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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 Upcoming Releases

The following books are our currently planned, upcoming releases. You may want to consider bookmarking this page (Ctrl+D) to watch the status of these books. The titles listed and schedules are tentative, some extremely so:

  • Appleby Talks About Crime by Michael Innes, edited by John Cooper. Uncollected stories by one of the most witty and urbane of Golden Age writers. Lost Classics Series. NOW IN PRESS FOR EARLY MARCH PUBLICATION.

  • The Columbo Collection by William Link. The co-creator of COLUMBO, MURDER, SHE WROTE, ELLERY QUEEN and other classic TV shows, presents 14 NEW stories about Lt. Columbo. NOW IN PROOFS. Cover drawing of Peter Falk as Columbo by Al Hirschfeld.

  • Ten Thousand Blunt Instruments by Philip Wylie, edited by Bill Pronzini. Lost Classics Series. NOW IN PROOFS

  • Valentino: Film Detective by Loren D. Estleman.

  • Nothing Is Impossible: The Third Casebook of Dr. Sam Hawthorne by Edward D. Hoch. The master of the Impossible Crime.

  • The Exploits of the Patent Leather Kid by Erle Stanley Gardner, edited by Bill Pronzini. "Lost Classics" series.

  • The Diana Poole Stories by Melodie Johnson Howe. Murder, Mystery, and Crime in Hollywood

  • [Untitled collection of stories] by Marilyn Todd. Stories featuring Claudia Seferius in ancient Rome, and other tales

  • Duel of Shadows by Vincent Cornier, edited by Mike Ashley. Lost Classics Series

  • Attitude and Other Stories of Suspense by Loren D. Estleman. An Amos Walker novella, plus previously uncollected stories.

  • Suspense - His and Hers by Barbara and Max Allan Collins. .

  • The Casebook of Jonas P. Jonas and Others by Elizabeth Ferrars, edited by John Cooper. Lost Classics Series

  • Author in Search of a Character: The Miss Phipps Mysteries by Phyllis Bentley, edited by Marvin Lachman. Lost Classics Series

  • Funeral in the Fog and Other Simon Ark Tales by Edward D. Hoch. .

  • 14 Slayers by Paul Cain, edited by Max Allan Collins and Lynn Myers. The complete pulp mysteries by one of the toughest of hardboiled writers. Published with Black Mask Press.

  • Tough as Nails by Frederick Nebel, edited by Rob Preston. Published with Black Mask Press.

  • You'll Die Laughing by Norbert Davis, edited by Bill Pronzini. A new collection by one of the great pulp writers. Published with Black Mask Press.

  • Dagobert, Sleuth of Old Vienna by Balduin Groller, trans. by Thomas Riedeker. The first edition in English of a 1910 classic. Lost Classics Series. NOW BEING TRANSLATED

  • Hoch's Ladies by Edward D. Hoch. Three series of short stories, each featuring a female protagonist.