Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

Miss Loveday Brooke was one of the of the very first fictional female detectives -- an unheard-of profession for a woman in Victorian London. This volume collects seven of her classic adventures: "The Black Bag Left on a Door-Step," "The Murder at Troyte's Hill,"...

The fifth issue of Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine -- a special Holmes Fiction Issue -- features an amazing new Holmes short novel by Carla Coupe, "The Adventure of the Haunted Bagpipes," plus great Holmes stories and features by Bruce I. Kilstein, Mark Wardecker, Gary...

The third volume of "Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine" features "A Volume in Vermillion," by Kim Newman, plus fiction by Bruce I. Kilstein ("Watson's Wound"), Darrell Schweitzer ("The Death of Falstaff"), Stan Trybulski ("Tough Guys Don't Pay"), Hal Charles ("Vacation from Crime"), Jean Paiva ("Workout"),...

The new Chief Inspector Gamache novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author. When a peculiar letter arrives inviting Armand Gamache to an abandoned farmhouse, the former head of the S ret du Qu bec discovers that a complete stranger has named him...

Dr. Watson tells us in "The Final Problem" how Sherlock Holmes died -- and in "The Empty House" how Holmes turned out to be alive after all. But Watson skipped over the immediate aftermath of Holmes' return, and Watson's reaction to the cruel trick...

Sunshine Noir In these stories, seventeen writers from around the globe tell of dark doings in sunny places. Join them in the Dominican Republic, the Sonoran Desert of Arizona, chic Mykonos, Seville at midnight, and on the morning beachfront of Ghana where a man...

"Beware the sign of the vampire blood," said the fortune teller. "It brings madness and turmoil." Lily Gayle knows what that means, but, for the life of her, can't figure out how the fortune teller does. A quick road trip with Dixie. An unplanned...

When Tokyo Detective Kenji Nakamura's phone rings with the news that his mother's death ten years ago wasn't an accident, his world begins to unravel. New evidence links her to a young woman, whose body was found dolled up like a movie star and...

John Tall Wolf's nemesis and sometimes boss, Marlene Flower Moon, has been nominated to become the next Secretary of the Interior. John has only himself to blame for that. He put in a good word for Marlene with his new acquaintance, the president. His...

Mardie Wickett never gave much thought to the possibility of an afterlife. Plodding through her earthly life was enough of a chore, working just enough to pay for good times with bad people while her brilliant estranged sister, Mili, solved murders for Scotland Yard....

When a body is discovered in a cooking class, an octogenarian sleuth and her senior sidekick investigate.Author: Elizabeth Spann CraigISBN-10: 0997168560ISBN-13: 9780997168563Publisher: Elizabeth Spann CraigLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/06/2017Pages: 242Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.53lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.51d

Opening night at the local theater proves more exciting than an octogenarian sleuth and her sidekick had expected.Author: Elizabeth Spann CraigISBN-10: 0996259945ISBN-13: 9780996259941Publisher: Elizabeth Spann CraigLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2016Pages: 262Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.55d

Freelance writer Emily Garland is cash-strapped, newly single, and tired of reporting on the same old condo stats. When she's offered a lucrative assignment in the village of Lount's Landing, she decides to take a chance. All she has to do is relocate and...

Whose side is he on?Brody Taylor loves hacking humans. After all, people are the weakest link in all computer systems. If he's hired to break into your network, he will find and exploit the weak point. You.The problem with always manipulating people is that...

A mysterious music puzzle. A murdered co-ed. Sinister secrets.Three years ago, Scott Drayco left the FBI after an incident involving his partner, Mark "Sarg" Sargosian. Now a freelance crime consultant, Drayco often helps law enforcement on cases, but he never imagined his estranged former...

A mysterious attack on a young, disabled girl leads to a sea of lies, secrets, and murder.Crime consultant Scott Drayco is in the middle of a thorny case in Washington, D.C., involving murder victims who were all wheelchair users. Then out of the blue,...

At Greener Pastures Retirement Home, leisure time can prove perilous. When psychic (and hubcap retailer) Wanda Alewine pays a late-night visit to Myrtle Clover, she urges the octogenarian sleuth to head straight to Greener Pastures Retirement Home. But Wanda doesn't want Myrtle to consider...

You're invited to a deadly drop-in: Cosette Whitlow is a society matron...if tiny Bradley, North Carolina, has one. She kindly volunteers for all the town's charities, but isn't nearly as kind to her own family, neighbors, and friends. In fact, Cosette is emphatically disliked...

Dulcie's old boyfriend, the adventurous, fun-loving, and decidedly good-looking Brendan MacArthur, reappears with a unique gift: a very old bottle of wine, one of several that he found in a shipwreck while scuba diving in Maine's cold Atlantic waters. With museum attendance low during...

When will Frank catch a break? When will Sam put his life back together? When will someone put an end to Benny's harassment? Franklin Roberts is a good man who does not deserve the outrageous misfortune that has left him homeless and destitute. It's...

"Could not put it down " - Amazon reviewer The last woman to walk in her shoes has been missing for years... Emily Geiser walks into a trap. The new world she sees is sugarcoated. A group of merciless killers hiding behind smiles welcome...

Before "Bones", before "CSI", before "Quincy, M.E." there was Dr. John Thorndyke. In The Eye of Osiris, John Bellingham, noted Egyptologist vanished not once but twice in the same day. Two years later Dr, John Thorndyke must unravel the tangled claims on his estate...

Once you have them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow. Cryogenic freezer units with body parts of some of Hollywood's finest entertainers, the infamous Jet Pack Eight, are being shipped to federal buildings throughout the United States. A group, called the...

Dundee, Scotland; December 1919Big Aggie's girls are much in demand in her notorious house of pleasure. When one of her most popular girls is savagely killed it sparks off a mystery with wide-reaching effects.Why was Lily killed? Was it a crime of passion or...

In recent years interest in Sherlock Holmes has burgeoned due to new cinema films and television series. Unfortunately, these have distorted the beloved originals by either making them action-heroes, transplanting them to modern times, or both. Poor old Holmes has been mangled and distorted...

The third edition of this well-received collection of Sherlock Holmes short stories. Sherlock Magazine called the original edition "One of the best collections of Holmes pastiches for some time" and the Newsletter of the Sherlock Holmes Society of London said "Mr Stockwell clearly knows...

From 19th century classics to as recent as 1985, this complete source book of British Mystery covers more than 1440 titles by 121 authors. Each is fully annotated without giving the ending away.Author: Susan Prince OleskiwISBN-10: 0892969687ISBN-13: 9780892969685Publisher: Mysterious PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/1989Pages: 588Format: PaperbackWeight:...

Author: Paula GoslingISBN-10: 0892964588ISBN-13: 9780892964581Publisher: Mysterious PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/1991Pages: 297Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.91lbsSize: 5.58h x 8.57w x 0.77dReview Citation(s): School Library Journal 01/01/1992 pg. 144Library Journal 07/01/1991Publishers Weekly 07/12/1991

Holmes and Watson find themselves caught up in a complex chess board of a problem, involving a clandestine love affair and the disappearance of a priceless sapphire. Professor James Moriarty is back to tease and torment, leading the duo on a chase through the...

The criminal cases of Inspector Elk-six novels in three volumes There was a time, nostalgically familiar from the black and white British movies made from the late 1930s to the mid-1950s, when the detectives of the C. I. D, the men from Scotland Yard...

Author: Edgar WallaceISBN-10: 0857065645ISBN-13: 9780857065643Publisher: Leonaur LtdLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/13/2011Pages: 464Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.29lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.03d

The Leonaur's collected edition of Sapper's original Bulldog Drummond stories draws to a close-the final two novels and a bonus short story These are the original adventures of Sapper's Bulldog Drummond collected together in a special Leonaur five volume collection-each special book containing two...

The Man Who Knew Too Much: From behind the overhanging rock came a noise and rush like that of a railway train; and a great motorcar appeared. For the fraction of a flash it seemed to leave the ledge of rock like a flying...

The game's afoot Read all-new Sherlock Holmes stories and speculative essays, praised as "of the highest order and should be required for every Sherlockian shelf" (Rocky Mountain News). Eccentric, coldly rational, brilliant, doughty, exacting, lazy-in full bohemian color the world's most famous literary detective,...

This second book in Maureen Jennings' terrific new mystery series brings England during World War II vividly alive: a must for fans of the author's own beloved Murdoch Mysteries and of Foyle's War. The summer of 1940 had been a dark one for England,...

The ever-irresistible Irene Adler, her dashing barrister husband, Godfrey Norton, and the indomitable Miss Nell Huxleigh have arrived at last as their French cottage-having survived dastardly plots, Russian spies, pistol-wielding criminals, and the occasional cobra. The happy trio seeks nothing but rest and peace-but...

1857. On the LNWR train to London, a criminal is being escorted to his appointment with the hangman. But the wily Jeremy Oxley, conman, thief and murderer, has one last ace up his sleeve - a beautiful and ruthless accomplice willing to do anything...

Cleverly plotted, with wry wit, a likable copper hero, and an ingenious plot, this one will keep even seasoned mystery fans off-balance A deadly fire at a nudist club plunges DCI Harry Brock and DS Dave Poole into an explosive mix of deception, betrayal...

Ancient EvilDuring their colorful careers battling crime and villainy, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson encountered the most bizarre mysteries. In this latest volume, they set out to solve three of the most unique puzzles ever put before them.Two bodies are unearthed during the excavations...

THE BAKER STREET SLEUTH RETURNSAirship 27 Productionsis delighted to announce the next chapter in their best selling series with Volume III of "Sherlock Holmes - Consulting Detective" and present a brand new quintet of terrific, classic Holmes mysteries written in the tradition of his...

Maleek Willians was raised in urban poverty to a child mother, but with the help of a strong mother and a mentor he becomes a cop in an urban city. He develops his career through athletics and follows his interest in a career in...

Master of mystery Robert Barnard, internationally acclaimed for his suspenseful, witty literary gems, cleverly mixes past and present in A Cry from the Dark, an intriguing tour de force sweeping from 1930s Australia to contemporary London. Bettina Whitelaw has come a long way from...

The basis for the Major Motion Picture Mr. Holmes starring Ian McKellen and Laura Linney and directed by Bill Condon. It is 1947, and the long-retired Sherlock Holmes, now 93, lives in a remote Sussex farmhouse with his housekeeper and her young son. He...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres comes a brilliant literary thriller set in Manhattan that's "as taut and chilling as anything Hitchcock put on film" (San Francisco Chronicle). "A first-rate cliffhanger." --The New York Times Book ReviewAlice Ellis is a Midwestern...

Minty's boyfriend, Jock, was killed in the disastrous train wreck at Paddington, shortly after he borrowed all her savings. Now he has come back to haunt her. Zillah lost her estranged husband, Jerry, in that same accident. She is not convinced he is actually...

From the author of The Scarlet Pimpernel, comes a series of 12 classic cozy British mysteries featuring one of literature's first female detectives. Molly Robertson-Kirk a.k.a. Lady Molly shares the same mental prowess as C. Auguste Dupin and Sherlock Holmes but brings a woman's...

Recently divorced, overworked, and doubting herself, Laura Humphreys takes a sabbatical to paradise and becomes a volunteer for a sea turtle conservation project. She falls in love with the Costa Rican landscape and becomes friends with the Leatherback Sea Turtle Conservancy (LSTC) biologist, Gabriel...

Swiss Vendetta is a true page turner. From the cook and maids to the Marquise and her family, de Hahn captures the nuances of her characters' backgrounds and perspectives. I found the plot fascinating, and de Hahn builds the tension and suspense perfectly to...

The second in Con Lehane's 42nd Street Library mystery series, Murder in the Manuscript Room is a smart, compelling mystery in which the characters themselves are at least as interesting as the striking sleuthing. Not to be missed." --Megan Abbott A story utterly relevant...

The biggest collection of Sherlock Holmes stories ever assembled Arguably no other character in history has been so enduringly popular as Sherlock Holmes. Ever since his first appearance, in Arthur Conan Doyle's 1887 novella A Study in Scarlet, readers have loved reading about him...