Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

Whose Body?, first published in 1923, introduces the inimitable Lord Peter Wimsey to the world of crime. When a corpse, wearing only spectacles, is discovered in a bathtub in Battersea, Lord Peter must determine the identity of both the criminal and the victim. Assisted...

Meet private detective James Leipfold, computer whizzkid Maile O'Hara, and good-natured cop Jack Cholmondeley in the first book of the Leipfold series. A car strikes in the middle of the night and a young actress lies dead in the road. The police force thinks...

A routine fraud investigation into a small town mortgage company leads private investigator David Squire from rural Arkansas to Washington D.C. Soon after arriving, he learns that a powerful United States Senator is deeply involved in a bribery scheme along with the President of...

The Elusive Chauffeur, by David H. Brown, follows a pair of detectives, mathematician Samuel Mohlar and Kenneth Gray, as they seek answers to an equation that just doesn't add up. While hunting for the heiress's personal chauffeur, the missing variable in a long line...

Loose lips sink ships...and result in murder.When Myrtle and her friend Miles set out for adventure on the high sea, they assume most of the trip's excitement will result from shore excursions to charming Alaskan villages.They feel as if their ship has come in....

At Greener Pastures Retirement Home, leisure time can prove perilous.When psychic (and hubcap retailer) Wanda Alewine pays a late-night visit to Myrtle Clover, she urges the octogenarian sleuth to head straight to Greener Pastures Retirement Home. But Wanda doesn't want Myrtle to consider the...

First published in 1920, The Mysterious Affair at Styles was Agatha Christie's first novel. It introduced the world to Hercule Poirot, Christie's Belgian detective, who would go on to be featured in 39 of her novels. The mystery begins with the death of Emily...

A dead man is found in Tersel Woods, near a small town of Faukon Abbey in Devon. Who was he? A traditional detective story, a classic whodunit, written a bit differently. Author: A. K. LakelettISBN-10: 1945479027ISBN-13: 9781945479021Publisher: Faukon Abbey PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/12/2016Pages: 296Format: PaperbackWeight:...

Native American psychologist Ben Pecos has returned to the New Mexico pueblo of his birth as an intern with the Indian Health Service. Still struggling with the demons of his past, he is plunged into the nightmare rampage of a mysterious illness that is...

In this fifth installment in the Samantha Sweet mystery series, it's the height of the wedding season at Sweet's Sweets and Sam has all she can do to stay ahead of the rush of bakery orders. Plus, her side job--breaking into houses--isn't allowing much...

Tucked into the mountains and valleys of northern New Mexico are the hidden towns, little enclaves of history and tradition--and secrets. It is to one of these towns, Valle Escondido, that Charlie and her office assistant Sally Bertrand go for a July 4 weekend...

A BRUTAL MURDER, A HAUNTED LAWYER, AND A RAGING BATTLE OVER THE FUTURE OF A NATIONAL FOREST COMBINE IN A LETHAL MIX THAT THREATENS TO DEVASTATE A SMALL MONTANA COMMUNITY AND ANY NUMBER OF LIVES ALONG WITH IT...Kalispell, Montana Attorney Dave Matthews is on...

A university campus is ordinarily sedate except for occasional student rebellions or athletic rivalries. One state school's calm, however, was broken by the unexpected death of its president and then murder of two prominent campus figures within the same week. The first victim, the...

Dr. Armiston, middle-aged bachelor and general practitioner, has his quiet and routine life interrupted when he is called in to consult on the deaths of two young men. One case seems to be a tragic accident, the other the result of natural causes, but...

A Percy Peacock Mystery In the small Cape Cod village of Chatwich, the only time that the church bell rings outside of Sundays is to announce the death of one of the residents. Therefore, when the bell begins to ring in the middle of...

Three complete novels in one One Drop of Blood by Anne AustinMurder Unleashed by Dorothy Bennett The Murder of Cecily Thane by H. Ashbrook While the best known writers of American detective fiction in the 1930's were men such as Dashiell Hammett, Rex Stout,...

A Inspector Reynolds from Scotland Yard Mystery When Naomi Marsh landed a job as personal secretary to the internationally famous dancer Vanda Quayne, it had seemed a dream position. But that was before the dancer began to receive notes threatening that she would be...

A Matilda Perks Mystery The English countryside; bucolic, rustic, peaceful. Peaceful, that is, until the body of Douglas Bonar is discovered with its head bashed in. Not that "Squire" Bonar would be greatly missed, for Bonar was an outsider - a rude, overbearing, self-made...

A James "Bonnie" Dundee Mystery It's been said that you can't go home again. When Yola Conova, a film star trying to rebuild a flagging career with a cross country public relations tour arrives, there are some in the small city of Hamilton convinced...

A Chief Inspector Pointer Mystery To help make ends meet, Mr. Hillock was in the habit of renting out rooms at his farm to artistic types down in the Sussex countryside looking for a rustic retreat. He wasn't particularly keen on art, nor the...

The Giant Rat of Sumatra A Sherlock Holmes Fan Fiction By Christopher Milner "... the giant rat of Sumatra, a story for which the world is not yet prepared." So said Sherlock Holmes to Dr. Watson in the story The Adventure of The Sussex...

The Hound of the BaskervillesBy A. Conan DoyleThe Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is...

Tom and Francesca Barnett are newlyweds. Tom, Police Chief of Banner Bluff, prides himself on being meticulous and logical. In contrast Francesca, editor of the local online newspaper, is impulsive and compassionate. Together they function as a remarkable team but their marriage is suffering...

Wilkie Collins was an English writer best known for writing mystery novels. Collins was also a good friend of Charles Dickens and often collaborated with him on plays and short stories. Some of Collins' classics include The Moonstone, Armadale, and No Name, but this...

Wilkie Collins was an English writer best known for writing mystery novels. Collins was also a good friend of Charles Dickens and often collaborated with him on plays and short stories. Some of Collins' classics include The Moonstone, Armadale, and No Name, but this...

On Monday, April 4th, 19-, the evening paper La Capitale published the following article on its first page: - A drama, over the motives of which there is a bewildering host of conjectures, was unfolded this morning on the heights of Montmartre. The Baroness...

This classic detective mystery story by Edgar Allan Poe is a sequel to "The Murders in the Rue Morgue." Poe's detective character C. Auguste Dupin and his assistant, the unnamed narrator, undertake the unsolved murder of Marie Rog t in Paris. The body of...

Collected here are Secret Adversary and The Mysterious Affair at Styles, the books that introduced the world to Tommy and Tuppence and to Hercule Poirot. These intricate novels revolutionized the mystery form and launched Agatha Christie's career.Author: Agatha ChristieISBN-10: 1515438589ISBN-13: 9781515438588Publisher: Wilder PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

The Sign of the Four is the second Sherlock Holmes book. Its complex plot involves service in East India Company, India, the Indian Rebellion of 1857, a stolen treasure, and a secret pact among four convicts and two corrupt prison guards. It presents Sherlock...

Father Brown's powers of detection allow him to sit beside the immortal Holmes but he is also, to quote Rufus King, 'in all senses a most pleasantly fascinating human being.' You will be enchanted by the scandalously innocent man of the cloth, with the...

Hercule Poirot is without a doubt the greatest detective since Sherlock Holmes. He'll need all of his skill, intelligence, and wit to solve this crime. He is called to France and must solve a brutal murder on an upscale golf course. His only clues...

The Monday Criminologist By Jennifer A. Girardin Crime is always a welcome guest at Moriston House, where mystery is always on the menu As the sleepy English village of Halfereton celebrates the momentous marriage of local journalist and queen of crime, Marjorie Branell-Markson to...

"A Study in Scarlet" is the first published story of one of the most famous literary detectives of all time, Sherlock Holmes. Here Dr. Watson, who has just returned from a war in Afghanistan, meets Sherlock Holmes for the first time when they become...

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare is a metaphysical thriller that was first published by G.K Chesterton in 1908. The plot begins when Gabriel Syme first gets recruited to a secret anarchist division of Scotland Yard. Heavy with both Christian and religious allegories,...

Bruce Beckham's Murder, Mystery Collection includes a psychological whodunit, the Orange/Scotsman Award-Winning 'Cross Words'; a true 'ghost' story featuring an enigmatic heirloom in 'Grandmother's Clock'; and the suspenseful 'Gardyloo', long-listed for the Crime Writers' Association Margery Allingham Award, 2016. This volume also presents the...

STAND-ALONE MURDER MYSTERY, #5 IN THE SERIES. MEET MAVERICK BRITISH DETECTIVE DI SKELGILL... "MAD, BAD AND JUST A LITTLE BIT COZY."A SPATE OF VICIOUS ATTACKS upon valuable Herdwick sheep, the sudden disappearance of a foreign hiker, and the unexplained drowning of a woodland hermit...

IT was 2 p.m. on the afternoon of May 7, 1915. The Lusitania had been struck by two torpedoes in succession and was sinking rapidly, while the boats were being launched with all possible speed. The women and children were being lined up awaiting...

IN the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army. Having completed my studies there, I was duly attached to the Fifth...

Aunt Bessie goes house hunting with her friend, John Rockwell. CID Inspector John Rockwell asks Bessie Cubbon, a longtime resident of the village of Laxey where she's known to just about everyone as "Aunt Bessie," to help him find the perfect house in the...

Set in the mesmerising atmosphere of one the grandest aristocratic homes of England, in the dawn of 1948, Rachel and Jeremy are invited by the Countess of Marbury to ostensibly join the house party at Marbury Hall. As they set about to unravel the...

The world's greatest sleuth makes his American debut in this groundbreaking collection of never-before-published mystery stories set in the US. The world's greatest detective and his loyal sidekick Dr. Watson are on their first trip across the Atlantic--to nineteenth-century America From the bustling neighborhoods...

Author: Danny B. LamontISBN-10: 1585001082ISBN-13: 9781585001088Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/19/1997Pages: 188Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 8.03h x 5.09w x 0.64d

"At once charming, chilling and convincing as if it had unfolded in the Police Intelligence column of April, 1888." --TIME London, 1888. Though the beautiful Miriam Cromer has confessed to the murder of her husband's assistant, she is still confident of her acquittal. But...

"Lovesey's best yet." --H.R.F. Keating, The Times Brighton, 1882: Albert Moscrop spends his holiday peering at beachgoers through a telescope, piecing together disarmingly trivial observations into a compelling drama for his own amusement. A keen student of human nature, Moscrop concentrates his interest on...

"Peter Lovesey loves strong women, cerebral killers and diabolical puzzles--the very ingredients that make The House Sitter one of the most cunning mysteries in his Inspector Diamond series." --The New York Times Book Review The corpse of a beautiful woman, clad in only a...

Before John Sayles was an Oscar-nominated screenwriter and celebrated independent filmmaker, he was a National Book Award-nominated writer of fiction. Now John Sayles has written his first short story collection in twenty-five years. The keynote story -- "Dillinger in Hollywood" -- is populated by...

Lady Audley's Secret By Mary Elizabeth BraddonAuthor: Mary Elizabeth BraddonISBN-10: 1548789607ISBN-13: 9781548789602Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/16/2017Pages: 134Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.72lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.29d

THE IMPATIENT DISSIDENTS. The Czar of Russia was assassinated in March 1881. That summer an attempt was made to murder his daughter while she was riding through Kensington Gardens with her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh. A Russian Count has been found dead in...

221b Baker Street Just the mention of those words is enough to suggest mystery and adventure and heroism. Over many years, this humble London address was the destination of so many people - clients and policemen, the rich and the poor, those needing help...

A police officer balances his duty and honor along with the friendships of his fellow officers, while protecting the woman he loves from someone who is determined to kill her.Ligea McCracken Adsit was born during a war, a blackout and a snow storm into...