Berry and Co. (Popular Penguins Crime) by Dornford Yates
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Category: CLASSICS | Series: Green Popular Penguins
This collection of short stories featuring 'Berry' Pleydell and his chaotic entourage established Dornford Yates' reputation as one of the best comic writers in a generation, and made him hugely popular. The German caricatures in the book carried such a sting that when France was invaded in 1939 Yates, ...Show more
Inspector West Takes Charge (Popular Penguins Crime) by John Creasey
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Category: CLASSICS | Series: Green Popular Penguins
Extortion is the name of the game. In this first story of the Inspector West series, the Scotland Yard officer has to get to the bottom of a blackmail bid against the Dreem cigarette factory. With those behind the attempt prepared to murder anyone who might get in their way, Inspector West has to unrave ...Show more
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: CLASSICS | Series: Green Popular Penguins Ser.
Venture back in time to Victorian London to join literature's greatest detective team - the brilliant Sherlock Holmes and his devoted assistant, Dr. Watson - as they investigate a dozen of their best-known cases. Originally published in 1892, this is the first and best collection of stories about the le ...Show more
Gun Before Butter by Nicolas Freeling
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Category: CLASSICS | Series: Green Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Bulldog Drummond (Popular Penguins Crime) by Sapper
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Category: CLASSICS | Series: Green Popular Penguins
Demobilised officer, finding peace incredibly tedious, would welcome diversion. Legitimate, if possible; but crime, if of a comparatively humorous description, no objection. Excitement essential...Reply at once Box X10.' Hungry for adventure following the First World War, Captain Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond ...Show more
The Long Goodbye (Popular Penguins Crime) by Raymond Chandler
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Category: CLASSICS | Series: Green Popular Penguins
Down-and-out drunk Terry Lennox has a problem: his millionaire wife is dead. So he turns to his only friend in the world, Philip Marlowe, Private Investigator. Marlowe's willing to help a man down on his luck, but Lennox commits suicide in Mexico and things start to turn nasty. Marlowe finds himself dra ...Show more
Don't Look Now and Other Stories (Popular Penguins Crime) by Daphne Du Maurier
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Category: CLASSICS | Series: Green Popular Penguins
A grieved couple depart to Venice after the sudden death of their daughter. Here the visions of a blind psychic push their already fragile relationship to its limits. Will they heed her warnings or disregard the ramblings of an old woman; and at what cost? In this work of short stories, Du Maurier parad ...Show more
A Dark-Adapted Eye (Popular Penguins Crime) by Barbara Vine
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Category: CLASSICS | Series: Green Popular Penguins
Vera was prim and fastidious. Eden was beautiful and adored. Like most families they had their secrets...and they hid them under a genteelly respectable veneer. Yet their sisterly bond was strained by obsession, manipulation and murderous jealousy. Buried secrets rarely stay buried, and their past still ...Show more
A Rage in Harlem (Popular Penguins Crime) by Chester Himes
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Category: CLASSICS | Series: Green Popular Penguins
Jackson, trusting and besotted with his girlfriend, Imabelle, scrapes his hard-earned savings together in a scheme to triple his money. But it all goes terribly wrong, and Jackson soon finds himself without money, a job, or his beloved Imabelle. Desperate to find her, he turns to his brother for help. F ...Show more
The Thirty-Nine Steps (Popular Penguins Crime) by John Buchan
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Category: CLASSICS | Series: Green Popular Penguins
In prohibition-era New York, Nick Charles plans to enjoy a quiet Christmas with his glamorous wife, Nora, their Schnauzer, Asta, and a case of good scotch. But the bullet-riddled corpse of a former lover, a missing inventor and a junked-up hoodlum with a careless attitude to guns force him out of retire ...Show more
Greenmantle (Popular Penguins Crime) by John Buchan
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Category: CLASSICS | Series: Green Popular Penguins
A cryptic message launches Major Richard Hannay into another adventure of intrigue, espionage, and danger. Setting out across war-torn Europe, and travelling to the heart of the Middle East, Hannay and his friends Sandy Arbuthnot, Peter Pienaar, and John S. Blenkiron must penetrate enemy lines, quell a ...Show more
Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby
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Category: CLASSICS | Series: Green Popular Penguins
The streets are seething with barely concealed menace, threatening to explode with the primal rage and desires of the hoodlums, hookers, transvestites, alcoholics and homosexuals who call New York home. Here, life is raw, love is brutal, and one must fight to survive. Banned by British courts in 1967, a ...Show more