Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

For decades, Catherine Aird's crime novels featuring C. D. Sloan have been beloved by fans and lauded by critics for their adroit plotting, playful wit, and literate charm. With Amendment of Life, Aird delivers the lively and engrossing novel that readers have come to...

Murder Most Foul A young boy's dog is cruelly slain. A British agent is murdered aboard a train and the daughter of a distinguished military officer commits suicide. These are just three of the five mysteries contained in this volume of new Sherlock Holmes...

This omnibus includes three mystery novels by Helen Joan Hultman.Ready for Death: Anonymous warnings are sent to several people in Bly's Landing, but who is taking them seriously? When murder strikes, town marshal Joe Ralston examines the notes in a new light. Aided by...

In 1930, young Archie Goodwin comes to New York City hoping for a bit of excitement. In his third week working as a night watchman, he stops two burglars in their tracks--with a pair of hot lead slugs.Dismissed from his job for being "trigger-happy,"...

After several incidents rock the Royal National Bank to its core, its share price tumbles and world stock markets begin to ripple. The world is on the brink of economic collapse.Tom is an unhappily married journalist from London, seeking to advance his career. Sally...

Following the success of the earlier volume, The Baker Street Legacy, we have another collection of previously unknown Holmes and Watson tales that will excite the interests of readers across the globe - The Baker Street Epilogue.A decade before his death, Dr. Watson let...

The description "consulting detective" was often a reference to Sherlock Holmes, but that was inadequate to tell about his unusual characteristics. He was a loner who preferred to keep to himself and kept many secrets from others, including the few friends he had. Holmes...

Autumn, 1888. While the citizens of fog-shrouded London are horrified by Jack the Ripper's murder spree, another, less publicized killer is at large.Each murder takes place right after the Ripper killings, on board the carriages of the London Metropolitan Railway. Inspector Albert Norris is...

"It was my own fault, of course. I realized that when it was too late."Crime writer Iain Carter has recently married and is struggling to make a decent living as an author. His brother-in-law is a likable but slightly indiscreet constable, and Iain decides...

Nobody sheds a tear when local troublemaker Scott Stevenson is found with an ivory tusk driven through his torso.D.C.I. Alex Warren is tasked with bringing the killer to justice. The case turns out to be more complicated than expected, as they begin to investigate...

Former governess Emma Betony is living in quiet and boring retirement when two unexpected letters arrive. The first is a lonely hearts magazine, with an entry ("Lonely Batchelor, age 49, good health, comfortable income, seeks friendship of unattached lady with view to matrimony") highlighted...

Amateur sleuth, Meg Daniels takes a sentimental look back to an earlier summer when, to help her boyfriend PI Andy Beck with an investigation, she scooped ice cream at a Boardwalk stand in Seaside Heights, New Jersey. When Meg goes undercover as a "Little...

After the discovery of two bodies, Detective Inspector Andy Ross and Detective Sergeant Izzie Drake must lead their team in a race against time to prevent further atrocities.Clues point towards the enigmatic priest, Father Gerald Byrne, who has recently returned to the city of...

After a woman's body is found in a local beauty spot, her heart surgically removed, D.I. Andy Ross and his team are called in to investigate.But this time, they face a criminal mastermind unlike any they have before, who soon becomes known as The...

2021 Reprint of the 1925 Edition. At the request of George Lomax, Lord Caterham reluctantly agrees to host a weekend party at his home, Chimneys. A murder occurs in the house, beginning a week of fast-paced events with police among the guests. Little did...

Taliesin MacGuire promises his grandmother he will discover why his father left thirty years ago and never returned to his family. Finn MacGuire was the seventh son of a seventh son, and the legend of shapeshifter followed him throughout his life in Southwest Virginia.Was...

Book four in the Inspector Lestrade series. It is 1891 and London is still reeling from the horror of the unsolved Ripper murders when Inspector Lestrade (that 'ferret-like' anti-hero so often out-detected by the legendary Sherlock Holmes) is sent to the Isle of Wight...

After months of waiting, the time has finally arrived. The day after Christmas, Helen and I will marry. We've survived temptation, gossip, and a bullet meant to end the life of the woman I love. But are we going to survive the next four...

FBI agent Manny Tanno thought he had left his tribe and the Pine Ridge Reservation behind him years ago. But now with a cold case unearthed in the hot plains sun, he knows that the past never really goes away. In Badlands National Park,...

He who laughs last, laughs longest.Unless he's dead.When romance author Hazel Rose is dropped by her publisher, she sees herself heading down a path strewn with has-been authors. While disappointed, Hazel won't give up without a fight-she signs up for a mystery-writing class, thinking...

Cockell rewards readers with another mind twisting mystery.Cecil Warden, Professor of Economics, thinks a hundred year old school house would make a good investment, but he knows nothing of the secrets it holds. Shadowy figures move there, suspended in time, witnesses to an unspeakable...

The autumn equinox is here, and Caitlyn Le Fey is excited by the upcoming masquerade ball to celebrate the festival of Mabon. Not only is it a chance to dress up in glamorous costumes, but-with the Widow Mags catering-the villagers might finally put their...

A fictional priest and amateur detective named Father Brown had a face once described as round and dull as a Norfolk dumpling. This made him appear somewhat clumsy and na?e, but that didn't take into account his keen understanding of human nature and exceptional...

Ben Friedlander hopes to start an urban farm on some trash-strewn acres in the Port City, but he is facing many problems. The mayor refuses to convince the city council to provide funding for the project. and Jack D'Angelo, powerful slum lord and drug...

Sergeant Hamish Macbeth--Scotland's most quick-witted but unambitious policeman--is back and may have finally met the woman of his dreams in this new mystery in M.C. Beaton's beloved, New York Times bestselling series.Hamish's new constable, Dorothy McIver, may be the most beautiful woman he's ever...

An unwelcome proposal of marriage has far-reaching repercussions in this skilfully plotted historical mystery. April, CE 194. The tensions in the civil-war-torn Empire have come to Glevum now. Libertus's patron, Marcus Septimus, has received a letter from Druscilla Livia, a widowed cousin of his...

Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin have a lot of boldfaced names on their suspect list when New York's most hated gossip columnist is murdered.There are few people Nero Wolfe respects, and Lon Cohen of the New York Gazette is one of them. So when...

"The follow-up to Murder in Chianti finds ex-NYPD detective Nico Doyle recruited by Italian authorities to investigate the murder of a prominent wine critic. One year after moving to his late wife's Tuscan hometown of Gravigna, Nico Doyle has fully settled into life there,...

A summer festival ends in disaster for chef sleuth Nell Drury in this gripping historical mystery full of dark secrets, disturbing discoveries and page-turning twists. 1926, Kent. Chef Nell Drury is busy with preparations for Lady Ansley's luncheon to welcome Wychbourne Court's new neighbours,...

Terry Strong is a PI with a Black Belt in Taekwondo and ceaseless determination. Fred Greene has been murdered in his own home while watching TV. The police have arrested his girlfriend, Barbara Metcalf. But Barbara's brother, attorney Donald Remick, doesn't believe she did...

From the Queen of Mystery--this all-new collection of stories about love gone horribly wrong will get your heart racing.Love can propel us to our greatest heights . . . and darkest depths. In this new collection of Agatha Christie short stories, witness the dark...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The man who lies bleeding to death in a London brickyard is no ordinary drifter but a secret informant with details of an international plot against the British government. Special Branch officer Thomas Pitt, hastening to rendezvous with him, arrives seconds after...

She took a peaceful walk in the woods--and found death waiting. . . . "The best mystery writer anywhere in the English-speaking world."--The Boston Globe Elizabeth and Quentin Nightingale. A happy couple who lived quite graciously at Myfleet Manor in the gentle English countryside....

He's a good detective...with a bad habit. "One of the Year's Best Crime Novels"-The New York Times Book Review, Booklist Frank Marr knows crime in Washington, DC. A decorated former police detective, he retired early and now ekes a living as a private eye...

The storm led me to Padthaway. I could never resist the allure of dark swirling clouds, windswept leaves sweeping down cobbled lanes or a view of the sea stirring up its defiant nature. The sea possessed a power all of its own and this...

After a truffle-hunting dog unearths a human hand instead of a precious fungus, Chief Inspector Wexford and his team proceed to interrogate everyone who lives nearby to see if they can turn up a match for the errant appendage among the eighty-five people who...

Bright and ambitious, young Jim Stringer moves from the English countryside to London deter- mined to become a railway man. It is 1903, the dawn of the Edwardian age, when steam runs the nation and the railways drive progress. Jim can't believe his luck...

"You either love Andrea Camilleri or you haven't read him yet. Each novel in this wholly addictive, entirely magical series, set in Sicily and starring a detective unlike any other in crime fiction, blasts the brain like a shot of pure oxygen -- altogether...

Beloved heroine Maisie Dobbs, "one of the great fictional heroines" (Parade), investigates the mysterious murder of an American war correspondent in London during the Blitz in a page-turning tale of love and war, terror and survival.When Catherine Saxon, an American correspondent reporting on the...

"[We] can't get enough of Christie's plush and murderous thrills." -Entertainment WeeklyA dying man's cryptic last words provide the spark for this beloved Agatha Christie mystery, now a BritBox limited series directed by Hugh Laurie and starring Will Poulter and Lucy Boynton. While playing...

In this exclusive authorized edition, the Queen of Mystery transports us back to ancient Egypt 2000 B.C. where a priest's daughter, investigating a suspicious death, uncovers an asp's nest of jealousy, betrayal, and serial murder.It is Egypt in 2000 BC, where death gives meaning...

On a deserted road, late at night, Scotland Yard's Ian Rutledge encounters a frightened woman standing over a body, launching an inquiry that leads him into the lair of a stealthy killer and the dangerous recesses of his own memories in this twentieth installment...

"What I intend to say to you will come as a shock . . ."With these words, Lady Athelinda Playford--one of the world's most beloved children's authors--springs a surprise on the lawyer entrusted with her will. As guests arrive for a party at her...

Scotland Yard detectives Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James are drawn into separate investigations that hold disturbing--and deadly--complications for their own lives in this powerful mystery in the bestselling series.On a beautiful morning in mid-May, the body of a young woman is found in one...

The New York Times bestselling author of The Monogram Murders--in the ranks of Ruth Rendell, Deborah Crombie, Kimberly McCreight, and Tana French--makes her William Morrow debut with a dark and chilling psychological thriller in which a woman desperate to hide a devastating secret in...

A pair of sophisticated mysteries from the 1930s by Babette Hughes (1905-1982).Murder in the Zoo: After the body of an experimental psychologist is found in the animal room at a university laboratory, the homicide squad delves into the hatreds and jealousies underneath the respectable...

A queen, a castle, a dark and ageless threat--all await Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes in this chilling adventure. The queen is Marie of Roumania: the doubly royal granddaughter of Victoria, Empress of the British Empire, and Alexander II, Tsar of Russia. A famous...

Sometimes the deadliest storms have nothing to do with the weather.Fearing for her life, celebrity author Alice Fremont asks detective Jack Martin for protection. But during the deadliest storm of the winter season, Alice goes missing from her historic estate in the Colorado Rockies.Now...

Charles, according to all accounts, had clearly been boiling up to be murdered.Charles Courtley was a difficult man. Prone to violent outbursts and a bully to his wife and daughters, he had uprooted his unhappy family from London to a country house in remote...

A FAST-PACED MYSTERY SET IN OLD HOLLYWOOD-WITH TWISTS AND TURNS THAT NEVER END.It's the 1920's, and Lucas Hallam is something of a legend: a Texas Ranger turned Pinkerton agent turned Hollywood P.I. So, when the occasion arises, Hallam saddles up and rides off with...