Books like Murder Most Irish by Edward Gorman

Detective Cassie Maddox transfers out of Dublin Murder Squad but is called back to solve a murder that looks almost identical to her past self.

xii, 353 pages ; 18 cm

Near her hundredth birthday, Roseanne McNulty confronts the impending closure of Roscommon Regional Mental Hospital, revealing her life and Ireland’s hidden past through journals with her psychiatrist, Dr Grene.

> The unsurpassed Irish talent for story-telling is superbly evident in this anthology of some of the best detective stories by Irish writers to appear over the last 150 years. It includes writers who are supreme in the genre throughout the world, for ever since it was invented it has formed a strong thread in Irish literature. >Many of Ireland's leading writers not normally associated with the detective story have also turned their hands to the genre, among them Liam O'Flaherty, James Joyce, Sean O'Faolain, Flann O'Brien, Benedict Kiely, William Trevor, Brendan Behan and Frank O'Connor. All are represented here, in company with such familiar exponents as Freeman Wills Crofts, Nicholas Blake, Edmund Crispin and Peter Cheyney. >From Samuel Lover to Peter Tremayne, from Elizabeth Bowen to Cathal Ó Sándair, the stories range over murder and death, theft and robbery, jealousy and revenge, and the intuition combined with persistence that makes up criminal investigation. They cover the whole gamut of crime and mystery, from the bloodiest to the most cerebral, often with that rich vein of humour at which the Irish excel. Each story is prefaced by a short biography of the writer, and the whole collection cannot fail to provide a substantial feast of enjoyable suspense, intrigue and intellectual challenge.

A collection of gritty detective short stories by Peter Robinson, featuring the private investigators Alan Banks and John Francis Cuddy across England and Canada.

A one‑volume guide to mystery fiction that surveys genres, history, and media from the perspectives of writers, editors, critics, and booksellers, offering interviews, essays, photo essays, and reading lists.

Women authors of detective series in the 20th century, presented through the works of 21 American and British women detectives and private investigators.

An illustrated biography that maps the life and career of English detective novelist Agatha Christie, exploring her crime‑fiction legacy from 1890 to 1976 in an engaging visual narrative.