Step back in time with our favourite titles in the British Library's Crime Classics series. These twenty novels are all republished classics from the golden age of crime, spanning atmospheric noirs to fiendish puzzles. All of these books are underrated in their own right - The Odd Flamingo is often forgotten among Nina Bawden's much more famous work, and The Wheel Spins has been largely forgotten in favour of Hitchcock's film adaptation, The Lady Vanishes, yet both are magnificent in their own right. Many of these works have now been re-evaluated; once seen as bestselling potboilers, these golden age whodunits are increasingly regarded as excellent novels, playing clever games within a highly self-aware genre. Classic mystery writers such as Anthony Berkeley and Lettice Cooper feature here as well as well-known writers dipping into crime fiction for one novel, like Nina Bawden and Sebastian Farr. The full set contains:

The Odd Flamingo by Nina Bawden

The Judas Window by John Dickson Carr writing as Carter Dickson

Death of a Bookseller by Bernard J. Farmer

Not to be Taken by Anthony Berkeley

Murder as a Fine Art by Carol Carnac

Scandalize My Name by Fiona Sinclair

Death in Ambush by Susan Gilruth

The Poisoned Chocolate Case by Anthony Berkeley 

Death in Captivity by Michael Gilbert

The Arsenal Stadium Mystery by Leonard Gribble

Death on the Down Beat by Sebastian Farr

The Wheel Spins by Ethel Lina White

Death of Jezebel by Christianna Brand

Mr. Pottermack's Oversight by R. Austin Freeman

Twice Round the Clock by Billie Houston 

Death of Mr Dodsley by John Ferguson

Death of an Author by E. C. R. Lorac 

Before the Fact by Frances Iles

Tea on a Sunday by Lettice Cooper 

A Telegram from Le Touquet by John Bude