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Dashiell Hammett
Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961)

journalist, literary critic

  • Baltimore Polytechnic Institute

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The Dain curse
Novels
Red harvest
Crime Classics
Woman in the dark
Nightmare Town
Complete novels
The Maltese Falcon / The Thin Man / Red Harvest
The Maltese Falcon
Crime Stories and Other Writings
The big knockover
The Glass Key
The Thin Man
The Dain curse, The glass key, and selected stories
The Return Of The Thin Man
The Continental Op
Secret agent X-9
The novels of Dashiell Hammett
The Big Book of the Continental Op
The big knockover and other stories
Secret Agent X-9
Lost Stories (The Ace Performer Collection series)
Vintage Hammett
Cuentos De Asesinos/ Assassin Stories
Hunter and Other Stories
Red Harvest (Abandoned)
Hunter and other stories
The creeping Siamese
The big knockover
Dashiell Hammett: the Library of America Edition : (Two-Volume Boxed Set)
Selected letters of Dashiell Hammett 1921-1960
Maltese Falcon, Level 4
Continental Op
Zigzags of Treachery
Lost Stories
The Maltese falcon, & The thin man
Maruta no taka
Big Knockover
3 Great Hardboiled Crime Novels
Nightmare town
Creeps by night
Cuentos policiales de la Serie negra
Hammett homicides
Lost stories
Detective stories
A man named Thin
The Dashiell Hammett story omnibus
Blood money
Creeps by Night
The novels of Dashiell Hammett
Una Mujer En La Oscuridad
Fly Paper : a Short Story
Der Engel vom ersten Stock
Papier tue-mouches
Nightmare Town
La Mort, c'est pour les poires
Cauchemar ville
The Novels of Dashiell Hammett
To megalo itipima
American Detective Stories
The Capture of Attu
Histoires de détectives, tome 2
Histoires de détectives, tome 1
Demasiados Han Vivido
Le dixième indice et autres enquêtes du Continental Op
Dead yellow women
Return of the Thin Man
Dashiel Hammett
Dashiell Hammett Megapack
The Dashiell Hammett story omnibus;
Journey into Fear / The 39 Steps / And Then There Were None / The Maltese Falcon / The Nine Tailors / The Doorbell Rang
Le meurtre de farewell
El agente de la Continental
La llave de cristal
Arson Plus (Illustrated)
Adventures of Sam Spade and Other Stories
Nightmare Town and Other Stories
La Moisson rouge
The Glass Key
Novelas escogidas; Cosecha roja; La maldicion de los Dain; El halcon Maltes; La Llave de cristal; Nick Charles, detective
The novels of Dashiell Hammett
Agente Secreto X-9
Assistant Murderer
Librio
Todos los cuentos
Spari nella notte
Novels
Dain Curse, The
sam spade et autres histoires de detectives
Five Complete Novels
The adventures of Sam Spade, and other stories
The Thin Man Lib/E
Sólo te ahorcan una vez
El halcón maltés
Sólo te ahorcan una vez
Cosecha roja / Red Harvest
Donna al buio
First Cases of the Continental Op
Arson Plus Illustrated
Disparos en la noche
The Dashiell Hammett omnibus
Nightmare town
Arson Plus
Le Faucon de Malte Sang maudit
Selected Detective Prose
Paperback Quarterly Fall 1981
Chave de Vidro
Adventures of Sam Spade and Other Stories
The Adventures of Sam Spade and Other Stories
Adventures of Sam Spade and Other Stories
Arson Plus
Arson Plus and Other Stories
Arson Plus Illustrated
Todos los cuentos
Arson Plus Fantasy and Horror Classics
The Maltese falcon, & The thin man
Ein Mann namens Spade
They Can Only Hang You Once
Hudoy muzhchina
Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett, 1921-1960
Terreur dans la nuit
Dashiell Hammett Collection
Kizil Hasat
A man called Spade and other stories
La ragazza dagli occhi d'argento
Ailenin Laneti
Moisson Rouge
Papier tue-mouches
Faucon de Malte
Assistant Murderer
Collita roja
The Continental Op
Muerte y cía
Der gläserne Schlüssel
Turk Sokagi'ndaki Ev
Todos los cuentos
Ince Adam
Maltese Falcon (Special Edition)
Papierowy czlowiek
Cosecha Roja
Four Great Novels, the
Nightmare Town
Continental Op
DASHIELL HAMMETT ASST
The Dashiell Hammett omnibus
Sırça Anahtar
Le\Dixieme Indice et Autres Enquetes du Continental Op
Solo Te Ahorcan Una Vez
Rote Ernte
Gran Golpe, El
A la morgue
El Primer Hombre Delgado
The novels of Dashiell Hammett
Le\Sac de Couffignal
Fracht für China und andere Detektivstories
ha-Nets mi-Maltah
Kizil hasat
Meistererzählungen
Hollywood Story
Le salaire du crime
The complete Dashiell Hammett
Prokletí rodu Dainu
Der schwarze Hut
Le Sac de Couffignal
El precio del delito
Modern tales of horror
Le grand braquage
Der dünne Mann
Llave de Cristal, La
Todas las novelas
Sang Maudit
Collita roja
The Maltese falcon
Mort Et Cie
Das große Umlegen und andere Detektivstories
Crime Wave
The adventures of Sam Spade
Le meurtre de Farewell
Casablanca
Cuando Uno Esta de Suerte
The return of the Continental Op
The battle of the Aleutians
Dashiell Hammett's Secret Agent
Dashiell Hammett's Secret agent X-9
The complete Dashiell Hammett
Skleněný klíč
El gran golpe
El precio del delito
Woman In The Dark P[100
קללת בני דאין
Sirca Anahtar
13 obras primas do conto
Martin Edwards
Martin Edwards (born 1955)

critic, jurist, literary critic

  • University of Oxford

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The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures
Mysterious Pleasures
Waterloo Sunset
The arsenic labyrinth
Suspicious minds
Cipher Garden, The
Silent Nights
I Remember You
The Coffin Trail
Waterloo Sunset
Blood on the Tracks
The serpent pool
The Coffin Trail
The Hanging Wood
Guilty parties
The Arsenic Labyrinth
Guilty consciences
Continental crimes
Frozen Shroud Lake District Mysteries
The Frozen Shroud
All the Lonely People
Crime on the Move
The serpent pool
Yesterday's Papers (A Harry Devlin Mystery)
The Devil In Disguise
Northern Blood 2
Eve of destruction
The Hanging Wood Martin Edwards
Perfectly Criminal
The Hanging Wood A Lake District Mystery
First Cut Is the Deepest (A Harry Devlin Novel)
Serpents in Eden
Foreign Bodies
Yesterday's Papers
Eve of Destruction (A Harry Devlin Mystery)
The Frozen Shroud A Lake District Mystery
First Cut Is The Deepest
The Dungeon House
The Long Arm of the Law
The Long Arm of the Law
Original sins
Ten year stretch
Crime in the city
The Hanging Wood A Lake District Mystery
Miraculous mysteries
Capital Crimes
The golden age of murder
Crimson snow
Murder at the manor
Capital crimes
Deadly pleasures
The story of classic crime in 100 books
Missing persons
Whydunit?
Crimes of Cymru
Mystery tour
M.O
I.D.
Northern blood
The frozen shroud
Capital Crimes
Blood on the tracks
Scenes of crime
The story of classic crime in 100 books
Green for danger
Whydunit?
I.D. crimes of identity
The Arsenic Labyrinth
Tolley's equal opportunities handbook
Take My Breath Away
Control and the Therapeutic Trial. Rhetoric and Experimentation in Britain, 1918-48. (Clio Medica 82). (Clio Medica)
Sweet Secrets
Dismissal Law
The Complete Book of Children's Everyday Ailments and Emergencies (Complete)
The Measure of Malice
Catching Killers
Northern Blood 1
Careers in the Law (Careers In...)
Urge to Kill
A Surprise for Christmas and Other Seasonal Mysteries
Crimewave
The serpent pool
How to Get the Best Deal from Your Employer
Executive Survival
The Complete Family Medical Adviser (Complete)
Careers in the law
I.D
Guilty Creatures
Murder Squad
A Surprise For Christmas
Careers in Law
Thrumm
Understanding computer contracts
Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004
Eve of Destruction a Harry Devlin Myster (A Harry Devlin Mystery)
Dancing for the hangman
Take my breath away
Capital Crimes
Understanding dismissal law
Motives for Murder
Dancing for the hangman
Coconut Heart
Northern Blood
Careers
Jing hun jie
Where Do You Find Your Ideas?
Tolley's Equal Opportunities Handbook
The Hanging Wood
Robert Barnard
Robert Barnard (1936-2013)

literary critic, lecturer

  • University of Oxford, Colchester Royal Grammar School

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Masters of the house
Out of the blackout
The corpse at the Haworth Tandoori
A stranger in the family
No place of safety
The bad samaritan
Touched by the dead
The killings on Jubilee Terrace
The mistress of Alderley
Bodies
The habit of widowhood
Little victims
A city of strangers
Disposal of the living
A cry from the dark
A little local murder
The case of the missing Brontë
Death of an old goat
Death on the High C's
A corpse in a gilded cage
Political suicide
The graveyard position
Death and the chaste apprentice
The skeleton in the grass
A Fall from Grace
The bones in the attic
Unholy dying
Posthumous papers
Dying flames
Unruly son
Death and the princess
Death in a cold climate
The cherry blossom corpse
A fatal attachment
Bones in the Attic, The
Rogues Gallery
A hovering of vultures
A scandal in Belgravia
A talent to deceive
The missing Brontë
The Cherry Blossom Corpse
A charitable body
Corpse in a Gilded Cage
Scandal in Belgravia, A
The Skeleton in the Grass
Four complete mysteries
Murder in Mayfair, A
The Bad Samaritan
A Mansion And Its Murder
Mother's boys
Mistress of Alderley, The
Last post
Death of a perfect mother
Emily Brontë
Sheer torture
Death of a salesperson, and other untimely exits
Blood brotherhood
A short history of English literature
BRONTE ENCYCLOPEDIA
At death's door
Death in Purple Prose
A suit of diamonds
Imagery and theme in the novels of Dickens
Death of a Mystery Writer
The Missing Bronte
Sheer Torture Story Sound
Masters of the House
Political Suicide
Political Suicide
Moors' & Robson's Breweries Ltd
Emilys Erbe
Thes keleton in the grass
The leisure hour improved
Bad Samaritan (Isis)
Blood Brotherhood
The Case of the Missing Bronte
A history of further education in Hull
At Death's Door
Death of a salesperson
A City of Strangers
The case of the missing Bronte
Emily Bronte (British Library Writers' Lives)
City of Strangers Portway
Death of a Mystery Writer
Scandal in Belgravia, A (Missing Mystery, #10)
A Fall from Grace (Ulverscroft Mystery)
Death & the Chast Apprentice
Death of a Salesperson and Other Untimel
Death of an Old Goat (Dales Mystery)
Hull and East Yorkshire Breweries (East Yorkshire Local History Society)
The Lost Boy (The Isis Crime Lost Casebooks)
Fete fatale
The Lost Boy
Breve Historia De La Literatura Inglesa (El Libro De Bolsillo)
The Skeleton in the Grass (Soundings S.)
H. R. F. Keating
H. R. F. Keating (1926-2011)

literary critic

  • Trinity College Dublin

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Crime and Mystery
The rich detective
The soft detective
Agatha Christie
The hard detective
The good detective
Bribery, corruption also
The iciest sin
A detective under fire
The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures
Inspector Ghote's first case
A detective at death's door
Breaking and entering
Inspector Ghote caught in meshes
Murder must appetize
Inspector Ghote goes by train
Sherlock Holmes
A remarkable case of burglary
A rush on the ultimate
Death and the visiting firemen
The Man Who...
A detective in love
Mrs. Craggs
Win, Lose or Die
The Ethnic Detectives
A Dreaming Detective
The man of gold
Rules, Regs and Rotten Eggs (Harriet Martens Mysteries)
Bats fly up for Inspector Ghote
Whodunit
The Bad Detective
Writing Crime Fiction (Books for Writers)
Is Skin Deep, Is Fatal
Dead on Time
One Man and His Bomb (Harriet Martens Mysteries)
Go West, Inspector Ghote
Asking Questions
Inspector Ghote, his life and crimes
A long walk to Wimbledon
The body in the billiard room
Under a Monsoon Cloud
The Sheriff Of Bombay (An Inspector Ghote Novel)
The Perfect Murder (Inspector Ghote Mystery)
Inspector Ghotes Hunts Peacock
Inspector Ghote Breaks an Egg
Cheating Death
Inspector Ghote Draws Line
Crime Waves
A Small Case For Inspector Ghote
The Bedside Companion to Crime
Inspector Ghote Trusts the Heart
The governess
Doing Wrong (Crime Case)
Inspector Ghote Plays a Joker (Death)
Filmi Filmi, Inspector Ghote
Inspector Ghote's good crusade
Inspector Ghote hunts the peacock
Crime writers
Great crimes
Into the Valley of Death
The murder of the maharajah
A la carte
In Kensington Gardens once--
Jack, the lady killer
The dog it was that died
Escribir Novela Negra
The strong man
The underside
Zen there was murder
Some Girls Do
THE INSPECTOR GHOTE MYSTERIES - An Omnibus: Book (1) One: The Perfect Murder; Book (2) Two: Inspector Ghote's Good Crusade; Book (3) Three
The lucky Alphonse
Death of a fat god
Deadlier than the male
Decapolis
MURDER BY DEATH
Temps morts
West Highland Way (Walker's Route)
P D James
Blood on my mind
L'inspecteur ghote en californie (French Edition)
Inspector Ghote Breaks an Egg (Nelson Graded Readers)
L'Inspecteur Ghote mène la croisade
Où est le mal?
Murder Must AP
Death & the Visiting Fireman
Mrs. Craggs Crimes Cleaned Up
The Droitwich Connection
Criminal Law
Majumdar Uncle
Dorothy B. Hughes
Dorothy B. Hughes (1904-1993)

journalist, literary critic, poet

  • Columbia University, University of Missouri

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The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [18 stories]
In a lonely place
The Blackbirder
The expendable man
Erle Stanley Gardner
Ride the Pink Horse
The So Blue Marble
The Fallen Sparrow
Bibliography of Erle Stanley Gardner
The body on the bench
The candy kid
Johnnie
Dread journey
Ride the pink horse and two other great mysteries
The Cross-eyed bear
The delicate ape
Scarlet Imperial
The bamboo blonde
Crime Novels : Five Classic Thrillers 1961-1964
Laura
The Church and the Liberal Society
L'ocell caigut
Pueblo on the mesa
Dark certainty
The big barbecue
An omnibus of terror
Mystery reader
J. I. M. Stewart
J. I. M. Stewart (1906-1994)

scholar of English, literary critic

  • Edinburgh Academy, Oriel College

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Great Tales of Crime and Detection
Going it alone
The Appleby file
Sheiks and adders
The case of Sonia Wayward
Appleby Talking
The Mysterious Commission
Appleby Talks Again
The Michael Innes Omnibus
Appleby and the Ospreys
The paper thunderbolt
Money from Holme
Lament for a maker
Myself and Michael Innes
The Gay Phoenix
Appleby's Answer
Country House Murders
A family affair
Candleshoe
The Open House (Inspector Appleby Mystery)
Carson's Conspiracy (Inspector Appleby Mystery)
The Crabtree Affair
Silence Observed (Inspector Appleby Mystery)
Death At The Chase (Inspector Appleby Mystery)
A Night of Errors (Inspector Appleby Mystery)
The Bloody Wood (Red Badge Mysteries)
Death at the president's lodging
The Ampersand Papers (Inspector Appleby Mystery)
An Awkward Lie (Inspector Appleby Mystery)
Death on a Quiet Day
Old Hall, New Hall
The daffodil affair
The long farewell
Appleby's end
Lord Mullion's Secret
Appleby on Ararat
Dead man's shoes
Appleby intervenes
Hare sitting up
From London afar
The Spider strikes
A private view
Appleby and Honeybath
The secret vanguard
The man from the sea
Hamlet, revenge!
Appleby's Other Story (Classic Crime)
Appleby talks about crime
A Comedy of Terrors/(English Title = There Came Both Mist and Snow)
Death by Water/(English Title = Appleby at Allington)
Eight modern writers
Cucumber sandwiches, and other stories
The Case of the Journeying Boy
Full term
The new Sonia Wayward
A change of heir
The man who wrote detective stories
Rudyard Kipling
Young Pattullo
The Naylors
Parlour 4 and other stories
The gaudy
The Madonna of the Astrolabe
Thomas Hardy: a critical biography
James Joyce
What happened at Hazelwood
Character and motive in Shakespeare
My Aunt Christina and other stories
Honeybath's Haven (Inspector Appleby Mystery)
Christmas at Candleshoe
Andrew and Tobias
An open prison
A memorial service
Joseph Conrad
A use of riches
Junior hymns and songs : For use in the church school
Avery's mission
The bridge at Arta and other stories
A Question of Queens
Mungo's dream
The Weight of Evidence
Shakespeare's lofty scene
Mark Lambert's supper
The last Tresilians
The Aylwins
The guardians
Gulliver's Travels, an account of the Four Voyages in Several Remote Nations of the World, Junior Heritage Edition; wood engravings by Fritz Eichenberg;
The man who won the pools
A palace of art
Thomas Love Peacock
Our England is a garden and other stories
Shakespeare's characters
The second Michael Innes omnibus
A Villa in France (Cab 110)
Michael Innes Omnibus counter display
The unsuspected chasm
Vanderlyn's kingdom
Who was Shakespeare
An acre of grass
Appleby Talks
A Staircase in Surrey
Applebys Arche
James Joyce
An open prison
Vincent Starrett
Vincent Starrett (1886-1974)

journalist, literary critic

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The 50 Greatest Mysteries of All Time
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
Fourteen Great Detective Stories
"Dear Starrett-", "Dear Briggs-"
The return of Jimmie Lavender
221 B
The memoirs of Jimmie Lavender
The quick and the dead
The eleventh juror and other mysteries
The new adventures of Jimmie Lavender
The Spawn of Cthulhu
Profile by Gaslight
Ambrose Bierce
The great All-Star Animal League ball game
The unique Hamlet
World's great spy stories
Bookman's holiday
A modern book of wonders
Arthur Machen
Stephen Crane
Born in a bookshop
Coffins for two
Seaports in the moon
Buried Caesars
Elia
V4 The New Adventures of Jimmie Lavender
More books alive
The escape of Alice and other fantasies
Autolycus in limbo
Persons from Porlock
Books alive
All about Mother Goose
Banners in the dawn
Et cetera
Sonnets
Ebony flame
Wayside tales
Murder in Peking
The Moon Terror (Weird Tales Library)
Vincent Starrett's A little anthology
Penny wise and book foolish
Rhymes for collectors
Midnight and Percy Jones
Books and bipeds
The classic gourmet magazine series of Memorable meals together with some memorable morsels
An essay on limited editions
The end of Mr. Garment
Collected poems, Vincent Starrett (1886-1974)
Murder on "B" deck
Flame and dust
Snow for Christmas
Best loved books of the twentieth century
The great hotel murder
In praise of Stevenson
The end of Mr. Garmet
Jimmy Lavender, Chicago detective
The escape of Alice
V6 The Eleventh Juror and other Mysteries
Late, later and possibly last
Coffins for two
V12 Wayside Tales
Persons from Porlock
V5 More Books Alive
A Little Anthology (Vincent Starrett Memorial Library Series)
War Correspondent (Volume 10 The Vincent Starrett Memorial Library)
Oriental encounters
Tales of Mystery and Imagination (Volume 15 The Vincent Starrett Memorial Library)
Ambrose Bierce
A catalog of original manuscripts, and first and other important editions of the tales of Sherlock Holmes, as written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
V7 The Escape of Alice and other Fantasies
V1 Collected Poems
Three great documents on human liberties
Sonnets and other verse
V2 Memorable Meals
V8 The Memoirs of Jimmie Lavender
Shaking hands with immortality
Groff Conklin
Groff Conklin (1904-1968)

journalist, anthologist, literary critic, editor

  • Dartmouth College, Harvard University

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Ten Great Mysteries [10 stories, 5 poems]
Great detective stories about doctors
Fifty short science fiction tales
Possible Tomorrows
Great Science Fiction About Doctors
Great science fiction by scientists
A treasury of science fiction
13 great stories of science fiction
13 above the night
6 great short novels of science fiction
The weather conditioned house
5 unearthly visions
The supernatural reader
Omnibus of science fiction
13 great stories of science fiction
Giants Unleashed
Great stories of space travel
Omnibus of science fiction
Big book of science fiction
In the Grip of Terror
13 above the night
Science-fiction thinking machines
Six great short science fiction novels
Crossroads in time
Possible worlds of science fiction
The Golden Age of Science Fiction
Galaxy Science Fiction, October 1953
Diabetics unknown
Operation future
Good news about diabetes
Science-fiction adventures in mutation
Science fiction terror tales
A treasury of science fiction
Possible worlds of science fiction
How to run a rental library
Another part of the galaxy
Science fiction oddities
The graveyard reader
All about houses
13 great stories of science fiction
The best of science fiction
Invaders of earth
The science fiction galaxy
13 great stories of science fiction
Science-fiction adventures in dimension
Insulate and air condition your home
The best of science fiction
Science fiction terror tales
The weather conditioned house
Science fiction oddities
The Smart Set anthology
Another part of the galaxy
12 great classics of science fiction
Seven come infinity
The Omnibus of science fiction
5 Unearthly Visions
7 trips through time and space
All about subways
4 for the future
Science fiction special 9
Invaders of Earth
Selections from Science-Fiction Thinking Machines
Worlds of When
13 above the night
Omnibus Of Science Fiction
12 Great Classics of Science Fiction (Gold Medal d1366)
Science fiction omnibus
Science fiction elsewhen
Great stories of space travel
Selections from Science-fiction thinking machines
Science Fiction Thinking Machines
The weather-conditioned house
Five-odd
Insulate and air condition your home
13 Above the Night
Science fiction elsewhere
The bachelor's companion
Science fiction elsewhen
Science Fiction Terror Tales
Dimension 4
17 X infinity
The classic book of science fiction
12 Great Classics of Science Fiction (Gold Medal, R2192)
The Smart set anthology of world famous authors
Invaders of earth
13 great stories of science fiction