Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

When there's no one to hear you scream...After a summer spent off the grid in the Colorado Rockies, Detective Jack Martin returns to Telluride and finds the sheriff looking for him. Local school boys have found a body in an abandoned mine with a...

Just days before Halloween, Lori Childers is abducted. Join her on her horrifying journey through Hell! A serial killer has the women and the city of Chicago in fear. Retired U. S. Navy Seal turn Detective, Misty Kilgore and his partner Charley Pettigrew are...

In the late 1970s, a couple once involved in the radical group the Weather Underground pulled off a daring armored car heist in upstate New York. During the robbery, two guards and a local policeman were killed. The couple escaped with millions and vanished...

Detective John Davenport, renowned for his eccentric style and unorthodox approach, is urgently called to the heart of the English monarchy to solve a murder case. With the help of his impeccable and pragmatic assistant, Turner, Davenport finds himself immersed in a web of...

A mysterious advert in a newspaper promising to restore hope to the hopeless brings together four strangers. None realising they will end up investigating a twisted and troubling crime that threatens their very futures. Mitch, a former Crime Scene Investigator, Olivia, a brilliant PhD...

Orlando Pearson takes up his pen once more to give us six more accounts of how Sherlock Holmes altered the course of history.- Alma takes Holmes and Watson to Vienna where they meet a famous musician and his famous wife;- The Tsar, the Pince-Nez,...

This wide-ranging collection of stories takes Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson from their cozy rooms in London, to exploring England's bucolic Lake District, to clambering up an extinct volcano in Scotland. There is murder on the Thames, a spectacularly unpleasant Lord finds himself on...

Mystery in History A naive teenager. A sister with secrets. A corrupt patrician. Argolicus unravels the threads. When Argolicus leaves Rome to retire to his estate in southern Italy, his powerful friend Boethius asks a small favor, deliver a book to a young man...

"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" (1890) is a short story by the American writer and Civil War veteran Ambrose Bierce. Regarded as "one of the most famous and frequently anthologized stories in American literature". The narrative concerns the final thoughts of a Southern...

Detective Joe Burgess Races Against Time in Those Who Choose Evil, a Joe Burgess Murder Mystery Thriller from Kate Flora-Portland, Maine-Detective Joe Burgess ends many nights with a quiet ritual-a visit to the park where the ocean breeze blends with memories of past cases....

In this brilliant follow up to The Twelve Days of Murder, a group of Christmas shoppers discover the doors have been locked and that they've been trapped by someone who knows their darkest secrets. It's Christmas Eve at the Emporium, a bespoke gift shop...

Lyn McConchie transports us to Victorian London, where Sherlock Holmes and John Watson must solve two cases involving Poisonous People. Maid and occasional cook Mary Fellowes has been accused of attempting to poison her employers and the evidence against her is damning-or is it?...

Guernsey police detectives Ed Moretti and Liz Falla are called in to investigate the shooting death of arms dealer Bernard Masterson on the Just Desserts, his luxury yacht. With the knowledge that there's nowhere to hide in a world as small as his island,...

When Inspector Pinkey investigates the murder of Sir Daniel Denton in his country home, he's confronted with three prime suspects: the man's widow, his brother, and a recently-fired servant. But everywhere the policeman looks, he finds conflicting evidence--and the individuals involved all hate each...

Jen thought she had left the worst behind-years of quiet misery followed by a fragile sense of safety. As she tries to rebuild her life and hold on to hope, a shocking death miles away sets off a chain of events no one could...

Step back in time to the 1930s with Brian Flynn's classic cozy mystery, "The Billiard Room Mystery." Set against the backdrop of an English country house, this detective fiction explores the intricacies of social life and customs in early 20th century England. Flynn expertly...

For years drug baron Ralph Ember has run his crooked enterprises peacefully enough alongside those of his rival, Mansel Shale. Their empires have been tolerated by Assistant Chief Constable Desmond Iles as a way of keeping violence off the streets. But are things changing?...

In this official edition featuring exclusive content from the Queen of Mystery, the holidays are anything but merry when a family reunion is marred by murder--and the brilliant Belgian investigator is quickly on the case."Poirot has solved some puzzling mysteries in his time but...

When there's no one to hear you scream...After a summer spent off the grid in the Colorado Rockies, Detective Jack Martin returns to Telluride and finds the sheriff looking for him. Local school boys have found a body in an abandoned mine with a...

A historic castle in the Tuscan countryside, picturesque vineyards, lines of cypress trees, and an eccentric Englishman falling from the belltower.Italy, 1929. No sooner have master sleuth Lord Edgington and his grandson-apprentice begun their grand tour of Europe than a wealthy landowner turns up...

Home sweet home, or so ex-con Casey Cavendish thinks. After years of family turmoil, violence and romantic betrayals, she finds a safe place all her own in an antique railroad station in a leafy Boston suburb. Her new job maintaining the mansion and party...

The Spence Women is the contemporary story of three women - Pearl, Audrey, and Maegan Spence.Pearl at 82 is the matriarch who holds the family together. Before the story begins, she has migrated with her husband from Ozark country to a small desert town...

Blood is thicker than water... and runs just as freely...When the body of a man is discovered face down one morning in the swimming pool of his upmarket family home, the team wonder if it is the result of a tragic accident or serious...

"The Great Taboo" by Grant Allen, a quintessential Victorian mystery novel, critiques colonialism through intricate British fiction. Allen masterfully employs social satire to unravel the layers of cultural taboo surrounding indigenous culture. Set against the backdrop of colonial society, the narrative embarks on an...

A nice little country murder. When Ronald Craig succumbed after a short illness it came as a surprise, but when a specialist called down to consult declares the death as due to chronic arsenic poisoning it proves even more of a puzzle. There are...

When Hollywood star Dorothy Dacres plummets six floors from her hotel terrace on the night of her greatest triumph, it initially looks like a tragic accident. But her death is so very convenient to her many enemies that press-man Freddy Pilkington-Soames, who was there...

A French philanderer gets his comeuppance in Edinburgh, but which, if any, of his spurned lovers sealed his fate?A college lecturer is killed and dumped in the Union Canal.When DI Jack Knox investigates his past, he discovers a long list of old flames. Quite...

This wide-ranging collection of stories takes Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson from their cozy rooms in London, to exploring England's bucolic Lake District, to clambering up an extinct volcano in Scotland. There is murder on the Thames, a spectacularly unpleasant Lord finds himself on...

Dr. John H. Watson could not anticipate that a favour for the noted American mystery writer and forensic dentist, Rodrigues Ottolengui, would result in the discovery of a heinous murder. But that is what happens when in helping the American, Watson finds himself at...

The mind-bending sequel to the Times Thriller of the Year bestseller, This is the Night They Come for You. 'The world's greatest storyteller' Guardian'Our finest practitioner of the double-cross plotting' Mick Herron'Splendidly serpentine and immaculately plotted, this is British thriller writing at its very...

Six months after the events in Death in the Ozarks, Sally Witherspoon is trying to put that terrible time behind her. She books a river cruise down the Mississippi to get away and relax. Unfortunately, relaxation is not to be, as she's called on...

Death stalks a production of Amadeus in this second outing for Inspector Barnaby and Midsomer Murders. Too many notes, Mr. Mozart! Actors do love their dramas, and the members of the Causton Amateur Dramatic Society are no exception. Passionate love scenes, fits of ego,...

The carefully dissected body of a middle aged Bayfield logger is found in a local meat locker. For Sheriff Lewis Radisson and his Ojibwe friend, Sam Grant, the easy thing is to believe it's the work of a notorious serial killer. Or is it...

THE MAN WHO WAS TWISTED BUT HIP: It is 1897 and France is torn apart by The Dreyfus Affair. Westminster needs help from Sherlock Holmes to make sure that the evil tide of anti-Semitism that has engulfed France will not spread.A young officer in...

Introducing: The Penny Detective John Tallon Jones As private detectives go, Morris Shannon is not up there with the likes of Poirot or Sherlock Holmes. He is considering giving up detecting and buying a high-class fish and chip van business when Karl Ashford walks...

The quaint, cozy village of Saxon Wall is hiding a dark, sinister reality. When fiction author Hannibal Jones retires to Saxon Wall in hopes of reinvigorating his writing career, he instead finds himself in the midst of an increasingly puzzling and dangerous situation. Eccentric...

Could there be a Jack-the-Ripper copycat in the sleepy village of Brentford? Two women have been found brutally murdered, each under the light of a full moon. When a third mutilated body is identified, brothers Simon and Keith Innes discover that their brother Jack...

Travel to the Scotland Highlands with this classic Hamish Macbeth cozy mystery from the author of the Agatha Raisin series. Death of a Liar: A Hamish Macbeth Mystery Sergeant Hamish Macbeth is alarmed to receive a report from a woman in the small village...

Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library...

Author: Rick CarlileISBN-10: 1949117391ISBN-13: 9781949117394Publisher: Carlile MediaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/12/2025Pages: 166Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.88lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.35d

Author: Faith MartinISBN-10: 1805731130ISBN-13: 9781805731139Publisher: Joffe Books LtdLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/06/2025Pages: 230Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.51lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.52d

Author: Gavin CollinsonISBN-10: 1629554472ISBN-13: 9781629554471Publisher: Sterling and StoneLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/20/2025Pages: 410Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.89lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.84d

"I'll slit his throat - without the slightest compunction or hesitation."Martin Scudamore was in the cinema when he overheard this threat, as part of a conversation about four rings, and what would happen if "Mr Lovelace" got in their way. Determined to do the...

"I never knew, till then, the possibilities inherent in spaghetti when controlled by an ingenious spirit." Anthony BathursttWith austerity holding the country in a vice-like grip, chemist Donald Finney is happy with any offer of work. Even though the proposal from the mysterious Mr...

"Double, double toil and trouble. Fire burn and cauldron bubble."Macbeth, William ShakespeareSir Hugo Blanchflower's died peacefully in his bed in his castle in Quinster, but his last words to his wife filled her with terror. The next nine years, however, passed without incident until...

"Good things of the day begin to droop and drowse, while night's black agents to their preys do rouse"Macbeth, William ShakespeareBarbara Marsden cut a memorable figure in her bright yellow dress at the New Year Social and Dance in Wavering, but nobody saw what...

'Tis all a chequerboard of nights and days, where Destiny with men for pieces plays; Hither and thither moves, and mates, and slays, and one by one back in the closet lays.Omar KhayyamAnthony Bathurst was enjoying a quiet lunch when he is approached for...

Norman Schatell was the leading Sherlock Holmes artist of the 1970s. 'The Lighter Side of Sherlock Holmes' is a collection of over 300 humorous cartoons and illustrations based on the characters that appear in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's' famous stories. Many of the cartoons...

Author: John CreaseyISBN-10: 1504098668ISBN-13: 9781504098663Publisher: Open Road Media Mystery & ThriLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/03/2025Pages: 234Format: PaperbackSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 1.00d

Author: John CreaseyISBN-10: 150409865XISBN-13: 9781504098656Publisher: Open Road Media Mystery & ThriLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/03/2025Pages: 204Format: PaperbackSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 1.00d