Best of
Detective

1985

The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: After Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Classic Crime)


Richard Lancelyn GreenS.C. Roberts - 1985
    This anthology of stories featuring the character of Sherlock Holmes follows on from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's stories which ended with Holmes at Reichenbach Falls.

Miss Marple Omnibus Volume 1: The Body in the Library / The Moving Finger / A Murder is Announced / 4:50 from Paddington


Agatha Christie - 1985
    The Body in the Library - the body of one young woman is found in the Bantry library and another in a deserted quarry nearby. 2. The Moving Finger - when hate mail attacks almost everyone in Lymstock, one recipient commits suicide. Or did she? 3. A Murder is Announced - the Chipping Cleghorn Gazette announces in the personal column the time and place of a murder. 4. 4.50 from Paddington - Mrs. McGillicuddy sees a man strangle a woman as trains cross, but only Jane believes her. She sends a housekeeper.Librarian's note: this entry is for the collection, "Miss Marple Omnibus Volume 1." Entries for each of the 12 novels and 20 stories in the Miss Marple series can be found elsewhere on Goodreads.

Break In


Dick Francis - 1985
    But trouble hits close to home when a grudge between his family and his sister's in-laws turns into a blood feud.

When the Bough Breaks


Jonathan Kellerman - 1985
    It's a good one!We meet Dr. Morton Handler who practiced a strange brand of psychiatry. Among his specialties were fraud, extortion, and sexual manipulation. Handler paid for his sins when he was brutally murdered in his luxurious Pacific Palisades apartment. The police have no leads, but they do have one possible witness: seven-year-old Melody Quinn.Psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware's job is to unlock the terrible secret buried in Melody's memory. As the sinister shadows in the girl's mind begin to take shape, Alex discovers that the mystery touches a shocking incident in his own past. This connection is only the beginning, a single link in a forty-year-old conspiracy. And behind it lies an unspeakable evil that Alex Delaware must expose before it claims another innocent victim: Melody Quinn.

Gunshot Wounds: Practical Aspects of Firearms, Ballistics, and Forensic Techniques


Vincent J.M. Di Maio - 1985
    The book describes practical aspects of ballistics; wound ballistics; the classification of various wounds caused by handguns, rifles, and shotguns; autopsy technique and procedure; and laboratory analysis relating to weapons and gunshot evidence.

A Study In Scarlet: A Sherlock Holmes Murder Mistery


Simon Goodenough - 1985
    Watson's private papers, including notes, diaries, telegrams, photographs, newspaper clippings, and other clues to assist the reader in solving the mystery of "A Study in Scarlet".

Inspector Saito's Small Satori


Janwillem van de Wetering - 1985