Sign up to our emails and be the first to know about new releases, special offers and more.
Become a Readings Member to make your shopping experience even easier. Sign in or sign up for free!
Hello Readings Member! Go to the member centre to view your orders, change your details, or view your lists, or sign out.
Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Discover classic stories of crime, lies and daring spies.
John le Carre
George Smiley faces his greatest challenge yet, unmasking a Soviet double agent at the heart of the British establishment
George Smiley, who is a troubled man of infinite compassion, is…
In stock at 5 shops, ships in 3-4 daysIn stock at 5 shops
Georges Simenon
One of Inspector Maigret's strangest and most compelling cases
The discovery of a dismembered body in the Canal Saint Martin leads Maigret into a tangled, baffling case involving a taciturn…
In stock at 2 shops, ships in 3-4 daysIn stock at 2 shops
Len Deighton
A chilling alternative history in which the Nazis have conquered Britain, now in the iconic Penguin Crime series
It is 1941 and Germany has won the war. Britain is occupied…
Available to order, ships in 3-5 daysAvailable to order
Dorothy B. Hughes
A chilling, stylish piece of LA noir
After the war, cynical veteran Dix Steele has moved to L.A., a city terrified by a strangler preying on young women. Bumping into…
Davis Grubb
"The basis for the classic movie starring Robert Mitchum and Shelley Winters. Novels that inspired great films"--Cover.
Ranpo Edogawa, Ian Hughes (trans.)
A detective novelist searches for an elusive rival writer, in this classic work of Japanese crime fiction
A reclusive writer of detective stories, Oe Shundei, has gone missing, leaving behind…
Eric Ambler
One of the great chase stories- Nazi agents will stop at nothing to kill a British weapons expert on his long, fraught journey home from Istanbul
It is 1940 and…
C.S. Forester
A twisting psychological thriller of a family caught in a murderous trap of their own making
Mr Marble is in serious debt, desperate for money to pay his family's bills…
In stock at 3 shops, ships in 3-4 daysIn stock at 3 shops
Josephine Tey
One of the great country house detective novels, entertaining and ingenious
Marion Sharpe and her mother are quiet and ordinary villagers, enjoying a peaceful life in their country home, the…
In stock at 4 shops, ships in 3-4 daysIn stock at 4 shops
Ross Macdonald
A gripping tale of adultery and murder served hard-boiled
When Maude Slocum - beautiful, frightened and angry - comes to Lew Archer's office with a poison pen letter intended for…
Chester Himes
Scams, heists and murders abound in a high-energy caper
A preacher called Deke O'Malley's been selling false hope- the promise of a glorious new life in Africa for just $1,000…
George Smiley becomes tangled in a case of suicide and espionage in le Carre's first novel
After a routine security check by George Smiley, civil servant Samuel Fennan apparently kills…
Dick Lochte
A darkly comic thriller following a cynical LA gumshoe who makes the catastrophic mistake of helping a 14-year-old find her dog . . .
Serendipity Dahlquist is a headstrong roller-blading…
Anthony Price
A murderer targets British historians of the First World War in this 1970s classic
Paul Mitchell spends his days researching the carnage of the First World War in the silence…
An English novelist uncovers a trail of crime in Istanbul - and all roads lead to the mysterious master criminal Dimitrios
English crime novelist Charles Latimer is travelling in Istanbul…
Michael Gilbert
Mr. Calder lives with a golden deerhound named Rasselas. Mr. Behrens keeps bees. No one would suspect the pair are in fact agents and often tasked with jobs that no…
An imposter has a fortune to win and his life to lose in this gripping country house mystery
A stranger enters the Ashby family home posing as Patrick Ashby, the…
Maigret goes to London on the trail of a young man on the run
When Maigret's prized gun goes missing, he must travel to London on the trail of a…
Edogawa Rampo
One of the classic works by the master of Japanese detective fiction
A super-criminal - as deadly as she is beautiful - wagers all in an epic battle with a…
Raymond Chandler
Two great novels featuring hard-boiled Californian detective Philip Marlowe
Raymond Chandler created the fast talking, trouble seeking Californian private eye Philip Marlowe for his first great novel The Big Sleep…
In stock at 6 shops, ships in 3-4 daysIn stock at 6 shops
Shirley Jackson
"First published in the United States of America by The Viking Press 1962. Published in a Viking Compass edition 1970. Published in Penguin Books 1976. Previously published with an afterword…
A hardboiled story of abduction and murder in the Los Angeles hills
Private Detective Lew Archer doesn't believe in coincidences...
A forest fire has mysteriously broken out in the hills…
In stock at 7 shops, ships in 3-4 daysIn stock at 7 shops
In le Carre's first post-Cold War novel, an ex-soldier helps British Intelligence penetrate the secret world of ruthless arms dealers
At the start of it all, Jonathan Pine is merely…
Inspector Maigret investigates a case of deception in an isolated community
Maigret has been interrogating Carl Andersen for seventeen hours without a confession. He's either innocent or a very good…
A crashed plane becomes a case for a civil servant turned detective, in a classic Cold War thriller
A missing plane resurfaces - and so do long-submerged secrets...
An RAF…
Cornell Woolrich
A wild and wildly compelling noir novel about a train crash and a case of a mistaken identity
What if you woke up to discover everyone thought you were somebody…
An endlessly ingenious battle across Japan between dogged detective Akechi Kogoro and the many-faced thief Gold Mask
A frenzied test of wits between ace detective Akechi Kogoro and the seemingly…
Ian Fleming
James Bond is back with a bang in Penguin Classics, in the new Crime & Espionage series
'It is not just a question of blowing up a building or shooting…
John Franklin Bardin
A memory loss mystery set in wartime New York
Who stole George Matthews' life?
'Doctor, I think I'm losing my mind...'
When a wealthy young man turns up at respected…
Robert Van Gulik
An intricate, puzzle-like murder mystery set in Imperial China, featuring the indefatigable Judge Dee
Judge Dee is about to step into the shoes of a dead man...
Most people would…
