Newcomers, international names, and old favorites offer up a varied itinerary for the adventurous traveler in crime. The accommodations are diverse: a convent or a gas chamber, castles in Spain or flats in Hong Kong, a room full of cobwebs or a Breton barn, Millionaires’ Row in London or perhaps a s
1st Culprit: A Crime Writers' Association Annual (1992)
✍ Scribed by Liza Cody, Michael Z. Lewin, Peter Lovesey (editor)
- Book ID
- 111881315
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 460 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780312117368
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
Includes the following 27 stories:
THE MOUSE IN THE CORNER—Ruth Rendell
AS MY WIMSEY TAKES ME—Terence Faherty
PROGRAMMED FOR MURDER—James Melville
THE CHRISTMAS CRIMES AT ‘CINDERELLA’—A PUZZLE IN FOUR PARTS—PART ONE: CHRISTMAS EVE—Simon Brett
FAERY TALE—Celia Dale
STEADY AS SHE GOES—Catherine Aird
SOLDIER, FROM THE WARS RETURNING—Robert Barnard
GOODBYE JENNY—Penelope Wallace
THE CHRISTMAS CRIMES AT ‘CINDERELLA’—PART TWO: BOXING DAY—Simon Brett
BOOTS—Antonia Fraser
A DISTANT AFFRAY—Roger Ormerod
TRIP TRAP—A JOHN REBUS STORY—Ian Rankin
FREUD AT THIRTY PACES—Sara Paretsky
POSITIVE VETTING—Stephen Murray
AFTERWARDS—Alida Baxter
DANNY PULLS HIS WEIGHT—Michael Z. Lewin
OH, WHO HATH DONE THIS DEED?—Susan Moody
THE CHRISTMAS CRIMES AT ‘CINDERELLA’—PART THREE: 27 DECEMBER—Simon Brett
CUCKOO IN THE WOOD—Lesley Grant-Adamson
MRS CRAGGS HEARS THE NIGHTINGALE—HRF Keating
IN THOSE DAYS—Liza Cody
SISTER BRONA AND THE PORNOGRAPHIC DIARY—Alex Auswaks
GIFTS FROM THE BRIDEGROOM—Margaret Yorke
THE CHRISTMAS CRIMES AT ‘CINDERELLA’—PART FOUR: 28 DECEMBER—Simon Brett
STONESTAR—Reginald Hill
THE LAST SARA—Susan Kelly
THE RAPE OF KINGDOM HILL—Dick Francis
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