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Michael Cox
Michael Cox (1948-2009)

biographer, teacher, literary scholar, literary historian

  • University of Cambridge

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Victorian Tales of Mystery and Detection
The Oxford book of Victorian detective stories
12 English detective stories
Victorian Ghost Stories
The glass of time
The Oxford book of English ghost stories
The meaning of night
Tutankhamun And His Tombful Of Treasure
M.R. James
The concise Oxford chronology of English literature
The Oxford book of Victorian ghost stories
The Oxford chronology of English literature
The Oxford book of twentieth-century ghost stories
The glass of time
The glass of time
The Oxford book of English ghost stories
The Oxford book of historical stories
The concise Oxford chronology of English literature
The Oxford book of historical stories
The meaning of night
The Oxford book of spy stories
A dictionary of writers and their works
The Oxford book of English ghost stories
The Oxford book of spy stories
Who wrote what?
Victorian ghost stories
The Oxford book of English ghost stories
De zin van het duister
La nuit de l'infamie
Horror stories
The incredible internet
פשר הלילה
John Harvey
John Harvey (born 1938)

teacher

  • University of Nottingham, Goldsmiths, University of London

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Last rites
Darkness and Light
Cold in hand
Rough Treatment
Easy meat
Rough treatment
Cutting Edge
Still waters
Flesh & blood
Cutting edge
Darkness & light
Off minor
Cold light
Off Minor
Lonely Hearts
Far cry
Men from Boys
Wasted years
Ash & bone
Flesh & blood
Wasted Years
In a true light
Ash & bone
Good bait
Lonely hearts
Living proof
Still Water Charles Resnick Mysteries
Far cry
Far Cry
Now's the time
Cold in hand
A Darker Shade Of Blue
Gone to ground
A Darker Shade Of Blue Stories
Living proof
Men from boys
Body & soul
Flesh and blood
Good bait
Lonely hearts : a Charlie Resnick mystery
A darker shade of blue
Crime express
Lonely hearts
Cold Light
Men from boys
Easy Meat
Off Minor
In a True Light
The Geranium Kiss
Cutting Edge
Easy meat
In a True Light
Loss and Trauma
Gone to Ground
Cold Light
Mediaeval gardens
Off Minor (A Resnick Novel)
Post-traumatic stress theory
Last Rites
Hart
Ash and Bone (Frank Elder Mysteries)
Hart
York
Ghosts of a chance
Cherokee outlet
Clothes
Lonely Hearts (A Resnick Novel)
Blood trail
Rough Treatment (A Resnick Novel)
Terror Trap! (The Tempest Twins)
Bluer than this
Total relaxation
Hart, ride the wide country
Anouilh
Hart, blood on the border
Measuring Health And Wellbeing
The silver lie
Now's the Time
Good bait
Cutting Edge (A Resnick Novel)
John Wesley Hardin
California bloodlines
Tempest Twins Daylight Robbery
Blood on the border
Downeast to danger!
Arkansas breakout
The skinning place
Ride the wide country
Wasted Years (A Resnick Novel)
Tempest Twins Runner
Cherokee outlet
Pesticide analytical methodology : based on a symposium
The Plantagenets
Living Proof John Harvey
Herbie Rides Again
Gothic England
With the Foreign Legion in Syria
Ash & bone
The National Trust nature companion
The old postcard trick
Territory
Hot property!
Coup d'etat
Lonely Hearts
Blind
The Quiet mind
Duty free
Walks from the West Highland Railway
Hart, the regulator
Frame
What about it, Sharon?
Provence
California Bloodlines
Last Summer First Love
A Darker Shade Of Blue Stories
Darkness, darkness
Still water
Darkness & light
Blue lightning
One of our dinosaurs is missing
D'ombre et de lumière
Ash and bone
Lonely Hearts
Demain ce seront des hommes
Les Années perdues
Good bait
Darkness, darkness
Gone to ground
Footwork
De chair et de sang
Flesh and blood
Hard Cases
Schau nicht zurück
Scalpel (French Edition)
Flesh and Blood Proof
Nick's blues
De cendre et d'os
Off Minor
Reel love
Traquer les ombres
Frame
Wild love
Trouble in mind
Minor key
Keeping a head?
What about it, Sharon?
What game are you playing?
Herbie goes to Monte Carlo
Mark Richard Zubro
Mark Richard Zubro (born 1948)

teacher

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Another Dead Teenager
Rust On The Razor
Sorry Now?
A Simple Suburban Murder
An Echo of Death
Why isn't Becky Twitchell dead?
Drop dead
Sex and Murder.com
The truth can get you killed
The Truth Can Get You Killed
Political poison
Are you nuts?
Schooled in murder
Dead Egotistical Morons
The principal cause of death
One dead drag queen
Nerds Who Kill
The only good priest
Here comes the corpse
File under dead
Hook, line, and homicide
Everyone's dead but us
Truth Can Get You Killed
Sorry Now?
The only good priest
Foolproof
Alien victory
Nerds who kill
One Dead Drag Queen
Alien quest
Drop Dead
A conspiracy of fear
Dead Egotistical Morons
Great Black Americans P/C's Vol 2
Why Isn't Becky Twitchell Dead?
Rust on the Razor
Echo of Death
Sex and murder.com
Rust on the razor
Are You Nuts?
Principal Cause of Death
Drop Dead
Another Dead Teenager
Simple Suburban Murder
Alien home
The Truth Can Get You Killed
Steven Gould
Steven Gould (born 1955)

teacher

  • Texas A&M University

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Blind waves / Steven Gould
Blind Waves
Decision Points
Jumper
Wildside
Isaac Asimov's Robots
The Living Dead 2
Helm
7th sigma
Impulse
Jumper
Reflex
Exo: A Jumper Novel
Jumper
Helm
Exo
The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 2
Reflex (Jumper)
Greenwar
Jumper Sequel
Shade
JUMPER 1
Bugs in the Arroyo
Jumper
Greenwar
John Bibee
John Bibee (1954-2018)

teacher

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The mystery at the broken bridge
The mystery of the Mexican graveyard
The mystery of the homeless treasure
The mystery of the campus crook
The mystery of the vanishing cave
The perfect star
The mystery of the widow's watch
The mystery of the missing microchips
The mystery in Lost Canyon
The Home School Detectives Set
Home School Detectives 1-4
The toy campaign
The runaway parents
The only game in town
Bicycle Hills
The journey of wishes
The last Christmas
The magic bicycle
The Spirit Flyer Series (8-Volume Set)
Home School Detectives 5-8
The Spirit Flyer Series
The Mystery of the Missing Microchips (Home School Detectives)
The Spirit Flyer Series/Vol 1-4
Dagmar Lange
Dagmar Lange (1914-1991)

school teacher

  • Stockholm University

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Death Awaits Thee
Death Awaits Thee
A Wreath for the Bride
Vem är du?
No More Murders!
Wreath for the Bride
Pontus Wikner som vitter författare
Se, döden på dig väntar
Ingen returbillet
Jan och Katja jagar en kista
Camilla vid skiljevägen
Pas paa, Katja
Svar till ensam Eva
Gullregn i oktober
Inga pengar till Vendela
La muerte te espera
De röda kattorna ..
Arvet efter Alberta
Tre sma gummor
Murhaajan kirja
En Fremmed Mand
Intrigernas hus
Farligt att förtära
Inte flera mord
Svart sommar
Vem väntar på värdshuset?
En främmande man
Vi var tretton i klassen
Grant Allen
Grant Allen (1848-1899)

naturalist, botanist, teacher

  • University of Oxford

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An African Millionaire
The Shadows of Sherlock Holmes
The Best Crime Stories of the 19th Century
Michael's Crag
Miss Cayley's adventures
The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime
Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
What's bred in the bone
Librivox Short Mystery Story Collection Vol. 003
The reluctant hangman and other stories of crime
The Woman Who Did
The British Barbarians
The Twelve Frights of Christmas
Flowers and their pedigrees
Falling in love
Florence
Venice
Biographies of Working Men
Post-prandial philosophy
Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Science Fiction of the 19th Century
The Great Taboo
Paris
The colour-sense
The evolution of the idea of God
Vignettes from nature
Science in Arcady
Charles Darwin
The evolutionist at large
The story of the plants
Hilda Wade, a Woman With Tenacity of Purpose
Flashlights on nature
The colours of flowers
The tents of Shem
In all shades
Philistia
The cruise of the Albatross, or, When was Wednesday the tenth?
Cities of Belgium
The plants
Anglo-Saxon Britain
Blood royal
The duchess of Powysland
This mortal coil
Linnet
The type-writer girl
The lower slopes
Under sealed order
Wednesday the tenth
At market value
Babylon
Colin Clout's calendar
Evolution in Italian art
Force and energy
Recalled to Life
Moorland idylls
The European tour
The hand of God
County and town in England, together with some annals of Churnside
The incidental bishop
Dumaresq's daughter
Belgium
The devil's die
The Attis of Caius Valerius Catullus
Common sense science
Twelve tales
The jaws of death
Kalee's shrine
George Paul Macdonell, in memoriam
Wolverden Tower
The scallywag
Killing London
Tom, unlimited
Steampunk Six Pack
Tidal Thames
For Maimie's sake
A splendid sin
In nature's workshop
Physiological æsthetics
The Great Ruby Robbery
Rosalba
A bride from the desert
The beckoning hand
An army doctor's romance
The Adventure Of The Amateur Commission Agent
Pallinghurst Barrow
Plant life
My New Year's Eve among the Mummies Illustrated
Individualism and socialism
Nature studies
The Adventure Of The Cantankerous Old Lady
A terrible inheritance
The Adventure Of The Supercilious Attache
Side Lights
The Adventure Of The Impromptu Mountaineer
Ivan Greet's masterpiece, etc
Thames Valley Catastrophe Illustrated
The Adventure Of The Inquisitive American
Strange stories
Plain words on the woman question
The desire of the eyes and other stories
The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Grant Allen : Volume 2-Fourteen Short Stories of the Strange and Unusual Including 'Wolverden Tower', ... and 'Pausodyne
The return of Aphrodite
Grant Allen - Babylon
Sir Theodore's guest, and other stories
Magdalen tower
Drowning for Liverpool (Victorian Viewpoints)
How It Feels to Die, by One Who Has Tried It; and Other Stories Illustrated
Hand and brain
The backslider
A problem in human evolution
The white man's foot
Cities of Northern Italy Volume 2
The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories, Volume Two
Paris
Florence
Falling in love
Plain words on the woman question
The British barbarians
The Duchess of Powysland
The European tour
The colours of flowers
Plain words on the woman question
The bold buccaneer
Linnet
The hand of God and other posthumous essays
County and town in England
What's bred in the bone
A bride from the desert
The evolution of the idea of God
In memoriam George Paul Macdonell
Individualism and socialism
Venice
Ngalalana mĕkĕl sakĕtip
Physiological aesthetics
Individualism and socialism ..
The woman who did
A glimpse of North Africa
Anglo-Saxon Britain
Vignettes from nature
The story of the plants
Charles Darwin
Graeme Macrae Burnet
Graeme Macrae Burnet (born 1966)

teacher

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His bloody project
The disappearance of Adèle Bedeau
The accident on the A35
Case Study
These Our Monsters
Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau, The