a large sum of money to her if she will investigate a certain mystery.
LP 01210 PERRY MASON IN THE CASE OF THE BURNING BEQUEST
AUTHOR: CHASTAIN, THOMAS
ABSTRACT: The odds are stacked very heavily against John Leland, accused of killing his fiancee Anne's stepmother. The fact that John's father was
accused of murdering Anne's real mother twenty years earlier is not helping. But if John is innocent, who made the phone call that first brought him to meet Anne? And who set the fire that leads to the discovery of another body?
LP 02560 PERRY MASON IN THE CASE OF TOO MANY MURDERS
AUTHOR: CHASTAIN, THOMAS
ABSTRACT: Courtroom drama in the style of Erle Stanley Gardner. Perry
Mason agrees to defend Laurel Adrian when she is accused of murdering her husband. The husband has been shot in his Hollywood home just minutes after he killed a man in a crowded restaurant. Too many murders! But, Perry, with the help of Della Street and Paul Drake, Jr., will solve them all.
LP 03426 PLEASE PASS THE GUILT: NERO WOLFE MYSTERY
AUTHOR: STOUT, REX
ABSTRACT: Involves the explosion of a bomb in the office of a
potential candidate for the presidency of a large firm. The bomb
kills another man and no one is sure who the actual victim was to
have been.
LP 03386 A POCKET FULL OF RYE
AUTHOR: CHRISTIE, AGATHA
ABSTRACT: When a man is poisoned in his office, Miss Marple does the
detecting.
LP 03365 POSTERN OF FATE
AUTHOR: CHRISTIE, AGATHA
ABSTRACT: Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, new residents of a charming old dream house, find a chilling message about the murder of a former
resident stuck in a book. The solution to the ancient crime lies behind a
dreaded gate known as the Postern of Fate.
LP 04579 SELECTED ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
AUTHOR: DOYLE, ARTHUR CONAN
ABSTRACT: Nine of the exciting stories of the world famous sleuth, Sherlock Holmes and his associate, Dr. Watson.
LP 04786 SENIOR SLEUTHS: A LARGE PRINT ANTHOLOGY OF MYSTERIES AND PUZZLERS
AUTHOR: ASIMOV, ISAAC et al.
ABSTRACT: Join Sherlock Holmes, Miss Marple, and other senior
detectives as they employ their brainpower in a captivating display of wits.
LP 05186 SINGING IN THE SHROUDS
AUTHOR: MARSH, NGAIO
ABSTRACT: When on a cold February night the cargo ship, cape
farewell, sails from the port of London, she carries nine passengers, one of
whom is a murderer.
LP 08396 THE SKULL BENEATH THE SKIN
AUTHOR: JAMES, P. D.
ABSTRACT: Private investigator Cordelia Gray is hired as a
bodyguard for difficult actress Clarissa Lisle, who has been
receiving death threats with quotes from long-dead dramatists.
During a house party, Cordelia discovers the actress's mutilated
body. Some violence.
LP 01465 TO LOVE AND BE WISE
AUTHOR: TEY, JOSEPHINE
ABSTRACT: A rich, famous, and handsome young American creates havoc at
an English art colony. He insults a leading playwright, causes a public uproar, and then disappears. Inspector Grant of Scotland Yard is called in to
investigate a case of possible amnesia, suicide, or homicide.
LP 00998 TRAITOR'S PURSE
AUTHOR: ALLINGHAM, MARGERY
ABSTRACT: Inspector Campion of Scotland Yard works almost completely in the dark in hair-raising case that involves an amnesia patient who may be
either victim or killer.
LP 07175 THE UNEXPECTED GUEST
AUTHOR: CHRISTIE, AGATHA
ABSTRACT: The Unexpected Guest by Agatha Christie is adapted as a novel by Charles Osborne. Michael Starkwedder has run his car into a ditch and
must go to the nearest house to seek help. In this house, he discovers a
murdered man in a wheelchair and a woman holding a recently fired gun.
LP 03355 UNNATURAL CAUSES
AUTHOR: JAMES, P. D.
ABSTRACT: When a famous mystery writer's mutilated corpse is found in a drifting dinghy, ripples of horror spread among his bizarre circle of friends.
Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh and his extraordinary aunt bring to light the
truth.
LP 03643 AN UNSUITABLE JOB FOR A WOMAN
AUTHOR: JAMES, P. D.
ABSTRACT: Cordelia Gray inherits a detective agency from her former
partner as well as the reopened case of a young man officially classified as a
suicide.。