Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

Agatha Christie's first published novel, it introduces many of the plot points and styles that would come to characterize her writing. It also introduced the world to the character of Hercule Poirot. Set in a remote manor with only a limited number of suspects,...

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson become involved in a case that begins with blackmail and then takes a horrifying turn. Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard calls in Holmes for assistance in this baffling mystery. The case of The Iron Dog requires all of the...

When the sudden illness of her father-in-law pulls Victoria Sedgewick away from London, she finds herself at the gloomy Yorkshire estate of her late husband's family. There she discovers that her relations are in danger from a bitter darkness that threatens to engulf them...

The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of 13 Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1903-1904, by Arthur Conan Doyle. The stories were published in the Strand Magazine in Great Britain, and Collier's in the United States. The book was first published in...

POIROT INVESTIGATES: - is a collection of eleven short stories written by English author Agatha Christie -- the best-selling author of all time. This was first published in the UK in March 1924. In the motley collection of superb short stories, Hercule Poirot --...

The Valley of Fear is the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is loosely based on the Molly Maguires and Pinkerton agent James McParland. The story was first published in the Strand Magazine between September 1914 and May...

The writer of several hundred stories and novels, English author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle began his writing career in 1879. While he introduced the world to his most famous character, Sherlock Holmes, in the 1887 novel "A Study in Scarlet", it would not be...

Aus dem Buch: "Ich ging aber vor allem deshalb den Klippenpfad hinunter, weil es furchtbar st rmisch war und weil die Klippen mich gegen den Regen sch tzten. Ich wu te aber nicht, da im letzten Sommer ein Erdrutsch gewesen war. Der Weg brach...

An international wildlife conference. A murdered keynote speaker. Can a golden years amateur sleuth solve the case before she becomes an endangered species? Community vet 'Mama Rose' Hardie is passionate about saving elephants in her native Kenya. She attends a wildlife conference on the...

Aus dem Buch: "Nur wenige Dienstboten genossen so viel Freiheit und Behaglichkeit wie Tonger, der das ganze oberste Stockwerk des Hauses bewohnte. Marshalt hatte ihm dort ein Schlafzimmer, ein Wohnzimmer und ein Bad eingerichtet, und Tonger verbrachte den gr ten Teil seiner Abende in...

Albert Campion travels to Dorset as he attempts to get to the bottom of a series of shocking events connected to a TV adaptation of one of Evadne Childe's famous novels. "Ripley's brilliant inventiveness demonstrates that golden age characters and tropes can still work...

Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) war ein englischer Schriftsteller, Drehbuchautor, Regisseur, Journalist und Dramatiker. Wallace geh rt zu den erfolgreichsten englischsprachigen Kriminalschriftstellern. Die Romane von Edgar Wallace wurden in vierundvierzig Sprachen bersetzt. Aus dem Buch: "Pl tzlich erkannte er instinktiv, in welcher Gefahr er schwebte, und...

At the age of ten in the mid-1970's, David Marcum discovered Mr. Sherlock Holmes, and from that point, he knew that the original 60 Canonical adventures would never be enough. This, coupled with his life-long desire to write, meant that eventually he would find...

From USA Today Bestselling Author, P.D. Workman!A dead child.A mother deep in mourning.Private Investigator Zachary Goldman's life isn't all roses, but he tries to put his own shattered life behind him to investigate the death of five-year-old Declan Bond.Declan's death has been ruled an...

Set in the mountains of Southwest Virginia, Duke is a mean old moonshiner. His son Hillard, growing up way before his time, escapes the ridge, determined not to follow in his father's footsteps. However, just like so many before him, the mountain draws him...

Holmes and Watson return in this atmospheric crime novel, featuring the wild Devonshire moors, a phantom hound, and a centuries-old familial curse. Investigating the sudden death of Sir Charles Baskerville, Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson must rely on their rationality to solve what appears...

Two roommates, Michael and Jimmy, are invited to visit Michael's elderly aunts, Martha and Barbara Farrington (the Skipper), at their isolated island mansion on Long Island Sound. Aunt Martha likes to play matchmaker, so has invited young Jude Blinshop, while Michael has brought along...

STAND-ALONE MURDER MYSTERY, #10 IN THE SERIES. MEET MAVERICK BRITISH DETECTIVE DI SKELGILL... "MAD, BAD AND JUST A LITTLE BIT COZY."WHEN THE TWISTED CORPSE of elderly zoo-owner Antonia Crow is found beneath the precipitous jaws of Dead Crags, and her twin Vivienne narrowly survives...

A small island with big lies...Welcome to Rockfish Island.In book three of the series, dark deeds, intended to remain hidden beneath the cold waters bordering the island, have surfaced, shocking the small community and casting a dark shadow over its residents.Confronted with a blood-speckled...

Fall is a deadly time of year as proven by this clean collection of traditional mystery short stories. Discover your new favorite author or spend time with a familiar friend in this anthology featuring the work of nine multi-published mystery writers.Author: Linda Gordon Hengerer,...

A woman finally convinces her wealthy husband that they should take a vacation. He is not an outdoorsman and works long hours, so she is surprised when he chooses a chalet in the Smoky Mountains outside of Gatlinburg, Tennessee. All is fine the first...

Following the events of the fateful murder party at the Jilde Estate, the Criminology Society has continued on with their lives as usual. Since then, the remaining members have gained a new perspective of the world. Now, with their new vision, they will face...

Rosalie has determined to begin a new life, but she is haunted by shadows of her unscrupulous past. She knows she needs to stay focused on the job at hand, ​​​and a lucrative one at that. When her insatiable need for male companionship leads...

Million-copy bestselling author Kate Ellis returns with the brand new book in the DI Wesley Peterson crime series.'A beguiling author who interweaves past and present' THE TIMES November. With the tourist season over in South Devon, Detective Inspector Wesley Peterson is looking forward to...

Sherlock Holmes is one of the most beloved fictional detectives that has graced English literature, and we have Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to thank for making the introduction. Doyle began enchanting readers with Sherlock Holmes' deductive skills and crime fighting abilities in the late...

Enjoy Agatha Christie's beloved classic, Hallowe'en Party--the inspiration for the major motion picture A Haunting in Venice, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh--with a new introduction by Michael Green, screenwriter of the film. When a Halloween party turns deadly, it falls to Hercule Poirot...

"The little grey cells, my friend, the little grey cells! They told me."-Agatha Christie, The Murder on the LinksThe Murder on the Links (1923) is a mystery featuring the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and Captain Arthur Hastings, his companion. A client, who is in...

A Senator who vanished. . .An old man with regrets. . .Editor Kurt Borden's star rerter is struggling with depression. Long before Kurt bought his lakeside house in Maine, a senator owned the cottage next door. When Mick Tyler shows interest in the story,...

When P.I. Buck McDivit inherits an island, marina and rustic fishing lodge on a primordial East Texas lake, he finds it's haunted by the ghost of a long-dead little girl. He soon learns the restless spirit is the least of his problems. To keep...

Santa Fe artist Jimmy Mackey wakes up in his studio on Canyon Road with a massive hangover. His morning gets worse when a police cruiser pulls into his parking lot next to a strange car and even worse when police find a dead woman...

Playing Bunco may be fun...but murder proves a game-changer.Octogenarian sleuth Myrtle Clover has never heard of the dice game Bunco. Regardless, she steps in as her daughter-in-law's sub and reluctantly puts her game face on.Bunco turns out to be child's play. But when a...

A prominent city councilmember, Tito Garcia, is assassinated at the beginning of the Santa Fe Fiesta. Known as a peacemaker, he had negotiated an agreement to ban a controversial Fiesta procession known as the Entrada. The procession celebrated the Reconquest of Santa Fe twelve...

Four New MysteriesAirship 27 Productions is thrilled to present the 11th volume in its best selling mystery series, "Sherlock Holmes - Consulting Detective." All of them new and never before published.A woman's remains are found in the newly excavated foundation of what will become...

A man in a wolf mask bursts into a teepee in the middle of a sacred ritual, a peyote ceremony, and kills Michael Soto, the owner of Sabado Indian Arts on the Santa Fe Plaza. The next morning Detective Fernando Lopez, a member of...

In the Tulsa underworld, everyone is connected.The consequences of Renaldo's death reverberate through Gabriella's life. As his mother seeks answers, she learns just how far she is willing to go to get revenge for her son's murder.Meanwhile, unbeknownst to Gabriella, Cattle Cop Frankfort Corbin...

The Missing YearsAccording to the stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes, while battling his arch foe, Prof. Moriarty, was lost in the Falls at Reichenback and presumed dead, though his body was never recovered. Upon his return to London four years later,...

From out of the PastThe year 1885 finds Doctor John H. Watson down on his luck. His prospects look bleak until a chance encounter leads him to a meeting with another literary-minded young physician named Arthur Conan Doyle. Together, they hatch a plan for...

Busy Body continues the tradition in M. C. Beaton's beloved Agatha Raisin mystery series--now a hit show on Acorn TV and public television. Agatha Raisin has always been ambivalent about holiday cheer, but her cozy little village of Carsely has long prided itself on...

E.D. Ward's first novel in the Harry Circus mystery series is a story of unforgettable suspense from the dramatic opening to the bloody finish. In rural Down East Maine, a seasoned State Trooper, Harry Circus, is driven to solve the most gruesome murder he's...

Sherlock Holmes has a problem: Hannah Nickalls, an eighteen year old Quaker from rural England. She likes raising chickens, reading books, and teaching school. Hannah is an enthusiastic student of detecting. Sherlock's life will never be the same again. Author: Lucy PriceISBN-10: 821523111XISBN-13: 9798215231111Publisher:...

Obsession can be deadly.When a fellow student in her glass blowing class drops dead, finding his killer becomes personal for amateur sleuth Kate Chambers. The young Eugene Rose had a bright future as a historian in the world of art collecting; luckily for Chief...

First published in a limited run in 1934, this exceedingly rare and fast-paced bibliomystery set against the landscapes of Yorkshire is long overdue its return to print.The note read: "Will the gentleman who took by mistake a copy of Bunyan's Life and Death of...

At the age of ten in the mid-1970's, David Marcum discovered Mr. Sherlock Holmes, and from that point, he knew that the original 60 Canonical adventures would never be enough. This, coupled with his life-long desire to write, meant that eventually he would find...

This volume features 12 enthralling Sherlock Holmes stories, culminating in 'The Final Problem', which caused much uproar and controversy among the fictional detective's loyal fans. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes features famous characters such as the detective's brother, Mycroft Holmes, and the evil Professor...

An Inspector Anthony Slade Mystery The Malverne Diamonds, also known as "The Tears of Death" a necklace of matchless diamonds at least four of which dark and horrible histories. On the eve of their sale by Lady Malverne, the widow of Sir Julius Malverne,...

In Book 4 of the MURDER IN MARIN Mysteries: News that elderly Henrietta Hammer has died, Sausalito's retired fifth grade teacher, who once terrified her students including Sheriff's Detective Eddie Austin, newspaper publisher Rob Timmons and his assistant Holly Cross, is greeted with bemused...

The town of Marysburg, Indiana, is buzzing with excitement when legendary British blues guitarist Derek Tufnell appears at Marysburg Music to sign autographs and chat with fans the afternoon before a performance at the Marysburg Center for the Performing Arts. The meet-and-greet session is...

In the Tulsa underworld, everyone is connected.The consequences of Renaldo's death reverberate through Gabriella's life. As his mother seeks answers, she learns just how far she is willing to go to get revenge for her son's murder.Meanwhile, unbeknownst to Gabriella, Cattle Cop Frankfort Corbin...

On a chill November night, Thea Lorimar arrives on the last train to the small village of Kingston, Rhode Island. She patiently waits, unaware of her killer lurking in the darkness. South Kingstown's Detective Lieutenant Kara Langley is charged with unraveling the clues left...

A small island with big lies...Welcome to Rockfish Island.Philip Russell, a U.S. Park Ranger for a small island in the Pacific Northwest has stumbled across a dead body in the woods. Unsure if the dead woman is a local or someone from the mainland,...