*Crime, Spies & Sleaze: We’ve been fortunate enough to acquire a selection of British Library Crime Classics, a contemporary series which reprints classic novels from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, bound in attractive uniform editions which feature period paintings as their covers. A celebration of famous and forgotten authors and a milestone in publishing for the British Library. All books are in like new, unread condition at a uniform price of £5 each. Further information is shown in our catalogue. Here’s four more of them, two novels, one short story collection plus an anthology of vintage crime, presided over by Martin Edwards, the series editor. The short story collection is The Female Detective, originally published in 1864, and featuring the adventures of the first female detective, literary ancestor of Miss Marple, Mrs Bradley etc. 
PICTURED: BRITISH LIBRARY CRIME CLASSICS
MARTIN EDWARDS (Ed): SETTLING SCORES 2020 1st UK PB Short crime stories with a sporting theme. Conan Doyle, Gladys Mitchell, J Jefferson Farjeon and many more Like New £5
ANDREW FORRESTER (JAMES REDDING WARE): THE FEMALE DETECTIVE 2014 UK PB. Originally published 1864. Short and long stories of the first female detective Like New £5
CHARLES KINGSTON: MURDER IN PICCADILLY  2015 UK PB Originally published 1936 Like New £5
ANTHONY WYNNE (ROBERT McNAIR-WILSON): MURDER OF A LADY 2015 UK PB Originally published 1931. A Scottish Mystery Like New £5