Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

Every summer, hordes of Ernest Hemingway lookalikes swarm Key West to compete on Papa's birthday.This summer, one of them is a killer.When a vacationing family discovers the headless corpse of a Key West party girl, the case falls to Monroe County homicide detective Jack...

Can David Ludwig Emerge from His Fugue? Was He Set Up ... or Did He Murder His Family? The Wet Mountain Valley Sheriff's Office has its hands full when they must not only deal with solving a homicide, but, with limited resources, must call...

When a member of an exclusive book club is checked out, spunky librarian Trudell Becket must sort fact from fiction to solve the murder. The Cypress Arete Society is one of the town's oldest and most exclusive clubs. When assistant librarian Trudell Becket is...

Dan Cumberland tried to convince himself that the town of Clayton could not harbor the evil and threatened violence he felt in the air, but when the police chief pleaded with him never to say the word 'murder' aloud, he could no longer ignore...

Four months after her turbulent arrival, Pomeranian immigrant Hanneke Bauer is still struggling to feel at home on the Wisconsin farm she inherited from her husband. She does savor a growing friendship with tinsmith Karoline Ketzler, but that solace vanishes when Karoline's daughter Jacobine...

Sun, sand, and of course-murder.At long last, lady detective Rosemary Lillywhite and her best friend Vera are on their way to a much-needed holiday, and they're not traveling alone. Rosemary's impish brother, Frederick, on sabbatical from work at their father's company, wouldn't dream of...

In the tradition of Holmes and Poirot comes another erstwhile professor turned detective create by Clyde B. Clason. Here is a long, full-bodied, and modern mystery story, cleverly plotted, with excellent characters and genuine suspense. The final curtain will come as a surprise to...

Ten years on from Holmes and Watson's sleuthing days, something is amiss at the prestigious and exclusive Abbey School.Young Lord Whitechurch is accused of stealing money from the headmaster's office. But as one of the wealthiest pupils, the question remains as to his motive....

The Man Who Knew Too Much: From behind the overhanging rock came a noise and rush like that of a railway train; and a great motorcar appeared. For the fraction of a flash it seemed to leave the ledge of rock like a flying...

At a luxurious country wedding, the mother of the bride is found murdered and the groom caught red-handed, but who wielded the knife?When the Duchess of Hinwick is found dead on her daughter's wedding day, renowned sleuth Lord Edgington must prove his grandson's innocence...

Raw Meat Detective Wells, a Hollywood homicide detective and 3 other detectives from 3 surrounding Ca. cities try to find the people involved in the many deaths due to the eating of poisoned human meat which was sold as exotic Ostrich meat out of...

The Rumpole renaissance continues to build, and now the beloved barrister's many followers have a special reason to rejoice: a sensational full-length Rumpole novel that at last relates the oft-mentioned but never revealed story of Rumpole's first case, the Penge Bungalow affair. Looking back...

"The Screaming Child is a dark marvel. Both bone-chilling and moving, it excavates a grief so intense it sharpens into obsession. Swiftly told and full of surprises, it hums in your brain long after you reach its haunting final pages." -Megan Abbott, author of...

Cotton Kendall, son of a wealthy mill-owning family in Sudwich, Connecticut, had been the youthful protégé and friend of Frederick Thorne, distinguished artist. He-unless it was his hometown schoolmate and gunner-returned from the War in the Pacific, disfigured beyond recognition, unwilling to be seen...

Author: T. W. SpeightISBN-10: 8027341728ISBN-13: 9788027341726Publisher: E-ArtnowLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/06/2021Pages: 234Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.49d

When famed television producer and celebrated Aspen luminary Conrad Harvey dies in Florida, the assignment gets dumped into the lap of sardonic beat reporter Bernard "Mac" McCaffrey. Only Harvey himself isn't the story. It's his bombshell daughter, Roxanne, who's been spotted crashing Alcoholics and...

It is carnival time in Nice, and for three weeks the boulevards are alive with dancers, jugglers and musicians. Amid the colour and pageantry, a man suffers a fatal fall - the first in a series of suspicious deaths. Captain Paul Darac of the...

The Murder on the Links is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead & Co in March 1923 and, in the same year, in the UK by The Bodley Head in May. It features Hercule...

The Murder on the Links is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead & Co in March 1923 and, in the same year, in the UK by The Bodley Head in May. It features Hercule...

"To Sherlock Holmes, Irene Adler is "the woman." In "A Scandal in Bohemia," she defeated him in his attempt to retrieve an incriminating photograph of the King of Bohemia. Or did she? In the tradition of "The Great Game," this book will explore the...

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 new,...

A sharp-witted detective investigates the mystery of a gem, plundered from India and now vanished in England, and discovers shifting motives, unreliable testimony and growing danger in this foundational classic of mystery fiction. The Moonstone justly occupies an exalted position as a groundbreaking novel...

Lestrade is deeply troubled. The disappearance of five boys has been left unsolved for almost twenty years. Under Lestrade's watch, the wrong man was arrested and imprisoned for murder. But after a long appeal, the court has suddenly overturned its decision.The man is free....

In the 1800s, a number of Victorian and Edwardian writers began writing detective mystery stories - for this was the era when Arthur Conan Doyle was creating Sherlock Holmes tales on a regular basis. Modern authors have attempted to recapture the mystique of Conan...

Raina Sun is cashing in a gift certificate for a free hairstyle from the town's premier beauty salon and day spa. No more walking dandelion head, thank you very much. Life is on the up-and-up-until she finds an attacker holding her best friend in...

Raina Sun thought cleaning her grandma's house in San Francisco to prepare for Chinese New Year would be a breeze. Instead, she finds her deceased grandfather's secret journal and ends up French kissing the train tracks in a mugging incident. After putting the move...

The story begins in 1881, when Dr. Watson, having returned to London after serving in the Second Anglo-Afghan War, visits the Criterion Restaurant and runs into an old friend named Stamford, who had been a dresser under him at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. Watson confides...

The world of Big Tech is full of eccentric characters, but shamanic billionaire Gerald Byrne may be the strangest of the bunch. The founder of Byrner, a global social media platform, Byrne is known for speaking with vague profundity and for dabbling in esoteric...

Author: Anthony FlaccoISBN-10: 1648755518ISBN-13: 9781648755514Publisher: Severn River PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/03/2022Pages: 318Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.98w x 0.47d

G. K. Chesterton's celebrity priest-detective returns in The Secret of Father Brown, the fourth of five collections of short stories featuring Father Brown. Through his uncanny ability to anticipate the actions of others and his profound understanding of human nature, Father Brown uncovers the...

Der Gehilfe des Londoner Staranwaltes Septimus Salter, Jim Steele, ist mit dem pl tzlichen Verschwinden der Millionenerbin Dorothy Danton vor 20 Jahren sehr besch ftigt. Kurz zuvor war auch Dorothys Mutter Lady Mary Danton verschwunden. Da Dorothy damals eineinhalb Jahre alt war, meint Jim...

"If one man does not make a move, the other must, and by permitting the adversary to make the attack one learns something about him."In The Big Four, Hercule Poirot investigates a string of murders that appear to be disconnected on the surface, but...

Set in the sleepy English village of Cherringham, this cozy detective series brings together an unlikely sleuthing duo: English web designer Sarah and American ex-cop Jack. Each of the self-contained episodes is a quick listen for the morning commute, while waiting for the doctor,...

From NY Times bestselling author of the award-winning Justice series who has sold over 4 million copies worldwide. A killer hiding in plain sight with everything to lose... When the remains of a person, reported missing over six years ago, are discovered, DI Sally...

Katelyn Took came home to settle her grandmother's estate, only to discover not only did Gram leave seventeen cats. But Ruth Beauregard, a childhood chum, had moved in. Ruth was confused, penniless, and abandoned by her in-laws because they believed she had murdered her...

For ex-con Casey Cavendish, a quest for family and a new life becomes a primal battle for survival.   After clearing her name but burning her bridges in Ohio, Casey Cavendish ventures to New England in search of a mystery man she believes to be...

At a very early age, Kate's mother tells Kate that her father is going to become deathly ill at the dinner table, and regardless as to how distressed he becomes, Kate is to sit quietly without emotion. A few days after the father dies,...

Though Rook Campbell's life is full of challenges with work and caring for her ailing grandma, she's decided it's time to focus on her job at a local distillery, reignite her love life, and move forward from her ex --all which proves to be...

Once again, hidden on the fog shrouded streets of London are heinous criminals set upon their nefarious schemes. All that stands in their way are two men, stalwart and unafraid to take on villainy in all its insidious disguises; Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.In...

The Cambridgeshire hamlet of Jude's Ferry is a lonely, forgotten spot. Requisitioned decades earlier by the Ministry of Defence for military training, one of its few claims to fame is that in its entire thousand-year history, it never recorded a single crime. But when...

These are E. W. Hornung's famous stories of adventure and crime featuring the thrill seeking A. J. Raffles and his friend, accomplice and chronicler 'Bunny'. By turns urbane gentleman about town and accomplished cricketer, life is just too ordinary for Raffles and that sets...

*NATIONAL BESTSELLER*A New York Times Editors' ChoiceBooker Prize winner and "Irish master" (The New Yorker) John Banville's most ambitious crime novel yet brings two detectives together to solve a globe-spanning mysteryIn 1950s Dublin, Rosa Jacobs, a young history scholar, is found dead in her...

The eleven stories gathered together in these two volumes share their own common feature. All have connections to the world of belles lettres, the world of literature--some to celebrated authors in particular, others to themes or stories associated with specific writers . . ....

From J. A. Jance's New York Times bestselling Brady and Walker novels, federal investigator Dan Pardee, Brandon Walker's son-in-law, crosses paths with Sheriff Joanna Brady as he traces the bloody path of a merciless serial killer across the Southwest in this intense thriller.Driven by...

Part XIV: Charles Veley and Anna Elliott, Mark Sohn, David Marcum, S. Subramanian, Roger Riccard, Marcia Wilson, Tracy J. Revels, Arthur Hall, GC Rosenquist. Edwin A. Enstrom, Jayantika Ganguly, C.H. Dye, Matthew Booth, Stephen Herczeg, Geri Schear, Liz Hedgecock, Carl Heifetz, Gayle Lange Puhl,...

There is always room in the world for more gripping tales about the exploits of the inimitable Sherlock Holmes and the redoubtable Dr Watson. Here is a collection of five previously unknown cases from the astonishing career of the consulting detective and his ever-loyal...

Spenser investigates the past secrets of an elusive tech billionaire in this latest installment of Robert B. Parker's beloved series, and the first written by celebrated writer Mike Lupica. Andrew Crain has it all: a brilliant scientist and astute businessman, his groundbreaking work with...

Sherlock Holmes's investigations were not always the neat and self-contained stories that were presented for publication. As Watson writes in his "Foreword" Holmes's cases overlapped one another considerably, often with the next beginning while the current was still in motion. Some moved linearly from...

"Curl up by the fire (and lock all the doors) for this Christmas cracker of a book." --C.S. Green, author of Sleep TightTwelve clues. Twelve keys. Twelve days of Christmas. But how many will die before Twelfth Night?Agatha Christie meets Clue in this delightful,...

There is nothing more tragic than a story left untold. At least that is what Sherlock Holmes thought. Through his urgings Doctor Watson opens his tin dispatch box to recall a series of strange and grotesque events which consumed their daily lives in the...