Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

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....

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...

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...