Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

London, 1889. In a city still reeling from the depredations of Jack the Ripper another killer arises. Stalking the West End and Marylebone and striking at a seemingly unconnected group of victims, the murderer leaves fear and confusion in his wake. Mr. Sherlock Holmes,...

Sherlock Holmes, the world's 'only unofficial consulting detective', was first introduced to readers in A Study in Scarlet published by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887. It was with the publication of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, however, that the master sleuth grew tremendously...

The seemingly never-ending Cabinda War (1975--) has left multitudes dead in its wake and thousands of children homeless and orphaned. Jackaleena N'denga, a young Angolan girl, has become the sole survivor of one specifically brutal village massacre carried out by a band of guerrilla...

Bar None, set in the heart of New York City, is an edge-of-your-seat mystery that features Jude Dillane, owner of The Corner Lounge on 10th Street and Avenue B. When Jude finds her friend and landlord Thomas "Sully" Sullivan's work pal, Ed Molina, dead...

A brutal murder pits an innocent man against a killer in a manipulative game of cat and mouse that ends in a shocking twist.Freedom tastes sweet to Chase Evans, especially after serving a five-year jail sentence for a crime he didn't commit. Aided by...

A series of murders that mimic a popular video game pits an ambitious journalist against a devious killer in this gripping mystery that will keep you on the edge of your seat. When budding journalist Laura Rockford stumbles across a bizarre murder scene in...

Police officer, estranged from his own family, finds his destiny and himself with the help of his friends.Ligea McCracken Adsit was born during a war, a blackout and a snow storm into a Scottish family from Oban, Argyll Scotland. She has a Scottish title...

May 1926Violet and Jack have gone to the country with their friends. They've decided to dive into the joys of a country life for the summer. Swimming and fishing with a large dose of napping. While they're enjoying the spring, Vi gets pulled into...

Detective Chief Inspector Wilfred Dover is the most idle and avaricious hero in all of crime fiction. Why should he even be bothered to solve the case?This time, Scotland Yard sends Detective Chief Inspector Dover and his woeful assistant MacGregor off on the Stately...

Detective Chief Inspector Wilfred Dover is the most idle and avaricious hero in all of crime fiction. Why should he even be bothered to solve the case?Sully Martin had probably been a picturesque English village before the earthquake nearly destroyed it. And construction tycoon...

From a secluded boarding school in Central Pennsylvania, where the action begins, to the Southern Utah Wilderness where it concludes, Rare as Earth is as entertaining as it is educational. Jake Goddard and Susan Brand take us on another thrill ride involving arson, assault,...

2020 Reprint of the 1890 Edition. The Sign of Four is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle would eventually write four novels and 56 short stories featuring the fictional detective. The story is set in 1888. The...

Doctor Watson always speculated about Sherlock Holmes's early life and, in particular, the significance of his experiments at St Bart's Hospital.Here for the first time all is revealed by Ian Charnock as he introduces the reader to a young Sherlock Holmes trying to make...

Holmes and Watson travel to Paris to investigate the assassination of the French president.Disguising themselves as two Frenchmen, the duo journey overseas to the crime scene where they encounter a bizarre group of detectives and investigators.With their help, Holmes and Watson identify the culprits...

Author Val Andrews had two major passions: Sherlock Holmes and the circus, and here he combines both in one of his finest ever Sherlock Holmes pastiches.'"Lord George Sanger. I believe?"Our caller answered Holmes in a voice that was gruff and far from aristocratic, yet...

How do you save the ties that bind your family together? In Fran Stewart's most emotionally charged novel so far, small-town librarian Biscuit McKee confronts Glaze, her bipolar sister on the verge of deep depression.How do you reach the deep resources needed to contend...

Agatha Christie, one of the most well-known English authors of the 20th century, strikes again with her classic crime novel, The Murder on the Links. Featuring the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and his companion Captain Hastings, The Murder on the Links takes place in...

The House that Jack Built: Arriving in the peaceful vacation retreat of Witch Harbor, Maine, for their honeymoon, Timothy Fowler and bride get their first glimpse at what the locals called the House that Jack Built, "looming huge and dark and lonely on the...

A dark and riveting race against the clock, Prime Suspect is an unforgettable introduction to this bestselling series from Edgar Award-winning and internationally bestselling author Lynda La Plante.The moment Jane Tennison takes over Scotland Yard's investigation into the death of sex worker Della Mornay,...

Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory-let the theory go.Emily Inglethorp, the elderly and wealthy owner of Styles Court, an Essex country manor, has been poisoned. Among the residents and guests staying at Styles are Alfred Inglethorp,...

A young inventor--the man whose name appears in the title of Dr. Watson's narrative, "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans"--lies dead on the floor of an old house, two bullet holes in his back. To solve the gruesome murder, Sherlock Holmes enlists the aid...

Vincent is an amnesiac as well as a believer in miracles - especially the miracle of figuring out his own past. A birthday note from his father is his only memento from long ago. He also possesses the gift of hearing what others do...

Alexander Strange lives and works aboard a fishing trawler in Naples, Florida writing about news of the weird. His laid-back lifestyle is disrupted when a feisty author of conspiracy books insists he investigate the death of her brother in Key West. Her name is...

I never did like missing people. Far too often we've found them dead.When that cheerful soul, Doris Bosford, asked Ludovic Travers of the Broad Street Detective Agency to trace her missing husband the case soon involved matters less innocent than a mere disappearance. Andrew...

There was no mess: just a dark stain one could see on the waistcoat. What was horrible was the contortion of the face and the tortured eyes. But even then I thought I knew him.There can be few people who would wish to go...

We've got to have a body.That's what what detective Ludovic Travers says, after being contacted by one Lord Tynworth. Tynworth's wife has vanished and his lordship wants her found - yet strangely doesn't seem especially keen on getting her back. When Travers walks into...

Between the acting of a dreadful thing, and the first motion...Ludovic Travers sees it happen. He sees a strange young woman assault Clement Foorde, and all because he had expressed his dislike for a certain best-selling novel. Is it a publicity stunt? The matter...

DCI John Meredith has two horrific murders to solve, both committed several years ago, and believed to be connected to a Russian drugs ring watched closely by the Secret Intelligence Service. This concerns Meredith, but keen to take on the challenge, he throws himself...

That happened to be the last that either of us actually saw of Alysia Rimmell--alive.Ludovic Travers, associate of Scotland Yard, and the director of his own detective agency, is brought into a new case, and finds something very much wrong with an attempt at...

Whoever was driving that car was either drunk or mad.The Case of the Flowery Corpse takes Ludovic Travers to the English rural idyll of Marstead in Suffolk, visiting his old friend Henry Morle. The quiet village seems hardly the place for mystery. Yet, following...

Providence, they say, is good to drunkards and children. Maybe there's a third category--the unorthodox detective.A new case finds Ludovic Travers travelling to the respectable English Midlands town of Mainford. He is commissioned to investigate the death, under compromising circumstances, of Harry Landlace--a man...

Isn't it a tremendous coincidence that his murderer should also have had large front teeth?Ludovic Travers has received a good many queer requests and enquiries at the Broad Street Detective Agency, but a psychiatrist in fear of his life and in search of a...

His head went sideways, like a hopping sparrow's on a lawn.The man who saves Henry Clandon's life during the campaign in Sicily visits him once in hospital, gives his name as David Seeway, makes vague and apparently pointless reference to somebody else called Archie...

Orlando Pearson presents five more scandalously entertaining stories in his well-known Redacted Sherlock Holmes series;- A Perilous Engagement: Mycroft Holmes and a Whitehall whitewash;- Death at Tennis: The hunt for the lady who fled the ball;- An Encirclement Thwarted: Espionage work at the outbreak...

Do you love Cornwall, with its cliffs and breakers, sleepy fishing harbours and villages? Would you like to meet a real English Lord? And do you enjoy an authentic, well researched historical crime story? With the author you will accompany the renowned Baker Street...

Ray Gilbert isn't someone you would call a "nice guy," but he is a hard-working cardiologist who gives a damn about his job. When Ray starts seeing patients who received medical devices they might not need, he tries to figure out why. Spurned by...

In this fourth crime thriller of the Ellie Foreman series, the Chicago documentary filmmaker finds herself in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Returning from a video shoot at the Lodge, a newly renovated, upscale resort, Ellie befriends a woman who claims her ride abandoned her at...

"A lot of quiet people are sitting about talking, and one of them suddenly feels there will be murder done. And it was "The narrator of This Delicate Murder is Penny Mercer, murder-mystery author. She and novelist-husband Vincent are invited by Lionel Fonders to...

"There are serpents even in this Eden," she chuckled, with a wave of her thin, much-beringed hand at something in the grass. "But now that we have a French cook, we shall be spared any dangerous mistakes."The woman was actually pointing at a group...

This volume of 3 Detectives has a railway theme, with mystery short stories from the early 1900s and a newspaper serial novel from the 1930s.'The Investigations of Godfrey Page, Railwayac' (Victor L. Whitechurch, 1903-1904): Godfrey Page is a 'railway maniac, ' or railwayac, whose...

Sparkling descriptions of life in 1920s Cork and fascinating historical details combine to ably support a clever plot and an intriguing cast Booklist A rare shopping trip for the Reverend Mother ends in brutal murder in this absorbing historical mystery. Despite its regal name,...

When Casey Cassidy, the hard-drinking manager of the Tampa Smokers baseball team goes missing days before the final game of the championship series with the Havana Cubans, his girlfriend, Veronica Baird, is frantic. The black sheep beauty of her blueblood family, she is certain...

Two sisters, one messy court case, and two handsome sidekicks add up to one helluva ride A high-speed pursuit was the last thing Anna expected when she set out on a road trip to the spa with her sister. But, when you learn your...

Do you want to read The Murder on the Links? If so then keep reading... Experienced Belgian detective, Hercules Poirot is called in to a client but when he arrives is given notice of the man's death earlier that day. The victim lay face...

Alexis Mortensen rose from his chair in the first-class Pullman and walked into the corridor.None of the remaining occupants noticed that he had left them until after Death, travelling at 60 miles an hour, had reached out for him . . .Seven men and...

It was at that moment that Jack knew he had to kill.The trouble began during a holiday in Paignton. When Jack met Mary, his future wife, he also met James Sprogson, a charming villain bent on destroying the couple's happiness. Mary distrusted Sprogson but...

CLUED to DEATH, Olivia Reynolds, owner and operator of the White House Dollhouse Store in Minneapolis, attends a National Park expo at the Xcel Energy Center as a vendor and as a fan. Liv leaves her employee, Gina, at the First Lady Dollhouse booth...

Ralph Delchard and Gervase Bret arrive in Archenfield for what should be a straightforward assignment. But they are shocked to discover that a principal witness has been murdered, burned alive in his own home. With an enigmatic symbol the only clue to the killer's...

September, 1901. Fresh from a run of more than 260 performances in New York, the play, Sherlock Holmes, opens at London's Lyceum Theatre. In attendance are Mrs. Hudson, Dr. Watson and Holmes, the renowned detective attending in disguise, concerned that he is somewhat too...

In a gas-lit inn in the countryside a man lies dead. The police, of course, investigate - and so do Miles Bredon and his wife, in the interests of the Indescribable Insurance Company, with which the deceased man, Mr Mottram, had been heavily insured....