Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

Mac McKenzie is rich. So rich that he's left his job as a Twin Cities police officer and spends his time doing favors large and small for friends. So when an old Marine buddy of his father's calls with a request Mac takes the...

A fading Hollywood star is back in the spotlight - but for deadly reasons! Hollywood descends on Cambridge when the historic Round Church becomes a film set for Viking Bride, starring famous - albeit fading - actress Agnes Dermont. But Agnes' big comeback quickly...

Author: David HandlerISBN-13: 9798337205465Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 12/16/2025Pages: 426Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.97lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.95d

Every day, a new door. Every night, a crime. The countdown begins...In the cold December of 1898, a mysterious advent calendar arrives at Baker Street. Each morning, it reveals a miniature that predicts a murder to occur that very night. Each crime recreates a...

SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE CASE OF THE KILLER CHRISTMAS STARThe star atop the Trafalgar Square tree has been poisoned. Whoever touches it will die. Five deaths, five years, five stars... and a killer who turns Christmas lights into deadly weapons.Sherlock Holmes has until midnight to...

This Christmas, London awakens not only under the snow... but under threat. Every ten years, the city witnesses a red snowfall that heralds death and mystery. Now, Holmes and Watson must confront a phenomenon that defies logic, science, and ethics: an impossible mineral, messenger...

Author: David HandlerISBN-13: 9798337205441Publisher: Mysteriouspress.Com/Open RoadLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/02/2025Pages: 256Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.61lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.59d

DISCOVER YOUR NEXT FAVOURITE SERIES. MEET BRITAIN'S BEST-LOVED VILLAGE POLICEMAN. "It's original, it's funny . . . one of life's little pleasures." Yorkshire Post THE BOOKS WHICH INSPIRED HEARTBEAT The brilliantly entertaining and heartwarming books behind the hit 90s TV series Heartbeat. One of...

DISCOVER YOUR NEXT FAVOURITE SERIES. MEET BRITAIN'S BEST-LOVED VILLAGE POLICEMAN. "It's original, it's funny...one of life's little pleasures." Yorkshire Post THE BOOKS WHICH INSPIRED HEARTBEAT The brilliantly entertaining and heartwarming books behind the hit 90s TV series "Heartbeat". One of the top ten most...

This not-so-simple noirish tale of good versus evil unfolds on and under the planks of two strikingly different boardwalks of the Jersey Shore. James Mulligan, a worn-out music icon, has finally had enough of being known superficially as Jersey Shore Jimmy. In an effort...

In a riveting psychological thriller, Queen of Suspense Mary Higgins Clark takes you deep into the mysteries of the human mind, where memories may be the most dangerous things of all. Kay Lansing, who has grown up in Englewood, New Jersey, is the daughter...

In this book readers are invited to explore a unique narrative, a testament to the synergistic potential of human creativity and artificial intelligence. This book stands as an innovative collaboration between a human author and AI, weaving a story that blends the nuanced understanding...

Book 4 in the Gabriel Hawke NovelsKiller on the loose.Tracking Rivalry.Revenge could get them killed.Fish and Wildlife Oregon State Trooper Gabriel Hawke is set to teach a class at a Search and Rescue conference in Idaho when a dangerous inmate breaks out of prison....

It was a simple enough job for Harry Becker; return a stolen handbag to Evelyn Crowley...And then Mrs. Crowley requests his help with another matter-locate the daughter she had given up to adoption.Given his dubious standing amongst his former police colleagues, he only barely...

Could a cold case hold the key to a brutal murder?Spring 1930. In the quiet streets of Craynebrook, a sinister presence lurks in the shadows, ready to pounce on the unsuspecting women of the suburban London town. After every attack, the assailant disappears into...

Tom Collins is a bored Manchester private eye. His caseload consists of loose women, lying spouses and lost dogs. His hero is Jake Fist, a fictional hard-hitting, hard-drinking shoot-'em-and-leave-'em 1950's Chicago gumshoe. Then one quiet afternoon a beautiful Oriental woman walks into his office....

Collected here, in one volume are Gilbert K. Chesterton s most influential works of fiction. Harold March, the rising reviewer and social critic, was walking vigorously across a great tableland of moors and commons, the horizon of which was fringed with the far-off woods...

British TV Crime series, it transpires, have much in common with the UK staple of bangers & mash; both usually feature simple ingredients that add up to a greater delectable whole. Your typical British TV crime drama may have you thinking of aristocratic tea...

A must for collectors, this beautifully designed box set of KNOTS AND CROSSES, BLACK AND BLUE and EXIT MUSIC is a must for existing fans and newcomers to No.1 bestselling author Ian Rankin's Inspector Rebus novels. 'One of the most beguiling characters in the...

With its fascinating mix of people - rich and poor, British and foreign, worthy and suspicious - London is a city where anything can happen. The possibilities for criminals and for the crime writer are endless. London has been home to many of fiction's...

Introducing Cecil Herbert Woolley - wealthy, educated, affected, infuriating, well-spoken, well-dressed, a gentleman, a curious sort, a well-rounded chap, a lover of art, a one-time ladies man, witty and occasionally wise, once attractive and now well worn, functionally alcoholic, kind to animals and a...

Derek Chase, a private investigator for Garrett and Taylor Law, opens his home to a former love and her modeling colleagues, hoping that it'll be a chance to rekindle an old flame. His aspirations are set aside when the U.S. District Attorney's office enlists...

Nothing can stay buried forever... When the skeletal remains of a long-missing woman are unearthed in the rolling vineyards of Washington's Horse Heaven Hills, Detective Thomas Austin is pulled into a case with eerie echoes of the past. The land belongs to one of...

The final reckoning has arrived.When the owner of a Scarborough cocktail bar is gunned down during a winter light show, DCI Tom Raven is drawn into a web of intimidation, vengeance, and a chilling connection to his own past.As a vicious crime family infiltrates...

WHILE THE CAT'S AWAY . . . Mike Nash is away on compassionate leave but that doesn't mean the criminals are going to take a break. Detective Clara Mironova and the Helmsdale team face a sudden increase in crime. Minor offences ranging from theft,...

Shawn Burke is a retired television actor who, for twelve years, portrayed private detective Quentin Mars on a popular television show. Taking some of the substantial money he made as a result of his success, Shawn has purchased a former church in the Berkshires...

John M. Floyd is the author of more than a thousand short stories in publications like Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Strand Magazine, The Saturday Evening Post, Best American Mystery Stories (2015, 2018, 2020), and Best Mystery Stories of the Year...

Victoria Treadwell, dispatcher for the sheriff's office, is driving to work in a snowstorm when she sees a car fish-tailing behind her. Horrified, she watches at the car swerves off the road. When she heads back to help, she finds the driver bent over...

When an over-the-hill American actor finds his wife, a rising star in Bollywood, dead in their Mumbai high-rise, he quickly becomes the prime suspect in this atmospheric, razor-sharp social mystery; for fans of The White Lotus, Only Murders in the Building and Age of...

At the age of ten in the mid-1970's, David Marcum discovered Mr. Sherlock Holmes, and from that point, he knew that the original 60 Canonical adventures would never be enough. This, coupled with his life-long desire to write, meant that eventually he would find...

Betty Erlanger's murder was dramatic-shot through heart by an arrow in a public park on Valentine's Day-but the solution was prosaic. She'd been killed by her spurned lover, Troy Braggs, and everybody in the small town of Erin, Ohio knew it. This wasn't a...

An epicurean mystery featuring the iconic sleuth and his sidekick from the author who "brings Nero Wolfe, late of Rex Stout, gloriously back to life" (Chicago magazine).A dark cloud has fallen over Nero Wolfe's New York brownstone. For days, house chef Fritz Brenner has...

An epicurean mystery featuring the iconic sleuth and his sidekick from the author who "brings Nero Wolfe, late of Rex Stout, gloriously back to life" (Chicago magazine).A dark cloud has fallen over Nero Wolfe's New York brownstone. For days, house chef Fritz Brenner has...

Oxford, England. After a decade abroad, Martha Thornhill has returned home to the city whose ancient institutions have long defined her family. But the ghosts she had thought to be at rest seem to have been waiting for her to return. When an anonymous...

Finding a dead body impaled on a tree thirty feet in the air would be enough to rattle anyone...But Matt Brennan isn't rattled. He has other worries - like getting Lonely Lake Lodge opened and sold, so he can return to his career as...

Hidden gems, murder, and deadly secrets.On the bustling streets of nineteenth-century Toronto, Detective Albert Hodgins is thrust into a web of intrigue and murder. With the discovery of two Dutchmen, their throats slashed, Hodgins must unravel the mystery linking these brutal murders to a...

A VIP diplomat is missing in Fiji. Detective Horseman's dream turns into a nightmare.At two o'clock, the Australian High Commissioner, Her Excellency Helen Armstrong, will open a hostel for the Junior Shiners, a rugby team for Suva's street kids. As the Shiners' founder, the...

Lucien Cross fumbles to gain footing on his latest case involving underground gambling and unknown scammers. Alan Kershaw is Cross Security's typical client, a wealthy businessman with a problem. However, his problem isn't the kind Cross Security usually handles. Kershaw was scammed by an...

This collection of mystery stories centers on ingenious crimes and their unraveling through observation, deduction, and forensic method. The tales explore puzzles ranging from seemingly impossible thefts to baffling disappearances, each resolved with logical precision. Drawing on both scientific knowledge and sharp reasoning, the...

An exciting forensic trek through some of literature's deadliest settings, told through twenty of the genre's most famous tales. How did a beautiful Georgian house inspire Agatha Christie's Dead Man's Folly? How did a stretch of the East Anglian coast become the place in...

This book starts with a murder on the London Underground station and contains intrigue, suspense, and a mystery.What begins as a simple investigation turns out deadly and quickly spirals into a tangled web of secrets, deception and danger, when a body is retrieved from...

In 1887 on his way to prison, the convicted murderer, Vincent Louder Lovelace, was killed in a horrific collision in London between a police wagon and an omnibus. Though Lovelace never kept his date with the hangman, his accidental death resulted in justice being...

"As [John Shannon's] fans well know, reading a Jack Liffey novel is no day at the beach. But then again, neither is life in Southern California." Publishers Weekly (starred review)"Witty, alert, energetic, talented way above the ordinary." --New York Times Book Review Jack Liffey...

Welcome to Kristine Kathryn Rusch's and Dean Wesley Smith's writing home world. Science Fiction. Stories from their most acclaimed and famous series pack these pages, making it a stuffed tome that will dazzle science fiction fans of all types. Detectives on the moon, historical...

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.'The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.'Centred around a glorious yellow diamond that carries with it a menacing history, The Moonstone tells...

One detective's pursuit of truth and justice When a young woman's body is found in an alley, Jack Mallory takes on the case as the on-call detective. But before he can make a start, he is suddenly reassigned by his boss, Terrance Singleton, to...

Gilbert K. Chesterton's fictional "The Trees of Pride" story goes around Squire Vane, who has imported three "peacock trees," which, according to the local people, spread illness and eat people. The Squire let go of these comments as simple superstitions, but while the three...

Sherlock Holmes is a "consulting detective" known for his proficiency with observation, forensic science, and logical reasoning that borders on the fantastic, which he employs when investigating cases for a wide variety of clients, including Scotland Yard. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a...

Agatha Christie's first mystery novel, introduces character Hercule Poirot, which is a heroicdetective. The story begins when Emily Inglethorp, a millionaire at Court Styles, marries Alfred, who is twenty years younger than her. One night, Mrs. Inglethorp dies and suspicion falls on the family....

Excerpt from His Last Bow: A Reminiscence of Sherlock Holmes HE friends of Mr. Sherlock Holmes will be glad to learn that he is still alive and well. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more...