Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

Vincent is an amnesiac as well as a believer in miracles - especially the miracle of figuring out his own past. A birthday note from his father is his only memento from long ago. He also possesses the gift of hearing what others do...

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 never did like missing people. Far too often we've found them dead.When that cheerful soul, Doris Bosford, asked Ludovic Travers of the Broad Street Detective Agency to trace her missing husband the case soon involved matters less innocent than a mere disappearance. Andrew...

There was no mess: just a dark stain one could see on the waistcoat. What was horrible was the contortion of the face and the tortured eyes. But even then I thought I knew him.There can be few people who would wish to go...

We've got to have a body.That's what what detective Ludovic Travers says, after being contacted by one Lord Tynworth. Tynworth's wife has vanished and his lordship wants her found - yet strangely doesn't seem especially keen on getting her back. When Travers walks into...

Between the acting of a dreadful thing, and the first motion...Ludovic Travers sees it happen. He sees a strange young woman assault Clement Foorde, and all because he had expressed his dislike for a certain best-selling novel. Is it a publicity stunt? The matter...

DCI John Meredith has two horrific murders to solve, both committed several years ago, and believed to be connected to a Russian drugs ring watched closely by the Secret Intelligence Service. This concerns Meredith, but keen to take on the challenge, he throws himself...

That happened to be the last that either of us actually saw of Alysia Rimmell--alive.Ludovic Travers, associate of Scotland Yard, and the director of his own detective agency, is brought into a new case, and finds something very much wrong with an attempt at...

Whoever was driving that car was either drunk or mad.The Case of the Flowery Corpse takes Ludovic Travers to the English rural idyll of Marstead in Suffolk, visiting his old friend Henry Morle. The quiet village seems hardly the place for mystery. Yet, following...

Providence, they say, is good to drunkards and children. Maybe there's a third category--the unorthodox detective.A new case finds Ludovic Travers travelling to the respectable English Midlands town of Mainford. He is commissioned to investigate the death, under compromising circumstances, of Harry Landlace--a man...

Isn't it a tremendous coincidence that his murderer should also have had large front teeth?Ludovic Travers has received a good many queer requests and enquiries at the Broad Street Detective Agency, but a psychiatrist in fear of his life and in search of a...

His head went sideways, like a hopping sparrow's on a lawn.The man who saves Henry Clandon's life during the campaign in Sicily visits him once in hospital, gives his name as David Seeway, makes vague and apparently pointless reference to somebody else called Archie...

Orlando Pearson presents five more scandalously entertaining stories in his well-known Redacted Sherlock Holmes series;- A Perilous Engagement: Mycroft Holmes and a Whitehall whitewash;- Death at Tennis: The hunt for the lady who fled the ball;- An Encirclement Thwarted: Espionage work at the outbreak...

Do you love Cornwall, with its cliffs and breakers, sleepy fishing harbours and villages? Would you like to meet a real English Lord? And do you enjoy an authentic, well researched historical crime story? With the author you will accompany the renowned Baker Street...

Ray Gilbert isn't someone you would call a "nice guy," but he is a hard-working cardiologist who gives a damn about his job. When Ray starts seeing patients who received medical devices they might not need, he tries to figure out why. Spurned by...

In this fourth crime thriller of the Ellie Foreman series, the Chicago documentary filmmaker finds herself in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Returning from a video shoot at the Lodge, a newly renovated, upscale resort, Ellie befriends a woman who claims her ride abandoned her at...

"A lot of quiet people are sitting about talking, and one of them suddenly feels there will be murder done. And it was "The narrator of This Delicate Murder is Penny Mercer, murder-mystery author. She and novelist-husband Vincent are invited by Lionel Fonders to...

"There are serpents even in this Eden," she chuckled, with a wave of her thin, much-beringed hand at something in the grass. "But now that we have a French cook, we shall be spared any dangerous mistakes."The woman was actually pointing at a group...

This volume of 3 Detectives has a railway theme, with mystery short stories from the early 1900s and a newspaper serial novel from the 1930s.'The Investigations of Godfrey Page, Railwayac' (Victor L. Whitechurch, 1903-1904): Godfrey Page is a 'railway maniac, ' or railwayac, whose...

Sparkling descriptions of life in 1920s Cork and fascinating historical details combine to ably support a clever plot and an intriguing cast Booklist A rare shopping trip for the Reverend Mother ends in brutal murder in this absorbing historical mystery. Despite its regal name,...

When Casey Cassidy, the hard-drinking manager of the Tampa Smokers baseball team goes missing days before the final game of the championship series with the Havana Cubans, his girlfriend, Veronica Baird, is frantic. The black sheep beauty of her blueblood family, she is certain...

Alexis Mortensen rose from his chair in the first-class Pullman and walked into the corridor.None of the remaining occupants noticed that he had left them until after Death, travelling at 60 miles an hour, had reached out for him . . .Seven men and...

It was at that moment that Jack knew he had to kill.The trouble began during a holiday in Paignton. When Jack met Mary, his future wife, he also met James Sprogson, a charming villain bent on destroying the couple's happiness. Mary distrusted Sprogson but...

CLUED to DEATH, Olivia Reynolds, owner and operator of the White House Dollhouse Store in Minneapolis, attends a National Park expo at the Xcel Energy Center as a vendor and as a fan. Liv leaves her employee, Gina, at the First Lady Dollhouse booth...

Ralph Delchard and Gervase Bret arrive in Archenfield for what should be a straightforward assignment. But they are shocked to discover that a principal witness has been murdered, burned alive in his own home. With an enigmatic symbol the only clue to the killer's...

September, 1901. Fresh from a run of more than 260 performances in New York, the play, Sherlock Holmes, opens at London's Lyceum Theatre. In attendance are Mrs. Hudson, Dr. Watson and Holmes, the renowned detective attending in disguise, concerned that he is somewhat too...

In a gas-lit inn in the countryside a man lies dead. The police, of course, investigate - and so do Miles Bredon and his wife, in the interests of the Indescribable Insurance Company, with which the deceased man, Mr Mottram, had been heavily insured....

The fact that Cosmo Costello, a well-known Central Florida mobster, is killed doesn't send seismic waves through the law enforcement community except when it is discovered that a rather significant amount of cocaine is missing. Full time automotive journalist and part time special deputy...

Volume V contains the seventh, eighth, and ninth full-length Thorndyke adventures, published in 1924, 1925, and 1926, respectively. With each subsequent narrative, Thorndyke's skills and abilities grown and amaze. The Mystery of Angelina Frood - In which a doctor, newly arrived in Rochester, falls...

Volume V contains the seventh, eighth, and ninth full-length Thorndyke adventures, published in 1924, 1925, and 1926, respectively. With each subsequent narrative, Thorndyke's skills and abilities grown and amaze. The Mystery of Angelina Frood - In which a doctor, newly arrived in Rochester, falls...

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...

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ DL (22 May 1859 - 7 July 1930) was a British writer, who created the character Sherlock Holmes. Originally a physician, in 1887 he published A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and more than fifty...

Dr. Thorndyke is one of the best creations of the Golden Age of British detective fiction. He is both medical doctor and barrister and the first great exponent of forensics in fiction, with an encyclopedic scientific knowledge. These five short stories were originally published...

Trent's Last Case is in fact the first novel in which the sleuth Philip Trent makes his first appearance. The novel breaks new ground in detective fiction history because it is the first novel of any substance that breaks all the rules of the...

Mary Roberts Rinehart (August 12, 1876 - September 22, 1958) was an American writer, often called the American Agatha Christie, although her first mystery novel was published 14 years before Christie's first novel in 1920.Rinehart is considered the source of the phrase "The butler...

A Poor Wise Man mixes romantic fiction with political analysis. This engrossing story begins, "The city turned its dreariest aspect toward the railway on blackened walls, irregular and ill-paved streets, gloomy warehouses, and over all a gray, smoke-laden atmosphere which gave it mystery and...

Mary Roberts Rinehart (August 12, 1876 - September 22, 1958) was an American writer, often called the American Agatha Christie, although her first mystery novel was published 14 years before Christie's first novel in 1920.Rinehart is considered the source of the phrase "The butler...

A tense psychological thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat! Perfect for fans of Shari Lapena, B A Paris and C.L. Taylor Will she ever see her daughter again? It's every parent's worst nightmare. Alex Granger only turned her back...

Its favourite afternoon pastime was murder, and its favourite evening occupation was the same, only a trifle more so.Anthony Bathurst reaches Swallowcliffe Hall, summoned by Constance Whittaker, to protect her husband, Major Whittaker, from an unnamed threat. Bathurst enlists his friend Peter Daventry, a...

New York Times-bestselling author This exciting new installment in the County Cork Mystery series has "plenty for cozy lovers to enjoy" and drips with the charm--and menace--of its atmospheric Irish setting (New York Journal of Books) Some secrets are too big to stay buried......

Lawrence Blakely, an attorney-in-law carrying important papers, stumbles on a murder aboard a train. Meanwhile, his bag containing the valuable documents has been stolen, along with his clothes, and he's being accused of the killing when the train is wrecked. Blakely and a mysterious...

Noch bevor Margaret Reedle ihre neue Stelle bei der undurchsichtigen Gr fin Moron antritt, bekommt sie Drohanrufe. Jemand droht, sie zu t ten. Kurze Zeit sp ter wird auf sie auch schon der erste Mordanschlag ver bt, dem sie nur knapp durch die Hilfe...

Jane Smith, an impecunious and intrepid heroine, finds herself in the wrong place at the right time, swept into an adventure which will include imposture, peril, romance and... murder. The Astonishing Adventure of Jane Smith, the first of Patricia Wentworth's mystery novels, was originally...

Three adventurous teenagers, yearning for manhood.Two mysterious disappearances.One Mississippi farm at the center of it all.When he's not busy trying to win over the girl of his dreams, Case Reynolds fishes, camps, and races three-wheelers on a local farm with his best friends, the...

On a desolate road in the Oregon high desert, an apprentice mortician stumbles upon a horrific car crash--and into a vortex of treachery, long-buried secrets, and growing menace. Melisende Dulac is a fish out of water after relocating from the East Coast to a...

Julia Blake runs her own cleaning business. She also has the unfortunate knack of discovering bodies of people who have been murdered.In this story Julia visits one of her clients, a genealogist called Hugo Barnes. Hugo has uncovered a family secret during the course...

Agatha Christie's second novel, "The Secret Adversary", which was first published in 1922, introduces the world to the adventures of intrepid detectives Tommy and Tuppence, or as they are more formally known, Thomas Beresford and Prudence Cowley. The two young friends find themselves out...

LARGE PRINT EDITIONTop hats and tails. Mink and murder . . .November, 1923. An invitation to a house party at the estate of Parkview Hall is a welcome respite for Olive Belgrave, a newly minted working girl who's become the solver of high society's...

In this volume, Sherlock Holmes's most famous case, The Hound of the Baskervilles, is retold in just twenty-six words, wherein the first word begins with A, the last with Z, and the story proceeds as the alphabet progresses. The text is accompanied by amusing...

A desperate plea for assistance sends young Miss Dory Sparks scrambling to reach Wallisford Hall days before the coronation of King George VI, where her Aunt Gladys works as the cook. Domestic service had never been an intended career for Dory, but a plea...