Query: Crime detective novels set during World War II
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
Death of a Train
Died in the Wool
Green for Danger
Colour Scheme
Death Invades the Meeting
Murder in the Submarine Zone
Fatherland (novel)
They Watched by Night
The Fourth Bomb
N or M?
Evidence from documents: Death of a Train: '''''Death of a Train''''' is a crime novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, published in 1946.
Died in the Wool: Crime detective novels: a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the thirteenth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1945. The novel concerns the murder of a New Zealand parliamentarian on a remote sheep farm on the Canterbury Region of the South Island of New Zealand, said to be located in Mackenzie country near Aoraki/Mount Cook (which in the novel is referred to as the "Cloud-Piercer", the highest in a series of several peaks surrounding the high plateau where most of the action occurs)
set during World War II: the story takes place during World War II with Alleyn doing counter-espionage work.
Green for Danger: a popular 1944 detective novel by British writer Christianna Brand, praised for its clever plot, interesting characters, and wartime hospital setting
Colour Scheme: a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the twelfth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1943. The novel takes place in New Zealand during World War II;
Death Invades the Meeting: Crime detective novels: a 1944 detective novel by John Rhode, the pen name of the British writer Cecil Street
set during World War II: The story takes place during the Second World War in the village of Heringworth, where John Garstairs calls a meeting of the Invasion Committee - designed to take measures to prevent a German invasion. However, when one of the members dies during the meeting, it draws the interest of Priestley who deduces that a murder has been committed.
Murder in the Submarine Zone: Crime detective novels: '''''Murder in the Submarine Zone''''' (also published as ''Nine—And Death Makes Ten'' and ''Murder in the Atlantic'') is a mystery novel by the American writer John Dickson Carr, who published it under the name of Carter Dickson. It is a whodunnit and features the series detective Sir Henry Merrivale.
set during World War II: Nine oddly-assorted passengers aboard the ''S.S. Edwardic'' are crossing the Atlantic during World War II, with the constant threat of attack by German submarines.
Fatherland (novel): set during World War II: Set in a universe in which Nazi Germany won World War II, the story's protagonist is an officer of the Kripo, the criminal police, who is investigating the murder of a Nazi government official who participated at the Wannsee Conference.
detective novels: The novel subverts some of the conventions of the detective novel.
Crime: A detective working in VB3, the Kripo's sexual crimes division, along the corridor from March's office, Fiebes is a man with a deeply prurient nature and relishes his work investigating sexual crimes, including rape, adultery and interracial relationships between "Aryan" women and their Slavic servants.
They Watched by Night: is a 1941 detective novel
The Fourth Bomb: detective novels: '''''The Fourth Bomb''''' is a 1942 detective novel by John Rhode, the pen name of the British writer Cecil Street.
set during World War II: At the height of the Second World War, a German air raid sees four bombs dropped on the English village of Yardley Green.
Crime: * Reilly, John M. ''Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers''. Springer, 2015.
N or M?: The novel is the first to feature the mature versions of her detectives Tommy and Tuppence, whose previous appearances had been in the adventure ''The Secret Adversary'' (1922) and the short story collection ''Partners in Crime'' (1929).
After the outbreak of the Second World War