Crippen & Landru books are first editions of mystery, detection, crookery, roguery, and espionage.

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"The specialty publisher with the most star-studded list is Crippen & Landru, which has produced short story collections by some of the biggest names in contemporary crime fiction." 
- Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine

"God Bless Crippen & Landru."  
- The Strand Magazine

"A monument in the making is appearing year by year from Crippen & Landru, a small press devoted exclusively to publishing the criminous short story."  
- Don Herron,
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

"This is the best edited, most attractively packaged line of mystery books introduced in this decade. The books are equally valuable to collectors and readers."
- Mystery Scene Magazine

Crippen & Landru Upcoming Releases

The following books are our currently planned, upcoming releases. You may want to consider bookmarking this page (Ctrl+D) to watch the status of these books. The titles listed and schedules are tentative, some extremely so:

  • Thirteen to the Gallows and Other Plays by John Dickson Carr and Val Gielgud. Previously unpublished stage plays collected in book form on honor of Carr's centenary. Now being typeset..
  • The Battles of Jericho by Hugh Pentecost, introduction by S.T. Karnick. "Lost Classics Series.".
  • A Pocketful of Noses: Stories of One Ganelon or Another by James Powell. A wondrous combination of Sherlock Holmes, Sam Spade, Fu- Manchu and The Prisoner of Zenda..
  • Quintet: The Cases of Chase and Delacroix by Richard A. Lupoff. A tribute to the classic 1930's style by one of today's great mystery and science-fiction writers. Now being typeset..
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