Welcome to the darker side of fiction. Whether you are looking for a page-turning thriller, the latest spy novel, or the classic mysteries of Agatha Christie, these are novels to awaken all your fight-or-flight senses.

Penguin Modern Classics: Crime & Espionage

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In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes
The Night of the Hunter by Davis Grubb
The Hunted by Elmore Leonard
The Switch by Elmore Leonard
Picket Line and Other Stories by Elmore Leonard
52 Pickup by Elmore Leonard
Unknown Man No. 89 by Elmore Leonard
Glitz by Elmore Leonard
Beast in the Shadows by Edogawa Rampo
The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey
Rum Punch by Elmore Leonard
Cotton Comes to Harlem by Chester Himes
SS-GB by Len Deighton
Ride the Pink Horse by Dorothy B. Hughes
Maigret and the Headless Corpse by Georges Simenon
Call for the Dead by John Le Carre
City Primeval by Elmore Leonard
The Amateur by Robert Littell
The Drowning Pool by Ross Macdonald
Game Without Rules by Michael Gilbert

British Library Crime Classics

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The Odd Flamingo by Nina Bawden
The Double Turn by Carol Carnac
Death of a Bookseller by Bernard J Farmer
Airing in a Closed Carriage by Joseph Shearing
Jack on the Gallows Tree by Leo Bruce
Death in Ambush by Susan Gilruth
Big Ben Strikes Eleven by David Magarshack
Cat and Mouse by Christianna Brand
Cyanide in the Sun by Martin Edwards
Murder Underground by Mavis Doriel Hay
The Arsenal Stadium Mystery by Leonard Gribble
The Judas Window by Carter Dickson
Still Waters by E.C.R. Lorac
Jumping Jenny by Anthony Berkeley
Sky High by Michael Gilbert
Murder of a Lady by Anthony Wynne
Green for Danger by Christianna Brand
A Telegram from Le Touquet by John Bude
The Edinburgh Mystery by Martin Edwards
The Black Spectacles by John Dickson Carr