Crippen and Landru Publishers of Mystery Short Story Collections

Crippen & Landru books are first editions of mystery, detection, crookery, roguery, and espionage.

"The specialty publisher with the most star-studded list is Crippen & Landru, which has produced short story collections by some of the biggest names in contemporary crime fiction." - Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine "God Bless Crippen & Landru." - The Strand Magazine "A monument in the making is appearing year by year from Crippen & Landru, a small press devoted exclusively to publishing the criminous short story." - Don Herron, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine "This is the best edited, most attractively packaged line of mystery books introduced in this decade. The books are equally valuable to collectors and readers." - Mystery Scene Magazine	Murder on the Short List by Peter Lovesey Yes, the scarecrow, painted on the cover, is on the Short List. The line-up is Peter Lovesey’s strongest ever, for not only does it feature “Needle Match,” chosen by the Crime Writers’ Association as the best short story published in 2007, but also some of his most popular detectives – Bertie, Prince of Wales, Sergeant Cribb and Rosemary and Thyme. … read more
	Quintet: The Cases of Chase and Delacroix by Richard A. Lupoff The Era of Wonderful Nonsense was over, replaced by the grimmer, grittier world of the Great Depression. But millionaire autodidact polymath Akhenaton Beelzebub Chase and his brilliant, lissome associate Claire Delacroix, live on comfortably in their neo-Tudor mansion. They practice duets on priceless classical instruments, dine on haute cuisine and sip choice vintage wines. It is a milieu reminiscent of the surroundings of Philo Vance, young Ellery Queen, and other amateur sleuths of that bygone era. … read more
	Dead Yesterday by Mignon G. Eberhart Mignon Good Eberhart (1899-1996) was for much of the twentieth century one of the best known mystery writers in America, publishing 59 novels and many short stories in her more than 60-year writing career. Dead Yesterday contains the best of her previously uncollected stories and is the 25th in Crippen & Landru's “Lost Classics Series … read more
	The Mankiller of Poojegai by Walter Satterthwait A VARIETY OF MURDERS!!! Walter Satterthwait is one of the finest and most versatile of current mystery writers. This collection includes stories about the Neanderthal sleuth, Berthold the Mead Master (narrated by his companion Doder, Watt’s son); Lord Byron and his days at Missolonghi; Sergeant Andrew Mbutu in modern Africa; and contemporary investigators Grober and Joshua Croft … read more
	Masquerade: Ten Crime Stories by Max Brand, edited by William F. Nolan GUNS AND GANGSTERS, CRIME AND CRIMINALS Max Brand, the pen-name of Frederick Faust (1892-1944) was a master of the fast-action tale with mythic themes – including redemption and honor – often set in a mythic landscape. He wrote some of his classic westerns, historical adventures, sports stories and medical romances (he invented Dr. Kildare) while living in an Italian villa. The ten tales were originally published between 1935 and 1938, and most have never been reprinted. read more
	The Archer Files by Ross Macdonald, edited by Tom Nolan Ross Macdonald (1915-1983) was the author of eighteen books that a New York Times critic called “the finest series of detective novels ever written by an American”: the Lew Archer canon, which included such breakthrough best-sellers as The Underground Man, The Goodbye Look, and The Blue Hammer. The Archer Files for the first time collects all the brief Archer fiction … read more
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