Crime and Mystery Books

Classic crime and mystery fiction
Comic (humorous) crime and mystery
Cosy mystery
Historical crime and mysteries
Noir fiction
Police procedural
Private investigators and detectives
Women sleuths
Sidebar Sidebar Sidebar
  • Murder Picks the Jury Murder Picks the Jury
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Murder Picks the Jury

    There were three witnesses to swear that only Gregory Drake could have been in the back room with Maysie Grey when she was strangled to death. Even Randolph Lee, Drake's defense counsel, thought that his client was guilty. It took two more murders to...
    $41.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Nothing in Her Way Nothing in Her Way
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Nothing in Her Way

    Welcome to the roller-coaster world of professional con men-and the one wild beauty who can out-swindle and outwit them all. Utterly beautiful, smart as a whip, here is the most fascinating confidence woman in modern suspense fiction. Her name is Cathy...
    $48.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Six Seconds of Darkness Six Seconds of Darkness
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Six Seconds of Darkness

    Energetic sleuth David Carroll, whose probe into police corruption has made him unpopular at headquarters, is put in charge of an investigation into the shooting murder of civic reformer Edward Hamilton-and the three people trying to confess to the crime!
    $41.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Agatha Webb Agatha Webb
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Agatha Webb

    In this elegant drama, Anna Katharine Green, one of the greatest mystery writers of all time, weaves a narrative with her usual consummate skill, and portrays her characters with exceptional sympathy. On the New England seacoast, not far from Boston,...
    $48.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Lady Killer Lady Killer
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Lady Killer

    On a Caribbean cruise with her older husband, Honey is convinced that the man in the next cabin plans to murder his wife. But why wouldn't anyone believe her? And why has her own husband turned against her?
    $41.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Seven Slayers Seven Slayers
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Seven Slayers

    Murder multiplied by SEVEN!Supercharged action and breath-taking suspense in this carnival of crime from the blood-dripped pen of Paul Cain, a connoisseur of crime who writes in the best homicidal tradition of Hammett and Chandler. This is one collection...
    $41.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • I'll Call Every Monday I'll Call Every Monday
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    I'll Call Every Monday

    Nicky Weaver is an insurance man with a policy of loving women. Each Monday he goes out to collect money for the insurance he's sold, he conducts business with a bevy of beautiful ladies. Young girls, widows, and the wife of a sketchy artist working the...
    $48.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • The Abandoned Room The Abandoned Room
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    The Abandoned Room

    The night of his grandfather's mysterious death at the Cedars, Bobby Blackburn was, at least until midnight, in New York. He was held there by the unhealthy habits and companion-ships which recently had angered his grandfather to the point of threatening...
    $56.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Murder Doll Murder Doll
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Murder Doll

    The Golden Spoon was strictly for suckers. Located a block north of the river in a renovated three-story building, it sported a white-and-red striped canopy which stretched from plate-glass door to curb, a huge tri-colored neon sign which flashed Follies...
    $41.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • No Good from a Corpse No Good from a Corpse
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    No Good from a Corpse

    Laurel Dane was no angel. She'd changed men as often as she'd changed her hair color, and there was plenty in her past she'd like to forget. But no one deserved to be beaten to death, and private eye Ed Clive didn't believe that her boyfriend had killed...
    $48.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Ladies' Man Ladies' Man
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Ladies' Man

    He knew the way to a girl's heart-and body! Alice was sweet, Marie was stacked, Lola was loaded... And Nicky...was willing! First published in 1957.
    $41.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • The Best That Ever Did It The Best That Ever Did It
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    The Best That Ever Did It

    Two men are killed outside the Grand Cafe on Amsterdam Avenue. There's no connection between them, but the widow of one hires Barney Harris, a 250-pound auto mechanic, to sniff out police corruption and find her husband's killer.
    $48.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • The Council of Justice The Council of Justice
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    The Council of Justice

    There are crimes for which no punishment is adequate, offences that the written law cannot efface.This is the justification for the Council of Justice-a meeting of great and passionless intellects.These men are indifferent to world opinion. They...
    $34.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Killer with a Key Killer with a Key
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Killer with a Key

    THE KINGDOM OF KILLAIN--that's the Duarte, a big-city hotel at the cross 'roads of the world.The grifters, tough lads, girls on the make-all learn to stay away from Hotel Duarte because Johnny Killain's in charge there. That's his turf-a flick of his...
    $48.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • The Fatal Frails The Fatal Frails
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    The Fatal Frails

    The Statute was knee-high, but it carried a fortune in gold and gems, plus centuries of fame in the art world. Everyone wanted it, and for some no price was too high-love, money, or murder... then Johnny Killain stepped in.The Redhead made the first...
    $48.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • The Aluminum Turtle The Aluminum Turtle
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    The Aluminum Turtle

    Duncan Maclain is in Tampa with his wife, Sybella, and his partner, Spud Savage and his wife, Rena, to visit with old friends and investigate a murder. It has been seven years since his old friend, Ronald Dayland, Sr. had been murdered. The killer had...
    $48.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Fury in the Heart Fury in the Heart
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Fury in the Heart

    In the late '50s, in the Hollywood branch of Etna Publication Relations, Ken Coate, the head honcho, is sleeping with Kitten. But, in order to get ahead, Kitten is willing to switch her bodily allegiance to the head honcho's heir apparent, Don Prentice...
    $41.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • No Orchids for Miss Blandish No Orchids for Miss Blandish
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    No Orchids for Miss Blandish

    When Dave Fenner was hired to solve the Blandish kidnapping, he knew the on finding the girl were against him-the cops were still looking for her three months after the ransom had been paid. And the kidnappers, Riley and his gang, had disappeared in to...
    $48.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Shoot It Again Shoot It Again
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Shoot It Again

    Clayton Biner had it all-swimming pools in California, haciendas in Mexico, blue evenings on the French Riviera, all the women he could use. But he wanted more. And he got it when he became involved with a vicious syndicate peddling heroin-the big H, the...
    $41.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Doorway to Death Doorway to Death
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Doorway to Death

    Johnny had a passkey to all the hotel rooms. He wasn't looking for murder, but he found it-and worse!On the streets of a big city people smile and the fights are bright. But there is an altey world of darkness, double-dealing and death; in this world you...
    $48.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • The Agony Column The Agony Column
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    The Agony Column

    From the creator of Charlie Chan!Set in England at the outbreak of WWI, The Agony Column is a murder mystery and romance told mostly through the device of an "Agony Column" in the newspaper (what Americans would call the "Personals").
    $41.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Poet's Seat Poet's Seat
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Poet's Seat

    Agent Nathan Hunt makes a decision that will change his life and sets in motion a series of events involving the Maffia, the Russian Mob, the poetry of Charles Bukowski, and the small town of Graham Massachusetts where he has gone to ground as Eddie...
    $56.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • A Plot for Murder A Plot for Murder
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    A Plot for Murder

    From legendary master Fredric Brown! An ex-newspaperman finds crime going on, based on radio scripts he wrote.
    $56.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Night Squad Night Squad
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Night Squad

    They Gave Him Back His Badge, and Sent Him Down Into the Brutal Throbbing Heart of the Slums. Crooked ex-cop Corey Bradford turns out to be an ideal candidate for an underground police unit known as the Night Squad.First published 1961.
    $56.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Blonde Bait Blonde Bait
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Blonde Bait

    "The place seemed to be filling up with uniformed cops. I felt trapped. I shrugged and headed for the door. Suddenly I wasn't as much angry as plain tired. All I wanted was to get out of this rat trap, return to Rose and our boat; get the hell back to...
    $48.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Dames, Booze, Guns & Gumshoes Dames, Booze, Guns & Gumshoes
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Dames, Booze, Guns & Gumshoes

    Pulp fiction.Usually when these words are uttered today, people immediately think of the Quentin Tarantino movie, which, my God, is already twenty years old. To my recollection, though, the movie did little if anything to remind people of, or help bring...
    $56.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Enter Without Desire Enter Without Desire
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Enter Without Desire

    I sat there, waiting in this dull Bronx back yard, the gun in my right pocket, safety off. It was simple... wait till he was on top of me, one shot in the heart... then run across the lot to the car. Sid had an ordinary looking heap; nobody would notice...
    $48.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Strip for Violence Strip for Violence
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Strip for Violence

    She was an expensive call girl and spending a night with her came high. But he never figured on a price as high as murder.The photograph did justice to her generous statistics. Any private eye would enjoy tracking her down, and Hal Darling was no...
    $48.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • The Screaming Mimi The Screaming Mimi
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    The Screaming Mimi

    It was the figure of a girl, her arms thrust out to ward off the ripper... her body distorted, rigid with terror... her mouth open in a silent, eternal scream.Originally published in 1949.
    $56.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • The Big Caper The Big Caper
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    The Big Caper

    The wheels were beginning to turn. From all parts of the country quiet, tough men slipped into the small southern coastal town and took up the final vigil.There was the arsonist, the safe blower, the boy-faced killer-there was a regiment of crack,...
    $48.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Sally's in the Alley Sally's in the Alley
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Sally's in the Alley

    Doan, a chubby, wisecracking private eye, and Carstairs, a Great Dane so huge he ought to be considered a new species, follow a trail of mayhem and confusion from Hollywood to the Mojave Desert town of Heliotrope, a place so thoroughly offensive that...
    $41.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Fast One Fast One
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Fast One

    First published by Doubleday in 1932 in the depth of the Great Depression, an era whose seamy side it depicts, and only recently rediscovered, Fast One by Paul Cain explodes into real life with the story of one of the toughest characters ever to emerge...
    $48.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Oh, Murderer Mine Oh, Murderer Mine
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Oh, Murderer Mine

    Doan, a chubby private eye with a fondness for weak women and strong drink, and Carstairs, his enormous Great Dane sidekick, have been hired by 54-year-old but still glamorous beauty maven Heloise of Hollywood to make sure that no young lovely tries to...
    $41.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Alley Girl Alley Girl
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Alley Girl

    Alley Girl is a hard book, cold and cruel, peopled with toughs and alcoholics, a nymphomaniac and an unfaithful wife, a savage cop and a young pervert. It is also a fine novel, written with rare and stark simplicity by the talented Jonathan Craig.
    $41.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • The Snatch The Snatch
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    The Snatch

    This is the story of three men under pressure-a bank teller, a salesman, and a handyman. They are neither psychopaths not professional criminals, yet together they plan to carry out the most immoral of crimes.You will detest what they do, but you will...
    $41.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Shake a Crooked Town Shake a Crooked Town
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Shake a Crooked Town

    A Johnny Killain NovelThe mob got the word when Killain hit town-lock up your women and load your guns!Carl Thompson reached in a pocket with his free hand and tossed a glittering object across the room. Johnny caught it and looked down at part of a gold...
    $41.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Go for the Body Go for the Body
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Go for the Body

    It was my first day in Paris but the feeling was still with me: like I was getting ready to explode, as if my guts were a lit fuse racing up to my brain.Being cooped up gets me that way, although I was camped in a big room in this swank hotel. Twelve...
    $48.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Homicide Johnny Homicide Johnny
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Homicide Johnny

    Homicide Johnny West has been called in to solve the murder of Harry Waters whose newspaper columns have ruined many men. But the web of violence grows, and murder follows murder, until Johnny and his co-worker, Penny Lane, find out they are next in line.
    $41.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Dealing Out Death Dealing Out Death
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Dealing Out Death

    Bill Lennox read the telegram, then traded it back to the blonde. A very nice blonde with long willowy legs and purple eyes."Tell him to go to hell!""I can't, Bill. I promised-"That's how it started. Before it finished, Bill found himself accused of...
    $48.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Big Red's Daughter Big Red's Daughter
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Big Red's Daughter

    Jim Work, a twenty-five year old just out of Korea, arrives on the California coast to attend college on the G.I. Bill, but lands himself in a minor traffic accident that leads to major trouble. Of the two people in the other vehicle, he becomes fast...
    $48.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Frenzy Frenzy
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Frenzy

    She was blonde and sleek and her smile was catlike. Our glances locked. Her name was Shannon Quinn. I had seen her once at a country-club dance with Murdoch. Rumor had it that she was a thousand-dollar whore Murdoch had imported from Las Vegas. First...
    $48.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • He Won't Need It Now He Won't Need It Now
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    He Won't Need It Now

    He Knew He Was Right describes the failure of a marriage caused by the unreasonable jealousy of a husband exacerbated by the stubbornness of a willful wife. As is common with Trollope's works, there are also several substantial subplots. Trollope makes...
    $48.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Miss Callaghan Comes to Grief Miss Callaghan Comes to Grief
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Miss Callaghan Comes to Grief

    Originally banned in the UK, this is the story of Miss Callaghan. Not of any particular Miss Callaghan, but of the hundreds of Miss Callaghans who disappear from their homes suddenly and mysteriously and are seen no more by those who knew and loved them...
    $48.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • A Bullet for Cinderella A Bullet for Cinderella
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    A Bullet for Cinderella

    This collection includes: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens • The Christmas Babe by Margaret E. Sangster • A Western Christmas by Mrs. W.H. Corning • Joe's Search for Santa Claus by Irving Bacheller • Angela's Christmas by Julia Schayer • The First...
    $48.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Doom Service Doom Service
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Doom Service

    It happened in Hotel Duarte, a bullet length from the Great White Way, where life begins at eight-forty-and often ends by midnight with a couple of murders.For instance, the murder of a dumb welterweight who took his dive-and got paid off in lead.He was...
    $48.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • The Accused The Accused
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    The Accused

    He stands before the court. The crime: Murder in the First Degree. The victime: his wife. They said he killed her. They didn't say why.
    $41.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added

Crime & Mystery Books – Best Crime Fiction, Thrillers, Detective Novels & Mystery Books in Australia

Step into the thrilling world of crime & mystery books at Bookloop, Australia’s premier destination for the best crime fiction, thrillers, detective novels, and mystery books. Whether you're searching for the latest crime novels that are trending, timeless detective classics, or spine-tingling psychological thrillers, we have a collection designed for every mystery lover. Discover the finest crime books that take you deep into gripping investigations, cold cases, and twisted plotlines.

At Bookloop, you can explore bestselling crime fiction authors, such as Agatha Christie and Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as modern masters of the genre like Gillian Flynn and Tana French. Our collection includes thrillers with edge-of-your-seat action, detective novels that feature iconic sleuths like Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot, and mystery books packed with mind-bending puzzles and clever twists. Dive into true crime books that chronicle real-life cases, or immerse yourself in psychological thrillers that explore the darkest corners of the human mind.

Looking for crime novels like Agatha Christie, whodunit mystery books, or a thriller novel with a shocking twist? Our collection includes best crime fiction books, new crime novels, and mystery novels for adults that will keep you up at night. Find the best psychological thrillers, detective stories for adults, and gripping crime stories that will satisfy even the most avid crime fiction reader.

Explore our true crime novels that examine the most famous criminal cases, and browse through suspenseful thriller books that bring suspense to the forefront. We have a wide range of mystery books for all ages, from children’s mystery books to adult crime novels. Whether you're looking for the best crime books to read, want to dive into a detective mystery series, or simply enjoy a crime fiction thriller that keeps you guessing until the last page, you’ll find it all here at Bookloop.

From contemporary crime fiction to classic detective tales, our bookstore offers a diverse range of crime books Australia readers will love. Browse through our carefully curated collection and discover your next favorite crime thriller novel today!