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Crime Fiction from Cambridge, Oxford and Scotland

Well, in the absence of actual meaningful articles on fictional crime set in Cambridge, Oxford and Scotland respectively, you'll just have to make do with this fairly exhaustive lists. If you do spot anything missing, though, or think I might enjoy something else, please contact me as danstaines@postmaster.co.uk.

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Cambridge Crime

• Ruth Dudley-Edwards - Matricide At St. Martha's
• Susanna Gregory
  • A Plague On Both Your Houses
  • Unholy Alliance
  • A Bone Of Contention
  • A Deadly Brew
  • A Wicked Deed
    
  (1348 Cambridge - Michaelhouse scholar Matthew Bartholemew)
  
• Michelle Spring - Laura Principal series
  • Every Breath You Take
  • Running For Shelter
  • Standing In The Shadows
• Dilwyn Rees - The Cambridge Murders
• P.D. James - An Unsuitable Job For A Woman
• VC Clinton-Baddeley - Death's Bright Dart
• Nora Kelly
  • In The Shadow Of Kings
  • Bad Chemistry
• Jill Paton Walsh
  • The Wyndham Case
  • A Piece of Justice
• Nigel McCreary - Silent Witness (novelisation of BBC TV series)
• Elizabeth George - For The Sake of Elena
• Margery Allingham - Police At The Funeral

Thanks to members of DorothyL and the staff of Heffer's Bookshop for their help....

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Oxford Crime

• Edmund Crispin - Gervase Fen mysteries
  • The Case of the Gilded Fly (1944)
  • Holy Disorders (1946)
  • The Moving Toyshop (1946)
  • Swan Song (1947)
  • Love Lies Bleeding (1948)
  • Buried for Pleasure (1948)
  • Frequent Hearses (1950)
  • The Long Divorce (1951)
  • Beware of the Trains (1953) (short stories)
  • The Glimpses of the Moon (1977)
  • Fen Country (1979) (short stories)
• Colin Dexter - Inspector Morse novels
  • Last Bus to Woodstock (1975)
  • Last Seen Wearing (1976)
  • The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn (1977)
  • Service of All the Dead (1979)
  • The Dead of Jericho (1981)
  • The Riddle of the Third Mile (1983)
  • The Secret of Annexe 3 (1986)
  • The Wench is Dead (1989)
  • The Jewel That was Ours (1991)
  • The Way Through the Woods (1992)
  • Morse's Greatest Mystery/As Good As Gold (1993) (short stories)
  • Daughters of Cain (1994)
  • Death is Now My Neighbor (1996)
• Michael Dibdin - Dirty Tricks
• Paul Doherty
  • An Ancient Evil (The Knight's Tale, 14th c.)
  • The Devil's Hunt (Hugh Corbet, 14th c.)
• Antonia Fraser - Oxford Blood (Jemina Shore)
• Margaret Frazer (Dame Frevisse novels, 15th c. - are all of these set in Oxford? or just one?)
  • The Novice's Tale (1992)
  • The Servant's Tale (1993)
  • The Outlaw's Tale (1995)
  • The Boy's Tale (1995)
  • The Murderer's Tale (1996)
  • The Prioress' Tale (1997)
  • The Maiden's Tale (1998)
  • The Bishop's Tale (19??)
• Michael Innes
  • Death at the President's Lodgings
  • Operation Pax (1951) (and more)
• Ian Morson - William Falconer novels (13th c.)
  • Falconer's Crusade (1994)
  • Falconer's Judgement (1995)
  • Falconer and the Face of God (1996)
  • A Psalm for Falconer (1997)
  • Falconer and the Great Beast (1998)
• Iain Pears - An Instance Of The Fingerpost
• Joan Smith - Loretta Lawson Series
  • A Masculine Ending (1987)
  • Why Aren't They Screaming? (1989)
  • Don't Leave Me This Way (1990)
  • What Men Say (1994)
  • Full Stop (1995) (actually New York City)
• Dorothy L. Sayers - Gaudy Night
• Veronica Stallwood - the Kate Ivory mysteries
  • Death and the Oxford Box (1993)
  • Oxford Exit (1994)
  • Oxford Mourning (1995)
  • Oxford Fall (1996)
  • Oxford Knot (1998)
  • Oxford Blue (1998)

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Scottish Crime

• Peter Turnbull - 'P' Division Series
  • Deep and Crisp and Even (1981)
  • Dead Knock (1982)
  • Fair Friday (1983)
  • Big Money (1984)
  • Two Way Cut (1988)
  • Condition Purple (1989)
  • And Did Murder Him (1991)
  • Long Day Monday (1992)
  • The Killing Floor (1994)
  • Embracing Skeletons (1996)
• M.C. Beaton - Hamish MacBeth Series
  • Death of a Gossip (1985)
  • Death of a Cad (1987)
  • Death of an Outsider (1988)
  • Death of a Perfect Wife (1989)
  • Death of a Hussy (1990)
  • Death of a Snob (1991)
  • Death of a Prankster (1992)
  • Death of a Glutton (1993)
  • Death of a Travelling Man (1993)
  • Death of a Charming Man (1994)
  • Death of a Nag (1995)
  • Death of a Macho Man (1996)
  • Death of a Dentist (1997)
• Gerald Hammond
  • Keith Calder Series
    • Sauce for the Pigeon (1984)
    • Pursuit of Arms (1986)
    • Silver City Scandal (1986)
    • Adverse Report (1987)
    • Stray Shot (1988)
    • Let Us Prey (1990)
    • Home to Roost (1990)
    • In Camera (1992)
    • Thin Air (1993)
    • Hook or Crook (1994)
    • Carriage of Justice (1995)
  • John Cunningham Series
    • Dog in the Dark (1989)
    • Whose Dog Are You? (1991)
    • Doghouse (1992)
    • Give a Dog a Name (1992)
    • The Curse of the Cockers (1993)
    • Sting in the Tail (1994)
    • Mad Dogs and Scotsmen (1995)
• Quintin Jardine - The Skinner Series
  • Skinner's Rules (1994)
  • Skinner's Festival (1995)
  • Skinner's Trail (1996)
  • Skinner's Round (12/96)
  • Skinner's Ordeal
  • Skinner's Mission
  • Skinner's Ghosts
  • Murmuring the Judges
• Quintin Jardine - The Oz Blackstone Series
  • Blackstone's Pursuits
  • Coffin For Two
  • Wearing Purple
• Paul Johnson - The Quintillian Dalrympe Series
  • Body Politic
  • The Boneyard
  • Water of Death
• Ian Rankin - Inspector Rebus Novels
  • Knots and Crosses
  • Hide and Seek
  • Wolfman
  • A Good Hanging and other stories
  • Strip Jack
  • Mortal Causes
  • Let It Bleed
  • Black and Blue
  • The Hanging Garden
  • Death Is Not The End
  • Dead Souls
• McIlvanney, William
  • Laidlaw
  • Strange Loyalties
  • The Papers of Tony Veitch
• Iain Banks
  • The Crow Road
  • Complicity
• Joyce Holms
  • Payment Deferred
  • Foreign Bodies
• Christopher Brookmyre
  • Quite Ugly One Morning
  • Country of the Blind
  • Not the End of the World

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Thanks again to various folk on r.a.m and DorothyL for suggestions and also to Bookbrowser for their excellent lists.

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