Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

After serving ten years in prison for dealing cocaine, a crime she swears she didn't commit, Casey Cavendish returns to the small college town of Oberlin, Ohio determined to clear her name, finish her interrupted college degree, and build a new life. Her arrival...

Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder"The combination of bracing Cornish cliffs and seascapes with cozy interiors and a cerebral mystery makes this one of the most deservedly resurrected titles in the British Library Crime Classics series." --Booklist STARRED review'Never, even...

November's rain in Toronto 1936 has turned into December's cold snap. Charlotte Frayne escapes being hit by a mud-splattered car racing round the corner at Queen and Spadina. The stranger who saves her turns out to be the man her boss, Mr. Gilmore, has...

"Mallory and Garth are destined to become icons in the jazz age, historical mystery genre. They are private investigators with flair!" -Connie Shelton, USA Today bestselling author Private investigators Mallory, Garth and Mallory are settling into their new California lifestyle, and Woodie Garth has...

Murder, not pleasure, greets Jude Dillane when she takes a vacation from her East Village restaurant and embarks on a luxurious Mediterranean cruise. On board, a horrific death shatters her dreams of a romantic getaway, and a reconnection with her college friend, Monica Delmar,...

Book three in the Inspector Lestrade series. In the year 1888, London was horrified by a series of brutal killings. All the victims were discovered in the same district, Whitechapel, and they were all prostitutes. But they weren't the only murders to perplex the...

'IT MURDERED ONE OF OUR GUESTS, AND NOW IT'S TRIED TO KILL MY HUSBAND.' When the women of the WISE Enquiries Agency are approached by the frantic owner of a historic cottage in a picturesque Welsh seaside hamlet, they agree to help. After all...

Captain Heinz Noonan, Master of the Impossible Crime, is in Wyoming to solve an odd murder. A transient is under arrest, accused of murdering himself with a weapon that cannot be found at a time no one could pinpoint for an unknown motive. And...

Lieutenant Wilson is found dead at Reardon House, Dartford Kent, but was it a suicide or a murder? When Inspector Hargreaves of the Kent Constabulary seeks Sherlock Holmes' aid in uncovering the truth, Holmes and Watson become embroiled in an investigation leading to the...

A Sherlock Holmes fan for most of her life, Gayle Lange Puhl has collected in this volume her latest stories and studies on the Great Detective. Included here are her well-reviewed "Colonel Warburton's Madness" and "The Blood-Splattered Bridge," plus other entertaining adventures. Essays on...

After losing her job as an investigative reporter for The Phoenix Gazette, Kat Lawson has a new gig. The FBI has asked her to work undercover as a reporter for Journey International to cover Munich, Germany's festive holiday scene-an excuse to get close to...

Executive Protection Officer Kenna Devlin is tired of guarding the Governor's infant son, and longs for something more challenging. She's distracted, just for a minute, and Andrew is kidnapped on her watch. When he's found unharmed, everyone is relieved - except Kenna. She's stumbled...

Dancing Queen, A Connor Maxwell Mystery once again takes the reader on a thrilling journey. The Lakewood Police Department has assigned Detective Connor Maxwell one of the most baffling investigations of his career: an unsolved abduction and missing person, leaving a cold trail and...

It's 1967 in California's magical City by the Bay- a bold new era of sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll...and murder. Graduating from UC Berkeley just as the Summer of Love begins, twin brothers Jack and Bobby Doyle forge two different career paths. Jack heads...

What would you do to keep your past a secret?When the mutilated remains of a woman are retrieved by local fishermen, it falls to DI Tom Janssen and his team to identify how she came to be in the water and what put her...

A LONG ROAD TRIP ACROSS THE COUNTRY WITH FATHER ROBERTS TO SANTA FE. A TIME OF SERVICE AND REFLECTION WILL LEAD TO A CASE WHERE MARIA IS DRAGGED IN TOO DEEP. WILL NEIL BE ABLE TO SAVE HER? IN A CASE THAT WILL SEE...

How far would you go to get justice against the person who stole your deceased childhood friend's identity? If you're Isaiah Funderburke, vengeance will become an obsession. On the cusp of adolescence, Funderburke's best friend Bertie was killed in a convenience store robbery. The...

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?When Mrs Dover witnesses a young policeman's suicide and has the bad taste to report it, Dover's vacation...

This is Crippen & Landru's second collection by William Brittain. The first (The Man Who Read Mysteries) included all of the "Man Who Read...." stories and a few stories about the logical and deductive science teacher, Mr. Strang. Our second collection (of a planned...

64 new, traditional Sherlock Holmes Stories making up the latest three volumes in the world's largest collection of Sherlock Holmes Stories - XIX, XX and XXI.In 2015, the first three volumes of The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories arrived, containing over 60...

No way in. No way out. Who killed the party host? Follow the clues with Gwen in this present-day homage to locked room mysteries of the Golden Era in Milford Bed & Breakfast, book four in the Gwendolyn Strong Small Town Cozy Mystery SeriesGwendolyn...

The Godfrey family is vacationing among the picturesque rocky cliffs of the North Atlantic seaboard, expecting peace, quiet, and, perhaps, a bit of golf or tennis. But one dusky evening in an isolated spot on the grounds of Spanish Cape, Rosa and her uncle...

Do you want to read The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes? If so then keep reading... With his devoted secretary, Dr. Watson, Holmes emerges from his smoke-filled rooms on Baker Street to grapple with the forces of treachery, intrigue, and evil in such cases as...

First published in 1927, "The Big Four" is the fifth mystery by Agatha Christie to feature her most famous character, the brilliant detective Hercule Poirot. Widely regarded as one of Christie's most ambitious and complicated mysteries, the story takes place over a year as...

A masked ball.Secret negotiations.And a killer with a few tricks up their sleeve.Mardi Gras, 1936.Though the shores of Lake Como Italy may be calm, intrigue roils beneath the surface of the Marchesa's palatial villa. It's the only time a cat may dance with a...

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...

"Listening to Grover Gardner narrating a David Rosenfelt novel is like sliding into favorite slippers at the end of a long day: One feels the joyful gratification of a perfect fit." --AudioFile on Bark of Night In National Bestseller David Rosenfelt's 'Twas the Bite...

'Ibbley, obbley, onker, my first conker ' The ancient warcry of English conker battles heralds autumn in the Kentish countryside, where Plummergen, Miss Seeton's home village, and its great rival Murreystone, are holding their Produce Show and - this year - impromptu fisticuffs Plus...

Things are eerily quiet at Gemma's quaint English tearoom and she can't understand why - until she learns about the trendy new "tea bar" that's opened on the other side of the village. To her horror, she soon finds her customers being stolen and...

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Early AdventuresThere is a persistent and incorrect idea, reinforced by countless film misrepresentations, that Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson were always staid and dull British chaps of middle years (or older), with Holmes a spry, cranky, and impatient...

A tragic death. A hotel filled with suspects. A baffling mystery in Venice.Private detective Henry Fleming, having just wrapped up a case which has taken him to Venice, has decided to stay for a few more days to explore the city and sample some...

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...

London, February 1896. A bright crisp day is the first hint of the spring to come, a welcome intrusion into the winter gloom of the great industrial city. But as Watson welcomes the sun and tries to cheer up a restless Holmes, there is...

Nick, a freelance photographer, is on assignment from Travel USA magazine to photograph every single state capitol building in a single year. But mystery and even romance seem to follow him pretty much everywhere he goes. Will he be able to help solve the...

The House that Hate Built: When widowed bank president James Clark wed a second time, to the previously married Margaret Branch, mother of glamourous divorcee Margo Branch, it was a dark day indeed for James Clark's blue-blooded spinster sisters, Elizabeth and Mary, who made...

When Santa Fe historian Kate Isaacs disappears while staying and doing research at the historic Mabel Dodge Luhan House in Taos, Isaacs' wife hires private investigator Fernando Lopez to find the missing woman. At the Luhan House, now a bed and breakfast inn, Lopez...

In this book the author of Death at Dayton's Folly and Murder on the Day of Judgment has done for the small-town high school what Dorothy Sayers did for Oxford's woman's college in Gaudy Night.Once again the amiable and homespun Rocky Allan, aided and...

A hit and run. A suspicious death. A vendetta.Sam Earnshaw's recovery from a year-long coma should be an occasion for celebration. Instead, he reveals that the hit and run incident that left him close to death was no accident. Someone deliberately pushed him into...

In 2015, The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories burst upon the scene, featuring adventures set within the correct time period, and written by many of today's leading Sherlockian authors from around the world. Those first three volumes were overwhelmingly received, and there...

Private security specialist, Greg Stern, is a reluctant guest in a remote and inaccessible Zen monastery. His wife, Vega, sent him there after a marital transgression to ponder and improve his interaction with women. When a dead boy is found in the meditation hall,...

The miracle of Sherlock Holmes is that for twenty-five pounds in 1887, Conan Doyle created a truly universal and immortal literary figure. Sherlock Holmes is a household word in virtually every country in the world. A few of Shakespeare's characters are nearly that well...

Once again it's time to grab your favorite drink, plop down in your most comfy chair, and catch up on the latest happenings in Oak Grove County. Professors at the university are encouraged to become entrepreneurs, and many succeed with lucrative inventions. What could...

Can Private Investigator Hugo Flynn solve the peculiar case of one man and both of his deaths, or uncover the deadly meaning behind a series of numbers whispered by a doctor in his dying breath?Does the English countryside lose its appeal for the Emerald...

A buried skeleton. A dark conspiracy. A ruthless killer.When flash floods unearth a human skeleton at a local beauty spot, DCI Tom Raven is called to investigate. Who is the dead man, and how did he end up there?Help is on hand from forensic...

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his famous detective tales.These are the first of the Sherlock Holmes short stories, originally published as single stories in the Strand Magazine from July 1891 to June 1892....

"I came here to make a dead man change his mind."So begins a creepy and unusual mystery celebrated to this day as one of the greatest "impossible crime" novels of all time. When a family's promise to protect the beloved pine grove of their...

The Circular Staircase is a mystery novel by American writer Mary Roberts Rinehart. The story follows dowager Rachel Innes as she thwarts a series of strange crimes at a summer house she has rented with her niece and nephew. The novel was Rinehart's first...

Clouds of Witness is a 1926 mystery novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, the second in her series featuring Lord Peter Wimsey. In the United States the novel was first published in 1927 under the title Clouds of Witnesses.The book's title derives from Hebrews, Chapter...

A dead vicar in the vestry, the wrong man condemned, and a village with secrets to bury.After the vicar of Condicote is found murdered at the funeral of a dissolute baron, the police soon identify the likely culprit. But faced with countless rivalries and...

Second in a series of period-authentic Holmes adventures, faithful to the style and chronology of the original Doyle tales.Author: Richard K. RadekISBN-10: 1082759295ISBN-13: 9781082759291Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/17/2019Pages: 278Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.67lbsSize: 7.99h x 5.00w x 0.63d