Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

The Mayor's Wife is a mystery novel set in the early 20th century. Anna Katharine Green, one of the first writers of detective fiction in America, weaves a tale of love, greed, and murder. This is one of Green's most iconic novels and a...

A classic detective novel set in London's legal district, featuring Inspector Corfield and amateur sleuth Humphrey Wynne.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the...

In this classic detective novel, Arthur Conan Doyle brings to life the character of Sherlock Holmes, one of the most beloved and enduring figures in popular fiction. Set against the backdrop of the moors of Devon, The Hound of the Baskervilles is a thrilling...

When Arnold Rivers, a wealthy man, is found murdered at a bridge party, everyone is a suspect. Detective Inspector Arnold finds himself in a race against time to solve the case and bring the culprit to justice.This work has been selected by scholars as...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

It was supposed to have been just another routine night for Mike Lowe, a newly-promoted sergeant working Homicide in the police department. But then the call came, the call that would forever change his life, and the lives of so many people surrounding him....

Can a piece of music be cursed?When a young marine biologist is found dead of suicide, his father can't believe he took his own life and hires Scott Drayco to prove it was murder. But what of the strange song found with the young...

Honest Lizzie Borden has never in her life taken a thing that didn't belong to her. But now the Florida swamp girl/budding rock star (robbed of her music by a record company) has two million dollars, a dead mobster, a live amateur mobster who...

COWTOWN Freddie Demonti grew up in small Chicago neighborhood, called Cowtown. Back in the 1800's, Cowtown consisted of a general store, a one room school house, a church, a couple of saloons, and was surrounded by cattle farms. Over the years, the farms were...

Shortly after Jack Willerton's head and torso are found hanging in his barn, his fifteen year daughter, Rachel, is arrested and charged with his murder. Judge Reinhold appoints Peter Fisher, who has just recently passed his bar exams, to represent Rachel. Peter quickly realizes...

A Bad Week in Hollister Melissa Johnson's death has been solved and Sheriff "Cowboy" Berkson figures Hollister, Missouri has finally returned to normal. His plans are to spend his days with his feet up on his desk, drinking coffee, and enjoying an occasional piece...

Dylan Blake, a rookie cop at age 40 promoted to detective, finds his vacation interrupted when the Chief of Police asks him to take a look at an accident scene along the Pacific Coast Highway near Big Sur.Part-mystery, part-romance, part suspense. . .a story...

There is almost nothing quite as magnificent as a sunrise, standing on the seventeenth tee at the Indian Whisper Golf Course, on Little Loggerhead Island, off the coast of Savannah, Georgia. By noon tomorrow the vista will radically change when the 35th annual Concours...

The murder of Jennifer Southern in her cottage on the outskirts of a Lancashire village re-ignites a legacy of witchcraft that was thought to have ended four hundred years ago when the Pendle Witches were hanged at Lancaster Castle in 1612. But their descendants...

Arthur Bayliss is the owner of a successful textile business in the north of England and a newly endorsed member of the Icarus Club. He is also a tyrant and a bully. When Everett Carr accepts an invitation to stay at Darton House, Bayliss'...

All's fair in love, art-and murder. It's the spring of 1939, and the New York World's Fair is nearly ready to open. Its visionary theme, "Building the World of Tomorrow," promises a peaceful and prosperous future. But that bright prospect is darkened by war...

Hubbard made his money in blackmail, most detestable blackmail at that. A loathsome creature, there were no special regrets when he was found dead at his desk in his own home. Yet Colonel Sanderstead felt it his duty to probe the affair, since his...

"I was told the creation of a Holmesian Chronology is practically a rite of passage. I was told once you have managed to make sense of the sixty stories you emerge a rookie no more. I was told it is a task that improves...

One of the most popular characters in the history of French crime fiction, Fantômas was created in 1911 and appeared in a total of 32 volumes written by the two collaborators, then a subsequent 11 volumes written by Allain alone after Souvestre's death. The...

Soon to be a major motion picture sequel to Murder on the Orient Express with a screenplay by Michael Green, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh alongside Gal Gadot--coming February 11, 2022!Beloved detective Hercule Poirot embarks on a journey to Egypt in one of...

"I was ten years old when I found a murder weapon...it had killed 'The Girl with the Opal Fingers'..."Welsh Canadian professor of criminal psychology Cait Morgan, and her retired-cop husband Bud Anderson, are visiting Cait's sister, Siân, and brother-in-law, Todd, in Australia. They're enjoying...

"It will never end until I end it...so I shall..."Welsh Canadian criminal psychologist Cait Morgan, and her retired-cop husband Bud Anderson, are in London, England, to meet their friend John Silver's freshly minted fiancée, the daughter of a recently deceased Shakespeare aficionado, and captain...

"Linda's dead?" Bud's tone was grim. "A suspicious death before we've even got there?"Guests of honor at the opening of a swish new restaurant in Arizona, Welsh Canadian criminal psychologist sleuth Cait Morgan, and her retired-cop husband Bud Anderson, are looking forward to living...

"These apparently motiveless crimes are always the worst," said the inspector dolefully.Charity Buntington's husband describes his wife as the most lovely and inoffensive person, whom nobody would want to hurt. But someone enters their home in broad daylight, strangles her, then cuts off and...

"These apparently motiveless crimes are always the worst," said the inspector dolefully.Charity Buntington's husband describes his wife as the most lovely and inoffensive person, whom nobody would want to hurt. But someone enters their home in broad daylight, strangles her, then cuts off and...

Author: Alice CampbellISBN-10: 1667666754ISBN-13: 9781667666754Publisher: Wildside PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/14/2026Pages: 314Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.78d

Author: Robert ServiceISBN-10: 1025724674ISBN-13: 9781025724676Publisher: Tradd Street PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/14/2026Pages: 340Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.71d

A holy audit. A hidden hoard. And a killer who will stop at nothing to keep the village's darkest secrets buried...Autumn has arrived in the picturesque Cotswold village of Willow-on-the-Water, bringing crisp air, spiced pumpkin scones, and a chilling new mystery for former corporate...

Dashiell Hammett's second novel, The Dain Curse (1929), is a razor-edged exploration of deceit, addiction, and the sinister allure of the supernatural. When a cache of stolen diamonds leads to a string of violent deaths, the Continental Op-Hammett's nameless, hard-bitten detective-finds himself entangled with...

This enthralling sequel to The Return of Moriarty is perfect for fans of Anthony Horowitz and Laurie R. King. Here is a mystery fit for the late Sherlock Holmes, and his surviving nemesis, Professor James Moriarty, is just the shadowy genius to take it...

Port Haven, Maine survives on routine, tide charts, and the belief that the sea gives and takes without reason.That belief fractures when three fishing boats drift back to harbor empty, their hulls coated in strange, spiral barnacle formations no marine biologist can explain. No...

Suffolk, England, 1936. The Reverend Alwyn Jones has made several enemies since becoming Rector of Addenham Magna. But nobody expected he would be so unpopular as to be bludgeoned to death in his own vestry during a church fete. And nobody noticed the disappearance...

Author: Tom MeadISBN-10: 1613168039ISBN-13: 9781613168035Publisher: Mysterious PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/14/2026Pages: 288Format: Paperback

For crime readers who prefer to know the full back story leading up to a crime, and what happened after the investigation.Tristan Clarkson has woken up, over and over, bound to a chair, and unable to see. He has no idea where he is,...

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...

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...

A homeless boy. A hunted girl. Cairo, 1917. In a city plagued by poverty and war, ten-year-old Faisal begs and steals to survive, hiding at night from the things that prowl after dark. The nimblest and most clever of the street boys, he's terrified...

Lady Good-for-Nothing: A Man's Portrait of a Woman by Arthur Quiller-Couch is a satirical novel in British literature that offers a scathing critique of Victorian society's gender roles and attitudes towards women's rights. Through biting irony and keen social commentary, Quiller-Couch exposes the pervasive...

The swamp rarely reveals its secrets, but today, June 21,1995, a car was found.A missing woman is now lost forever.The cause of death eerily similar to Mary, a nurse who was brutally murdered years earlier.Her killer never found.Detective Beau Crenshaw must break the news...

First published in 1890, The Sign of the Four is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's second book starring legendary detective Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. The story is complex, involving a secret between four ex-cons from India and a hidden treasure. More complex than the...

Walking home wearily from an evening spent poring over the books of the Parchly Heights Methodist Ladies' Aid searching for a fifty-eight-cent error, Miss Jennifer Murdock becomes witness to a terrible scene: A man, stumbling drunk, arrives home--and just as he fumbles with his...

A 1955 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud is a fantastically expensive car, especially in the pristine condition of the one owned by Muriel Cantrell. Living in a luxury apartment building on Central Park West, the delicate, sweet 75-year-old woman is a neighbor of Merilee Nash, the...

In a small, artsy New Mexico town, the arrival of a wealthy stranger from back East is enough to get folks talking. Even a few years after Mona Brandon landed in Santa Maria, the rumor mill still churns with tid-bits about her money, her...

This is author J. Lea Koretsky's fifteenth book. The anthology contains three novellas about post office crimes. The first novella MURDERS AT BISHOP describes numerous truck rollovers on Interstate 50 and a series of heists of stamp coin on Highway 395. The second novella...

After solving a challenging case, one that thoroughly questioned her instincts, it's not long before Detective Eliza Sheppard and her team are pulled back into the streets. Another murder, this time taking place in the Historic District of Savannah. The evidence is collected, the...

Mitch is a Private investigator who falls on hard times. He ends up going to the local hospital and gets the help he needs. Once he was released from the hospital he continues receiving help from a Homeless Clinic. After 4 years he returns...

Still new to his parish, vicar Stephen Capel discovers the apparently dead body of his closest friend. In trying to recover it, Capel's girlfriend, Vicky, suffers a head injury. As Capel tries to make sense of what is happening he receives a call, asking...

When Launie Sanderson's trial abruptly ends with bloodshed, and two mighty explosions rip through the Sound, costing millions of dollars, the Prof and his friends at the La Mancha start to believe that this season will be worse than the previous two. Two daring...

In a small town in rural America, murders of little girls have been going on for a long time. Can the FBI stop him before he kills again.Author: Bobbie KaaldISBN-10: 1545128383ISBN-13: 9781545128381Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/02/2017Pages: 350Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.03lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w...

The mystery at the old mill is a deep-rooted secret that haunts the Hersel family. While most of the family would like to forget the past, two cousins have turned the decades-old mystery into a treasure hunt. Originally designed to be a children's game,...