Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

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

"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...

WHAT'S IN THE BOX? EVERYONE'S DYING TO KNOW.An international crisis threatens to plunge the world into war at the dawn of the Twentieth Century, but the British Foreign Office finds itself blinded by the bizarre deaths of crucial agents and informants as it struggles...

England in the chilly winter of 1902 is captive to a new craze: Mediums and psychics. No surprise, Denton has his doubts; nevertheless, he's agreed to write a book about ghosts and hauntings, and has taken himself to Naples, Italy. Napoli may be bella,...

It's 1901, and with the Boer War raging, England's air is crackling with political intrigue. But it's not South Africa that is on everyone's lips. Rather, it's The Jewish Question: The armies of Antisemitism are on the march, even as the call to Zionism...

Denton comes to the aid of a damsel in distress, taking him deep into London's "bohemian" quarters.Author: Kenneth CameronISBN-10: 1631941488ISBN-13: 9781631941481Publisher: Felony & MayhemLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/04/2018Pages: 312Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 7.70h x 5.20w x 0.40d

Wes Beattie, the hapless young son of a stuffy Toronto family is on trial for murder, and his explanations of what actually happened are entirely too fanciful to convince anyone. But Sidney "Gargoyle" Grant, a disreputable young lawyer, is irritated by the rush to...

With A Cruel Necessity, the first in the John Grey historical mystery series, LC Tyler, takes a sharp turn into the shadows. The year is 1657, Oliver Cromwell is in power in England, and joy has been outlawed. A young lawyer with a taste...

When a writer emerges from a London theater, he notices an attractive young woman and an older man waiting for their car. He arrives home after a short delay and notices the older man, whom he'd overheard tell his companion he was stopping at...

Ancient codes and a legendary killer lure a young detective into a dark and dangerous world. When a murdered historian is marked with a mysterious code, homicide detective Dee Brentano worries about his colleague - her missing father, Alexandre. FBI special agent J. R....

Several years after the mysterious disappearance of her father, Mary Morstan discovers an advertisement in a local paper requesting her own address. Her employer advises her to reveal it, and when she does she receives a valuable pearl by post. Presented with these facts...

Whose Body? is a 1923 novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, which introduced the character of Lord Peter Wimsey. Lord Peter is intrigued by the sudden appearance of a naked body in the bath of an architect, and investigates. A noted financier has also gone...

The miracle of Sherlock Holmes is that for twenty-five pounds in 1887, Conan Doyle created a truly universal and immortal literary figure. Sherlock Holmes is a household word in virtually every country in the world. A few of Shakespeare's characters are nearly that well...

From CWA Gold Dagger winner Mick Herron comes a shocking, twisted novel of psychological suspense about one woman's attempt to be better than ordinary. Twenty-six-year-old Maggie Barnes is someone you would never look at twice. Living alone in a month-to-month sublet in the huge...

Cambridge, 1933. On All Hallows' Eve, in a candlelit pew in ancient All Hallows Church, Doctor Adelaide Hartest witnesses a stranger's dying moments. Adelaide is just in time to hear his final confession: that he has plunged the dagger into his own chest, and...

"What'll it be today? A knotty puzzle mystery? A fast-paced police procedural? Something more high-toned, with a bit of wit? With the British author Peter Lovesey, there's no need to make those agonizing decisions, because his books have it all." --The New York Times...

Murder Rents a Room: Cliff's Edge mansion, in historic Greene County, Alabama, is a bit run down, to be sure, but a line had been drawn at dead bodies--at least until now. When drop dead gorgeous vamp Kitty Leigh Bolling--on her third husband and...

Buried scandals in a Colorado "ghost town" come to the surface when a professor starts asking questions about a tragic narrow-gauge railroad accident. The high-altitude town of Glory Cloud provides a richly detailed background as the professor's secretary finds herself pushed into an investigation...

Miss Abigail Potter, a successful mystery author and a darling little ole sleuth, is the heroine of this refreshingly written tale of murder by knife, poison and pistol. Her first venture out of the realm of fictitious death is begun in 1945 when a...

Five men are discussing crime in the garden of the Serpentine Club in Washington D.C. when news comes of the death, apparently from an overdose of morphine, of a beautiful and mysterious Argentine woman in a Washington mansion. Four of the men present find...

What murdering fiend is setting the fires at Fitch's Folly, leaving behind in their smoldering ashes the ghastly mortal remains of slain human souls?Fitch's Folly is the New England summer home of Peter Finch, that elderly and eccentric New York millionaire who in season...

Clad only in a filmy nightdress, brutally murdered Marguerite Scholl lies horribly dead in the bedroom of her tiny Greenwich Village apartment, her throat cut so deeply that her head has been nearly severed from her body. Who among the free-loving and loose-living denizens...

Murder in the Tomb is a unique adventure in mystery stories by a newcomer in the field of detective-mystery fiction; but the reader who starts the story will not be able to lay the book aside until he has read to the final page....

On the morning of the thirty-first three engineers accompanied by the manager visited the vault of the Consolidated Bank. Shortly after they left, it was discovered that a bag containing $180,000 in cash had disappeared. And so commenced the famous bank vault case in...

The Dartmouth Murders: The Dartmouth Hall clock strikes a "cold, damp six" as student Ken Harris awakens to the ominous sound of muffled rhythmic raps against a dormitory window. Upon rising and looking out the window, Ken finds to his horror that the eerie...

This volume of 4 Detectives collects the stories of four very different detectives. Bromley Barnes is a retired Chief from the Treasury Department who is often enlisted for cases of national security. Trent's Last Case shows us the investigation of an industrial magnate by...

This volume of 2 Detectives brings together two female detectives by the same author. Grant Allen's protagonists, Miss Cayley and Hilda Wade are determined, smart, and resourceful. They join the ranks of the early independent female adventurers who paved the way for the modern...

The Rev. Victor L. Whitechurch was a prolific and popular British writer and an avid railway enthusiast. His detective creation, Thorpe Hazell, shared his railway interests, and solved mysteries with his extensive knowledge of railway equipment and procedures. Included in this collection are all...

Baroness Emma Orczy, best known for her Scarlet Pimpernel stories, also wrote popular detective stories. This volume includes her two books, The Old Man in the Corner and The Case of Miss Elliott, both of which relate the logical theorizing of the anonymous Old...

November Joe is the "Sherlock Holmes" of the Canadian wilderness, tracking down murderers and thieves and solving criminal puzzles, using his keen outdoors skills and his quick mind. This collection, first published in 1913, will be a treat for any classic mystery enthusiast.Author: H....

Author: Agatha ChristieISBN-10: 1613829078ISBN-13: 9781613829073Publisher: Simon & BrownLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/19/2012Pages: 368Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.56lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d

Author: G. K. ChestertonISBN-10: 1613820054ISBN-13: 9781613820056Publisher: Simon & BrownLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/04/2011Pages: 164Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d

Miss Adams is a nurse, not a detective--at least, not technically speaking. But while working as a nurse, one does have the opportunity to see things police can't see and an observant set of eyes can be quite an asset when crimes happen behind...