Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

Two-Bit Street, 1946Where sin is cheap.And death is cheaper.Private investigator Lafayette Dole isn't expecting company when a terrified, middle-aged accountant named Simon Tully-a family man with more information on the mob than is good for anyone's health-bursts through the door to his Two-Bit Street...

Everyone is dying to attend the Christmas gala-the event of the season-until one of the hosts turns up that way. Dead, that is.When a doctor is urgently summoned, Matthew rushes to help. But he's too late.Was the man murdered?Suspecting foul play, Matthew calls the...

Detective Lieutenant J. Meurer was born in Germany. He Immigrated to the United States in December 1951. Going through all the academics, on the 27th day of August 1979, he received a bachelor of science degree in criminal justice administration while he was a...

According to Dean, "Everyone's done something they regret." He's been dealing with that, making amends. Now, after nine months of sobriety, he feels confident. So confident that when a troubled woman from his past pursues him, he overlooks every red flag ever and plunges...

When Joan Bendix dies after eating poisoned chocolates intended for someone else, Scotland Yard declares the case unsolvable. Enter the Crimes Circle, a gathering of London's most ingenious amateur detectives, who take it upon themselves to crack what the professionals cannot.Six members step forward,...

The tenth Anty Boisjoly Mystery!It's the biggest Boisjoly by bounds when none other than Anty's friendly rival Inspector Wittersham is the only suspect in a locked-room murder.Of course Anty doesn't believe for a second that Inspector Wittersham murdered a prisoner locked in a cell...

Behind a veil of betrayal and murder, a family's truth is unearthed.January 1928. Of all times to travel to upstate New York, Alice Cary thought grimly as she hurried into Grand Central Station, it had to be in the teeth of a blizzard. Alice-a...

When DCI Ian Ahmed agrees--reluctantly--to convalesce on a remote island in the Stockholm archipelago, he expects nothing more than bitter winds, silence, and boredom. But just across the bay, a sleek, modern house stirs to life. Staff arrive in dark clothing, cleaning and prepping...

The Great Game continues for Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson. In 'The Gravesend Gryphon and other Sherlock Holmes stories', the great detective encounters a wounded old soldier, Baroness Orczy's old man in the corner, H. G. Wells's Sea lady, and a household with a...

A young woman is murdered at the height of summer in this gritty, page-turning mystery set in London and featuring DCI Bill Slider - "one of Britain's most engaging coppers" (Booklist) Most homicides are young male on young male, and that's bad enough. But...

One PI. Two murders. Secrets that run deeper than the river.As private investigator Fen Maguire rushes to finish a riverside sketch before the next downpour, he spots something caught in the massive cypress roots below-a human body. The former sheriff's instincts kick in immediately;...

A terrible scream rent the air. "Too late!" Holmes exclaimed, and started running towards the sound. I followed after, my pistol cocked at the ready. Had my dream mysteriously and horribly foreshadowed what was to happen? For here was Holmes again, rushing back towards...

Crime-fiction librarian - and reluctant amateur sleuth - Ray Ambler gets mixed up in murder once again when he's called to appraise a mystery-novel collection at an exclusive New York college. An invitation from a prestigious liberal arts college to buy their mystery-novel collection...

With his sniffer dog, Pippin, Dr. Peter Bannerman uncovers suspects, treats animals, tracks a kitten kidnapper, and must solve a locked-room mystery. In the fourth book in the series, Dr. Peter Bannerman's brother Sam takes in three Bengal kittens after the previous owner, his...

"The Last To Face The Gallows In Britain [1957-1965]" looks at 30 [Thirty] cases in the period when although the death penalty for murder was abolished in Britain in November 1965, the first mandatory life sentence for murder was in fact passed in May...

A daring, military-style armed robbery shakes the heart of Scotland's capital. The criminals are ruthless, the stakes are high, and the risk of them striking again looms large. It's up to Detective Chief Inspector Suzanna McLeod and her renowned Edinburgh team to stop them...

When the lifeless body of a young woman is found mutilated and abandoned on the shores of the River Forth, Detective Chief Inspector Suzanna McLeod is drawn into a case that will take her from the moody landscapes of Scotland to the bustling chaos...

Face Down Below the Banqueting House is book eight in the Face Down mystery series featuring Elizabethan gentlewoman, herbalist, and sleuth, Susanna, Lady Appleton. In 1573, Queen Elizabeth is on a royal progress in Kent and plans to visit Susanna's manor house, Leigh Abbey-an...

Face Down Beside St. Ann's Well is book nine in the Face Down series featuring Susanna, Lady Appleton as a sixteenth-century herbalist who has a knack for solving murders. The story is set in Buxton, Derbyshire in 1575, where a midnight visit to the...

Step into a world of intrigue and suspense with ""Decidedly Odd,"" a captivating classic detective fiction masterpiece by the dynamic duo Edwin Balmer and William MacHarg. This thrilling tale, long out of print and now lovingly restored by Alpha Editions, invites you to unravel...

A cold February morning in Scotland begins with the discovery of a body, as Hector Mathewson is found dead within the cask room of his own distillery.While directing the hunt for the murderer, DCI Alex Warren needs to balance his own turbulent personal life....

After a brutal year on the academic job market, Professor Molly Barda finally lands a teaching job. In Hawaii! But chronically-underfunded Mahina State University isn't exactly paradise. After yet another round of budget cuts, Mahina State finally gets some sweet news: Jimmy Tanaka, founder...

Mayor Jim Parker had a dilemma on his hands. The entire Warner family had simply disappeared, as though into thin air! What happened to them? Jim organized the citizens of the Bendville community to try to find them. Some unusual situations took place before...

A chance encounter at a London tube station plunges a young woman into a thrilling adventure in Agatha Christie's "The Man in the Brown Suit." This classic mystery from the Queen of Crime delivers a suspenseful tale of hidden identities and deadly secrets. When...

Unravel a web of intrigue and deception in Agatha Christie's classic mystery, "The Secret of Chimneys." This timeless tale of crime and suspense plunges readers into a world of hidden identities and perilous secrets. A classic detective story featuring Superintendent Battle, this meticulously prepared...

"Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes" by Arthur Conan Doyle presents a collection of gripping detective stories showcasing the unparalleled deductive skills of the world's most famous detective. Set against the backdrop of Victorian England, these classic tales of crime and mystery follow Sherlock Holmes and...

A perfect detective for our time and for all time."--Stephen FryA ransacked room. A dead politician. A burglary gone wrong - or a staged murder?DS George Cross loves puzzles - he's good at them - and he immediately spots one when he begins investigating...

Things are getting even stranger in Caper Cove... When Claire Fontaine and her best friend, Suggie Oh, stumble upon the body of a competitive surfer, their quiet coastal town is once again plunged into chaos. To make matters worse, a famous cosplayer washes ashore,...

When a hurricane upends their lives in Florida, Julie and Ben Pecos decide the time is right to return to New Mexico, the place where they met and the ancestral home to Ben's extended family at Tewa Pueblo. After several years of sharing custody...

Critically acclaimed author Margaret Mizushima is back with Hunting Hour, the third book in the Timber Creek K-9 mysteries.Author: Margaret MizushimaISBN-10: 1683317742ISBN-13: 9781683317746Publisher: Crooked Lane BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/07/2018Pages: 336Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.00d

Author: Peter LoveseyISBN-10: 1569473226ISBN-13: 9781569473221Publisher: Soho CrimeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2003Pages: 352Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.64lbsSize: 7.30h x 4.76w x 1.02d

Author: Peter LoveseyISBN-10: 1569472564ISBN-13: 9781569472569Publisher: Soho CrimeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2003Pages: 354Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 7.50h x 5.00w x 1.00d

This classic mystery begins when a young American in London, bored with his routine, becomes intrigued by a cryptic message in the newspaper's "Agony Column." What starts as idle curiosity quickly leads him into a thrilling web of intrigue, romance, and danger. As he...

Murder never shocks Leonora Spencer. Violence is a fact of life in Victorian London, and most of the corpses Leo attends to inside her uncle's city morgue are its victims. But when she witnesses a woman's death at a popular night club, and then...

Our memories hold the key to our very being.Her lost memory conceals truths that will change lives forever. After taking down numerous wicked men and women throughout her career, Emma finally considers taking some much-needed rest.But when Xavier is drawn to a strange case...

Author: Matthew SweetISBN-10: 1398530905ISBN-13: 9781398530904Publisher: Simon & Schuster (UK)Language: EnglishPublished: 06/09/2026Pages: 416Format: Paperback

The Ticket is a contemporary suspense novel about an ordinary woman who wins an extraordinary fortune and has to outsmart the very modern dangers that follow.Rachel Mercer is in her forties, stuck in a call center job in Forney, Texas, and living quietly in...

A mysterious and thrilling novella, with just a hint of science fiction, about a young police officer who makes his career solving three mysterious murders at Golden Park. Twenty-five years later, a new body shows up in the exact same spot. Our young police...

"Let's say, a man's presumed innocent--""A very proper attitude," Denning applauded. "But don't you think you're carrying it a little too far?"Antony and Jenny Maitland's stage actress friend Meg Hamilton (see Bloody Instructions) tells them that her lover Roger Farrell is the prime police...

And then he received the small note in a laboured, childish scrawl: "She didn't...she didn't...she didn't!"Is beautiful Barbara Wentworth, on trial for the fatal poisoning of her wealthy sister, Laura Canning, whose heir she was, telling the truth--or is she deceitfully spinning a web...

"He didn't know where he was......and hard on that realization the further thought came with the force of a blow. He didn't know who he was."Antony and Jenny Maitland's old friend Peter Hammond didn't think he had smuggled heroin into the country when he...

Murder cloaked in rhyme and terror grips New York in The Bishop Murder Case, the fourth thrilling entry in S. S. Van Dine's legendary Philo Vance Mystery series. A fiendish killer is on the loose-one who leaves behind cryptic nursery rhymes at the scenes...

A terrible scream rent the air. "Too late!" Holmes exclaimed, and started running towards the sound. I followed after, my pistol cocked at the ready. Had my dream mysteriously and horribly foreshadowed what was to happen? For here was Holmes again, rushing back towards...

"The 39 Steps" is a heart-pounding espionage thriller that catapults readers into a world of danger, intrigue, and relentless pursuit. Penned by the legendary author John Buchan, this classic novel introduces Richard Hannay, an ordinary man unwittingly swept into a deadly conspiracy. Framed for...

Eight traditional Sherlock Holmes cases from the pen of Paul Metcalfe.The Case of the Australian Atlases - As Inspector Lestrade asks: why, gentlemen, would someone break into a house, murder the owner and then steal only one volume of an Australian atlas, when all...

Author: Agatha ChristieISBN-10: 0062165496ISBN-13: 9780062165497Publisher: William Morrow & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/13/2016Pages: 304Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.63lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.76dAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 6.3Point Value: 11Interest Level: Upper GradeQuiz #/Name: 8880 / Murder of Roger Ackroyd

The Queen of Mystery has come to Harper Collins! Agatha Christie, the acknowledged mistress of suspense creator of indomitable sleuth Miss Marple, meticulous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and so many other unforgettable characters brings her entire oeuvre of ingenious whodunits, locked room mysteries, and...

The Secret of Chimneys, a classical book, has been considered essential throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and...

P.I. Peri Min­neopa has had enough. She's clos­ing her busi­ness, mar­ry­ing her detec­tive boyfriend, and set­tling down to a life of ease-until her brother shows up, accused of a mur­der he swears he didn't com­mit. Now she's back in the thick of things, inves­ti­gat­ing...

Never guessing that their very lives might be in danger, well-to-do women come from all over the country to stay at guest ranches around Reno to establish the six weeks' residency required for a quickie Nevada divorce in 1955.When a Circle E Ranch guest...