Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

This droll whodunit from the creator of Winnie the Pooh sparkles with witty dialogue, deft plotting, and an amusing cast. In between taking tea and playing billiards, an amateur detective and his chum investigate their genial host's disappearance. A series of lighthearted capers ensues,...

The Leavenworth Case By Anna Katherine Green The Leavenworth Case (1878), subtitled A Lawyer's Story, is an American detective novel and the first novel by Anna Katharine Green. Set in New York City, it concerns the murder of a retired merchant, Horatio Leavenworth, in...

Kiko Yoshida works as a Keno runner at the Serengeti Casino in Las Vegas while dreaming of a career as a singer and dancer. She catches the eye of a big-time mobster who demands to have her sent to his room. Casino manager Eddie...

Classic Books Library presents this brand new edition of the short story, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" (1890) by Ambrose Bierce. In this text Bierce creatively uses both structure and content to explore the concept of time, from present to past, and reflecting...

Unlikely pairs join forces to crack a slew of intriguing cases in an anthology edited by New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry, featuring original stories by Jacqueline Winspear, Jeffery Deaver, Allison Brennan, Charles Todd, and many more, including Perry herself. Throughout the annals...

The Sign of the Four (1890), also called The Sign of Four, is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle wrote four novels and 56 stories starring the fictional detective. The story is set in 1888. The Sign...

A trio of apparent suicides of racing people in the beautiful Lambourn valley in south west England baffles Eddie Malloy. Eddie refuses to accept the police assumption that each death, accompanied by a suicide note, suggests no crime has been committed. One of the...

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate a bizarre murder scene on a lonely lane on the outskirts of London. A beautiful young woman has been killed, and it is up to Holmes to solve the crime. Dr. Watson dutifully chronicles Holmes's powers of deduction,...

Sherlock Holmes relates a story from his earliest days before Dr. Watson had become his friend and chronicler. In this tale Holmes is drawn to Hardwick Hall in the south of England, which has an eerie sobriquet: The Spider Web. The young detective matches...

From the bestselling author of Murder at Rutherford Hall and Murder at Ravenrock, comes the third book in the Rachel Markham Mystery Series. The Riverton Case A Rachel Markham Mystery Book Three - In the Mystery Series Jeremy and Rachel set sail for Indian...

Paul Halter, whose "The Crimson Fog" was named #2 in Publisher's Weekly's Top Mysteries of 2013 presents ten superb tales of locked rooms and impossible crimes.Coffins dancing in a hermetically sealed crypt; a tunnel that murders people; a werewolf killer who leaves no trace...

Hush, hush, hushHere comes the Bogeyman...London during the long, dark days of the Blitz: a city outwardly in ruins, weakened by exhaustion and rationing. But behind the blackout, the old way of life continues: in the music halls, pubs, and caf駸, soldiers mix with...

Crang, the smart (and often smartass) criminal lawyer, finds himself embroiled in a mystery while on vacation on the French Riviera. Like all the criminal messes Crang has ever found himself caught up in, this one begins in perfect innocence. As Crang is leaving...

A STUDY IN SYNCHRONICITY weaves an English murder mystery set in 1906 into the framework of a modern-day whodunit. The contemporary plot begins when American writer Todd Stringer wins a writing contest for his short story set in turn-of-the century London. Not only does...

While on her last assignment with British Intelligence in Morocco, the widowed Julia Probyn Jamieson meets and is strongly attracted to an Irish country lawyer, Gerald O'Brien, who is travelling with friends of hers. O'Brien has asked Julia to marry him but she delays...

This early work by Arthur Conan Doyle was originally published in 1929 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography as part of our Professor Challenger series. Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1859. It was between...

The Innocence of Father Brown is a 1911 collection of mystery short stories by English writer G. K. Chesterton. Set in the early twentieth century, each of the stories centers around the cunning investigations of Father Brown, an amateur detective who uses his incredible...

A Study in Scarlet is the first Sherlock Holmes novel and marks the beginning of many illustrious adventures for literature's favourite detective. Set in the atmospheric, lamplit fog of Victorian London, this novel introduces the sleuthing duo, Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson, for the...

Agatha Christie's The Mysterious Affair at Styles is the first appearance of Hercule Poirot. In the midst of World War I, the residents of Styles wake one morning to find Emily Inglethorpe has been fatally poisoned. Captain Hastings, staying with the family, enlists the...

Nearing the end of his career as a consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes continues his adventures in this collection of eight short stories, including one that was pulled from the original edition when it was deemed too scandalous. Join us for stories of stolen submarine...

From the bestselling author of Murder at Rutherford Hall, comes the second book in the Rachel Markham Mystery Series. Murder at Ravenrock A Rachel Markham Mystery Book Two - In the Mystery Series Sofia Burnett, the beautiful American actress, married to the British millionaire...

A classic mystery by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; the first in the Sherlock Holmes series. See how Holmes and Watson met for the first time. A baffling murder with puzzling clues and evil villains takes place and the cocaine-addicted, cold and quirky detective, with...

Set in 1946 England, Murder at Rutherford Hall is a gripping tale that will have you turning pages till the end to figure out 'whodunit' When the affable and absent minded Lord Rutherford disappears suddenly and unaccountably and his breathtakingly beautiful, young wife Celia...

Carlotta Rathbone was awfully elegant, dreadfully chic and terribly dead -- as Mr. Pinkerton discovers when he stumbles over her body in a dimly lighted London street.Her friends were bought; her enemies were legion, and paramount among them was Archibald Biddle, a social-climbing novelist...

"I knew full well, when the Chinaman stopped me in the street that night and coolly asked me for a light for his cigarette, that a light for his cigarette was the last thing in the world that he really wanted I knew, in...

Sixty original tales of Sherlock Holmes--which one is the best? In sixty essays, sixty Sherlockians make the case for each of the stories. Their arguments range from the playful to the academic, and are as varied as the authors themselves. As editor Christopher Redmond...

Lawrason Hillyard produces virtually the entire output of promethium, a highly sought metal needed to fight World War II. As rich as he is hated by his enemies (including his wife), he is the perfect target for murder. And it's up to Col. Primrose...

IN THE MANSION OF MURDER...A self-made millionaire, whose true story was not fit to print...His beautiful "friend"...His wife, and her friend, a very suspect psychiatrist...And a man from the haunted past, with his father's blood on his hands, and every reason in the world...

"Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine" returns with issue #18, presenting the best in modern and classic mystery fiction! Included this time are the usual column by Dr John H. Watson, plus the following works: Screen of the Crime, by Kim Newman Mr. Holmes, by Lynne...

"Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine" returns with issue #17, presenting the best in modern and classic mystery fiction Included this time are the usual column by Dr John H. Watson, plus the following works: His Latest Bow, by Timothy S. Greer An Unlikely Hero, by...

The Saint is on holiday in Naples when a brawl interrupts his lunch; a tweedy English tourist has casually addressed an Italian as Dino Cartelli--provoking the paunchy individual so named to set his hulking henchman on the bewildered Briton. The Saint intervenes, and soon...

Whether in Cannes, Saint-Tropez, Nassau, or Lucerne, the Saint always finds some action to interest him. In these seven stories, Simon faces competition in the jewel-thief business, encounters an unpleasant movie mogul, uncovers a Ponzi scheme that isn't what it seems, deals with sabotage...

In these six stories, the Saint encounters unscrupulous fraudsters in Hamburg; a confrontation with a rhino; perfect murders in Paris; a temperance leader deserving to be taken down a peg or two; a thief duping tourists in Sweden; and the hunt for the most...

Six more classic adventures: there's a murky tale of blackmail at a candy convention; a chance to turn the tables on an unscrupulous real-estate broker; a confidence trickster with a keen grasp of math; a scientific invention that is too good to be true;...

Mexico, Cuba, and Panama--that's where the modern-day Robin Hood engages in somewhat revolutionary activities with ice-cold blondes, bedroom-eyed redheads, con men, and knife men, not to mention stealing pearls from a blind man.Author: Leslie CharterisISBN-10: 1477842926ISBN-13: 9781477842928Publisher: Thomas & MercerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/29/2014Pages: 212Format: PaperbackWeight:...

In these nine tales, Simon has a chance to show off his skills: he matches his wits against confidence tricksters, objects to a hanging, gets the better of a patent-pill millionaire, solves a locked-room murder in a secret laboratory, goes fishing, turns journalist, and...

In these six stories, Simon Templar's uncanny ability to find an adventure wherever he goes leads him into some very strange affairs. In Bermuda, he has to solve the case of a missing husband; in England, he has to stop a husband whose wives...

The Saint is a traditionalist. He knows what a good pirate story needs: gold, hidden treasure, smugglers, dastardly villains, and damsels in distress. From Bimini to Nassau, via Jamaica and Haiti, the Saint travels the Caribbean, interrupting his holidays to settle disputes, solve murders,...

Simon Templar never goes anywhere with the intention of getting into trouble, but trouble seems to like following him.In seven adventures 'round Europe, he discovers dead bodies, missing jewels, kidnappers, and swindlers galore. He was meant to be on holiday--but when push comes to...

Nine classic adventures for the Saint in which he finds out whether the female of the species really is more deadly than the male.Author: Leslie CharterisISBN-10: 147784287XISBN-13: 9781477842874Publisher: Thomas & MercerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/29/2014Pages: 274Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.70d

The Saint is back. Fifty books are now available starring the debonair classic-crime hero. Simon Templar is the Saint--daring, dazzling, and just a little disreputable. With the invaluable assistance of Hoppy Uniatz and the help of a beautiful actress, the Saint tracks down the...

When the Saint goes for a drink in a New York nightclub--Cookie's Cellar--he discovers the rather lovely nightclub singer Avalon Dexter; however, he soon meets the less lovely Cookie herself.Author: Leslie CharterisISBN-10: 1477842853ISBN-13: 9781477842850Publisher: Thomas & MercerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/24/2014Pages: 228Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.20h x...

With the Second World War underway, the Saint has turned respectable, working for a secret branch of the government to take on a case nobody else can touch. In Washington, a young woman asks for his help--her father, a noted scientist, has created a...

When the Saint visits Arizona, he battles a Nazi scientist whose interest in ranching is prompted by the mercury deposits underneath the ranch. In Palm Springs, an alcoholic millionaire hires him after a series of near-fatal accidents. And real danger ensues in Hollywood when...

The Saint and Patricia are invited to stay with friends in Miami, but when they arrive, the friends are nowhere to be seen. After a tanker explodes off the coast and a dead sailor gets washed up on shore, the Saint suspects a link...

Nine classic short stories in which the Saint tackles a clever detective who isn't actually all that smart, a well-meaning mayor, a French count, a man who likes ants, and a producer who, much to the Saint's surprise, turns out to be quite smart....

Three more classic adventures for the Saint in which he discovers some truly miraculous tea, agrees to meet a woman with some information on a major swindle--but finds her dead--and, in the last story, decides to take the self-appointed guardian of the nation's morality...

In Tenerife, the Saint discovers three thugs beating up an old man and a young, attractive woman, so he and Hoppy Uniatz have to intervene. But when the old man reveals himself to be a diamond cutter who's just a lost a lottery ticket...

Murder, forgery, theft, and blackmail in aid of a civil war--just an amusing interlude for the Saint.Author: Leslie CharterisISBN-10: 1477842764ISBN-13: 9781477842768Publisher: Thomas & MercerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/24/2014Pages: 300Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.80d

Diving deep into trouble, the Saint takes part in an underwater treasure hunt fraught with unforeseen danger. Can he successfully raid Davy Jones's locker and salvage his reputation as well as the sunken treasure?Author: Leslie CharterisISBN-10: 1477842756ISBN-13: 9781477842751Publisher: Thomas & MercerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/24/2014Pages: 306Format:...