Crime books
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Editors' picks
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As Ruth Rendell knows well, readers never tire of a favourite literary detective. Arthur Conan Doyle had killed off Sherlock Holmes but brought him back to solve the case of the 'Baskerville demon' -
George Pelecanos's tense, violent novels are brilliant crime writing. But don't go calling it light entertainment -
The policeman investigating a horrific murder case in 1860 provided the template for the archetypal detective hero - from The Moonstone to Inspector Morse. Kate Summerscale tracks down the clues
Most recent
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Nov 29 2008:
Review: Dark Echo by FG Cottam
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Nov 29 2008:
Review: The Maze of Cadiz by Aly Monroe
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Nov 29 2008:
Review: The Watcher by Brian Freeman
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Nov 29 2008:
Nothing to Fear by Matthew d'Ancona
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Nov 29 2008:
Review: Portobello by Ruth Rendell.
Rendell's Portobello market reveals the vanity of gentrification, says Chris Petit -
Nov 26 2008:
Authorities had numerous chances to intervene in the rape and abuse of two daughters by their father
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Nov 23 2008:
Review: The Best American Mystery Stories 2008, edited by George Pelecanos
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Nov 22 2008:
Review: Bait by Nick Brownlee
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Nov 22 2008:
Review: The Phantom of Rue Royale by Jean-François Parot
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Nov 22 2008:
Review: No More Dying by David Roberts
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Nov 22 2008:
Review: The Calling by Inger Ash Wolfe
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Nov 15 2008:
Review: Jumping the Cracks by Victoria Blake
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Nov 8 2008:
Review: Do Time Get Time by Andrey Rubanov
Chris Petit enters the subterranean world of a Russian wide boy -
Nov 8 2008:
Review: Cliff Hanger by TJ Middleton
Alfred Hickling investigates the strange case of the novelist turned crime writer -
Nov 2 2008:
Review: And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks by Jack Kerouac and William S Burroughs
This previously unpublished true-life murder sustains a low growl of violence, writes James Purdon
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