Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

As you are reading this, banks are giving away millions of your dollars in gift mortgages. The banks are borrowing money from the federal government for mortgages, claiming the loans have 'gone bad' and then giving the title of the property to 'deserving individuals.'...

The final Sherlock Holmes novel by Arthur Conan Doyle combines a classic locked-room mystery with a dramatic tale of secret societies and hidden identities.When a coded warning arrives at Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson are drawn into the investigation of a...

Poirot, a Belgian refugee of the Great War, is settling in England near the home of Emily Inglethorp, who helped him to his new life. His friend Hastings arrives as a guest at her home. When the woman is killed, Poirot uses his detective...

Set on Dartmoor and inspired by the legend of a demonic hound, 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' is the best known of all the Sherlock Holmes stories. Holmes' powers of deduction are taxed to their utmost in this brilliantly atmospheric detective novel.Author: Arthur Conan...

A classic of detective fiction, "The Viaduct Murder" by Ronald A. Knox presents a compelling investigation into a perplexing crime. This meticulously prepared edition revives a timeless story of murder and intrigue, offering readers a fascinating glimpse into the world of early 20th-century police...

A gripping mystery from the Victorian era, "Disappeared From Her Home" by Catherine Louisa Pirkis plunges readers into a perplexing case of missing persons. This classic detective investigation unfolds with suspense and intrigue as the story explores the unsettling disappearance of a woman from...

When American intern Maddie McGuire receives an invitation to go sightseeing in Glastonbury, she expects a lot of things. An Arthurian knight floating in a pool at the Chalice Well, a broadsword through his chest, isn't one of them. Maddie realizes that turning to...

Bestselling author David Rosenfelt returns with Dead Men Don't Play Fetch as Andy Carpenter investigates a wealthy dog lover's unusual death.It's defense lawyer Andy Carpenter's dream to retire. That goal is once again thwarted when he gets a call from Lou Campanelli, an old...

From its humble beginnings as a Revolutionary War officer's knife, the Gloucester Dagger was later conscripted into service for more macabre roles. This included the ritualistic removal of hearts from the undead, at a time when New England was plagued by tuberculosis, and even...

From its humble beginnings as a Revolutionary War officer's knife, the Gloucester Dagger was later conscripted into service for more macabre roles. This included the ritualistic removal of hearts from the undead, at a time when New England was plagued by tuberculosis, and even...

Author: Alan OrloffISBN-13: 9798898200831Publisher: Level Best BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/07/2026Pages: 258Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d

Author: B. R. SpanglerISBN-10: 1805502425ISBN-13: 9781805502425Publisher: BookoutureLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/22/2026Pages: 330Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.71lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.74d

Sherlock Holmes The Mystery of the Pamplona BullParis to Pamplona, 1924. In the restless years after the Great War, Sherlock Holmes meets the young American writer in a city alive with jazz, wine, and dangerous ideas. Holmes is drawn into the orbit of the...

Secrets buried in the Driftless don't stay hidden for long. Since 1904, Tiffany experts have searched for a set of authentic stained-glass windows lost after a fire destroyed a lumber baron's mansion in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. When La Crosse expert Geoff LaSarde is attacked in...

In international bestselling author Jean-Luc Bannalec's The Secrets of the Abbey, between large inlets, the wild Atlantic, and enchanting apple orchards, a tricky and highly personal case unfolds for Commissaire Georges Dupin and his team.Summer in Brittany has carried merrily into October, bringing warm,...

Suspecting that his estranged wife is having an affair with a famous artist from a renowned art dynasty, Scottish Police Superintendent Terrence Reid, heir to a whiskey fortune and Scottish title, travels to the small California seaside town of Bodega Bay to try to...

When a hunter in rural Virginia discovers a woman's body deep in the woods, what begins as a single investigation quickly turns into something far darker.Detective Erin Calloway soon realizes the killer isn't random. The victims share disturbing connections-support groups, counseling centers, fragments of...

'We were all very ordinary girls, until that day. Then nothing was ever ordinary again.'The women of the WISE Enquiries Agency are asked to look into a tragic death that happened back in 1984: four girls visited a small Welsh mining village awash with...

A naked corpse in a bathrobe, a vanished financier, and a puzzle only Lord Peter Wimsey can relish. With wit, erudition, and meticulous logic, Dorothy L. Sayers introduces her immortaldetective in a mystery that blends sparkling dialogue with ingenious detection. A classic debut that...

Murder, Mystery and a dog, and cat, of distinctionBook 10 in the Heathcliff Lennox series.A man shot through the heart with an arrow - the victim is a rich outsider who has moved into Ashton Hall in the village of Ashton Steeple...Which is Lennox's...

Brilliant Holocaust survivor Frank Wolf, now a private eye who investigates with the assistance of his lawyer grandson, specializes in cases the police cannot solve due to the insular nature of many Jewish communities in 1970s New York City. In Were the Angels Wrong?,...

France's answer to Sherlock Holmes--the mischievous gentleman-thief Arsène Lupin--goes head to head with the English detective in this very funny mystery novel by Maurice Leblanc, whose classic character inspired the major streaming series Lupin. Arsène Lupin is a world-famous master of disguise and planner...

DISCOVER YOUR NEXT FAVOURITE SERIES. MEET BRITAIN'S BEST-LOVED VILLAGE POLICEMAN. Perfect for fans of James Herriot, T.E. Kinsey, Gerald Durrell, J.R. Ellis or anyone who loves a great read. "It's original, it's funny . . . one of life's little pleasures." Yorkshire Post Change...

A celebrated cricketer by day and master burglar by night returns to a fog-draped London where fortune and risk walk arm in arm. Guided by a devoted confidant, he slips through clubrooms and townhouses to test locks, nerves, and the limits of loyalty. Eight...

Thanks to a small group of surveyors as well as the richest man in the universe, the tiny agricultural space station of Saint-Sebastien-des-Etoiles is braced against thievery. Some thinly-disguised Loyalist "vacationers" from the renowned Bad Men and Blue also come to the rescue. Bourriac...

In the desert landscape of northern Baja, a vacation turns deadly when a family man is brutally murdered on the peaceful pickleball courts of San Amaro. Detective Sergeant Julia Garcia is thrust into a web of lies, deceit, and hidden motives. As the suspects...

Newlyweds Charles and Kate Sheridan host an auto exhibition at Kate's ancestral home that's attended by Europe's foremost investors and inventors. But competition, speed, and money--more explosive than gasoline--are deadly for one auto builder! Now the amateur sleuths must unravel the mystery before the...

The Secret of Chimneys is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie and It introduces the characters of Superintendent Battle and Lady Eileen "Bundle" Brent. At the request of George Lomax, Lord Caterham reluctantly agrees to host a weekend party at...

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes gathers together the first twelve short stories of Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle's famous private investigator, all of which appeared in The Strand magazine following the success of two earlier Holmes novels, A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of the...

The year is 1905, and residents along the southern coast of England are experiencing a series of tragic events which threaten to destroy the peaceful city of Torquay. That lovely coastal community hard by the English Channel is now having to deal with a...

A modern-day Sherlock Holmes, Bernie Quist operates as a consultant detective from Baker Avenue in York. His assistant is Watson, although this Watson is a youth from the Grimpen housing estate and he's definitely no doctor. The mismatched duo take on bizarre cases which...

If the death of Doctor Watson had been of natural causes, his widow Mrs. Mary N. Watson would have grieved the loss of her husband for a time then moved on with her life. However on re-discovering his certificate of death she is again...

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...

Gravesend 1920. A famous mystery writer, while searching through the remains of a damaged church looking for story ideas, happens upon a document that was never meant to be found or read. Any knowledge of its contents could change the terms of the treaty...

An accident with H.G. Wells' time machine strands Cynthia Kenyon in London, 1882. Utterly alone, the prisoner of Professor James Moriarty, there is but one name from the period Cynthia knows: Sherlock Holmes. What she could not know is how powerful an attraction she...

It is early 1916 and the world is at war. Sherlock Holmes is well into his spy persona as Altamont following the capture of the German spy Von Bork at the opening of the Great War. Watson is called to London by Mycroft Holmes...

"Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it."The Moonstone (1868) is Wilkie Collins's second masterpiece, the first being The Woman in White published almost a decade earlier. While both books are...

The novel that introduced Tommy and Tuppence, a bantering pair of 1920s bright young things who solve a mystery together while falling for each other. The Great War is over and jobs are scarce. Tommy Beresford and Prudence "Tuppence" Cowley, who were friends before...

Rare edition with unique illustrations and elegant classic cream paper. The Moonstone is a page-turner, it catches one up and unfolds its amazing story through the recountings of its several narrators, all of them enticing and singular. Wilkie Collins's spellbinding tale of romance, theft,...

The novel that introduced Tommy and Tuppence, a bantering pair of 1920s bright young things who solve a mystery together while falling for each other. The Great War is over and jobs are scarce. Tommy Beresford and Prudence "Tuppence" Cowley, who were friends before...

A strange encounter with a little girl named Claudia and a dead toad sparks elderly detective fiction fan Rachel Murdock's obsessive curiosity, and she winds up renting the house next door just to see how things play out. But soon after she and her...

When Rachel Murdock and her sister Jennifer receive a call for help from their favorite niece, Lilly, in Breakers Beach, CA, they quickly hop a train from Los Angeles to see her -- but not before collecting their prized cat Samantha in a picnic...

"Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority. That's exactly what has happened here." -- Horne Fisher in The Man Who Knew Too Much From the creator of the Father Brown mysteries come nine short stories, eight of...

This brilliant crime novel by CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson is set in the Caribbean, where a researcher becomes trapped like a rodent in a maze When it comes to his rats, David Foxe is an expert. He decides when they eat, when...

The Sign of the Four is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes. Throughout his life Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote four novels and in excess of 50 stories starring the famous fictional detective. This mystery is set in the late 1880s and involves aspects...

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - IT was 2 p.m. on the afternoon of May 7, 1915. The Lusitania had been struck by two torpedoes...

The Great Auto Mystery is a thrilling mystery novel written by Jacques Futrelle. The story revolves around the disappearance of a wealthy businessman named David Harlowe, who was last seen driving his automobile out of his garage. The case is taken up by the...

The ultimate detective collection featuring the legendary Sherlock Holmes and his trusty companion, Dr. Watson. Follow along as they solve some of the most iconic and challenging mysteries of the Victorian era.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is...

Terlingua, a small west Texas town, nestled in the Big Bend region is known for only one thing, its ghost town. Diehard tourists, who seek the unusual stumble into town, hoping to find something new and unusual. This has been the town's claim to...

FLOATING FACE DOWNBobby Johnson has a target on his back and his former best friend, Cal Cuddihey, has him in his sights. Cal's first attempt to wipe Bobby off the face of the earth fails, but Cal doesn't give up. He figures there's more...