Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

When a fellow cop is shot dead, homicide detective Quentin Archer suspects that there's far more to this case than meets the eye. One of Quentin Archer's fellow officers has been shot dead in broad daylight, in his own squad car. A random cop...

After his father dies, Grayson Dyle, the owner of a fledgling product design firm, observes his mother hiding an envelope in the casket. He retrieves the letter, revealing that he and his brother Dean, a home automation guru, were adopted. Eager to learn more,...

Movie star Nicky Tallon selects architect Wren Fontaine to renovate Turnbull House, where he'll be filming his next movie. Even to Wren, used to old homes, this one is special: a 200-year-old federal-style home on a private island in New York harbor, designed by...

The "master of . . . cerebral puzzle mysteries" sends his Yorkshire detectives back to college to be taught a lesson in murder (The New York Times). Reginald Hill "raised the classical British mystery to new heights" when he introduced pugnacious Yorkshire Det. Inspector...

The Greatest Works of Edgar Allan Poe brings together the haunting and mesmerizing tales of the literary master. Immerse yourself in Poe's macabre imagination, explore his gothic themes, and experience the chilling beauty of his prose. Discover the iconic stories and poems of Edgar...

In post-World War II England, former Secret Service operative Mirabelle Bevan becomes embroiled in a new kind of intrigue . . . In the popular seaside town of Brighton, it's time for Mirabelle Bevan to move beyond her tumultuous wartime years and start anew....

Returning to Fox Island where she grew up, Kate Sloan begins her career as a professional organizer. When a woman accuses Kate's police chief brother of having an affair, her priority shifts from organizing to proving her brother's innocence. Kate visits the woman, hoping...

All aboard the good ship SS Columbus for an African adventure to die for . . . February 1939. Mamie Mason isn't enthusiastic when Bert, her husband of thirty years, persuades her to join him on an African cruise. Bert might be pining for...

Private Investigator Brig Ellis is on his way to spread the ashes of a friend with whom he once soldiered. His nostalgic journey soon becomes a nightmare, however, when hideous murders occur and Ellis is labeled the prime suspect. The more information that comes...

When Hazel and Rosalina think they can finally get away from their past, their family drama, everything catches up to them. She was supposed to be in Alaska, with their dad, Dale. Dale wasn't with her. Anne is hysterical, Dale has been gone for...

Author: Agatha ChristieISBN-10: 1613822278ISBN-13: 9781613822272Publisher: Simon & BrownLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/19/2012Pages: 368Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.19lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.82dAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 5.9Point Value: 12Interest Level: Upper GradeQuiz #/Name: 8894 / Secret Adversary

The Secret Adversary, a detective novel by Agatha Christie, is her second published novel. The book introduces the characters of Tommy and Tuppence who feature in three other Christie novels.A man aboard the sinking RMS Lusitania on 7 May 1915 quietly gives important papers...

Fans of the new Showtime series 'Penny Dreadful' are in for a treat with this Penny Dreadful Double Bill. 'The Strange Bed' by Wilkie Collins The author of 'The Moonstone' and 'The Woman In White' was a frequent contributor to Household Words, the popular...

1888 - In the midst of the murderous phrenzy plaguing the streets of Whitechapel, a case of mistaken identity, a courier's dispatch containing a coded message, and an urgent request from Scotland Yard draw Sherlock Holmes into a case that uncovers criminal schemes fixed...

The world's greatest detective, Hercule Poirot--legendary star of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile--puts his little grey cells to work solving a baffling Christmas mystery.It's December 19, 1931. Hercule Poirot and Inspector Edward Catchpool are looking forward to...

L'Automne is a continuing care community nestled amid the rolling hills and verdant woods surrounding Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. There is more going on here, however, than planned meals, staff-administered medications, and chair aerobics. Fraud, theft, and yes death, are stalking the halls of L'Automne....

Two centuries from now, in the Confederation, the Tyrellian uprising has ended badly. The Loyalists have defeated the Rebels, but nothing is cut-and-dried. On Earth, the Chicago Fraud Wars have also ended. There is an uneasy truce between North American law enforcement and the...

Novelist Lucia Conroy, who is collaborating with Jimmy Lane on a play, persuades him to visit her ancestral mansion on Sycamore Island in New York, where she must attend a family gathering. Bringing along his pal (and narrator) Philip Carter, Jimmy finds himself in...

December 1925: Salem, Massachusetts When Matthew Gardner, the heir to a shipping fortune, hires New York jazz singer Lizzie Crane and her band to perform during the Christmas holidays, she has high hopes that this prestigious event will foster their career and bring them...

Murder Among Supervillains As a professor of popular culture in his day job, amateur sleuth Sebastian McCabe knows a bit about superheroes, supervillains, and the various graphic novel universes. But that's not much help when murder strikes at the Tri-State Comic Book Expo. Potential...

"A man staggers out of his cottage into the streets of Oxfordshire, shattering an otherwise peaceful evening with the terrible sight of his body shaking and heaving, eyes wild with horror. Many of the villagers believe the Devil himself has entered Joseph Makepeace, the...

"Rich in psychological insight . . . Tope is particularly skilled in creating interesting and unique characters." -Deadly Pleasures Valentine's Day is fast approaching and business at Persimmon "Simmy" Brown's flower shop is booming. But when Simmy fulfills a string of anonymous delivery orders,...

Author Val Andrews was always at his best when writing about the world of entertainment and Sherlock Holmes and the Sandringham House Mystery is no exception.A famous magician is invited by the King to give a command performance at Sandringham, but tragically the brilliance...

Game Warden Mike Bowditch must chase down a cunning and dangerous fugitive in the North Maine Woods in this nail-biter of a thriller from Edgar Award-nominated author Paul Doiron, Pitch Dark. Legendary bush pilot Josie Jonson can't believe her luck when a skilled builder...

A shattered career. A crooked lawyer. An unsolved murder. Seeking peace in the Northwoods is fraught with danger. Every night John Cabrelli relives the tragic events that ended his career. While struggling to find himself again, John inherits his uncle's cabin and returns to...

Doctor John Watson tantalisingly informed us, in The Problem of Thor Bridge, that a box full of unpublished adventures of Sherlock Holmes had been left in the vaults of Cox & Co. of Charing Cross. However, what Watson neglected to tell us was that...

What have Stonehenge, puppets, King Charles I, and characters from an Alexander Dumas story got in common? The answer is contained within the carefully crafted Sherlock Holmes on the Western Front. The plot, as is usually the case with anything written by Val Andrews,...

LARGE PRINT EDITIONRaina 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...

Do you want to read An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge? If so then keep reading..."An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge" was originally published by the in 1890 it is set during the American Civil War. It is the story of Peyton Farquhar, a...

A while ago, I began wondering how the Sherlock Holmes stories would read if the famous fictional detective and his sidekick had been women. Fortunately, the stories from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes have been in the public domain for some time now. It...

Robert Turold had spent his life trying to prove his claim to an ancient title. Yet, when it seems he is about to finally succeed, his body is found in a remote cottage on the Cornish coast, an apparent suicide. When his sister expresses...

An ancient curse had predicted that the Heredith line would end in horror. Now it seems that curse may well come true. The young wife of the last of the Heredith family has been found murdered in her bed while guests of the Heredith...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was a Scottish physician and writer. Although he wrote a number of series, such as his Professor Challenger stories, he is by far best known as the creator of Sherlock Holmes. In later life he gained notoriety for his...

The Frozen Deep is an 1856 play, originally staged as an amateur theatrical, written by Wilkie Collins under the substantial guidance of Charles Dickens. The play's genesis lay in the conflict between Dickens and John Rae's report on the fate of the Franklin expedition....

An urgent cry for help brings Poirot to France. But he arrives too late to save his client, whose brutally stabbed body now lies face downwards in a shallow grave on a golf course.But why is the dead man wearing his son's overcoat? And...

What do an Internet scam, a conference for mystery writers, and "The Great Sausage Scandal" have in common? They're all connected to the latest adventure of Addy Zhuang- an employee of the real-life bank at 221B Baker Street tasked with answering all of the...

STORMY TIMES FOR THE COMISSﾁRIOA storm is brewing over the Atlantic island and the body of a touristwashes up in Funchal harbour. Did the young man really just underestimate the raging sea? Comiss疵io Avila doesn't have a good feeling about the matter, but he...

A seemingly idyllic summer picnic ends in a macabre murder that echoes a pair of slayings fourteen years earlier in this riveting new historical mystery from the USA Today bestselling author of Who Cries for the Lost. July 1815: The Prince Regent's grandiose plans...

When a simple missing heiress case lands in the laps of private investigators Nick and Lola, little do they know it's just the tip of the iceberg.As the duo digs deeper, they find themselves entangled in the treacherous world of Honduran crime and the...

Hercule Poirot must solve a baffling case from the past in this classic Agatha Christie mystery. Now with a beautiful new series look. Beautiful Caroline Crale was convicted of poisoning her husband, yet there were five other suspects: Philip Blake (the stockbroker) who went...

Just as Namekagon County sheriff John Cabrelli adjusts to his new job, a body is discovered in the woods-and he must race against time to unravel the case. Stressed relationships, public outcries for justice, and pressure from the media compound the situation. As the...

Moriarty! He was, according to Sherlock Holmes, 'the Napoleon of crime', - a mathematical genius gone mad who was the thinker and organiser behind nearly every great crime that came Holmes's way. Why then was the professor, whose evil pervaded the city like a...

Sergeant Hamish Macbeth faces a string of mysterious robberies that are only the beginning of an international threat to his sleepy Scottish village of Lochdubh in the latest mystery in M.C. Beaton's beloved, New York Times bestselling series. Sergeant Hamish Macbeth has some major...

Hollywood influencer and super-secret spy Poppy Fields is finally taking a well-deserved vacation with her partner Thor. A woman. A man. A private Greek island. What could go wrong? When a storm washes six teenage girls onto the island, trouble comes knocking. The men...

An uncanny literary thriller addressing the painful legacy of lynching in the US, by the author of Telephone Percival Everett's The Trees is a must-listen that opens with a series of brutal murders in the rural town of Money, Mississippi. When a pair of...

Author: Lawrence BlockISBN-10: 1645241300ISBN-13: 9781645241300Publisher: Subterranean PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2023Pages: 280Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.29lbsSize: 9.26h x 6.36w x 0.74dReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 08/28/2023

Ann Cleeves--New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, both of which are hit TV shows--returns with The Raging Storm, the extraordinary third installment in the Matthew Venn series.Fierce winds, dark secrets, deadly intentions. When Jem Rosco--sailor, adventurer, and...

Since 1888 the gruesome crimes of Jack the Ripper have been a never-ending source of fascination to generations of professional, amateur, and armchair detectives. What is more, those murders are no nearer being solved today as they were back in Victorian times - or...

A hard-hitting detective with a thirst for justice and a Highway Patrol trooper with an obsession for finding the truth team up to take on the case of a lifetime. Detective Sergeant Nick Wolf is tasked with dissolving a human trafficking ring on one...

Volume II contains roughly the first half of the Thorndyke Short Stories. In all, there are over forty Thorndyke short stories, spread over six books. This volume contains the fifteen short stories from the first three, John Thorndyke's Cases, The Singing Bone, and The...