The Drowning Pool (Green Crime Modern Classics) by Ross Macdonald
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Category: Crime Classics
A gripping tale of adultery and murder served hard-boiled, now part of a new crime series in Penguin Modern ClassicsWhen Maude Slocum - beautiful, frightened and angry - comes to Lew Archer's office with a poison pen letter intended for her husband, he reluctantly agrees to help her. As he follows the S ...Show more
The Night of the Hunter (Green Crime Modern Classics) by Davis Grubb
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Category: Crime Classics
A rediscovered diabolical slice of great American noir'What kind of a man would have his fingers tattooed that way? ... What kind of a man? What kind of a preacher?'One of the great chase novels, The Night of the Hunter centres on the ferocious, unforgettable figure of Preacher, a psychopath who relentl ...Show more
Cotton Comes to Harlem (Green Crime Modern Classics) by Chester Himes
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Category: Crime Classics
Scams, heists and murders abound in a high-energy caper from one of the great Black American crime writers, now part of a new crime series in Penguin Modern ClassicsA preacher called Deke O'Malley's been selling false hope- the promise of a glorious new life in Africa for just $1,000 a family. But when ...Show more
Beast in the Shadows (Green Crime Modern Classics) by Edogawa Rampo
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Category: Crime Classics
'The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect' Daily Telegraph A mystery writer turns detective to protect the woman he loves. But is he hunter or hunted?The chance meeting between a crime novelist and a married woman blossoms into friendship. When she co ...Show more
The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely (Crime & Espionage Classics) by Raymond Chandler
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Category: Crime Classics
Two great novels featuring hard-boiled Californian detective Philip MarloweRaymond Chandler created the fast talking, trouble seeking Californian private eye Philip Marlowe for his first great novel The Big Sleep in 1939. Marlowe's entanglement with the Sternwood family - and an attendant cast of colour ...Show more
Payment Deferred (Crime & Espionage Claasics) by C. S. Forester
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Category: Crime Classics | Series: Penguin Crime Ser.
A twisting psychological thriller of a family caught in a murderous trap of their own makingMr Marble is in serious debt, desperate for money to pay his family's bills, until the combination of a wealthy relative, a bottle of Cyanide and a shovel offer him the perfect solution. Slowly the Marble family ...Show more
Maigret's Revolver (#40 Inspector Maigret) (Crime & Espionage Claasics) by Georges Simenon
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Category: Crime Classics
Maigret goes to London on the trail of a young man on the runWhen Maigret's prized gun goes missing, he must travel to London on the trail of a troubled young man on the run. Maigret's Revolver is a wonderful picture of both London and Paris and one of Simenon's most ingenious and satisfying stories. ...Show more
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Crime & Espionage Classics) by John le Carré
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Category: Crime Classics
George Smiley faces his greatest challenge yet, unmasking a Soviet double agent at the heart of the British establishmentGeorge Smiley, who is a troubled man of infinite compassion, is also a single-mindedly ruthless adversary as a spy.The scene which he enters is a Cold War landscape of moles and lampl ...Show more
The Black Lizard by Edogawa Rampo
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Category: Crime Classics | Series: Penguin Crime Ser.
One of the classic works by the master of Japanese detective fictionA super-criminal - as deadly as she is beautiful - wagers all in an epic battle with a master detective, Akechi Kogoro. No trick is too elaborate, no disguise too fantastic as the two perfectly matched antagonists take turns to outwit e ...Show more
Other Paths to Glory by Anthony Price
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Category: Crime Classics
A murderer targets British historians of the First World War in this 1974 classicPaul Mitchell spends his days researching the carnage of the First World War in the silence of the library. But his peace is shattered by an unexpected visit from a man with a fragment of a German trench map - and a lot of ...Show more
Game Without Rules by Michael Gilbert
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Category: Crime Classics
Two secret agents living in the English countryside try - and fail - to live a quiet life, in these hugely enjoyable crime storiesBehrens and Calder are two secret agents living in the English countryside, desperately seeking a quiet life. But despite their best efforts, they find themselves repeatedly ...Show more
The Mask of Dimitrios (Crime & Espionage Clasics) by Eric Ambler
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Category: Crime Classics
An English novelist uncovers a trail of crime in Istanbul - and all roads lead to the mysterious master criminal DimitriosEnglish crime novelist Charles Latimer is travelling in Istanbul when he makes the acquaintance of Turkish police inspector Colonel Haki. It is from him that he first hears of the my ...Show more