Crime Fiction & Detective Stories

  • Vintage crime books always make a thrilling read. You can browse great detective stories or vintage murder mysteries in our crime fiction collection.

    From Victorian detectives such as Sergeant Cuff in The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins Inspector Bucket Bleak House and the eternal Sherlock Holmes with the trusty Dr. Watson, you can bet that crime stories and their famous sleuthing characters such as Miss Marple and Poirot will live on as favorite fiction books for you to buy.

    The golden age of crime writing between WWI and WWII spurned great detective fiction we still love today. Agatha Christie to Arthur Conan Doyle, we have some of the best vintage murder mysteries perfect for holiday reading or the personal library of a modern day Miss Marple or Sherlock Holmes.

  • Crime Fiction & Detective Stories

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Crime Fiction & Detective Stories

Why browse Kitty's Tales vintage Crime Fiction and Detective Stories?

  • Everyone has heard of Sherlock Holmes from the books by Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock is one of the greatest fictional detectives to have appeared in literature. 
  • There is life beyond The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, so we hope you can explore Kitty's Tales' thrilling collection of vintage crime books with exciting tales of detective fiction and cozy crime novels.
  • We stock anything from Agatha Christie vintage paperback books to 20th Century Crime Fiction in attractive hardback bindings.
  • Did you know that Charles Dickens' character Inspector Bucket in his classic novel Bleak House, published in 1852, was one of the earliest detectives appearing in crime fiction?
  • Other famous Victorian novelists such as Wilkie Collins, in his classic book The Woman in White, paved the way for the murder mystery book genre and detective characters in crime fiction.
  • A thrilling crime novel can make a tedious commute seem like the blink of an eye as you feverishly turn the pages to the next exciting chapter.
Crime Fiction & Detective Stories