Mystery & Detective Fiction
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Get a Clue: How to Plot, Write, and Sell Your MG or YA Mystery
$19.95 Add to cartWant to write a mystery for kids or teens, but you’re not sure how? Writing for Young Adult (YA) or middle-grade (MG) readers requires a different approach, and writing YA and MG mysteries is extra ch
- Author: Bradley, Fleur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 9798993730707
- Language: English
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The Murder Game: Play, Puzzles and the Golden Age
$30.00 Add to cart- Author: Curran, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 0008679886
- Language: English
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Agatha Christie: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
Agatha Christie is a global bestseller. Her work has been translated into over 100 languages and adapted for stage and screen. Christie’s writing l… [more below]- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Plain, Gill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0198863748
- Language: English
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The Golden Age of Murder
$19.99 Add to cartThe new and updated 10 year anniversary edition
Winner of the Edgar, Agatha, Macavity and H.R.F. Keating crime-writing awards, this definitive account of the secretive Detection Club and its trail-bla
- Author: Edwards, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0008708940
- Language: English
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Reacher: The Stories Behind the Stories
$26.95 Add to cartAfter making his debut in 1997’s The Killing Floor, Jack Reacher has quickly become one of the most popular–and most enduring–fictional heroes to emerge in the past half century. Now, his creator te… [more below]
- Author: Child, Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1613167067
- Language: English
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V Is for Venom: Agatha Christie’s Chemicals of Death
$28.00 Add to cartFourteen stories. Fourteen more poisons. Just because it’s fiction doesn’t mean it’s all made-up …
Agatha Christie is renowned for her captivating plots and creative ways of killing off ill-fated vi- Author: Harkup, Kathryn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 24 2025
- ISBN10: 1399413074
- Language: English
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King Noir: The Crime Fiction of Stephen King
$25.00 Add to cartOver the past thirty years, Stephen King has received enormous attention from both the popular press as well as academics seeking to explain the unique phenomenon of his success. Books on King explore… [more below]
- Author: Magistrale, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 245
- Publish Date: March 31 2025
- ISBN10: 1496852753
- Language: English
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The Man of the Crowd: Edgar Allan Poe and the City
$26.60 Read more- Author: Van Parys, Michelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 069124796X
- Language: English
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Amelia Peabody’s Egypt: A Compendium
$29.95 Add to cartThe Egypt that so enticed and enchanted intrepid archaeologist-sleuth Amelia Peabody in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was a place of wonder, mystery, danger, and the lure of antiqu
- Author: Peters, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 334
- Publish Date: July 25 2017
- ISBN10: 0060538112
- Language: English
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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
$19.00 Read moreIn June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. The crime horrified all England and led to a national obsession with detection, ironically
- Author: Summerscale, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 24 2009
- ISBN10: 080271742X
- Language: English
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Agatha Christie: First Lady of Crime
$17.95 Read moreFrom Poirot to Miss Marple, from The Mousetrap to Witness for the Prosecution, this a fascinating look at the life and work of Agatha Christie, the world’s most successful and popular crime writer.
Ag- Author: Keating, H. R. F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1639362940
- Language: English
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Agatha Christie’s Marple: Expert on Wickedness
$30.00 Add to cartA new investigation from Dr Mark Aldridge, exploring a lifetime of Agatha Christie’s Miss Jane Marple.
In Agatha Christie’s Marple: Expert on Wickedness, ‘Agathologist’ Dr Mark Aldridge looks at near
- Author: Aldridge, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0008522693
- Language: English
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A Mystery, Crime & Noir Notebook
$17.95 Add to cartA MYSTERY, CRIME & NOIR NOTEBOOK
This book is a compilation of almost 50 articles written over a period of 40 years by noted collector/author/publisher Gary Lovisi. They include topics about some of hi
- Author: Lovisi, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: November 17 2023
- ISBN10: 9798886010541
- Language: English
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Ian Fleming
$45.00 Add to cartWe all know who James Bond is, but how many of us know much about his creator, Ian Fleming, a master of espionage and thrillers? In this full-length biography, author Andrew Lycett tells the story of
- Author: Lycett, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1250037980
- Language: English
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The Vanishing of Carolyn Wells
$30.00 Add to cartThe Vanishing of Carolyn Wells is the first biography of one of the “lost ladies” of detective fiction who wrote more than eighty mysteries and hundreds of other works between the 1890s and the 1940s.… [more below]
- Author: Barry, Rebecca Rego
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 163758850X
- Language: English
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Agatha Christie at Home
$40.00 Add to cartThis new and revised edition of Hilary Macaskill’s classic book, with many new illustrations, offers an insight into the life and work of the world’s bestselling author.
Hilary Macaskill examines the- Author: Macaskill, Hilary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1914902009
- Language: English
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Writing and Selling Your Mystery Novel: The Complete Guide to Mystery, Suspense, and Crime
$17.99 Add to cartA Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award Finalist for Best Critical/Biographical Work
Discover the secrets to crafting an unforgettable mystery To piece together the puzzle of your mystery novel, y- Author: Ephron, Hallie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 13 2017
- ISBN10: 1440347166
- Language: English
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The Little Book of Sherlock Holmes: Elementary Wit & Wisdom
$8.95 Add to cartThe greatest detective who never lived.
Since his first appearance in 1887, Sherlock Holmes continues to entertain and fascinate us. With his deerstalker hat, pipe and magnifying glass, not to mentio
- Series: Little Book Of… #3
- Author: Hippo! Orange
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1911610643
- Language: English
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Pan
$8.95 Add to cart‘When the snow water had broken crevices open in the mountain a shot or even just a sharp cry was enough to tear loose a huge slab and send it toppling.’
Lieutenant Thomas Glahn spends a summer in nor- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Rem, Tore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 22 2023
- ISBN10: 0192893459
- Language: English
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Finders: Justice, Faith, and Identity in Irish Crime Fiction
$29.95 Add to cartSome of the most iconic, hard-boiled Irish detectives in fiction insist that they are not detectives at all. Hailing from a region with a cultural history of mistrust in the criminal justice system, I
- Series: Irish Studies
- Author: Babbar, Anjili
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0815611579
- Language: English
