Category L Mystery and Detective Fiction

 

 

 

L01

2018 words

Kenneth Royce. 1991. The Proving Ground. London: Hodder & Stoughton. p. 89--95. 

001--203

Reproduced by permission of Hodder & Stoughton Limited.

 

 

 

L02

2003 words

Margaret Yorke. 1991. A Small Deceit. London: Penguin. p. 88--92.

001--203

 

 

L03

2005 words

Simon Brett. 1991. Corporate Bodies: A Charles Paris Mystery. London: Gollancz. p. 66--72.

001--226

 

 

<&|>sic!.

He proferred his hand (68)

 

 

 

L04

2008 words

J.R. Hulland. 1991. Blood Relations. London: Barrie & Jenkins. p. 206--211.

001--223

 

 

L05

2003 words

James McClure. 1991. The Song Dog. A Kramer and Zondi Mystery. London: Faber & Faber. p. 122--128.

001--233

 

 

typographical error:

missing quotation marks inserted (50)

 

ambiguous hyphen:

five-pointed (94)

 

 

half-dreams (157)

 

 

 

L06

2003 words

Celia Fremblin. 1991. Dangerous Thoughts. London: Gollancz. p. 12--18.

001--190

 

 

Typographical error:

These corrected to these (111)

 

 

 

L07

2003 words

Jack Gerson. 1991. The Evil Thereof. London: Judy Piatkus. p. 102--111.

001--221

 

 

Ambiguous hyphen:

law-breakers (118)

 

 

 

L08

2006 words

Simon Shaw. 1991. Bloody Instructions. London: Gollancz. p. 214-219.

001--240

 

 

L09

2002 words

Michael Pearce. 1991. The Mamur Zapt and the Girl in the Nile. London: HarperCollins (Crime Club). p. 6--13.

001--259

 

 

Typographical error:

Bur corrected to But (244)

 

 

 

L10

2013 words

Richard Hunt. 1991. Murder in Ruins. London: Constable. p. 88--94.

001--214

 

 

<&|>sic!:

I had a lot of work to do on some softwear instead of software (163)

 

who this urgent softwear was for (189)

 

 

 

L11

2023 words

Neville Steed. 1991. Boxed In. London: Century. p. 154--160.

001--237

 

 

<&|>sic!

The little strategem I had devised instead of stratagem (164) 

 

 

L12

2000 words

Liza Cody. 1991. Backhand. London: Chatto & Windus. p. 262--268.

001--275

 

 

L13

2008 words

Peter Whalley. 1991. Blackmailer's Summer. London: Judy Piatkus. p. 72--78.

001--245

 

 

Typographical error:

them corrected to then (8)

 

 

then corrected to them (135)

 

 

 

L14

2009 words

Janet Nee. 1991. Death of a Partner. London: Constable. p. 244--249.

001--210

 

 

L15

2003 words

Mike Ripley. 1991. Angels in Arms. London: HarperCollins. (Crime Club). p. 128--134.

001--231

 

 

Ambiguous hyphen:

foam-rubber (79)

 

<&|>sic!:

before the pub throws out (2)

 

 

 

L16

2014 words

Janet Laurence. 1991. Hotel Morgue. London: Macmillan. p. 22--27.

001--213

 

 

L17

2006 words

Sarah Dunant. 1991. Birth Marks. London: Michael Joseph. p. 206-210.

001--175

 

 

L18

2026 words

Robert Barnard. 1991. A Scandal in Belgravia. London: Bantam. p. 12--18. 

001--199

© Robert Barnard 1991. Extracted from A Scandal in Belgravia published by Bantam, a division of Transworld Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved.

 

 

 

L19

2003 words

B.M. Gill. 1991. The Fifth Rapunzel. London: Hodder & Stoughton. p. 132--136. 

001--188

Reproduced by permission of Hodder & Stoughton Ltd.

 

 

 

L20

2024 words

Desmond Cory. 1991. The Strange Attractor. London: Macmillan. p. 46--52.

001--215

 

 

Ambiguous hyphen:

cotton-wool-like (178)

 

<&|>sic!.

Gone to Parish (171)

 

 

shwig of whisky (172)

 

 

crates of the shtuff (174)

 

 

down in the sheller (174)

 

 

 

L21

2003 words

Bill James. 1991. 'Body Language.' IN Maria Rejt. Ed. Writer's Crime 23. London: Macmillan. p. 76--82.

001--205

 

 

L22

2002 words

Christina Green. 1991. 'Tide of Uncertainty.' Secrets Story Library No 297, January 1991. p. 28--32.

001--225

 

 

L23

2018 words

Edward Upward. 1991. 'People Hate Me.' London Magazine. 31 (7&8), 1991. p. 3--8.

001--198

 

 

typographical error:

Well' I suppose corrected to Well, (64)

 

 

as corrected to was (136)

 

 

Tell him I that corrected to that I (196)

 

ambiguous hyphen:

housekeeper-companion (56)

 

 

 

L24

2029 words

Stephen Murray. 1991. 'Eyepiece.' IN Maria Rejt. Ed. Writer's Crime 23. London: Macmillan. p. 122--128.

001--188