Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

The fact that Cosmo Costello, a well-known Central Florida mobster, is killed doesn't send seismic waves through the law enforcement community except when it is discovered that a rather significant amount of cocaine is missing. Full time automotive journalist and part time special deputy...

Volume V contains the seventh, eighth, and ninth full-length Thorndyke adventures, published in 1924, 1925, and 1926, respectively. With each subsequent narrative, Thorndyke's skills and abilities grown and amaze. The Mystery of Angelina Frood - In which a doctor, newly arrived in Rochester, falls...

Volume V contains the seventh, eighth, and ninth full-length Thorndyke adventures, published in 1924, 1925, and 1926, respectively. With each subsequent narrative, Thorndyke's skills and abilities grown and amaze. The Mystery of Angelina Frood - In which a doctor, newly arrived in Rochester, falls...

Volume IV contains the fourth, fifth, and sixth Thorndyke novels, published in 1914, 1922, and 1923, respectively. Covering different periods in the doctor's career, each of these shows Thorndyke's skills at their finest. A Silent Witness - When a young doctor finds a body...

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ DL (22 May 1859 - 7 July 1930) was a British writer, who created the character Sherlock Holmes. Originally a physician, in 1887 he published A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and more than fifty...

Dr. Thorndyke is one of the best creations of the Golden Age of British detective fiction. He is both medical doctor and barrister and the first great exponent of forensics in fiction, with an encyclopedic scientific knowledge. These five short stories were originally published...

Trent's Last Case is in fact the first novel in which the sleuth Philip Trent makes his first appearance. The novel breaks new ground in detective fiction history because it is the first novel of any substance that breaks all the rules of the...

Mary Roberts Rinehart (August 12, 1876 - September 22, 1958) was an American writer, often called the American Agatha Christie, although her first mystery novel was published 14 years before Christie's first novel in 1920.Rinehart is considered the source of the phrase "The butler...

A Poor Wise Man mixes romantic fiction with political analysis. This engrossing story begins, "The city turned its dreariest aspect toward the railway on blackened walls, irregular and ill-paved streets, gloomy warehouses, and over all a gray, smoke-laden atmosphere which gave it mystery and...

Mary Roberts Rinehart (August 12, 1876 - September 22, 1958) was an American writer, often called the American Agatha Christie, although her first mystery novel was published 14 years before Christie's first novel in 1920.Rinehart is considered the source of the phrase "The butler...

A tense psychological thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat! Perfect for fans of Shari Lapena, B A Paris and C.L. Taylor Will she ever see her daughter again? It's every parent's worst nightmare. Alex Granger only turned her back...

Its favourite afternoon pastime was murder, and its favourite evening occupation was the same, only a trifle more so.Anthony Bathurst reaches Swallowcliffe Hall, summoned by Constance Whittaker, to protect her husband, Major Whittaker, from an unnamed threat. Bathurst enlists his friend Peter Daventry, a...

New York Times-bestselling author This exciting new installment in the County Cork Mystery series has "plenty for cozy lovers to enjoy" and drips with the charm--and menace--of its atmospheric Irish setting (New York Journal of Books) Some secrets are too big to stay buried......

A forensic mystery full of small-town suspense "with a twist no one will expect"--for fans of Kathy Reichs and Jayne Ann Krentz (New York Journal of Books) Dr. Emily Hartford's cold case investigation points to viper's nest of lies and a shocking prime suspect:...

Superstition and murder haunt nineteenth-century Scotland in a twisting mystery by the prize-winning author of Edinburgh Twilight and Edinburgh Dusk.Spiritualism has captured the public's imagination. S ances are all the rage, and Detective Ian Hamilton's otherwise sensible aunt Lillian is not immune to their...

THE MEMOIRS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1894, by Arthur Conan Doyle. The twelve stories (eleven in American editions) of the Memoirs are: "Silver Blaze", "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box", "The Adventure of the Yellow...

THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES is a collection of twelve short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. It was first published on 14 October 1892, though the individual stories had been serialised in The Strand Magazine between June 1891...

Lawrence Blakely, an attorney-in-law carrying important papers, stumbles on a murder aboard a train. Meanwhile, his bag containing the valuable documents has been stolen, along with his clothes, and he's being accused of the killing when the train is wrecked. Blakely and a mysterious...

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Jane Smith, an impecunious and intrepid heroine, finds herself in the wrong place at the right time, swept into an adventure which will include imposture, peril, romance and... murder. The Astonishing Adventure of Jane Smith, the first of Patricia Wentworth's mystery novels, was originally...

Three adventurous teenagers, yearning for manhood.Two mysterious disappearances.One Mississippi farm at the center of it all.When he's not busy trying to win over the girl of his dreams, Case Reynolds fishes, camps, and races three-wheelers on a local farm with his best friends, the...

On a desolate road in the Oregon high desert, an apprentice mortician stumbles upon a horrific car crash--and into a vortex of treachery, long-buried secrets, and growing menace. Melisende Dulac is a fish out of water after relocating from the East Coast to a...

Julia Blake runs her own cleaning business. She also has the unfortunate knack of discovering bodies of people who have been murdered.In this story Julia visits one of her clients, a genealogist called Hugo Barnes. Hugo has uncovered a family secret during the course...

Agatha Christie's second novel, "The Secret Adversary", which was first published in 1922, introduces the world to the adventures of intrepid detectives Tommy and Tuppence, or as they are more formally known, Thomas Beresford and Prudence Cowley. The two young friends find themselves out...

LARGE PRINT EDITIONTop hats and tails. Mink and murder . . .November, 1923. An invitation to a house party at the estate of Parkview Hall is a welcome respite for Olive Belgrave, a newly minted working girl who's become the solver of high society's...

In this volume, Sherlock Holmes's most famous case, The Hound of the Baskervilles, is retold in just twenty-six words, wherein the first word begins with A, the last with Z, and the story proceeds as the alphabet progresses. The text is accompanied by amusing...

A desperate plea for assistance sends young Miss Dory Sparks scrambling to reach Wallisford Hall days before the coronation of King George VI, where her Aunt Gladys works as the cook. Domestic service had never been an intended career for Dory, but a plea...

Delve deeper into the world of Sherlock Holmes! This intriguing scrapbook contains the files on which Watson based his later, elaborate accounts of Holmes's investigations, and includes Watson's sketches of the paw prints near Sir Charles Baskerville's body, Holmes's drawings and notes of the...

The redoubtable Phryne Fisher is holidaying at Cave House, a Gothic mansion in the heart of Australia's Victorian mountain country. But the peaceful surroundings mask danger. Her host is receiving death threats, lethal traps are set without explanation, and the parlour maid is found...

Meet the indomitable lady detective Loveday Brooke: able to assume a multitude of disguises and possessed of analytical powers rivaling those of the great Sherlock Holmes, she masters every baffling situation and solves each perplexing crime in these seven atmospheric and entertaining Victorian mysteries....

When Professor Meg Adams's literature assignment results in the murder of her favorite student, Meg decides to help solve the mystery. Heather had been researching John Greenleaf Whittier, poet of a ballad about the historical figure, Barbara Fritchie. The poem honors Fritchie for shaming...

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ DL (22 May 1859 - 7 July 1930) was a British writer, who created the character Sherlock Holmes. Originally a physician, in 1887 he published A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and more than fifty...

When Kitty Featherstone-Quinn tired of writing "At Kitty's Advice to the Lovelorn" she took the money she had saved and bought a resort hotel in Gold Gulch, a "ghost" mining town. Her arrival in the Gulch precipitated an outlay of ghostly manifestations and bell...

Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary...

In 2015, The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories burst upon the scene, featuring adventures set within the correct time period, and written by many of today's leading Sherlockian authors from around the world. Those first three volumes were overwhelmingly received, and there...

In 2015, The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories burst upon the scene, featuring adventures set within the correct time period, and written by many of today's leading Sherlockian authors from around the world. Those first three volumes were overwhelmingly received, and there...

In 2015, The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories burst upon the scene, featuring adventures set within the correct time period, and written by many of today's leading Sherlockian authors from around the world. Those first three volumes were overwhelmingly received, and there...

For Rebecca Gibson, her journey to a work convention will be one she'll never forget. After driving around for four hours, Rebecca stops to ask for directions at an isolated house on the outskirts of Kirk Langley, Derbyshire. Her initial meeting with the house's...

Lured by an internet-based trap, a sixteen-year-old American au pair, Lizzie Frost, is snatched from the chilly Glasgow streets, making her the third girl to disappear in similar circumstances in as many months. Scottish Police Superintendent Terrence Reid's team is charged with finding the...

THE GAME IS AFOOT 30+ illustrations from the original editions. Giant format - 8.5" x 11" desktop size - biggest edition available ANYWHERE - looks amazing on your bookshelf & provides the ideal reading experience for this classic work. Huge 18pt text, beautiful professional...

THE GAME IS AFOOT 30+ illustrations from the original editions. Giant format - 8.5" x 11" desktop size - biggest edition available ANYWHERE - looks amazing on your bookshelf & provides the ideal reading experience for this classic work. Huge 18pt text, beautiful professional...

The Great Impersonation By E. Phillips OppenheimAuthor: E. Phillips OppenheimISBN-10: 198422140XISBN-13: 9781984221407Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/28/2018Pages: 136Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.42lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.29d

In their Summer Journal, the Sherlock Holmes Society of London said, "As a step-by-step guide to the London of the Canon this book] is unbeatable. Check the website at www.sherlockslondon.com."Author: Thomas Bruce WheelerISBN-10: 198067504XISBN-13: 9781980675044Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/27/2018Pages: 300Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.89lbsSize: 9.00h x...

When her sorority sisters are engaged in sex, drugs, and rock and roll, the unnamed narrator finds her true calling in life when she kills her first victim. She doesn't have a neon sign stating, "Warning, Serial Killer," following her around. She delights in...

Inspired by a true life story, Lady Audley's Secret is the story of a woman's overwhelming ambition and passion for social success. When the first book came out in 1862, Victorian readers were shocked and outraged by its portrayal of aspects like bigamy, insanity,...

THE SECRET AGENT by Joseph Conrad 1857-1924Author: Joseph ConradISBN-10: 1976075297ISBN-13: 9781976075292Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/05/2017Pages: 146Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.31d

Snowbound at Christmas. Very cosy. Until a murderer and a thief appear.December, 1935.Ruby and Fina are anticipating a quiet Christmas. But the snowy peace of Quenby College is shattered when the police come looking for Ruby. She and Fina escape to a relative's plush...

Large Print Edition.A common, garden variety murder . . . Location scout Kate Sharp is enjoying the gorgeous springtime in her favorite idyllic English village while coordinating locations for a Jane Austen documentary, but when she's assigned to manage a difficult star who has...

Large Print Editon.Sightseeing can be murder...Location scout Kate Sharp is thrilled to be part of a scouting trip to the historic city of Bath, England to research the location for a Jane Austen documentary. But before Kate gets a chance to stroll the elegant...

An English cottage to die for . . .It's spring in England, and location scout Kate Sharp has returned to the quaint village of Nether Woodsmoor with its lush gardens, budding hedgerows, and mellow stone cottages to work on a Jane Austen television documentary....