Julian Gustave Symons fue un autor y poeta consagrado, reconocido principalmente por sus contribuciones al género de crímenes. Nacido en Londres en 1912, Symons llegó a ser un escritor prolífico, produciendo una amplia y variada gama de obras a lo largo de sus 82 años. Aunque es recordado principalmente como un maestro del escrito de crímenes, Symons también alcanzó renombre en las áreas de historia social y militar, biografía y crítica, lo que le otorgó una reputación distinguida y varios premios prestigiosos.
En 1982, Symons fue nombrado Gran Maestro de los Escritores de Misterio de América, un honor otorgado solo a tres escritores ingleses antes que él: Graham Greene, Eric Ambler y Daphne Du Maurier. También sucedió a Agatha Christie como presidente del Club de Detectives de Gran Bretaña, una posición que ocupó desde 1976 hasta 1985. En 1990, recibió el Diamante Cartier de la Escritora Británica de Crímenes. Antes de convertirse en escritor de tiempo completo, Symons desempeñó una variedad de cargos, incluyendo secretario de una empresa de ingeniería y redactor de copias publicitarias y ejecutivo. Desde 1946 hasta 1956, escribió una columna semanal titulada "Vida, Personas - y Libros" para el Manchester Evening News. Durante la década de 1950, también fue un colaborador habitual de Tribune, una revista semanal de izquierda, desempeñándose como su editor literario.
Además de su trabajo como crítico e historiador, Symons fue un poeta talentoso. Fundó y editó 'Twentieth Century Verse', una importante revista literaria que floreció de 1937 a 1939, y presentó a muchos jóvenes poetas ingleses al público. Publicó dos volúmenes de su propia poesía, 'Confusions about X' en 1939 y 'The Second Man' en 1944. El primer novel de detectives de Symons, 'The Immaterial Murder Case', fue escrito mucho antes de su publicación en 1945. Esto fue seguido por un volumen raro llamado 'A Man Called Jones' en 1947, que presentó al inspector Bland, quien también apareció en 'Bland Beginning'. Estas novelas estuvieron followed by a whole host of detective novels, y Symons también escribió muchas historias cortas que fueron publicadas regularmente en Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. Además, hay dos colecciones en forma de papel británico de sus historias cortas, 'Murder! Murder!' y 'Francis Quarles Investigates', que fueron publicadas en 1961 y 1965, respectivamente.
Francis Quarles Books
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Murder! Murder!
1961
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Francis Quarles Investigates: Tales for the Connoisseur of Detective Fiction
1965
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The Detections of Francis Quarles
2006
Inspector Bland Books
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The Immaterial Murder Case
1945
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Bland Beginning
1949
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A Man Called Jones
1949
Inspector Crambo Books
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The Narrowing Circle
1954
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The Gigantic Shadow / The Pipe Dream
1958
Joan Kahn-Harper Books
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The Man Who Killed Himself
1967
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The Man Whose Dreams Came True
1968
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The Players and The Game
1972
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The Plot Against Roger Rider
1973
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The Man Who Lost His Wife
1977
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Sweet Adelaide
1980
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The Detling Murders / The Detling Secret
1982
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The Man Who Hated Television / Did Sherlock Holmes Meet Hercule?
1995
Sheridan Haynes Books
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A Three-Pipe Problem
1975
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The Kentish Manor Murders
1988
Novelas independientes
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Selected Writings of Samuel Johnson Falcon Prose Classics
1949
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The 31st Of February
1950
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The Clue in the Book
1952
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The Broken Penny
1953
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The Paper Chase / Bogue's Fortune
1956
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The Colour Of Murder
1957
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The Progress of a Crime
1960
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The Killing Of Francie Lake / The Plain Man
1962
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Carlyle: Selected Works, Reminiscences and Letters
1963
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The End of Solomon Grundy
1964
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The Belting Inheritance
1965
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Death's Darkest Face
1966
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CRIME A Pictorial History of Crime 1840 to the Present
1966
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Critical Occasions
1966
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The Blackheath Poisonings
1978
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The Modern Crime Story
1980
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Agatha Christie Cover Story
1982
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The Name of Annabel Lee
1983
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Crime and Detection Quiz
1983
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The Remarkable Daniel Dunglas Home
1983
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1948 and 1984: The second Orwell memorial lecture
1984
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Dashiell Hammett
1985
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The Criminal Comedy of the Contented Couple / A Criminal Comedy
1986
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The General Strike
1987
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Mortal Consequences
1987
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Conan Doyle: Portrait of an Artist
1989
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The Thirties and the Nineties
1990
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Something Like a Love Affair
1993
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Criminal Practices
1994
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Playing Happy Families
1995
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A Sort Of Virtue
1996
Libros de no ficción
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A London Letter
1940
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Louis MacNeice
1940
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Obscurity and Dylan Thomas
1940
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Restoration Comedy
1945
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Strategy in War - and Peace
1947
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Low-Down on the Left
1947
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The Big Five
1947
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A Pack of Cards
1947
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Live Words Among the Dead
1947
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Between Two Beards
1947
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Pick Your Poet
1948
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What Makes a Criminal?
1948
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Antidote, Tonic - or Escape?
1948
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The Biggest Problem in the World
1948
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A Bird in the Bush
1948
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Who Is Our Best Read Novelist?
1949
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They Took the Long Jump to Freedom
1949
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Which Is the True Russia?
1949
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These Make Good Holiday Reading
1949
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I Call It Detective Fever
1949
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The Poet and the Theatre
1950
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Genius, Crank or Dabbler?
1950
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The Man Who Went to Moscow
1950
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Nation Looking for a Cure-All
1950
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The Man Who Hated the Poor ...
1950
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Three Ways to See a Country
1950
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Snail Tea for Breakfast?
1950
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Shavians Without Knowing it
1950
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Cat Naps and a High Jump
1950
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How to Get Away from It All
1950
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Sophocles in Three Scenes
1950
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Poets' Plight
1950
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When the Balloons Went Up
1950
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Charles Dickens
1951
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Novels of Four Nations
1951
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The Last of the Edwardian Giants ...
1951
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Thomas Carlyle The Life and Ideas of Prophet
1952
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Bloomsburyites - They Started It All
1954
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Dodgers, Scroungers & a Captain at Sea
1954
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Arthur James Cook (Gamblers with Fate)
1954
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Whitaker Wright (Gamblers with Fate)
1954
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Horatio Bottomley;: A biography
1955
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Murder - Plus Good Writing
1955
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Kruschev Said 'Come and See What We're Like'
1955
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What It's Like to Be 'On the Run'
1955
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They Worked So Hard to Be Gay
1955
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Did Spiritual Exercises Really Cure Eva Barton?.
1957
48
One Thing They All Said: SUBUD Makes You into a Different Person
1957
49
Frank Cousins under the Microscope
1958
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The Enigma of Frank Cousins
1958
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Cousins Can\'t Make Them Cry
1958
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A Reasonable Doubt
1960
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England's pride: The story of the Gordon Relief Expedition
1966
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Crime and Detection : an illustrated history from 1840.
1966
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Bloody Murder
1972
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Between the Wars
1972
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Notes From Another Country
1972
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The Thirties
1973
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Buller's Campaign
1974
60
The Angry 30's
1976
61
A Touch of Fowles\' Play
1977
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The Tell-Tale Heart: The Life and Works of Edgar Allan Poe
1978
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Critical Observations
1981
64
Agatha Christie, the Art of Her Crimes
1981
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Agatha Christie, the Art of Her Crimes (With: Tom Adams)
1981
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A.J.A. Symons, His Life And Speculations
1986
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Makers of the New
1987
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Conan Doyle: Portrait of an Artist
1989
Cuentos cortos/Novelas
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Stealing the Picture
1954
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The Santa Claus Club
1960
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A Mystery in Spain
1961
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'Twixt the Cup and the Lip
1965
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A Theme for Hyacinth
1967
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Eight Minutes to Kill
1971
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Two Brothers
1985
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Portraits Of The Missing
1991
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Does literature exist? The Lurcy Lecture Amherst College March 1992.
1993
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A Julian Symons Sherlockian Duet
2000
Colecciones de cuentos cortos
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How to Trap a Crook
1977
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The Tigers of Subtopia and Other Stories
1984
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Somebody Else
1990
Julian Symons Poems
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Poem
1938
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Confusions About X
1939
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The Other Cheek
1939
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Pub
1940
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End of a Year
1940
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Spring
1942
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Hart Crane
1942
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Eleven Meetings
1942
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The Clock
1942
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The Second Man
1943
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A Reflection on Auden
1973
Julian Symons Poems (with Roy Fuller)
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Confusions About X
1939
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The Second Man
1943
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A Reflection on Auden
1973
British Library Crime Classics Books
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The Notting Hill Mystery (By: Charles Warren Adams)
1862
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The Notting Hill Mystery
1862
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The Poisoned Chocolates Case (By: Anthony Berkeley)
1929
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The Poisoned Chocolates Case
1929
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It Walks by Night (By: John Dickson Carr)
1930
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It Walks by Night
1930
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The Secret of High Eldersham / The Mystery of High Eldersham (By: Miles Burton)
1930
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The Secret of High Eldersham / The Mystery of High Eldersham
1930
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Castle Skull (By: John Dickson Carr)
1931
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Castle Skull
1931
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Mystery in the Channel
1931
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Mystery in the Channel (By: Freeman Crofts)
1931
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The Incredible Crime
1931
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The Incredible Crime (By: Lois Austen-Leigh)
1931
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Murder of a Lady
1931
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Murder of a Lady (By: Anthony Wynne)
1931
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The Lost Gallows (By: John Dickson Carr)
1931
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The Lost Gallows
1931
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The Z Murders (By: J. Jefferson Farjeon)
1931
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The Z Murders
1931
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The Corpse in the Waxworks / The Waxworks Murder (By: John Dickson Carr)
1932
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The Corpse in the Waxworks / The Waxworks Murder
1932
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The Division Bell Mystery
1932
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The Division Bell Mystery (By: Ellen Wilkinson)
1932
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Portrait of a Murderer
1933
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Portrait of a Murderer (By: Anne Meredith)
1933
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Death in Fancy Dress (By: Anthony Gilbert)
1933
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Death in Fancy Dress
1933
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Family Matters (By: Anthony Rolls)
1933
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Family Matters
1933
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The Hog's Back Mystery (By: Freeman Crofts)
1933
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The Hog's Back Mystery
1933
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The Mysterious Mr. Badman (By: William Fryer Harvey)
1934
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Murder Underground
1934
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Murder Underground (By: Mavis Doriel Hay)
1934
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Scarweather
1934
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Death of an Airman
1934
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Scarweather (By: Anthony Rolls)
1934
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Death of an Airman (By: Christopher Sprigg)
1934
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The Spy Paramount
1934
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The 12.30 from Croydon
1934
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The Spy Paramount (By: E. Phillips Oppenheim)
1934
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The 12.30 from Croydon (By: Freeman Crofts)
1934
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The Chianti Flask
1934
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The Lake District Murder
1935
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The Chianti Flask (By: Marie Belloc Lowndes)
1934
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Death on the Cherwell
1935
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Weekend at Thrackley (By: Alan Melville)
1934
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Quick Curtain (By: Alan Melville)
1934
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The Cornish Coast Murder
1935
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The Lake District Murder (By: John Bude)
1935
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The Traitor
1936
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The Santa Klaus Murder
1936
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Death on the Cherwell (By: Mavis Doriel Hay)
1935
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The Cornish Coast Murder (By: John Bude)
1935
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The Sussex Downs Murder
1936
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Death in the Tunnel / Dark in the Tunnel
1936
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The Traitor (By: Sydney Horler)
1936
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Mystery in White
1937
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The Santa Klaus Murder (By: Mavis Doriel Hay)
1936
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The Sussex Downs Murder (By: John Bude)
1936
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Bats in the Belfry
1937
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The Cheltenham Square Murder
1937
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Death of Anton (By: Alan Melville)
1936
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Excellent Intentions
1938
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The Wheel Spins / Passengers / The Lady Vanishes (By: Ethel Lina White)
1936
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Murder in the Museum
1938
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Death in the Tunnel / Dark in the Tunnel (By: Miles Burton)
1936
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Murder in Piccadilly (By: Charles Kingston)
1936
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Antidote to Venom
1938
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Mystery in White (By: J. Jefferson Farjeon)
1937
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Thirteen Guests
1938
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The Port of London Murders
1938
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Bats in the Belfry (By: E.C.R. Lorac)
1937
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The Cheltenham Square Murder (By: John Bude)
1937
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The Arsenal Stadium Mystery
1939
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Seven Dead
1939
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Excellent Intentions (By: Richard Hull)
1938
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Verdict of Twelve
1940
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Murder in the Museum (By: John Rowland)
1938
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A Scream in Soho
1940
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Antidote to Venom (By: Freeman Crofts)
1938
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Thirteen Guests (By: J. Jefferson Farjeon)
1938
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Death of a Busybody
1942
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The Dead Shall be Raised & Murder of a Quack
1942
86
The Port of London Murders (By: Josephine Bell)
1938
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Somebody at the Door
1943
88
The Arsenal Stadium Mystery (By: Leonard R. Gribble)
1939
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Seven Dead (By: J. Jefferson Farjeon)
1939
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Murder's a Swine: A Second World War Mystery
1943
91
Verdict of Twelve (By: Raymond Postgate)
1940
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Checkmate to Murder
1944
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A Scream in Soho (By: John G. Brandon)
1940
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Fell Murder
1944
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Death of a Busybody (By: George Bellairs)
1942
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Murder by Matchlight
1945
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Trouble on the Thames
1945
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The Dead Shall be Raised & Murder of a Quack (By: George Bellairs)
1942
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Fire in the Thatch
1946
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Somebody at the Door (By: Raymond Postgate)
1943
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Death Makes a Prophet
1947
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Murder's a Swine (By: Nap Lombard)
1943
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Checkmate to Murder (By: E.C.R. Lorac)
1944
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Smallbone Deceased
1950
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Fell Murder (By: E.C.R. Lorac)
1944
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Calamity in Kent
1950
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Murder by Matchlight (By: E.C.R. Lorac)
1945
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Death Has Deep Roots
1951
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Trouble on the Thames (By: Victor Bridges)
1945
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The Danger Within / Death in Captivity
1952
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Murder in the Mill-Race
1952
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Fire in the Thatch (By: E.C.R. Lorac)
1946
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Death Makes a Prophet (By: John Bude)
1947
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Crossed Skis
1952
115
Death on the Riviera
1952
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Smallbone Deceased (By: Michael Gilbert)
1950
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Calamity in Kent (By: John Rowland)
1950
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Death Has Deep Roots (By: Michael Gilbert)
1951
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The Christmas Egg
1958
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Last Seen Wearing (By: Hillary Waugh)
1952
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The Danger Within / Death in Captivity (By: Michael Gilbert)
1952
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The Spoilt Kill
1961
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The Body in the Dumb River
1961
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Murder in the Mill-Race (By: E.C.R. Lorac)
1952
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Crossed Skis (By: Carol Carnac)
1952
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Due to a Death
1963
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Death on the Riviera (By: John Bude)
1952
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Surfeit of Suspects
1964
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The Man Who Didn't Fly (By: Margot Bennett)
1955
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The Last Best Friend
1967
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The Colour Of Murder
1957
132
The End of the Web
1976
133
The Christmas Egg (By: Mary Kelly)
1958
134
The Progress of a Crime
1960
135
Capital Crimes: London Mysteries
2015
136
Resorting to Murder
2015
137
Sergeant Cluff Stands Firm (By: Gil North)
1960
138
Silent Nights
2015
139
The Spoilt Kill (By: Mary Kelly)
1961
140
Murder at the Manor
2016
141
The Body in the Dumb River (By: George Bellairs)
1961
142
Due to a Death (By: Mary Kelly)
1963
143
Serpents in Eden
2016
144
Crimson Snow
2016
145
Surfeit of Suspects (By: George Bellairs)
1964
146
Foreign Bodies
2017
147
The Belting Inheritance
1965
148
The Last Best Friend (By: George Sims)
1967
149
The Long Arm of the Law
2017
150
Miraculous Mysteries
2017
151
London Particular (By: Christianna Brand)
1972
152
Continental Crimes
2017
153
The End of the Web (By: George Sims)
1976
154
Capital Crimes (By: Martin Edwards, Richard Marsh)
2015
155
Blood on the Tracks
2018
156
Resorting to Murder (By: Martin Edwards)
2015
157
The Christmas Card Crime and Other Stories
2018
158
Silent Nights (By: Martin Edwards)
2015
159
Golden Age of Detection Puzzle Book
2018
160
Murder at the Manor (By: Martin Edwards)
2016
161
Deep Waters: Murder on the Waves
2019
162
Serpents in Eden (By: Martin Edwards)
2016
163
The Measure of Malice
2019
164
Settling Scores: Sporting Mysteries
2020
165
Crimson Snow (By: Martin Edwards, Fergus Hume)
2016
166
A Surprise for Christmas and Other Seasonal Mysteries
2020
167
Foreign Bodies (By: Martin Edwards, Palle Rosenkrantz)
2017
168
Two-Way Murder
2021
169
The Long Arm of the Law (By: Martin Edwards)
2017
170
Miraculous Mysteries (By: Martin Edwards)
2017
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Guilty Creatures: A Menagerie of Mysteries
2021
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Continental Crimes (By: Martin Edwards)
2017
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Blood on the Tracks (By: Martin Edwards)
2018
174
The Christmas Card Crime and Other Stories (By: Martin Edwards)
2018
175
Golden Age of Detection Puzzle Book (By: Kate Jackson)
2018
176
Deep Waters (By: Martin Edwards)
2019
177
The Measure of Malice (By: Martin Edwards)
2019
178
Settling Scores (By: Martin Edwards)
2020
179
A Surprise for Christmas and Other Seasonal Mysteries (By: Martin Edwards)
2020
180
Two-Way Murder (By: E.C.R. Lorac)
2021
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Guilty Creatures (By: Martin Edwards)
2021
182
Death of an Author ( By: E.C.R. Lorac)
2024
183
Crimes of Cymru (By: Martin Edwards)
2024
184
The Wheel Spins (By: Ethel Lina White)
2025
Murderous Christmas Stories Books
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Murder under the Christmas Tree
2016
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Murder under the Christmas Tree: Ten Classic Crime Stories for the Festive Season
2016
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Murder on Christmas Eve
2017
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A Very Murderous Christmas
2018
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A Very Murderous Christmas: Ten Classic Crime Stories for the Festive Season
2018
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Murder at Christmas
2019
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Murder in Midwinter
2020
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Murder on a Winter's Night
2021
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Murder in the Falling Snow
2022
Sherlock Holmes Books (with Vincent Starrett, with Ronald Knox, with Richard Lancelyn Green, with F.P. Cillié, with D.O. Smith, with Arthur Whitaker, with S.C. Roberts, with W.R. Duncan Macmillan)
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A Bibliography Of A. Conan Doyle
1983
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The Sherlock Holmes Letters
1986
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Letters to Sherlock Holmes
1986
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The Misadventure Of The Sherlock Holmes Pilot
1995
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The Mystery Of The Spot Ball
1997
Julian Symons Anthologies
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An anthology of War Poetry.
1942
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Some Things Fierce and Fatal.
1957
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Open at Your Own Risk
1975
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Agatha Christie
1977
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John Creasey's Crime Collection, 1977
1977
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Verdict of Thirteen
1979
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Great Detectives
1981
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Verdict of thirteen: A Detection Club anthology
1981
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The Scoop and Behind the Screen
1983
10
New Poetry 9: An Arts Council Anthology
1983
11
Tales of the Uncanny
1983
12
Deadly Arts
1985
13
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1987
14
100 Great Detectives, Or, the Detective Directory
1991
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Fifty Best Mysteries
1993
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Great Cases of Scotland Yard, Volume Two
1997
17
Murder Most Merry
2002
18
Capital Crimes
2015
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Capital Crimes: London Mysteries
2015
20
Resorting to Murder
2015
21
Silent Nights
2015
22
Murder at the Manor
2016
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Serpents in Eden
2016
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Crimson Snow
2016
25
Foreign Bodies
2017
26
The Long Arm of the Law
2017
27
Miraculous Mysteries
2017
28
Continental Crimes
2017
29
Blood on the Tracks
2018
30
The Christmas Card Crime and Other Stories
2018
31
Murder in Midsummer: Classic Mysteries for the Holidays
2019
32
The Measure of Malice
2019
33
Settling Scores
2020
34
Settling Scores: Sporting Mysteries
2020
35
A Surprise for Christmas and Other Seasonal Mysteries