Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

A recent murder is ancient history in a breathtaking novel about a sacred lost treasure and poisonous retribution by the Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of At First Light.What an exotic way to die in Chicago.When esteemed historian Elizabeth Lawrence is...

It was not at all a suitable house for a murder.Helen Bailey is the live-in housekeeper to the wealthy Murray family. Tall, dark-haired and beautiful, the enigmatic Helen has long ensured that life at 'The Towers' ran smoothly for autocratic patriarch James Murray, his...

Sometimes the deadliest storms have nothing to do with the weather.Fearing for her life, celebrity author Alice Fremont asks detective Jack Martin for protection. But during the deadliest storm of the winter season, Alice goes missing from her historic estate in the Colorado Rockies.Now...

Gary Lovisi presents a new Sherlock Holmes adventure set in the magical land of Oz, as Holmes and Watson take on their most fantastic case-the Red Poppy Menace! Sure to delight all fans of both Sherlock Holmes and Oz, this edition is profusely illustrated...

SHERLOCK HOLMES & THE ADVENTURE OF THE IRON CROWN One of the most cherished religious artifacts in history is the Iron Crown of Constantinople, supposedly containing the nails that were used to crucify Jesus Christ by the Romans. A fire at a London Mason...

Hercule Poirot retires to a village near the home of a friend, Roger Ackroyd, to pursue a project to perfect vegetable marrows. Soon after, Ackroyd is murdered and Poirot must come out of retirement to solve the case. Includes a new introduction by Karl...

Cannibalism or Murder?A Rock and Roll Supergroup on their way to a gig in Boston.A wicked Nor'Easter snowstorm rolls into New England.The band's charter plane crashes into the side of a mountain miles from nowhere.Two band members, thrown from the wreckage in the bitter...

October 1940. The Blitz bombing raids continue mercilessly, but when the body of a kitchen porter from Claridge's hotel is found, it is clear that he has not been the victim of a blast: he was strangled. Detective Chief Inspector Coburg has to find...

A thrilling chase as Sherlock Holmes is set a fiendish puzzle by Irene Adler over a snowy London Christmas, in this stunningly packaged mystery. Sherlock Holmes's discovery of a mysterious musical score initiates a devious Christmas challenge set by Irene Adler, with clues that...

OUR CRIME BUFFS ARE BACK! This time they're hunting for a missing woman-and have just 3 DAYS to do it.THE IMPOSSIBLE MYSTERY: Young Chanel has vanished on her daily walk. Her mother's in a flap and the police are dragging their feet. So the...

From the acclaimed author of Sherlock Holmes & The Christmas Demon comes another beautifully presented seasonal mystery.1889. The First Terror.At a boys' prep school in the Kent marshes, a pupil is found drowned in a pond. Could this be the fulfilment of a witch's...

On a French golf course, a millionaire is found dead on the grounds stabbed in the back. A telegram brings Poirot to France. However he arrives far too late to even meet his client, whose brutally stabbed body now lay face down on a...

Sergeant Hamish Macbeth--Scotland's most quick-witted but unambitious policeman--returns in M. C. Beaton's thirty-third novel in her bestselling mystery series.Nobody loves an honest man, or that was what police sergeant Hamish Macbeth tried to tell newcomer Paul English. Paul had moved to a house in...

Poirot retires to a village near the home of a friend he met in London, Roger Ackroyd, who agrees to keep him anonymous, as he pursues his retirement project of perfecting vegetable marrows. He is not long at this pursuit when his friend is...

Calamity befalls the little Vendome Theater in the tenth installment of the sun- and wine-soaked Proven軋l Mystery Series.Proven軋l Mystery Series #10Watch the series! Murder in Provence is now on Britbox. When Jean-Marc Sauvet, successful lawyer and the best friend of Aix-en-Provence's examining magistrate Antoine...

Rose Blair returns for another murder mystery!An early morning game of croquet turns deadly when Rose discovers the body of her friend slumped over a gravestone. The search for the elusive killer sparks a massive manhunt, leading Rose and Tom on another chilling adventure.Will...

The Baker Street Classics Sherlock Holmes collection is a retro-inspired full set of Conan Doyle's wonderful tales of the inimitable "consulting detective" at work. Featuring original illustrations from editions of the 1920s, this collection will adorn any booklover's shelf and transport the reader back...

"What I read in your hand is tragedy-a horrible tragedy that doesn't come to one in a million people." Bookseller Theodore Terhune buys the substantial library of the recently deceased James Strudgewick, a wealthy Yorkshireman who fell and drowned at a local beauty spot....

"Frank Hugh Smallwood was first murdered on the 15th of April, 1927" Bookseller Theodore Terhune investigates an old homicide case after he stumbles on the freshly murdered corpse of seaman Frank Smallwood, a man thought to have been murdered nearly twenty years previously during...

Terror grips the city.In a series of brutal murders, three young women have been killed on or around the subway, and panic spreads through the transit system.To make matters worse, one of the investigating detectives is a suspect.Detective Inspector Ian McBriar and his team...

TOO MANY SECRETSTwenty-three-year-old Marin is trying to move on. It's been three years since the tragic car crash that left her and Tyler in comas. Now having started a new life in Tucson, she is trying hard to leave the past behind. But Tyler...

The Complete Sherlock Holmes - Illustrated. This edition brings together the four Sherlock Holmes Novels: A Study In Scarlet, The Sign Of The Four, The Hound Of The Baskervilles and The Valley Of Fear. In addition, it includes the five Sherlock Holmes Collections, bringing...

A notorious convict is freed. The public wants him dead.Everyone in Fiji hates Dev Reddy, in prison for the horrific abuse of his own son. When he is released after serving half his term, the Fiji media whip up a public outcry in Suva....

There's no question that The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is one of the most influential texts of all time. The now-iconic tale, which has confounded and thrilled readers for more than a century, was described by one scholar as the...

A THRILLING BRITISH MYSTERY FROM JACK BENTON FEATURING PRIVATE DETECTIVE JOHN "SLIM" HARDY Attempting to forget his problems with the bottle, former soldier turned private detective John "Slim" Hardy joins what ought to be a peaceful fishing package holiday in Dartmouth, South Devon. But...

A buried clock holds the key to a decades-old mystery. On holiday to escape the nightmares of his last case, disgraced soldier turned private detective John "Slim" Hardy comes upon something buried in the peat on Bodmin Moor. Unfinished and water-damaged but still ticking,...

An art hoarder's suspicious death paints a nasty picture for Nero Wolfe.No matter how fabulously he's being courted, infamously dour art hog Arthur Wordell isn't keen on favoring the new Guggenheim Museum with his extensive collection. Even at the urging of his beloved daughter,...

Alex Cole was the King of Hollywood. He had it all. Good looks, fame, fortune and the power that comes with being one of the most famous actors in the world. Alex was adored by audiences worldwide, and despite losing his parents in a...

Harry Devlin is in trouble. The wife of his best client, Jack Stirrup, has vanished and the police suspect foul play. Stirrup claims she's still alive, but Harry wonders if he has something to hide. When Stirrup's daughter and her boyfriend go missing, Harry...

Lucie Montgomery's discovery of her grandfather's Parisian romance unlocks a series of shocking secrets in the gripping new Wine Country mystery.In 1949, during her junior year abroad in Paris, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis bought several inexpensive paintings of Marie-Antoinette by a little-known 18th century female...

Donald Langham and Maria Dupré must navigate a rocky road to find a killer when a body is found next to a standing stone. Newlyweds Donald Langham and Maria Dupré have moved to the country. They're excited about starting a new life in the...

Money is the root of all evil, according to the Reverend Mother - but is it the motive for her cousin's murder? Wealthy widow Charlotte Hendrick had always promised that her riches would be divided equally between her seven closest relatives when she died....

It's 1665 and the Black Death has London in its hideous grip. Bad news for everyone...almost. Where better, after all, to hide a dead body than among a whole city full of dead bodies? And who gets the delightful task of pawing through the...

** PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED AS Evil Under the Stars: The Agatha Christie Book Club 3 **After enjoying a moonlit movie at an outdoor cinema, the MURDER MYSTERY BOOK CLUB discovers a woman has been murdered on a blanket nearby, with hundreds of witnesses and not...

** PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED AS Murder on the Orient (SS): The Agatha Christie Book Club 2**When the MURDER MYSTERY BOOK CLUB sign up for a luxury cruise on replica steamship the SS Orient they expect little more than a nostalgic journey back in time. What...

**PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED AS And Then There Were 9: The Agatha Christie Book Club 4**At a remote mountain lodge, deep in isolated rainforest, the MURDER MYSTERY BOOK CLUB gathers to meet four new members, each one hiding a secret of their own...One is an imposter....

Hercule Poirot rushes to France in response to an urgent and cryptic plea from a client, but the Belgian detective arrives just too late. He had been stabbed multiple times with a letter opener and left in a freshly dug grave. The victim lay...

Published in 1920, this was the first book in a fantastic literary career for Agatha Christie. She went on to become the top-selling fiction author of all time with sales reaching an incredible one billion in English and another billion in a multitude of...

John "Slim" Hardy, heavy drinker and disgraced soldier turned bumbling private detective, is hired to investigate Ted Douglas, an investment banker who slips out of work every Friday to visit a desolate cove on the Lancashire coast. There, he walks to the shore, opens...

J.R. Rain, #1 bestselling author of the Samantha Moon vampire mystery series, again teams up with Chanel Smith for the third mystery in The Watson Files, a continuing Sherlock Holmes series There's something stalking the streets of London's West End. People are dying, and...

Comprised of six short works of fiction, The Dorrington Deed-Box follows a London-based private detective named Horace Dorrington. Motivated by profit, Dorrington will do whatever it takes to catch criminals--even if that means killing them. This immoral and dishonest behavior extends to his clients...

THREE MISSING CHILDREN. Over the past three years, the quiet Yorkshire village of Stormer Hill has lost three of its children. No bodies were ever discovered. No evidence found. No witnesses.THE WRITER. Struggling to find inspiration for his new novel, celebrated crime author, and...

Following the success of the earlier volume, The Baker Street Case-Files, we have another collection of previously unknown Holmes and Watson tales that will excite the interests of readers across the globe - The Baker Street Legacy.A decade before his death, Dr Watson let...

Following the success of the earlier volume, A Farewell to Baker Street, we have another collection of previously unknown Holmes and Watson tales that will excite the interests of readers across the globe - The Baker Street Case-Files. A decade before his death, Dr...

Reviewers said: "Five stars! Delightfully entertaining, rich characters, suspenseful, charming all in one; anxiously awaiting the next one!" "a fascinating tale set in England in the 1930s. This 'cosy crime' novel, with its measure of burgeoning romance, is a good read; something to entertain...

All the Reverend Francis Oughterard had ever wanted was some peace and quiet, instead he becomes entangled in a nightmare world of accidental murder, predatory female parishioners, officious policemen and a drunken bishop. As the vicar's life spirals out of control it is his...

My accidents can't be accidental. Very well, there's only one thing they can be-and that's attempted murder."Archy Mitfold had always loved a mystery, but he never expected to take the lead role in a thriller. Yet there was no doubt in his mind that...

"You can't expect a murderer to be able to have everything his own way."An expert on twins, James Hardwicke is invited to progressive co-educational Scrope House School to investigate a case of apparent pyromania among the student body. Although inclined to ignore this odd...

It was not until the fifth death in Long Greeting that Miss Tidy made up her mind to go to the police.It was not a sense of civic duty that compelled her, but the arrival of two letters that made it clear her life...

Some secrets refuse to stay buried...When Scott Drayco's ex-girlfriend begs him to prove her rich fiancé, Harry Dickerman, is innocent of murder, Drayco's torn; he's suspicious of Harry's motives for wanting to marry a much younger woman, but on the other hand, the man...