Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

The nude body of a man is discovered entombed in the walls of Split Point Lighthouse on the south-east coast of Australia. Inspector Bonaparte wonders why a coffin is moved at night, who was the girl struggling with Dick Lake on the cliff tops,...

Alexander Strange lives and works aboard a fishing trawler in Naples, Florida writing about news of the weird. His laid-back lifestyle is disrupted when a feisty author of conspiracy books insists he investigate the death of her brother in Key West. Her name is...

I liked him. When I heard of his death I was quite upset.Henry Baldlow is a nervous man. An apparent invalid, he plans to emigrate for his health, yet claims to require a detective to guard his life in the interim. Ludovic Travers isn't...

Detective Chief Inspector Wilfred Dover is the most idle and avaricious hero in all of crime fiction. Why should he even be bothered to solve the case?One February evening in northern England, a young woman is shot in the head and left in a...

Detective Chief Inspector Wilfred Dover is the most idle and avaricious hero in all of crime fiction. Why should he even be bothered to solve the case?For its own very good reasons, Scotland Yard sends Dover off to remote Creedshire to investigate the disappearance...

When the fianc of the sister of a Member of Parliament is found dead in mysterious circumstances, the man turns to Sherlock Holmes and John Watson to get an answer to the puzzle. Journeying to the small Wiltshire village of Barrow-upon-Kennet, Holmes and Watson...

Revelations from the despatch box of Doctor John Watson. These seven stories previously featured in various volumes of The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories and other anthologies. They come together in their own collection for the first time. The Incident of the...

"A few months ago, Boston expat Maura Donovan was rekindled with her mother after more than twenty years of absence. Since then, Maura has been getting accustomed to Irish living, complete with an inherited house and a pub named Sullivan's. But now, her mother...

A murdered source. A board room power play. Reporting this story may prove fatal.Investigative reporter Andrea Kellner is under fire. After she inherits a media company from her husband, a hostile board member hires an efficiency consultant to force her out. Turning a blind...

January 1926 Violet has received an obscure note, a strange request, and the claim of a murder. She'd like to ignore it, but the writer knows too much about her. Has someone died? Who is the author of the note and why are they...

From her discovery of an aristocratic infant abandoned in a village telephone booth, to dark doings amongst Scottish banks and braes, it's a rollercoaster ride for Miss Seeton in this adventure with a tartan touch.Grateful parents Lord and Lady Glenclachan sweep Miss S. northward...

It's summertime in Plummergen and cricket madness has overtaken Miss Emily Seeton's pretty village. The pavilion urgently needs repairs, but there's a needle match coming up against arch rivals Murreystone. Miss S's chums Sir George Colveston and his son Nigel talk of little else,...

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...

Volume III contains the remaining half of the Thorndyke Short Stories. These, along with the contents of 2018's Volume II (with the first half of the short stories and a few rare Apocryphal items), presents the complete short Thorndyke mysteries for a new generation.In...

Volume III contains the remaining half of the Thorndyke Short Stories. These, along with the contents of 2018's Volume II (with the first half of the short stories and a few rare Apocryphal items), presents the complete short Thorndyke mysteries for a new generation.In...

Meet the brilliant French Inspector Gabriel Hanaud. Hanaud is a towering figure in the history of genre mystery fiction as he is the obvious inspiration for Hercule Poirot. Collected here together for the first time are four of his most famous cases. At the...

One quiet evening, Septimus Culthorpe stumbles into 221B Baker Street. He introduces himself as the leader of the Secret Seven - a mysterious group of seven monks who lead a simple lifestyle and reside in Grimstone Priory, an old cottage in Sussex.Two of the...

In this mesmerizing classic of detective fiction by world-renowned mystery author Agatha Christie, the brilliant Belgian detective Hercule Poirot makes his unforgettable-and legendary-debut. Who poisoned the wealthy Emily Inglethorpe, and how did the murderer penetrate and escape from her locked bedroom? Suspects abound in...

He was young, arrogant, wealthy and in the bloom of health--or was he? "Undoubtedly one of the best writers of English mysteries and chiller-killer plots."--The Los Angeles Times Like any small community, Linchester has its intrigues: love affairs, money problems, unhappy marriages. But the...

When Mrs Mildred Cobnut of Compton Poppleford Ladies Bicycling Club suffers a fatal accident, hapless Inspector Mappin begins a murder investigation. As luck would have it, world-renowned Swiss detective, Monsieur Pascal Legrand, is staying in the village; with such sleuthing expertise on hand, the...

From one of the most well-known mystery authors of all time comes The Man in the Brown Suit, a classic detective novel by English author Agatha Christie. Christie is most popular for her works that revolve around detective Hercule Poirot, but she has written...

Caitlyn's world changes when she learns that she was found as an abandoned baby and adopted by her American family. Now, her search for answers takes her to a tiny English village where a man has been murdered - and where a mysterious shop...

A black student is shot dead during a demonstration claiming "Beethoven Was Black" in Bonn's historic M nsterplatz with its majestic monument to the Bonn-born composer. Attending a Beethoven jubilee conference in the city is retired professor turned art crimes detective Megan Crespi with...

English author and poet Dorothy L. Sayers, is known widely for her mystery series that features Lord Peter Wimsey, a witty detective who solves crimes after World War I. In her popular 1923 novel Whose Body? Wimsey makes his debut before continuing as the...

If you died alone, would anyone find you?When Investigative Journalist Andrea Kellner finds the body of a woman propped up in a chair in the basement of an abandoned home, she has no idea how the discovery will change her world.Who is the woman?...

LARGE PRINT HARDCOVER EDITIONMidnight treasure hunts, fancy-dress parties, and a blue-blooded murder . . .November, 1923. Olive's school chum, Gigi, invites Olive to London because Gigi's dotty grandmother fears for her life-or so she's said to Gigi. However Olive is surprised to find that...

Sherlock Holmes, the world's 'only unofficial consulting detective', was first introduced to readers in A Study in Scarlet published by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887. It was with the publication of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, however, that the master sleuth grew tremendously...

There isn't a clue as to the one who pushed town librarian Biscuit McKee off the town dock into the raging Metoochie River or whether he will strike again.There isn't a clue to the whereabouts of Charles Zapota, and his mother is getting frantic.There...

Artists and authors in this edition from Italy, Poland, UK, USA, Finland, Portugal, Oman, Belgium, Switzerland, Sweden, Egypt, Austria and Morocco.The Art of Sherlock Holmes Global Edition 2 is truly unique. While there have been literally hundreds of Holmes pastiches written, before our four...

After surviving an attempt on his life in Paris, Sherlock Holmes returns to London, where the Great Detective is almost immediately enlisted by his brother to secure the safety of the delegates at a top-secret peace conference. With Europe a veritable powder keg in...

As the twentieth century dawns, Holmes and Watson hear a knock on the door. Their enigmatic guest is Abdul Faziel, an Arab man from the mysterious land of Marrafaze - a land only rumoured to exist.Son of the Sheik, Faziel is fleeing his homeland...

Doctor Watson and Sherlock Holmes meet once again to crack a handful of new cases in this compelling collection.Sherlock Holmes and the Tandridge Hall Murder - Holmes and Watson are taking a stroll through Green Park, when suddenly a terrified man approaches the famous...

Biscuit and Bob are enjoying their honeymoon at a small hotel near Savannah, until Margaret Casperson, a wealthy friend from Martinsville, collapses against their door in the middle of the night. Why would anyone want to poison dear Margaret? Officer Colly Sloan, who sometimes...

FROM A NINE-TIMES USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR COMES A LIVELY AND FUN 1920s COZY MYSTERY WITH A BRAND-NEW DETECTIVE DUO. Nora elbowed her way up to the railing and looked down. The paddle wheel was making its last turn, dredging up a mass of...

Jack Blackjack's search for an executioner's son ensnares him in a fiendish mesh of schemes in this lively Tudor mystery. London. May, 1556. Hal Westmecott, one of the city's most feared executioners, reckons Jack Blackjack owes him a favour - and now he's come...

Hide and Go Seek: Joan Pell checks into the Almeda, a quiet New York residential hotel, for a weekend trip, happy to be away from her government job in Washington, "typing and filing stupid routine reports." A gunshot from an apartment above soon sets...

A Double Barreled Detective Story is a short story/novelette by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), in which Sherlock Holmes finds himself in the American west.The story contains two arcs of revenges. In the primary arc, a woman was abused, humiliated and abandoned by her fianc...

It's a good day to die for lawyers. A deposition is about to begin in a large, metro law firm where the senior partner is breathing his last before a shooter barges into the conference room and redecorates with blood and brains compliments of...

Jack Blackjack's search for an executioner's son ensnares him in a fiendish mesh of schemes in this lively Tudor mystery. London. May, 1556. Hal Westmecott, one of the city's most feared executioners, reckons Jack Blackjack owes him a favour - and now he's come...

Was Harold Dumphy killed to cover up something at the nuclear power plant where he was the head of security?This is what Harold's widow asks Goff Langdon, private detective, to find out. Langdon is a laid back, slacker detective, happy with his work, friends,...

On the eve of his wedding, Dr. Watson has his own problems, stumbling upon a mystery involving Sherlock Holmes's elder brother Mycroft. As the case turns to tragedy, Holmes and Watson find themselves attempting to unravel a tangled thread of murder, mayhem and political...

Emma Thornton is back in The Redemption, C.L. Tolbert's second novel in the Thornton Mystery Series. When two men are murdered one muggy September night in a New Orleans housing project, an eye witness identifies only one suspect-Louis Bishop-a homeless sixteen-year-old. Louis is arrested...

As if running an art museum wasn't enough, Dr. Dulcinea Chambers now finds herself in battle with the new board of directors chair, Vanessa Rich, who is on a ruthless quest to trim the budget in any way she can. Her cost-cutting measures will...

The Great War is over, and jobs are scarce. Childhood friends Tommy Beresford and Prudence "Tuppence" Cowley meet and agree to start their own business as The Young Adventurers. They are hired for a job that take them to many dangerous situations, including the...

Volume VIII contains the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth full-length Thorndyke adventures, published in 1934, 1936, and 1937, respectively. For the Defense: Dr. Thorndyke - Andrew Barton dreaded meeting up with his identical cousin that he usually tried to avoid. Then Death joined them, and...

Volume VI contains the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth Thorndyke novels, published in 1927, 1928, and 1930, respectively. A Certain Dr. Thorndyke - Unique among the Thorndyke narratives, this story is as much an adventure tale as a mystery. A man falsely accused finds a...

Poirot Investigates is a collection of eleven short stories involving the famed eccentric detective, Hercule Poirot. The problems Poirot unravels are skilfully tangled, and unravelled by the detective's omniscient genius. Throughout the tales, which include The Adventure of the Western Star, The Adventure of...

Revenge may be a dish best served cold, but in Louisiana everything gets a splash of hot sauce.LouisianaState Patrol Detective Cooter "Cadillac" Holland is called upon tolocate State Senator Chester Donovan's missing daughter-in-law. A pool of bloodin the trunk of her Mercedes implicates the...

Charlotte Frayne's boss, Mr. Gilmore, travels to Europe in the fall of 1936 on a mysterious trip, leaving her in charge of the detective agency. The redoubtable Mrs. Jessop hires Charlotte to investigate the untimely death of her son, a disfigured and injured veteran of the Great War. The police ruled it a suicide, but Mrs. Jessop doesn't agree...

"Doyle's modesty of language conceals a profound tolerance of the human complexity"-John Le Carré "Holmes has a timeless talent, passion and literary brilliance that puts him heads, shoulders and deerstalker above all other detectives."- Alexander McCall Smith "The immense talent, passion and literary brilliance...