Ruth Rendell was one of the great crime writers. Her books – notable for their careful psychological observation, as well as their gripping plots – have sold over 20 million copies worldwide, and she won numerous awards, including the Crime Writers” Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for sustained excellence in crime writing. In 1996 she was awarded the CBE and in 1997 became a Life Peer. Ruth Rendell died in May 2015.
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John Dickson Carr: Case of the Constant Suicides
Having lost all his money in hare-brained get-rich-quick schemes, old Angus Campbell has nothing to leave his heirs but the proceeds of his life insurance policies. After he falls to his death from a …
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John Dickson Carr: Hag’s Nook
’The Starberths die of broken necks’ goes the legend in the village of Chatterham . . . The Starberth family governed the now-abandoned Chatterham prison for many years, and each male heir must spend …
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John Dickson Carr: She Died a Lady
Rita Wainwright’s love affair with Barry Sullivan is flamboyant enough to deserve a dramatic ending, so that when the pair of them vanish over a cliff one rainy night, leaving a farewell note for Rit …
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John Dickson Carr: Hollow Man
The most famous of all locked-room mysteries – a classic in the crime genre.’The first deadly walking of the hollow man took place when the side streets of London were quiet with snow and the three c …
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John Dickson Carr: Death-Watch
In the shadowy hallway of clockmaker Johannes Carver’s house a policeman is found murdered, the arrow-tipped minute hand of an antique clock embedded in his neck.For Dr Gideon Fell this is the only c …
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John Dickson Carr: Blind Barber
A thief is loose aboard HMS Queen Victoria, and four amateur detectives are hell-bent on tracking him down. Unprepared for the evidence that their sleuthing activities will uncover – a reel of compro …
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John Dickson Carr: To Wake The Dead
Christopher Kent, worth a quarter of a million pounds yet without a penny in his pocket, stands hungrily in Piccadilly one snowy morning, looking up at the huge hotel, when a piece of card bearing a …
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John Dickson Carr: The Man Who Could Not Shudder
Three guests at Martin Clarke’s weekend party swore they saw the pistol lifted from the wall, levelled and shot. Yet no hand held it. It couldn’t have happened … but there was a dead body on the fl …
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John Dickson Carr: In Spite of Thunder
On his return to Geneva, Brian Innes must meet Audrey Page and find a way to prevent her from joining the strangely temperamental group of people gathered around film star Eve Eden at the Villa Rosal …
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John Dickson Carr: The Four False Weapons
It is no ordinary murder case that brings the famed French detective Monsieur Bencolin out of retirement, but one that involves a midnight rendezvous on a steamy Paris night, a broken love affair, an …
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John Dickson Carr: Emperor’s Snuff-Box
The scene is a fashionable French seaside resort; the witness, Eve Neill, is looking out of her window in the early hours of the morning when she sees the battered body of her prospective father-in-l …
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John Dickson Carr: Bride of Newgate
Dick Darwent brooded in a dark cell of Newgate Prison – waiting to be hanged. Lady Caroline Ross, rich, cold and beautiful, prepared a champagne breakfast to celebrate her marriage. How were the fate …
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John Dickson Carr: Fire, Burn!
One October night in the middle of the twentieth century Detective Inspector John Cheviot got into a taxi, bound for New Scotland Yard. When he stepped out it was from a horse-drawn cab, the year was …
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John Dickson Carr: Scandal at High Chimneys
Matthew Damon was a loving father and a figure of moral rectitude. Why, then, has a rumour of scandal followed him, denying him the knighthood he thought he had earned? Why had he, long ago, repeated …
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John Dickson Carr: Witch of the Low Tide
Lady Betty Calder is a prostitute and a blackmailer – or is it her sister, Glynis, using her name? Dr David Garth, her fianc , knows he must find out the truth – especially when he blunders across Gl …
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John Dickson Carr: Demoniacs
A chilling Gothic tale of warped passion and bizarre murder by the master of the historical whodunit.Two women: one a vile old bawd, dead, it seemed, of fright; the other, Peg, a headstrong, ravishin …
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John Dickson Carr: Most Secret
Young Roderick Kinsmere was a country bumpkin when he strolled into the Great Court of Charles II’s Whitehall Palace. Three days later he had lost his fortune, gained a wife, fought for – and been ou …
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John Dickson Carr: Ghosts’ High Noon
Jim Blake, journalist and successful spy novelist, is sent to New Orleans to do a story on James Claiborne Blake, a congressional hopeful in the 1912 election. But even from New York he senses follow …
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John Dickson Carr: Deadly Hall
It’s 1927 and New Orleans-born novelist Jeff Caldwell is called back to that most colourful of American cities by a frantic letter from Dave Hobart, a boyhood friend.Dave owns a fabulous and forebodi …
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Cecily Gayford: A Very Murderous Christmas
The Christmas season is one of comfort and joy, sparkling lights and steam rising from cups of mulled wine at frosty carol services. A season of goodwill, as families and friends come together to for …
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John Dickson Carr: Deadly Hall
Hailed by Agatha Christie as “the king of the art of misdirection, ” John Dickson Carr draws readers into a thrilling tale of a family’s hunt for an inheritance hidden in a haunted …
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John Dickson Carr: Death-Watch
In this Golden Age British-style mystery, Mystery Writers of America Grand Master John Dickson Carr presents Dr. Gideon Fell’s most chilling case, in which a clock-obsessed killer terrorizes London A …
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John Dickson Carr: Fire, Burn!
Hurled back in time, a London police detective struggles to solve a nineteenth-century murder mystery in Golden Age master John Dickson Carr’s thrilling mystery novel A woman is killed in a wel …
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John Dickson Carr: In Spite of Thunder
The master of the Golden Age British-style detective novel presents his redoubtable sleuth Dr. Gideon Fell in a baffling murder mystery set in the Swiss Alps Young Audrey Page has been warned against …
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John Dickson Carr: Most Secret
John Dickson Carr, master of the Golden Age British-style whodunit, delivers a dazzling historical mystery set in Restoration London In England, the Civil War is finished, Cromwell is dead, and the m …
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John Dickson Carr: Scandal at High Chimneys
A Grand Master of the British-style detective story brings Victorian England to vivid life in this murder mystery, which critic Anthony Boucher hailed as a ’;faultless formal puzzle in detection’In 1 …
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John Dickson Carr: Blind Barber
A madcap tale of murder on an ocean liner that offers “good mystery and lots of fun in the bargain” (The New York Times). The majestic ocean liner Queen Victoria is halfway through …
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John Dickson Carr: Bride of Newgate
Golden Age mystery author John Dickson Carr displays his mastery of the historical mystery in this thrilling tale of courtship and punishment in Regency-era England To inherit her family fortune, bea …
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John Dickson Carr: Demoniacs
The master of the Golden Age detective novel displays his expertise in the historical whodunit with this Gothic tale of passion and bizarre murder, which Newsday hailed as “mystery fiction at i …
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John Dickson Carr: Emperor’s Snuff-Box
On the verge of a second marriage, a divorcee discovers her first husband has returned, and murder ensues in this chilling tale, which the New York Times Book Review hailed as ’;one of the most ingen …
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John Dickson Carr: Four False Weapons
Famed French detective Monsieur Bencolin comes out of retirement to solve a crime of passion in Golden Age mystery master John Dickson Carr’s sophisticated and surprising novel London lawyer Ri …
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John Dickson Carr: Ghosts’ High Noon
John Dickson Carr, one of the masters of the British-style detective novel, evokes the danger and delights of 1912 New Orleans in this puzzling murder mystery Journalist and spy novelist Jim Blake ta …
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John Dickson Carr: Man Who Could Not Shudder
Famed crime solver Dr. Gideon Fell attends a housewarming party in the English countryside, but a ghost spoils the fun in Golden Age mystery master John Dickson Carr’s stylish, baffling mystery …
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John Dickson Carr: Witch of the Low Tide
A man fears his beloved is not who she claims to be in this sophisticated puzzler by John Dickson Carr, a master of the British-style detective novel David Garth has just stepped off the train at Cha …
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John Dickson Carr: To Wake the Dead
Hailed by Agatha Christie as “the king of the art of misdirection, ” John Dickson Carr presents a thrilling murder mystery that has the redoubtable Dr. Gideon Fell tracing clues from Lond …
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John Dickson Carr: Devil in Velvet
To solve a centuries-old crime, a man makes a deal with the devil: “The fantasy, the murder and the historical action are . . . all wonderful” (San Francisco Chronicle). An agin …
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John Dickson Carr: Dr. Gideon Fell Mysteries Volume One
Three Golden Age British-style whodunits from the Edgar Award–winning writer Agatha Christie called “a master magician . . . the king of the art of misdirection.”  …
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Cecily Gayford: Murder On Christmas Eve
Christmas Eve. While the world sleeps, snow falls gently from the sky, presents lie under the tree … and murder is afoot. In this collection of ten classic murder mysteries by the best crime writer …
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John Dickson Carr: Death-Watch
In this Golden Age British-style mystery, Mystery Writers of America Grand Master John Dickson Carr presents Dr. Gideon Fell’s most chilling case, in which a clock-obsessed killer terrorizes London A …
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John Dickson Carr: Devil in Velvet
To solve a centuries-old crime, a man makes a deal with the devil: ’;The fantasy, the murder and the historical action are … all wonderful’ (San Francisco Chronicle). An aging scholar of Restoratio …
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John Dickson Carr: DAS ZIMMER DER ROTEN WITWE
Das Zimmer im Hause Lord Mantlings wurde seit Jahrzehnten nicht benutzt. Hier wohnt nur einer: der Tod. Bereits vier Menschen kamen darin um, doch nun will der Hausherr den Bann brechen – mit Hilfe v …
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John Dickson Carr: DIE SCHMUTZIGE STADT
»London Bridge bricht morgen ein, morgen ein…« Sollte der alte Kinderreim zum Schicksalslied werden? Für die Brücke gewiss nicht; man würde sie von der Last der morschen Häuser und Hütte befreien, …
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John Dickson Carr: Plague Court Murders
When a spiritual medium is murdered in a locked hut on a haunted estate, Sir Henry Merrivale seeks a logical solution to a ghostly crime. Plague Court is old and crumbling, long neglected after its l …
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John Dickson Carr: Mad Hatter Mystery
A corpse in a top hat leads Dr. Gideon Fell to a killer with a sick sense of humor in this mystery by the celebrated author of Hag’s Nook. At the hand of an outrageous prankster, top hats are g …
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John Dickson Carr: Crooked Hinge
In this mystery by the acclaimed author of To Wake the Dead, an inheritance hangs in the balance in a case of stolen identities, imposters, and murder. Banished from the idyllic English countryside h …
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Douglas Green & John Dickson Carr: The Eight of Swords: A Dr. Gideon Fell Mystery (An American Mystery Classic)
A tarot card discovered at a murder scene provides a clue for Dr. Gideon Fell In a house in the English countryside, a man has just turned up dead, surrounded by a crime scene that seems, at first gl …
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Cecily Gayford: Murder in Midsummer
A rock pool with a deadly secret. A bank holiday heatwave dominated by the murder of an unknown man. A sun-drenched picnic that ends in a sinister locked-room mystery. And an Adriatic holiday interru …
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John Dickson Carr: The Red Widow Murders: A Sir Henry Merrivale Mystery (An American Mystery Classic)
In this baffling whodunnit from the master of the locked-room mystery, a man falls dead in a guarded room, and Sir Henry Merrivale searches for a devilishly-clever killer. They say that Lord Mantling …
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John Dickson Carr: The Problem of the Wire Cage: A Gideon Fell Mystery (An American Mystery Classic)
Death and tennis meet in one of impossible crime master John Dickson Carr’s most memorable cases. John Dickson Carr is famous for his puzzling “impossible crime” plots in which corpses are discovered …
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John Dickson Carr: The Three Coffins
Dr. Gideon Fell solves two impossible murders in one of the most baffling locked room mysteries ever created. Professor Charles Grimaud is found dead in his study just moments after his housekeeper w …
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