Classic Crime

Strap on the deerstalker of the world's most famous detective: in this interactive puzzling adventure you choose which steps to take.Enter the mind...

'The horror on the train, great though it may turn out to be, will not compare with the horror that exists here, in this house.' On Christmas Eve,...

Bruce Attleton dazzled London's literary scene with his first two novels but his early promise did not bear fruit. His wife Sybilla is a glitterin...

'The father of contemporary European detective fiction' Ann Cleeves'Florentin pulled one of those faces which had once amused his classmates so muc...

'His artistry is supreme' John Banville While at this time the previous day he had never heard of the Martons, the train set specialist was beginn...

From the moment he first gazes at Marjory across the roulette table in the Côte d''Azur Jean-Marie is entranced, and when their feverish holiday ro...

In the corner of the ABC teashop on Norfolk Street, Polly Burton of the Evening Observer sets down her morning paper, filled with news of the lates...

Virginia Barkeley is a nice, well brought-up girl. So what is she doing wandering through a snow storm in the middle of the night, blind drunk and ...

It has been twenty years since Polly Burton last saw the Teahouse Detective, but one foggy afternoon she stumbles into a Fleet Street café and chan...

Detroit Free Press reporter Timothy Wiggins learns of Harry Houdini's death on Halloween 1926 with more than casual interest. He had been at the gr...