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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
A Rumpole Christmas	John Mortimer	The first ever collection of Rumpole Christmas stories— just in time for the holidaysA Rumpole Christmas is a collection of five holiday stories—never before published in book form— depicting the Old…	OL10464496W
Here comes the copper	Henry Wade	Unlike Wade's mysteries with his series detective Inspector Poole, this book is set of short whodunnits, each chapter covering a crime investigated by an ambitious young policeman who hopes someday t…	OL10563314W
Means Of Evil & Other St (Wexford Collection)	Ruth Rendell	Vijf verhalen met inspecteur Wexford in de hoofdrol.	OL12091W
Sight for Sore Eyes, A	Ruth Rendell	Damaged children grow up in different ways. Some can shuffle off the horrors of the past. Others cannot change who they are, or will never know how. Teddy Grex became a handsome young man. Francine H…	OL12106W
Un Noël De Maigret	Georges Simenon	A selection of short stories featuring Inspector Maigret of the Police Judiciare. Only the title story is set at Christmas-time; the others vary in season and also from Maigret's time on the force a…	OL1242788W
The Old Man in the Corner	Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy	The Old Man (Bill Owen) sits in a cheap restaurant frequented by journalists and plays with a bit of string, which he ties into elaborate knots as he talks. Addressing himself to Polly Burton, a youn…	OL1253282W
The Complete Sherlock Holmes [1/2] (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Hound of the Baskervilles / Mem…	Arthur Conan Doyle	Eccentric, arrogant, and ingenious, Sherlock Holmes remains the world's most popular and influential fictional detective. In four novels and fifty-six short stories, Holmes with his trusted friend Dr…	OL14929975W
Sherlock Holmes Stories (Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place / Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans…	Arthur Conan Doyle	[Red-Headed League](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262476W/The_Red-Headed_League) [Man with the Twisted Lip](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14930258W/Man_With_the_Twisted_Lip) [Adventure of the S…	OL14930296W
Sherlock Holmes. His Most Famous Mysteries (Adventure of the Gloria Scott / Adventure of the Greek …	Arthur Conan Doyle	Contains: [Adventure of the Gloria Scott](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20619337W/Adventure_of_the_Gloria_Scott) Adventure of the Greek Interpreter [Scandal in Bohemia](https://openlibrary.org/w…	OL14930414W
Stranded	Val McDermid	'There are stories here which will make you shudder, and which will linger long in the mind' Ian Rankin Passion. Obsession. Revenge. A stunning collection of chilling short stories from the queen of …	OL15011214W
Murder ink	Dilys Winn	A host of crime buffs including Interpol consultants, forensic anthropologists, psychiatrists, and novelists contribute articles on the many faces, factors, and techniques of crime in fact and fictio…	OL15162819W
Short Stories (Boscombe Valley Mystery / Case of Identity / Red-Headed League / Scandal in Bohemia …	Arthur Conan Doyle	Contains: [Boscombe Valley Mystery](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL18495288W/The_Boscombe_Valley_Mystery) [Case of Identity](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14929939W/A_Case_of_Identity) [Red-hea…	OL1518140W
Favorite Sherlock Holmes Detective Stories (Adventure of the Crooked Man / Adventure of the Dancing…	Arthur Conan Doyle	Throughout the annals of literature there is one detective who reigns supreme - Mr. Sherlock Holmes of 212 Baker Street, London. From that celebrated address, Holmes and his friend Dr. Watson set out…	OL1518175W
The Valley of Fear and Selected Cases (Adventure of Black Peter / Adventure of Charles Augustus Mil…	Arthur Conan Doyle	Valley of fear Selected cases from The return of Sherlock Holmes: [Adventure of the Empty House](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1518119W/The_Adventure_of_the_Empty_House) [Adventure of the Dan…	OL1518306W
Silver Blaze	Arthur Conan Doyle	When a horse called Silver Blaze, the favourite to win the Wessex Cup, disappears in mysterious circumstances and its trainer is murdered, the story is front page news. But is Fitzroy Simpson the mur…	OL1518358W
Three Victorian Detective Novels	Israel Zangwill,Andrew Forrester,Wilkie Collins,Everett F. Bleiler	Three Victorian Detective Novels edited and introduced by E. F. Bleiler contains some of the earliest modern detective novels available. The stories selected are meant to represent various moments in…	OL15240028W
Adapting detective fiction	Neil McCaw	>Adapting Detective Fiction is in one sense a study of specific instances of adaptation, with close readings of both the originating sources and adapted texts themselves. But it is also more than t…	OL15955520W
Thou Shalt Not Kill	Cynthia Manson	> From the best of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine comes this divine collection featuring ecclesiastical sleuths. > "Rumpole and the Man of God" by John…	OL16062195W
Uncertain Endings	Stanley Ellin,Owen Johnson,Cleveland Moffett,Stanley Ellin,Otto Penzler,Peter Godfrey,Mark Twain,Barry Perowne,Aldous Huxley,O. Henry,Laurie York Erskine,Ray Bradbury,Roald Dahl,Gerald Kersh,Jack Moffitt,Frank R. Stockton,Laurie York Erskine	A fine showcase for a rare and difficult form of the mystery story; fun to read and made more fun by Penzler's lively introduction. Contains: Unreasonable doubt -- Stanley Ellin A dilemma -- …	OL16068427W
The Best Crime Stories Ever Told	Dorothy L. Sayers,Ambrose Bierce,Edgar Allan Poe,Herman Melville	Introduction by Otto Penzler Detection and mystery. Lord Chizelrigg's missing fortune / Robert Barr The ordinary hair-pins / E.C. Bentley The biter bit / William Wilkie Collins The mystery of the…	OL16681822W