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

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"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

Crippen & Landru's Favorite Links

For current mystery news, check with:

The following current and forthcoming Crippen & Landru authors have web pages:

Katsurou Hayashi, a Japanese fan, has produced a Crippen & Landru web page here. Wyatt James (A.K.A., Grobius Shortling), has added a section with reviews of C&L books to his website.

Click here for the web page of Carol Heyer, who has painted illustrations for the covers of many of our books. For examples of her art, click here.

Click here for the web pages of Dennis McMillan, The Poisoned Pen and Gryphon Books, excellent small presses in the mystery field.

For a web page indexing short stories in mystery magazines, 1980-the present, go to the Mystery Magazine Index.

For Grave Matters, Murder One, Hidden Staircase, and Rue Morgue Books, some of our favorite mysteries-by-mail sites, click on their names.

For Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, click here. For a site devoted to the great pulp magazine Black Mask, click here. For The Strand, a magazine with new stories and reviews, click here.

For marvelous ghost story collections, go to the Ash-Tree Press page. For Wildside, a small press specializing in science fiction and fantasy, but also including some mystery and detection, click here.

Bogie's Mystery Tours®: Visit the website of the creators of Mystery Dinner Theater. Click here to view Bogie's on-going listing of new and upcoming mystery books and books on tape.

For three great magazines for mystery fans, see Mystery Scene, Deadly Pleasures, and Mystery News.

For a site on locked room mysteries, especially Hal White's Mysteries of Reverend Dean, click here.



We'll be glad to exchange links with other sites in the mystery/suspense/detection field! Just drop us a line!