Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

Although Sherlock Holmes had always refused to accept the potential influences of the supernatural upon the many cases with which he had been presented, there had certainly been a few which had sowed a seed of doubt within the mind of his friend and...

Classic crime fiction's 'Indiana Jones' Tony Medawar unearths more unpublished and uncollected stories from the Golden Age of suspense, including John Bude, John Dickson Carr, Dorothy L. Sayers and Julian Symons.'Five books in, and the selection here might well be the strongest yet. This...

A suspicious drowning throws New York State senior investigator Shana Merchant's life into turmoil in this taut, thrilling small-town mystery - perfect for fans of Agatha Christie and Ruth Ware. Sixteen-year-old Henrietta used to be happy. But that was before her family hit the...

The truth will set you free...except when it doesn't...Private investigator Sebastian Clifford and his partner Birdie, step into the world of celebrity when a star of children's TV turns to them for help. She's being blackmailed by someone who knows about her murky past...

Madame Midas (1888) is a mystery novel by Fergus Hume. Although not as successful as The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1886), an immediate bestseller for Hume, Madame Midas is a gripping novel with forbidden romance and a tightly wound mystery worthy of the...

Book eight in the Mad Max series. As part of a two-week staff exchange scheme, Peter 'Mad Max' Maxwell is swapping the delights of Leighford High for the altogether more sophisticated charms of local private school, Grimonds. This is a school where the teachers...

Book six in the Mad Max series. Maxwell's Millennium is not quite like other people's - for a start, it is a year later. After much quibbling with the maths department, everyone calls it an honourable draw, and he celebrates as only he can:...

Book five in the Mad Max series. Peter Maxwell is looking after his nieces for the Whit half term and against his better judgement, he takes them to a theme park. While riding, white-knuckled, on the Wild Water, a passenger is killed in the...

England Threatened-Once again, the famous Baker St. detective and his loyal companion take on the most baffling cases. Whether it be chasing down a cunning anarchist determined to destroy London, or rescuing his older brother from enemy agents, Sherlock Holmes, the world's greatest consulting...

CRIME'S GREATEST FOE - Once again, Sherlock Holmes pits his amazing talents against the criminals of London and beyond. In this new collection of the bestselling series, he and loyal companion Dr. Watson will confront five twisted, dark mysteries and unspeakable horrors. From a...

Radio legend Jim French was already well known for producing excellent radio dramas, as well as creating Imagination Theatre and its "Movies for your mind" when, in March 1998, the first episode of The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes was broadcast, with adventures steeped...

DS Brenna Taylor and DCI Geoffrey Graham are summoned to investigate a drowning in a wintry pond during a family 12th Night party. The case quickly turns personal for the CID team, for one of their own detectives becomes prime suspect. Brenna finds herself...

Northumberland, 1809: A beautiful young heiress disappears from her locked bedchamber at Linn Hagh.The local constables are baffled and the townsfolk cry 'witchcraft.'The heiress's uncle summons help from Detective Lavender and his assistant, Constable Woods, who face one of their most challenging cases: The...

This collection chronicles the fiction and non fiction classics by the greatest writers the world has ever known. The inclusion of both popular as well as overlooked pieces is pivotal to providing a broad and representative collection of classic works.Author: Mary Roberts RinehartISBN-10: 146106788XISBN-13:...

"My dear Watson. I do not think I am flattering myself when I say that 221B is well-understood in criminal circles." Within this volume you will find a collection of previously unpublished accounts by John H. Watson, M.D. that take Sherlock Holmes and Dr....

In New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz's ingenious fifth literary whodunnit in the Hawthorne and Horowitz series, Detective Hawthorne is once again called upon to solve an unsolvable case--a gruesome murder in an idyllic gated community in which suspects abound.Riverside Close is a...

Early September is a time for new beginnings in a college town, and Gracie McIntyre braces for hers.Gracie left the practice of law eighteen years ago, after losing a client to an apparent murder/suicide. Since then, she's been a stay-at-home mom and part-time professor...

From Vanora Bennett, the acclaimed author of Portrait of an Unknown Woman and Figures in Silk comes The Queen's Lover, a fictionalized account of the life and loves of Catherine de Valois, a woman of enormous courage who became a great queen of two...

For many years the Saint was at war equally with criminals and the law. That led to trouble, and one day the Saint finally made his peace with the law and joined Scotland Yard. The next day he met the rather lovely leader of...

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...

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...

Inspector Hunnam is a gentleman, gorgeous, and is great at solving murders. With the help of his trustworthy partner and friend, Sergeant Weston, and the beautiful, clever, Miss Grey, Inspector Hunnam is back in this exciting, romantic, fourth murder mystery novel, in the Inspector...

Inspector Hunnam is a gentleman, gorgeous, and is great at solving murders. With the help of his trustworthy partner and friend, Sergeant Weston, and the beautiful, clever, Miss Grey, Inspector Hunnam is back in this exciting, third, murder mystery novel, in the Inspector Hunnam...

Inspector Hunnam is a gentleman, gorgeous, and is great at solving murders. Along with his trustworthy partner and friend, Sergeant Weston, and with the help of the beautiful, clever, Miss Grey, Inspector Hunnam is back in this exciting second novel in the Inspector Hunnam...

The brand new adventure from the author of The Devil and the Four, in which Sherlock Holmes and Henry Vernier uncover a tense family mystery. FAMILY SECRETS Sherlock Holmes acquires a new client when a beautiful young woman, Isabel Stone, faints on the steps...

The aristocratic Charles Bromley arrives at 221B Baker Street to beg SHERLOCK HOLMES for his help. Bromley believes that his wife is in danger, as she has refused an offer to sell the Moonstone, a fabulous diamond that has been in her family for...

A frantic mother comes to SHERLOCK HOLMES, begging him to find her son, a navy officer who has not returned from the war in South Africa. He has been labeled a deserter, yet she is sure he would never abandon his men. Holmes and...

When Rose Grimswell breaks off her engagement to Lord Digby, the concerned fianc calls on Sherlock Holmes to visit the ancestral home to find out why. Holmes, his cousin Henry, and wife Michelle explore the legend of the Grimswell Curse when a mysterious figure...

A routine business trip goes awry when attorney Lawrence Blakeley finds himself accused of murder. Knowing himself innocent, Blakeley's explanations are complicated by his attraction to a beautiful young woman with her own motive for murder, and the sudden derailment of his train.Author: Mary...

Simon Templar is taking a leisurely drive though the French countryside when he picks up a couple of hitchhikers who are going to work at Chateau Ingare, a small vineyard on the site of a former stronghold of the Knights Templar. At the Chateau,...

Widely acclaimed for his groundbreaking crime novels Booked to Die and The Bookman's Wake, award-winning author John Dunning triumphantly returns with a riveting new thriller that takes us back to the summer of 1942, when radio was in its prime, when daylight saving time...

An impetuous young girl helps the gorgeous Inspector Hunnam solve the case, in this suspenseful, romantic, murder mystery adventure. Inspector Hunnam is a gentleman, gorgeous, and is great at solving murders. With the help of his trustworthy partner and friend, Sergeant Weston, and the...

A brand new anthology of previously unpublished and uncollected supernatural mysteries by some of the masters of the Golden Age - thrills, spills and chills perfect for Halloween.It is said that books are written to bring sunshine into our dull, grey lives - to...

An ingenious tale of murder from one of the greatest mystery writers of the twentieth century, featuring her dashing amateur sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey Ninety-year-old General Fentiman has been sitting very quietly all day long in his usual fireside armchair at the Bellona Club,...

Author: Anthony FlaccoISBN-10: 1648755496ISBN-13: 9781648755491Publisher: Severn River PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/15/2022Pages: 242Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.82h x 5.91w x 0.79d

Author: Allison BrookISBN-10: 1639105514ISBN-13: 9781639105519Publisher: Crooked Lane BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/16/2024Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.81lbs

Dorothy L. Sayers (1883-1957) is thought to be a brilliant writer; funnier, more nuanced and unafraid to address social issues, she is often cited as an inspiration by authors like PD James, Ruth Rendell and Elizabeth George.But has her work stood the test of...

Visiting the sick leads a curious clergyman into a web of danger and greed at a secretive nursing home . . . Part of Rev. Oxford Christie's duty is to comfort the sick, but the nursing home where he shows up to see a...

It's said the truth shall set you free--but what a new minister discovers in this sparsely attended sanctuary may haunt him for eternity . . . When Rev. Oxford Christie is brought in to lead the Church of the One Soul in Philadelphia, his...

Author: Alison GaylinISBN-10: 888578335XISBN-13: 9798885783354Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/26/2023Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.13lbsSize: 8.75h x 5.82w x 0.86dLarge Print

Gus Lynch is directing the Youth Theatre through a rehearsal. The cast is in place but the female lead, Gabriella Paston, is missing. Later that evening her body is discovered in the boot of Gus's car. Detective Inspector Stephen Ramsay and Sergeant Gordon Hunter...

The privately-owned island of Gillibry off the North Devon coast is the perfect site for murder. A routine weekend visit by the Gillibry Bird Observatory Trust is made memorable by the owner's announcement that he is going to sell the island. A sale would...

'The huge and powerful hawk dominated the scene. Its talons pierced the woman's flesh and the beak pointed towards her eyes . . .' The sight is a particularly horrible shock for George Palmer-Jones, ornithologist and amateur detective. An old friend of Eleanor Masefield,...

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...

"What one does not tell to Papa Poirot he finds out."In Agatha Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Hercule Poirot comes out of retirement to solve one of the most vexing cases of his career. The quiet village of King's Abbot is still reeling...

An all-around skeptic when it comes to the supernatural, literature professor William Porter gives no credence to claims that Twin Towers, the seaside manor he's just inherited, might be haunted. He finds nothing mysterious about the conditions in which his Uncle Horace died, leaving...

Curmudgeonly Japanese American gardener and unwitting detective Mas Arai is back in this fifth in the Edgar Award-winning series. Naomi Hirahara has created a memorable protagonist unlike any other: a Hiroshima survivor, Los Angeles gardener, widower, gambler, grandfather, and solver of crimes. In Strawberry...

Hollywood actress, Esther Langley, has a home in the hills of Provence, an old converted abbey where she keeps her precious art collection. Now she has four paintings in need of restoration: one modern work, fire-damaged, and three crumbling old masters. It looks like...

Never guessing that their very lives might be in danger, well-to-do women come from all over the country to stay at guest ranches around Reno to establish the six weeks' residency required for a quickie Nevada divorce in 1955.When a Circle E Ranch guest...

He wanted rest and relaxation. What he got was a mystery woman suffering from hypothermia, frostbite, high fevers, amnesia-and rope burns on her wrists and ankles.With his house in Cincinnati in ruins, financial crimes investigator Seamus McCree retreats to the family cabin for some...