Library of Congress Crime Classics
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The Cannibal Who Overate
$15.99 Add to cartAs manager of New York City’s finest luxury hotel The Beaumont, Pierre Chambrun is well acquainted with unreasonable requests from its patrons. When one of the rich rooftop suite owners demands the im
- Series: Library of Congress Crime Classics
- Author: Pentecost, Hugh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1464244723
- Language: English
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Uncle Abner
$15.99 Add to cartFirst published in 1918, this collection of tales of Abner’s investigations, told by his nephew and chronicled by the prolific Melville Davisson Post, was hailed as the most important volume of Americ
- Series: Library of Congress Crime Classics
- Author: Klinger, Leslie S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 146423776X
- Language: English
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To Catch a Thief
$15.99 Add to cartIt takes a thief…
“Le Chat” (“The Cat”), an infamous thief, has come out of retirement and is again liberating expensive jewelry from wealthy tourists on the FreRch Riviera. Or is it a “copycat” who
- Series: Library of Congress Crime Classics
- Author: Dodge, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1464225346
- Language: English
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V as in Victim
$15.99 Add to cartOriginally published in 1945, V as in Victim was the first crime novel to feature ordinary cops as the main characters, launching the subgenre known as “police procedurals” and earning Lawrence Treat
- Series: Library of Congress Crime Classics
- Author: Treat, Lawrence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1464225370
- Language: English
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The Metropolitan Opera Murders
$14.99 Add to cartWhen the prompter falls dead during the second act of Richard Wagner’s Die Walk?e during a matinee performance at the Metropolitan Opera, as one can imagine, it causes quite a stir, especially when it
- Series: Library of Congress Crime Classics
- Author: Traubel, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1464215901
- Language: English
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Room to Swing
$14.99 Add to cart“This 1958 Edgar Award winner for best novel from Lacy (1911-1968) masterfully combines a classic genre trope with a powerful depiction of the impact of racism in 1950s America.”– Publishers Weekly,
- Series: Library of Congress Crime Classics
- Author: Lacy, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1728263107
- Language: English
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The Thinking Machine
$14.99 Add to cartThis entertaining short story collection features Professor Augustus S.F.X. Van Dusen, nicknamed “The Thinking Machine”–a brilliant but abrasive scientist who proves time and again that any puzzle ca
- Series: Library of Congress Crime Classics
- Author: Futrelle, Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 172827608X
- Language: English
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The Master of Mysteries
$14.99 Add to cartFrom the inspired mystic to the man of practical analytic mind, the transition was instantaneous…
Astro, the Seer of Secrets, and his lovely assistant, Valeska, sound more like a magic act than a pri
- Series: Library of Congress Crime Classics
- Author: Burgess, Gelett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1728264014
- Language: English
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A Gentle Murderer
$14.99 Add to cartHailed by critic Anthony Boucher as “one of the best detective stories of modern times,” this classic tale by Grand Master Dorothy Salisbury Davis combines suspense and psychological insight as a prie
- Series: Library of Congress Crime Classics
- Author: Salisbury Davis, Dorothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1728271959
- Language: English
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In the Fog
$16.99 Add to cartA cleverly atmospheric story-within-a-story with a twist, wherein four members of an exclusive London Gentleman’s Club take turns weaving a tale of a double murder.
On the evening following the great f
- Series: Library of Congress Crime Classics
- Author: Davis, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1728296234
- Language: English
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The Canary Murder Case
$14.99 Read moreAt the height if his popularity, S.S. Vane Dine pens a locked-room mystery with a lethal dose of sex and sin where infamous actress, “The Canary,” is murdered in her cage after a passionate night with
- Series: Library of Congress Crime Classics
- Author: Van Dine, S. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1728283302
- Language: English
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The Conjure-Man Dies
$14.99 Add to cartAn unmissable entry in the esteemed Library of Congress Crime Classics, an exciting new classic mystery series created in exclusive partnership with the Library of Congress to highlight the best of Am
- Series: Library of Congress Crime Classics
- Author: Fisher, Rudolph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1464215960
- Language: English
