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  • Malice Aforethought

    by Francis Iles ...
    "Possibly the best shocker ever written." --The English Review Dr. Edmund Bickleigh married above his station. Although popular and well respected in his little Devonshire community, he seethes with resentment at the superior social status of his domineering wife, Julia. Bickleigh soothes his inferiority complex by seducing as many of the local women as he possibly can -- but with the collapse of ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

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  • Before the Fact

    by Anthony Berkeley, Francis Iles ...
    Series series British Library Crime Classics
    Unsettling and gripping, this innovative classic first published in 1932 was the basis for Alfred Hitchcock's film Suspicion, and remains an arresting and unique work of literary artistry. Anthony Berkeley Cox, writing as Francis Iles, flips the traditional mystery model of the crime genre to delve into the psychology, fears, and motives of a suspecting victim. This edition includes an ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Malice Aforethought

    The Story of a Commonplace Crime

    by Francis Iles ...
    Series series Dover Literature: Crime/Mystery/Thriller
    "Possibly the best shocker ever written." — The English ReviewDr. Edmund Bickleigh married above his station. Although popular and well respected in his little Devonshire community, he seethes with resentment at the superior social status of his domineering wife, Julia. Bickleigh soothes his inferiority complex by seducing as many of the local women as he possibly can — but with the collapse of ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

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    Before the Fact

    by Francis Iles ...
    Narrated by Deryn Edwards ...
    Series series British Library Crime Classics

    Unabridged

    9 hours 32 min

    'Some women give birth to murderers, some go to bed with them, and some marry them. Lina Aysgarth had lived with her husband for nearly eight years before she realized that she was married to a murderer.' Following the success of Malice Aforethought, novelist Anthony Berkeley Cox returned to his Francis Iles pen-name for another experiment in the inverted mystery. Where Malice Aforethought is a ... Read more

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    Malice Aforethought

    by Francis Iles ...
    Narrated by David Timson ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 38 min

    In the little hamlet of Wyvern’s Cross, where good manners, tennis and tea are pivotal to the functioning of society, little Dr Bickleigh has a rather large problem: he needs to erase his insufferable wife. His meetings with Ivy are becoming tiresome, and although his burning passion for Gwynyfryd Rattery does not play out as imagined in the toolshed, there is now the infinitely superior Madeleine ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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    by Nicholas Blake ...
    Narrated by Kevin Whately ...

    Abridged

    2 hours 49 min

    "I am going to kill a man. I don't know his name, I don't know where he lives, I have no idea what he looks like. But I am going to find him and kill him ..." So commences this classic story of retribution. Felix Lane is bent upon revenge for the death of his young son in a hit-and-run accident, and uses all the knowledge he has gained as a well-known crime writer to track down the culprit. The ... Read more

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    The Cask

    by Freeman Wills Crofts ...
    Narrated by Gordon Griffin ...
    Series series Detective Club Crime Classics

    Unabridged

    12 hours 36 min

    From the Collins Crime Club archive, the seminal first novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed ‘The King of Detective Story Writers’ and recognised as one of the ‘big four’ Golden Age crime authors.The unloading of a consignment of French wine from the steamship Bullfinch is interrupted by a gruesome discovery in a broken cask leaking sawdust and gold sovereigns. But when the shipping clerk ... Read more

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  • The Studio Crime. Illustrated

    by Ianthe Jerrold ...
    The Studio Crime by Ianthe Jerrold is a captivating and atmospheric detective novel that combines the suspense of a classic Golden Age mystery with keen psychological insight and intricate plotting. Set in the confined and often secretive world of an artist’s studio, the story explores how ambition, rivalry, and hidden desires can lead to deadly consequences. When a crime disrupts the seemingly ... Read more

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    The Golden Age of Murder

    by Martin Edwards ...
    Narrated by Leighton Pugh ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 31 min

    Winner of the 2016 EDGAR, AGATHA, MACAVITY and H.R.F.KEATING crime writing awards, this real-life detective story investigates how Agatha Christie and colleagues in a mysterious literary club transformed crime fiction.Detective stories of the Twenties and Thirties have long been stereotyped as cosily conventional. Nothing could be further from the truth.The Golden Age of Murder tells for the first ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

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    The Piccadilly Murder

    by Anthony Berkeley ...
    Narrated by Mark Bowen ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 19 min

    The Piccadilly Murder is a 1929 mystery detective novel by the British writer Anthony Berkeley. Ambrose Chitterwick is a witness to the death of a lady in the lounge at the Piccadilly Palace Hotel, shortly after her companion dropped something into her coffee. Chief Inspector Moresby is convinced she was murdered by him her nephew and sole heir, Major Sinclair, using prussic acid. He arrests ... Read more

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    Fear Stalks the Village

    by Ethel Lina White ...
    Narrated by Oona Beeson ...
    Series series British Library Crime Classics

    Unabridged

    10 hours 32 min

    A novelist ambles down the lanes of a cosy country village, replete with Tudor houses and quaint cottages. In her writer's mind she pictures the sordid truth beyond the veneer, a seemingly laughable proposition - until the coming of the letters. Anonymous letters from a poisoned pen, sowing discord and defaming everybody from the Rector to the 'queen of the village' Miss Decima Asprey. Naturally, ... Read more

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    Inspector French and the Box Office Murders

    by Freeman Wills Crofts ...
    Narrated by Phil Fox ...
    Series Audiobook 5 - Inspector French Mystery

    Unabridged

    7 hours 9 min

    From the Collins Crime Club archive, the fifth Inspector French novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed ‘The King of Detective Story Writers’.THE PUZZLE OF THE PURPLE SICKLEThe suicide of a sales clerk at the box office of a London cinema leaves another girl in fear for her life. Persuaded to seek help from Scotland Yard, Miss Darke confides in Inspector Joseph French about a gambling scam by a ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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