Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

Written in 1913, The Lodger was the basis for Alfred Hitchcock's first thriller, and a remarkable film it is. But the story Hitchcock tells -- of young love and mistaken identity (and is that a mistake, or malicious accusation by a rival. . ....

Dashing detective Lord Peter Wimsey is caught up in the murder trial of mystery writer Harriet Vane. Her fiance has died of poisoning exactly as described in one of Harriet's novels--so naturally she is the prime suspect. As Peter looks on, he not only...

This new edition focuses on the novel's treatment of criminology, race, and imperialism. Author: Arthur Conan DoyleISBN-10: 1551118378ISBN-13: 9781551118376Publisher: Broadview Press IncLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/08/2010Pages: 224Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.30d

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901-02) is Arthur Conan Doyle's most celebrated Sherlock Holmes adventure. At the end of the yew tree path of his ancestral home, Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead. Close by are the footprints of a gigantic hound. Called to...

From the bestselling author of Murder at Rutherford Hall, The Riverton Case and The Marbury Murders, comes the 7th book in the Rachel Markham Mystery Series. The Oracle of Death Book Seven - In the Rachel Markham Mystery Series A private island in Greece,...

Meet the Penningtons: Lyssa, Ph.D. Economics, and her husband "the handsome Brit" Kyle, Ph.D. Computer Science. When their clever minds ask questions, clever killers can't hide.Murder never entered the picture until Fritz Van Derzee decided, at long last, to clear his name. Who stuck...

A woman's dangerous career comes to a chilling end in this spellbinding thriller by Viveca Sten, bestselling author of In the Heat of the Moment...The body of world-famous journalist Jeanette Thiels is discovered the day after Christmas, frozen in a snow-covered garden just steps...

Violet Sumner has a stalker. Between her largely dysfunctional family of two and the friends she does not feel particularly close to, Violet thinks he is the least of her problems. What she fails to understand is that the guy is no prankster and...

A new recording of the most widely read mystery of all time, performed by Kenneth Branagh.Now a major motion picture from Twentieth Century Fox, releasing November 10, 2017 and directed by Kenneth Branagh."The murderer is with us - on the train now..."Just after midnight,...

In his specially written introduction, crime novelist Martin Edwards, President of the DetectionClub and author of the multi-award winning 'The Golden Age of Murder' writes "The reappearance of 'Death in the Dark, ' truly a one-of-a-kind detective novel is long overdue and will be...

The second entry of the Bertie, Prince of Wales mystery series, featuring future King Edward VII, Albert Edward, as an amateur sleuth solving suspicious murders in Victorian England. Bertie, Prince of Wales, is delighted to be invited by Lady Amelia, a recently widowed young...

Mild-mannered, inoffensive architect Alfred Thipps finds himself in big trouble when, in preparing to take his morning bath, he finds the tub already occupied by a dead body, wearing nothing but a pair of gold pince-nez glasses. Stolid, unimaginative Police Inspector Sugg is convinced...

Millionaire Lord Charlton altered his will in favor of his nephew, Simon Warwick, who had been adopted by American parents when his own were killed in World War II. When Lord Charlton dies, two men claiming to be Simon Warwick turn up in London...

Denton, a celebrated American author, investigates the murder of a prostitute at the turn of 20th century in London.Author: Kenneth CameronISBN-10: 163194147XISBN-13: 9781631941474Publisher: Felony & MayhemLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/07/2018Pages: 312Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 7.80h x 5.30w x 0.60d

It's 1941 and San Francisco is pulsing with excitement. For Cameron Ferris, newly arrived from Tiny Town, Oregon, a seat on the sidelines is thrilling enough. But then her life takes a turn: There's a strange man living in her apartment, kidnappers hanging out...

World War II is raging, but in this dusty backwater of the Belgian Congo, the biggest problem is finding a cold beer. That's the case, at least, for Hooper Taliaferro, a U.S. government gofer sent to Africa on a vague errand related to the...

Third in the Todd & Georgine series by Lenore Glen Offord, originally published in 1949. Todd and Georgine McKinnon's pleasant domesticity is shattered by the sudden arrival of a distinctly nonconformist young man who tells a wild tale and dies a short time later....

At a prestigious school for diplomats, some lessons are learned the hard way.The body of beautiful young bad girl Melanie Forbes--who delighted in making others the butt of her cruel jokes--is found wrapped in an Oriental rug in an unused basement storeroom of Chicago's...

​Francine Mathews' no-nonsense Nantucket police detective, Merry Folger, is back on the case after nineteen years. ​Death on Nantucket, the fifth Merry Folger Mystery, is full of regional charm, a strong sense of local history, and foggy New England Island atmosphere. Spencer Murphy is...

Prizewinning Finnish author Karo H m l inen's English-language debut is a literary homage to Agatha Christie and a black comedy locked-room mystery about murder, mayhem, and morality in our cynical modern world. Three cell phones ring in an opulent London apartment. The calls...

"Another One Goes Tonight [is an] impeccably constructed mystery featuring the unpredictable but ever-entertaining Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond...there are plenty of red herrings to sniff out and misdirections to blindly follow. A classic whodunit." --The New York Times Book Review En route to investigate...

Scotland Yard Detective Joe Sandilands is caught off guard one night in 1933 by a phone call from a distressed boy named Jackie Drummond, who just might be the illegitimate son Joe never knew he had. Jackie is in trouble at his Sussex boarding...

Young Dr. Dunn is acting as locum for Dr. Wright, whose practice is on Guernsey, in the Channel Islands. Dr. Dunn finds much of interest in the mix of French and English influences on the island, but nothing unusual about his work, until a...

The Loot of Cities is made up of six adventures of a bored millionaire who plays the rogue, traveling Europe as he tweaks scoundrels, probes mysteries, and finds romance. Arnold Bennett was a popular English author, better known for his novels, but also a...

The arsenic in her sugar bowl was wealthy widow Eliza Fairbanks' first clue that somebody wanted her dead. The nightly plagues of bats, birds, and rats unleashed in her bedroom were the second indication, an obvious attempt to scare the life out of the...

The trial of Stephen Bellamy and Susan Ives, accused of murdering Bellamy's wife Madeleine, lasts eight days. That's eight days of witnesses (some reliable, some not), eight days of examination and cross-examination, and eight days of sensational courtroom theatrics lively enough to rouse the...

Legendary science fiction author Fowler Faulkes may be dead, but his creation, the iconic Dr. Derringer, lives on in popular culture. Or, at least, the character would live on if not for Faulkes's predatory and greedy heir Hilary, who, during his time as the...

Broadway producer Peter Duluth sought solace in a bottle after his wife's death; now, two years later and desperate to dry out, he enters a sanitarium, hoping to break his dependence on drink--but the institution doesn't quite offer the rest and relaxation he expected....

Now retired from the tour circuit on which he made his name, master magician The Great Merlini spends his days running a magic shop in New York's Times Square and his nights moonlighting as a consultant for the NYPD. The cops call him when...

Large print edition, with easy-to-read text, of Freeman's classic mystery novel.Author: R. Austin FreemanISBN-10: 1612428053ISBN-13: 9781612428055Publisher: Serenity Publishers, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/14/2012Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.99lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.67dLarge Print

Jack the Ripper is one of the most enduring archetypes in criminal fiction. This book presents, for the first time in English, two of the earliest pieces of Ripper fiction ever written in French: Gaston Marot & Louis P ricaud's stage play Jack the...

Attention, shoppers Today's special is murder The Minimum Wage Manhunter is back, bagging groceries and a killer. After solving a murder at his last low-paying job, 20-year-old Li Johnson thought he would never see a corpse again. Unemployed and flat broke, Li catches a...

"Have you ever seen a ghost, Mr. Holmes?" asks Victoria Temple, and Sherlock Holmes, at the height of his powers in 1898, must face a new challenge, one that plunges the great detective into the realm of the supernatural. Miss Temple has been found...

The Mysterious Affair at Styles was the author's first published detective novel. It is about a breathtaking action and investigation of the most complex mystery happened in Styles.Author: Agatha ChristieISBN-10: 1609422201ISBN-13: 9781609422202Publisher: Connecting to GodLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/13/2012Pages: 150Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.46lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x...

"An interesting, yet brief, message," Holmes mumbled, tapping the letter with the stem of his pipe. "We shall take the eight-seventeen out of Euston and head for the city of Carlisle, in the county of Cumberland, tomorrow." The daring theft of the Arroyo Drums...

The strangled body of teenager Diane Thorburn is found buried in the salt store in a Cheshire village. Chief Inspector Woodend is called to investigate and his enquiry turns up the death of another young girl a generation before. The two cases seem to...

The second volume of the complete adventures of Dr. Nikola Leonaur have brought the complete Dr.Nikola stories together in two complementing volumes available in soft cover and hard cover with dust jacket. The three books in this second volume are The Lust of Hate,...

Here are more of E. W. Hornung's famous stories of adventure and crime featuring the thrill seeking A. J. Raffles and his friend, accomplice and chronicler 'Bunny'. By turns urbane gentleman about town and accomplished cricketer, life is just too ordinary for Raffles and...

These are E. W. Hornung's famous stories of adventure and crime featuring the thrill seeking A. J. Raffles and his friend, accomplice and chronicler 'Bunny'. By turns urbane gentleman about town and accomplished cricketer, life is just too ordinary for Raffles and that sets...

The Art of Sherlock Holmes-USA Edition 1 is truly unique. While there have been literally hundreds of Holmes pastiches written (even a few of mine), before our first volume, The Art of Sherlock Homes-West Palm Beach, there had never been a volume where Holmes...

The eleven stories gathered together in these two volumes share their own common feature. All have connections to the world of belles lettres, the world of literature--some to celebrated authors in particular, others to themes or stories associated with specific writers . . ....

Part XV: Mark Mower, Thomas Fortenberry, Robert Perret, Tracy J. Revels, Robert Stapleton, Peter Coe Verbica, Maurice Barkley, Edward A. Enstrom, William Todd, Roger Riccard, Kelvin Jones, Arthur Hall, Jack Grochot, David Marcum, Dick Gillman, Will Murray, Tim Symonds, Mike Hogan, Leslie Charteris and...

Reluctantly, Sherlock Holmes agrees to assist Inspector Lestrade who is being hounded by an obnoxious nobleman whose jewel-encrusted dagger has gone missing. However, what Holmes initially believes to be a simple theft turns out instead to be his first encounter with a master criminal,...

Part XII: 1894-1902 features contributions from C.H. Dye, David Marcum, Thomas Fortenberry, Daniel D. Victor, Nik Morton, Craig Janacek, S. Subramanian, Jim French, Robert Stapleton, Nick Cardillo, Paul D. Gilbert, Mike Hogan, Derrick Belanger, John Linwood Grant, Mark Mower, Jane Rubino, and Arthur Hall,...

The Detective and The Woman Trilogy follows Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler to the shores of Florida, the Sussex Downs, and the streets of London, where they combine wits to solve crimes and save their friends. An association formed out of personal adversity, the...

Part X: 2018 Annual (1896-1916) features contributions by: Mike Hogan, Kelvin Jones, Jim French, Arthur Hall, Steve Ehrman, Greg Hatcher, Jayantika Ganguly, Paul Freeman, Dick Gillman, Maurice Barkley, Daniel D. Victor, Martin Rosenstock, Peter Coe Verbica, Hugh Ashton, Will Murray, Robert Perret, Thaddeus Tuffentsamer,...

Cornelius Armstrong is a Detective Inspector in Edwardian Carlisle. In the first of these two adventures, Armstrong investigates the brutal murder of a young Italian immigrant on the corner of West Walls and Dean Tait's Lane in November 1903. In doing so, Cornelius uncovers...

In this series of five short stories, Holmes and Watson continue their late investigations into dark crimes in 1920/30s London, joined by their excitable housekeeper at 221B Baker Street, the brilliant, buxom Miss Lily Hudson, and by Jasper Lestrade of Scotland Yard, the ambitious,...

It is the year 1888. A madman stalks the East End of London and only Sherlock Holmes and his trusted colleague and scribe Dr. John Watson stand between him and the women he preys upon. However, the World's first Consulting Detective is plunged into...

Graceland Cemetery is one of Chicago's most outstanding memorial grounds. It's like a little town with a private lake and mausoleums lining its streets. The funerary architecture is spectacular. Here lie Chicago's deceased: baseball players, boxers, ballerinas, fire victims, detectives, politicians, department store owners...