Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

It was to be a fitting centerpiece of the Chinese themed suite in the new home of the financier, Boyd Armstrong, an ornate Chinese wedding chest, a gift of the explorer Major Hardy. When the chest is opened at the party held for the...

When Jacob Herapath, the wealthy property developer, is found dead in his office, a revolver at his side and a bullet wound to the head, the time of death is placed a midnight. Remarkably, his driver left him off at his home an hour...

Dr. John Thorndyke, the renowned expert in medical jurisprudence and forensic investigation faces not one, but three mysteries: the claim of a rich American to an English title and estates, the theft of a small fortune in platinum, and most puzzling of all, the...

It's the fall of 1940, and London is being destroyed by the Blitz. Every night, its citizens cram into shelters, basements, subway stations - anything to avoid the bombs. And every morning, they awake to scenes of fresh devastation. But some of those citizens...

Emotion-filled memories come cascading from the mind of Britain's foremost investigator as a troubled Glastonbury sends its emissaries to beg help in solving a series of poisonings besetting a region Holmes had experienced and explored as a young lad.Somerset, battleground of successive invaders over...

1888: Dr. John H. Watson, Army Corps surgeon turned colleague of the celebrated consulting detective Sherlock Holmes, decides not to assist in future cases as he is engaged to Mary Morstan. 1926: Mary Forrester discovers her mother's diary, covering the years 1889 to 1893...

Gripped with fear and confusion as his paralegal takes her last breath in his arms, Jonathan vows to avenge her savage death ... or die trying.With a successful career as an attorney living in Portland, Oregon, Jonathan's life is about to take a turn...

Author: Francine MathewsISBN-10: 1641295252ISBN-13: 9781641295253Publisher: Soho CrimeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/17/2023Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 8.19h x 5.43w x 0.87d

Young architect Wren Fontaine lands her dream job: restoring Greenleaf House, New York's finest Gilded-Age mansion, to its glory days. But old homes have old secrets: Stephen Greenleaf--heir to what's left of his family's legacy--refuses to reveal what his plans are once the renovation...

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...

Edgar Allan Poe was a writer of uncommon talent; inThe Murders in the Rue Morguehe created the genre of detective fiction while his genius for finding the strangeness lurking within us all has been an influence on everyone from Freud to Hollywood. This complete...

From Cara Hunter, author of the New York Times bestseller Murder in the Family, comes book three of her DI Adam Fawley series, one of Britain's most enduringly popular and mega-selling crime series. Fawley investigates a ghastly house fire on Christmas Day launches an...

Sorrel Janes is an investigative reporter who went into witness protection following the murder of her husband by a cartel she was investigating. She has moved to a remote area of Southwestern New Mexico and lives on a ranch left to her by her...

High Court Justice Sir Horace Fewbanks found shot dead in his Hampstead home, a butler with a criminal past, a scorned lover and a hint of scandal. These are the elements of the Hampstead Mystery that Detective Inspector Chippenfield of Scotland Yard must unravel...

The scene: a sleeping car on the North-Western express, somewhere between Preston and Carlisle. The weapon: a small-caliber revolver. The victims: two young newlyweds, with little money and no known enemies. The puzzle: everyone in the car has an alibi, and no one was...

New York Times bestseller Deborah Crombie returns with a "gripping police procedural" (Washington Post) featuring Scotland Yard detectives Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James as they race to solve the shocking murder of a young woman before panic spreads across London.On a rainy November evening,...

Elena Standish investigates the murder of a fellow MI6 agent near the country estate of one of England's most influential families, in this gripping mystery from New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry. Not far from the sprawling grounds of Wyndham Hall, the body...

The incomparable Booker Prize winner's next great crime novel--the story of a family whose secrets resurface when a parish priest is found murdered in their ancestral home Detective Inspector St. John Strafford has been summoned to County Wexford to investigate a murder. A parish...

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 extraordinary third in the Two Rivers series. Fierce winds, dark secrets, deadly intentions. When Jem Rosco--sailor, adventurer, and legend--blows into town...

Author: John BanvilleISBN-10: 8885790895ISBN-13: 9798885790895Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/23/2023Format: Library BindingWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.00dLarge Print

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns in the eighteenth book in #1 New York Times bestseller Louise Penny's beloved series. It's spring and Three Pines is reemerging after the harsh winter. But not everything buried should come alive again....

H.G. Wells meets Sherlock Holmes in this thrilling historical mystery in which the famous detective seeks the culprit behind an alien invasion Sherlock Holmes, Professor Challenger, and Dr. Watson meet their match when the streets of London are left decimated by a prolonged alien...

A young Sherlock Holmes arrives in London to begin his career as a private detective, catching the eye of the master criminal, Professor James Moriarty. Enter Dr. Watson, newly returned from Afghanistan, soon to make history as Holmes' companion... By turns both shocking and...

Set in late January and early February of 1891, during the time that Professor Moriarty declares in The Final Problem, that Holmes had "incommoded" his plans, Holmes and Watson are visited by two charwomen and retained to clear the name of a drunkard lighthouse...

A Holmes and Watson-style detective duo take the stage in this fantasy with a mystery twist, from the Edgar-winning, multiple Hugo-nominated Robert Jackson Bennett "Great fantasy detective stories are too rare, but Bennett--[a] rising star of fantasy--more than delivers."--Charlie Jane Anders, The Washington Post...

Author: Rick MofinaISBN-10: 164875533XISBN-13: 9781648755330Publisher: Severn River PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/09/2012Pages: 356Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 8.98h x 6.10w x 0.86d

Once a police detective in St. Paul, Minnesota, Rushmore McKenzie became an unlikely millionaire and an occasional unlicensed private investigator, doing favors for friends. But this time, he finds himself in dire need of working on his own behalf. His dear friend and first...

The Butcher's Boy is back! Thomas Perry's vengeful assassin has returned to play a deadly psychological game with Elizabeth Waring, the only Justice Department official who ever believed he existed. Can these two from opposite sides of the law come together to take on...

Belgian detective Hercule Poirot is summoned to France after receiving a distressing letter with a urgent cry for help. Upon his arrival in Merlinville-sur-Mer, the investigator finds the man who penned the letter, the South American millionaire Monsieur Renauld, stabbed to death and his...

She wakes to the dawn light streaming through the window and rolls over to whisper good morning to her fiancé. But panic floods her veins. His side of the bed is empty and cold. Blood trails towards the open door. All trace of him...

The Mystery of Edwin Drood is a novel that is itself the subject of one of literature' s most enduring mysteries. The story recounts the troubled romance of Rosa Bud and the book's eponymous character, who later vanishes. Was Drood murdered, and if so...

Featuring Contributions by: Tracy J. Revels, John Davis, John Lawrence, Stephen Herczeg, Tim Gambrell, Craig Stephen Copland, Jeremy Branton Holstein, Thomas A. Turley, Arthur Hall, David Marcum, S.C. Toft, Leslie Charteris and Denis Green, Roger Riccard, Will Murray, John Lawrence, and Marcia Wilson, and...

Growing up, the Schock sisters lived across the street from a serial killer--at least according to their mother. She's spent years spying on the man and tracking his every move, but no concrete evidence has ever been found. When Helen Schock joins a citizens...

A diverse collection of Sherlock Holmes related writings including several essays, short stories and two radio plays. Andriacco's obsession with matters Sherlockian is obvious, and there is much here for Sherlock Holmes fans to enjoy.Author: Dan AndriaccoISBN-10: 1908218924ISBN-13: 9781908218926Publisher: MX PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/20/2011Pages: 150Format:...

The book begins with a brief examination of the effect that the stories have had on modern crime literature. It goes on to examine the origins of the character of Holmes himself from his appearance to his drug use and supposed dislike of women....

Sherlock Holmes, the world's "only unofficial consulting detective", was first introduced to readers in A Study in Scarlet published by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887. It was with the publication of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, however, that the master sleuth grew tremendously...

When a young woman's body is discovered lying in an alleyway off Carnaby Street, Detectives Stride and Cully do not realise that her brutal murder is only the beginning of a killing spree that will terrify the whole of London and leave them both...

Sherlock Holmes was the greatest sleuth in all of English literature. Collected here in this giant oversized volume are seven Sherlock Homes books including A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The Hound...

Suspicious events at a Middle Eastern archaeological excavation site intrigue the great Hercule Poirot as he investigates Murder in Mesopotamia, a classic murder mystery from Agatha Christie.Amy Leatheram has never felt the lure of the mysterious East, but when she travels to an ancient...

Poirot Investigates a host of murders most foul--as well as other dastardly crimes--in this intriguing collection of short stories from the one-and-only Agatha Christie.First there was the mystery of the film star and the diamond . . . then came the "suicide" that was...

Lochdubh constable Hamish Macbeth's life is going to pot. He has--horrors!--been promoted, his new boss is a dunce, and a self-proclaimed traveler named Sean and his girlfriend have parked their rusty eyesore of a van in the middle of the village. Hamish smells trouble,...

"Like all really nice people, you have a weakness for detective stories...The least that I can do is write you one." So wrote A. A. Milne to his father, to whom he dedicated this delectable mystery. Mark Ablett's stately mansion, the Red House, is...

In 1894, Cyrus Barker, London's premier enquiry agent, is entangled in a conspiracy to revive the American Civil War by prominent figures, long believed deceased.Private Enquiry agent Cyrus Barker, along with his partner Thomas Llewelyn, has a long, accomplished history - he's taken on...

Jean-Luc Bannalec's internationally bestselling series starring Commissaire Georges Dupin returns with Death of a Master Chef. Commissaire Georges Dupin is certain these first beautiful summer days in June would be perfect for a fun trip to Saint-Malo. In a region known as the culinary...

Unearthed after being lost for nearly a century, at last the memoirs of Mycroft Holmes are available to the general public.Students and followers of his brother, the Great Baker Street detective, Sherlock Holmes, have to date only been offered two stories in which Mycroft...

The clock is ticking for DCI Slider when a woman goes missing. Can he find her - and does she even want to be found? "[Slider is] one of Britain's most engaging coppers" Booklist Felicity Holland is missing. She left her handsome West London...

LARGE PRINT EDITION. Here is a sparkling collection of mystery gems, polished puzzlers from the pen of Agatha Christie starring the vain, eccentric and utterly brilliant Hercule Poirot. Hercule Poirot grapples with a chain of mysteries that challenge his ingenuity and display the author's...

When English tearoom owner, Gemma Rose, finds herself on an unexpected trip to Scotland, she is delighted by the chance to stay in a beautiful Scottish castle-complete with mounted stag heads, cosy fireplaces, and misty mountain views. She's looking forward to a relaxing weekend...

Leo Bruce' s Death of a Bovver Boy, in which the redoubtable schoolmaster-­turned-­detective is involved in yet another mystery murder---this time among teenage outcasts and skinheads in rural 1970s England---is billed as "the ugliest case that Carolus Deene ever chose to investigate." When Carolus's...

In a city of fast cars and movie stars, these folks are crazy about cacti. Until a killer joins the club . . . Joe Portugal likes people. But he likes plants better. That's why the former theater actor turned small-time L.A. commercial star...