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Crime and Thrillers
Folio delivers classic crime fiction from the US and the UK. From short stories to epic tales, there's many a spine-tingler to be had.
The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler
When the oil millionaire General Sternwood finds out his daughter is being blackmailed, he hires P.I. Philip Marlowe. But finding the blackmailer turns out to be just the start
Your price US$44.95
Blackmailers Don't Shoot
Raymond Chandler
These 13 short stories span the full range of Chandler’s career, from ‘Blackmailers Don’t Shoot’ first published in 1933 to ‘English Summer’, a black and yet oddly tender story of adultery, cruelty and murder published posthumously in 1976.
Your price US$59.95
The Complete Miss Marple Short Stories
Agatha Christie
Based on 'some of Agatha Christie's grandmother's Ealing cronies . . . but far more fussy and spinsterish', Jane Marple made her debut in the 1930 novel Murder at the Vicarage, but it was in the short stories that appeared in 1932 that Miss Marple's detective skills were first revealed.
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes Short Stories
Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes, with his trademark deerstalker and pipe, was invented by Arthur Conan Doyle while he waited for patients to arrive at the medical practice he had set up in Portsmouth in the 1880s
Your price US$220.00
Cover Her Face
P. D. James
The perfect English country house murder mystery - subtle, intelligent and gripping to the very end, Cover Her Face is an outstanding contribution to the genre by one of its greatest practitioners.
Available December 2008.
Your price US$44.95
The Daughter of Time
Josephine Tey
Founded upon a tantalising premise - can 20th-century policing methods, not to mention a bedridden detective, solve a 500-year-old mystery? - this is one of Josephine Tey's most enduringly popular novels.
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The Folio Treasury of Shorter Crime Fiction
The Folio Treasury of Shorter Crime Fiction encompasses some of the finest writing in the genre, from the Victorian 'sensation' novellas of Mary E. Braddon and Wilkie Collins to contemporary thrillers by Minette Walters and Sara Paretsky.
Your price US$204.00
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle
A Gothic tale of horror set amid the stark moors and mires of Dartmoor, under the shadow of the prison, this is one of the most thrilling Sherlock Holmes mysteries, alluded to by other authors and filmed no less than 18 times
Your price US$39.95
The Human Factor
Graham Greene
Greene's 22nd novel is a return to the Cold War territory he explored in The Quiet American and Our Man in Havana. With typical aplomb, he creates a shadowy world with very human characters who, if difficult to love, are never easy to condemn.
Available now.
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Live and Let Die
Ian Fleming
From the moment he climbs out of a limousine in New York, James Bond captures the reader’s imagination – handsome, charming and a master of the art of good living.
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Rumpole
John Mortimer
John Mortimer chose his favourite Rumpole stories for this collection - the ones that made him laugh while writing them, which is, he says, ‘the only reliable test of a successful piece of work’.
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The Spy's Bedside Book
Compiled by Graham and Hugh Greene
Graham Greene worked for MI6 during the Second World War; his brother Hugh was a foreign correspondent and one of the last Allied journalists to leave Berlin in 1939 - so they knew the spying game from within.
Your price US$37.95
Stories
John Buchan
Buchan was not only the father of the modern thriller, but a sensitive and nuanced writer with an eye for place and an ear for language which few have equalled. In these stories, spanning his entire career, we see a master storyteller at work.
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Strong Poison
Dorothy L. Sayers
When Lord Peter Wimsey sees Harriet Vane standing in the dock for murder, he is instantly convinced both that she is innocent, and that he is in love. But time is short, and with all his brilliance, he has only four weeks if he is to save her from the gallows
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Trouble is My Business and other stories
Raymond Chandler
The mood is dark, the atmosphere electric, the voice unmistakable - in his stiletto-sharp thrillers, Raymond Chandler changed the face of crime fiction forever.
Your price US$54.95
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