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Crime.

Step into the shadows with dot books’ crime collection, where foggy gaslit alleyways meet cunning gentleman-thieves and the unflinching grit of true crime. From Holmes’s debut deductions to Lord Peter Wimsey’s first puzzle, these pages are stained with suspense and rascality. Whether you’re unpacking a locked-room mystery or poring over historic misdeeds, there’s a dark delight waiting.

29 books

The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar

The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar

Maurice Leblanc's dazzling debut collection introducing Arsène Lupin, the charming master thief who robs the rich, outwits the police, and turns every crime into a performance.

$9.50

Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment

A feverish descent into guilt and redemption, Dostoevsky’s 'Crime and Punishment' follows a tormented student who believes he’s beyond morality—until his crime consumes him.

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

London’s foggy alleyways conceal crimes only Sherlock Holmes can unravel.

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The Mysteries of London, v. 4/4

The Mysteries of London, v. 4/4

The concluding volume of G.

$8.50

Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy

Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy

A collection of sensational true and traditional tales from the age of sail, gathering accounts of shipboard revolt, bloody crime, and piracy on the high seas.

$8.00

The Hunter's Lodge Case

The Hunter's Lodge Case

A compact Hercule Poirot mystery from Agatha Christie.

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The Plymouth Express Affair

The Plymouth Express Affair

A young woman is found dead beneath the seat of a railway carriage, her jewels missing, and Hercule Poirot untangles a crime of theft, deception and family secrets in this compact

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Unnatural death

Unnatural death

Dorothy L.

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The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, commonly called Lord Cochrane, the Hon. Andrew Cochrane Jo

The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, commonly called Lord Cochrane, the Hon. Andrew Cochrane Jo

The trial record of the notorious 1814 Stock Exchange fraud, in which Lord Cochrane and others stood accused of spreading false news to manipulate the markets: a landmark case of f

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Whose Body? A Lord Peter Wimsey Novel

Whose Body? A Lord Peter Wimsey Novel

Dorothy L.

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Children of the Whirlwind

Children of the Whirlwind

A story of the city's underworld and the struggle to rise out of it, where crime, love and the longing for a better life collide.

$8.50

The Big Four

The Big Four

Hercule Poirot faces not a single killer but a global criminal conspiracy of four masterminds bent on world domination, in Agatha Christie's most unusual and action-packed Poirot a

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The Mystery of the Blue Train

The Mystery of the Blue Train

A wealthy heiress is found murdered aboard the luxury train to the Riviera, her famous rubies gone, and Hercule Poirot, a fellow passenger, takes up a case tangled in money, love a

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Fantômas

Fantômas

The first novel of the notorious French master-criminal Fantômas, a lurid and headlong thriller in which an elusive genius of crime terrorises Paris while a dogged detective pursue

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The case-book of Sherlock Holmes

The case-book of Sherlock Holmes

The final collection of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories gathers twelve late cases for the world's most famous detective, closing the canon with fresh puzzles and a few

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Time Crime

Time Crime

A brisk piece of classic science fiction built on the idea of crime that reaches across time itself.

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The Ambulance Made Two Trips

The Ambulance Made Two Trips

A short work whose brisk, arresting title promises incident and consequence.

$9.00

The Big Fix

The Big Fix

A story whose title promises intrigue and the solving of a large problem, a tale of scheming, stakes, and the effort to set something right or put it over.

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Poirot Investigates

Poirot Investigates

Eleven brisk cases showcase Hercule Poirot's little grey cells at their sharpest, narrated by the loyal Captain Hastings, in Agatha Christie's first and much-loved collection of th

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Celebrated Crimes

Celebrated Crimes

A vivid collection of true and legendary crimes from European history, retold with a novelist's flair for drama and character.

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The Valley of Fear

The Valley of Fear

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The Secret Adversary

The Secret Adversary

Two out-of-work friends advertise themselves as adventurers for hire and stumble into international intrigue, introducing Agatha Christie's beloved sleuthing pair, Tommy and Tuppen

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The Mysterious Affair at Styles

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Agatha Christie's very first novel, and the debut of Hercule Poirot.

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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

A retired industrialist is found stabbed in his study, and Hercule Poirot comes out of quiet seclusion to investigate, in the Agatha Christie novel routinely named one of the fines

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The Sign of the Four

The Sign of the Four

The second Sherlock Holmes novel sends the great detective and Dr.

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The Secret of Chimneys

The Secret of Chimneys

A casual errand draws a footloose adventurer into murder, blackmail and international intrigue at a grand English country house, in one of Agatha Christie's most sparkling early th

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Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison: Fifteen Years in Solitude

Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison: Fifteen Years in Solitude

Austin Bidwell's own account of the great Bank of England forgery and the fifteen years of imprisonment that followed.

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The Sign of Four

The Sign of Four

Sherlock Holmes and Dr.

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A Study in Scarlet

A Study in Scarlet

The novel that lit the fuse.

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