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CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

Crime fiction's not really my speciality but here's a few that have turned up



SHELLEY SMITH
THE BALLAD OF THE RUNNING MAN

'Horrifying, horridly gripping ... a must for all addicts' - The Guardian


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W HOWARD BAKER
THE BIG STEAL

'To a cocktail of twilight people add a half-crazed killer on the loose, and you get action ablaze'


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J.T. EDSON & PETER CLAWSON
BLONDE GENIUS


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CRAIG JONES
BLOOD SECRETS

'In the fine tradition of Rosemary's Baby.'


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DAVID ROME
THE CANNIBALS

'The brutal story of two deadly young men with insatiable appetites for violence and power'


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TED LEWIS
CARTER

'Fast of mind, fist and boot'


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MICHAEL HARDWICK
THE CHINESE DETECTIVE

'A new blockbuster crime series'


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JAMES M FOX
CODE THREE

'A thriller set in the seamy side of a great city where crime and politics work hand in hand'


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WILLIAM HARRINGTON
COLUMBO: THE HELTER SKELTER MURDERS

'An all-new mystery based on the Universal TV series'


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DESMOND REID
DEAD RESPECTABLE

'Chelsea: beats and debs in clubs and pads...'


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BILL MEILEN
THE DIVISION

'An explosive world where violence is the main subject on the syllabus'


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CHRISTOPHER NICOLE
THE FACE OF EVIL

'The way to her mind was through her body'


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PETER LESLIE
THE FAKERS

'Back-stabbing intrigue behind the scenes of the world's most far-out theatre'


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TREVOR HOYLE
THE HARD GAME

'He was a king-pin in the pornography racket'


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JACK ROFFEY
HOSTILE WITNESS

'A tense court room drama'


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GIL BREWER
IT TAKES A THIEF

'An exciting new novel of counter-espionage'


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JOHN BURKE
KING AND CASTLE

'The most diverting duo since Arthur Daley and Terry McCann'


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JAMES YARDLEY
KISS THE BOYS & MAKE THEM DIE

'With the promise of red-hot action and unihibited adventure, supergirl Kiss Darling strips for action'


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SEBASTIEN JAPRISOT
THE LADY IN THE CAR WITH GLASSES AND A GUN

'A chilling, baffling psychological fooler' - Newsweek


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DAUID WILSON
McCLOUD

'A ruthles killer wreaks vengeance on beautiful women'


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NICHOLAS BLAKE
MALICE IN WONDERLAND

'The holiday camp that became a horror camp'


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LEON GRIFFITHS
MINDER

'A novel'


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HENRY KANE
NEVER GIVE A MILLIONAIRE AN EVEN BREAK

'The new Peter Chambers mystery'


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ARTHUR LA BERN
NIGHTMARE

'Fast and frightening ... a terrifying flight into murder'


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ALLAN PRIOR
THE OPERATORS

'Tight-spun suspense ... real, forceful and compelling readable' - New York Times


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MAX AUSTIN
OUT

'Based on the exciting Thames Television drama series starring Tom Bell'


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IAN HAMILTON
THE PERSECUTOR

'When death dials your number...'


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TED LEWIS
PLENDER

'Now I knew I was in hell'


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DICK CLEMENT & IAN LA FRENAIS
PORRIDGE

'Porridge is funny, extremely funny' - Stanley Reynolds in The Guardian


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HENRY CLEMENT
PRISONER: CELL BLOCK H
THE FRANKY DOYLE STORY

'The sensational saga of life in a women's prison'


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DAVID FLETCHER
RAFFLES

'The prince of amateur cracksmen in the golden age of Victoria'


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HOLLY ROTH
THE SLEEPER

'He alone knew the secret - and he had to die to reveal it'


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PAT ARROWSMITH
SOMEWHERE LIKE THIS

'In an all-woman world, there's only one kind of love...'


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MAX FRANKLIN
STARSKY & HUTCH

'When a crooked bail-bond mob gets burned the boys wind up with smoke in their eyes and a hot one on their hands!'


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IAN KENNEDY MARTIN
THE SWEENEY: REGAN

'Jack Regan is one of the heavy mob'


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JOHN BINGHAM
THE THIRD SKIN

'A novel of the weak and the wicked'


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LINDA DU BREUIL
THE TRIAL

'The explosive novel of a small town pornography trial'


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ANTHONY BERKELEY
TRIAL AND ERROR

'The astounding suspense classic about a murderer who turned detective in order to prove his own guilt'


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RICHARD S PRATHER
THE TROJAN HEARSE

'Over 40,000,000 Shell Scott books sold!'


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JAMES BARLOW
VILLAIN

'Now filmed with Richard Burton as a right villain'


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FELICITY DOUGLAS
WITHIN THESE WALLS 2: The Governor

'...prison is still prison...'


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KENNETH ROYCE
THE XYY MAN

'The creeper who can't go straight'


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SPECIAL FEATURE
crime novels
some book covers from the 1960s


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and from our non-fiction shelves:

TRUE CRIME
in no way a sensationalist subject


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