A Three-pipe Problem

<p>A fading actor is playing the detective Sherlock Holmes in a TV series. Persuading himself that by following in the master's footsteps he can solve a string of apparently unrelated murders - the "Karate Killings" - he begins to investigate the crimes.</p>

A three-pipe problem

JULIAN SYMONS

Harper&Row

Sweet Adelaide

Bogue's Fortune

To research a new detective story, Charles Applegate takes a post in a progressive school of misfits, set deep in the English countryside. The game turns serious when a fellow teacher is murdered and a weird variety of criminals seem convinced that Charles has something they want.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

Carroll&Graf

<p>When it appeared in 1972 'Bloody Murder' was greeted as the classic study of crime fiction, a book "heartily recommended to anyone who has ever enjoyed a detective story or a crime novel" as Kingsley Amis wrote. Subsequent edition ensured that this study was kept up to date to include later authors, and a third and final revised edition was issued in 1993 in celebration of distinguished author/critic Julian Symons' 80th year. The views expressed are as candid as ever. One bestselling writer is called unreadable, another compared to writers of "strip cartoon stories". But the general tone is warmly appreciative of every sort of book within the genre.</p>

Bloody Murder - From The Detective Story To The Crime Novel: A History

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Penguin??Books

The descendants of Charles Mortimer, the Collards and the Vandervents, share two mansions on Blackheath. Despite their wealth and position, they are a family cursed by bad luck from which no generation is exempt. Roger Vandervent, the manager of the family business, dies from food poisoning.

The Blackheath Poisonings : A Victorian Murder Mystery

Mystery

Penguin Books, Ltd.

'THE ADVERTISING MURDERS: ''THIRTY-FIRST OF FEBRUARY'' AND ''MAN CALLED JONES'' (PAN CRIME)'

Pan Books

This history of the various forms and masters of the mystery genre follows the trail through the first pinnacle of detection in the Master Detective stories of the 1930s up to the present

Bloody Murder

World Literature

Colour of Murder

Macmillan

The Colour of Murder

Papermac

This is a collection of articles, reviews, interviews and essays by the 1990 Cartier Diamond Dagger award winner - critic and writer, Julian Symons. Following an introduction entitled "The Crime Story Yesterday, Today, Tommorrow", this book offers a collection of Symons's writing on crime fiction from Britain, the United States and elsewhere, plus a section on real life stories, such as "The Hiss Affair" and the "Yorkshire Ripper". Authors that come under Symons's microscope include Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Dick Francis, Len Deighton and John Le Carre, and from the United States, pieces about Edgar Allan Poe, Raymond Chandler, James M. Cain and Martin Cruz Smith.

Criminal practices: Symons on crime writing 60s to 90s

Essays & Correspondence

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