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TAKE OUR 2008 CRIME QUIZ!
Test your crime fiction general knowledge!

1) Who wrote the 1931 classic Malice Aforethought?

Edmund Crispin

Eric Ambler

Francis Iles

2) What was Inspector Morse's first name?

Bravo

Endeavour

Charity

3) Who were the first actors to play Reg Hill's Dalziel and Pascoe on TV?

Philip Glenister and John Simm

Warren Clarke and Colin Buchanan

Gareth Hale and Norman Pace

4) In 2007 Andrew Taylor's Roth Trilogy became a critically acclaimed ITV serial, entitled:

Fallen Angel

Angel Harvest

The Last Angel

5) Raymond Chandler attended which famous British school?

Charterhouse

Eton

Dulwich College

6) What was the very first Penguin Crime title, published in 1935?

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Conan Doyle

The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L. Sayers

The Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony Berkeley

7) Nick Stone's awardwinning debut, Mr Clarinet, is set in which country?

Cuba

Haiti

Dominican Republic

8) Crime writer Nicholas Blake was the father of which famous British actor?

Daniel Day Lewis

Hugh Grant

Orlando Bloom

9) In Nicci French's bestselling thriller Killing Me Softly, where does Alice first meet Adam?

In her doctor's surgery

Crossing the road

On a mountaineering course

10) What is the title of the new James Bond novel, written by Sebastian Faulks, which will publish in May 2008?

Blood on the Rocks

Spy Cross

Devil May Care

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