Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

The founder of Byrner, a global social media platform, Gerald Byrne is universally admired as a visionary, a philanthropist, and a devoted husband and father. And every person who gets in the way of his good work seems to die. When a former student...

Ancient Crete, 1450 BC. Young bull leaper Martis finds Duzi, the newest member of the bull leaping team, dead in the bull pen early one morning. Made to look like he met his end on the horns of the bull, it's clear to Martis...

When Mary-Margaret O'Shea, a woman of a certain age with mildly Machiavellian tendencies, discovers a homicide scene and meets an unimpressive lead investigator, she realizes that she has no choice but to solve the crime herself. With little help from Michael, her police-detective son,...

He chases crooks in the nineteenth century. She researches the past in the twenty-first. When a long-lost necklace is found, can they solve the deaths of the women who wore it last before tragedy strikes again?Vancouver, 1898. Detective Jack Winston investigates when a necklace...

Artist and cosmetic purveyor Marketta Davis faces a daunting task: join the faculty of an elite prep school and avenge the brutal murder of Aunt Violet's protégé, a teacher and social justice warrior. Soon a clever killer stalks the corridors of this venerable institution...

From a murder in South Africa to the tracking down of a master criminal in northern Scotland, this is a true classic of Golden Age detective fiction by one of its most accomplished champions.When a signalman discovers a mutilated body inside a railway tunnel...

Sherlock Holmes examines the body of a murdered scrubwoman that lies on the floor of the South Kensington Museum of Art. But it is not a real corpse he looks at, for those remains have been removed by the coroner. The body Holmes studies...

Mad Music was the buzziest new show of the upcoming Broadway season, with a hot score, a cool director, and a deadly plot twist no one saw coming. When rumors of a behind-the-scenes disaster surface, ballerina Leah Siderova finds herself with the opportunity of...

Prepare for a family reunion like no other, where danger and secrets collide...With a thriving agency and the captivating Lola Caldwell by his side, Nick seems to have it all. But there's a void in his heart that only his long-lost sister, Angie, can...

Marti and Nick have inherited The Bully Pulpit Diner in Logland, Illinois, and their first Christmas season has town grounch, Louella Belle Simpson, as a regular customer. She point out calorie content to other diners and lectures people on their weight. This doesn't encourage...

Tish: The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions By Mary Roberts RinehartAuthor: Mary Roberts RinehartISBN-10: 1976173256ISBN-13: 9781976173257Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/18/2017Pages: 118Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.48lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.01w x 0.25d

In the autumn of 1971, Cleveland Police Lieutenant Alex Wesner is given a case that may be no case at all, or it may be several cases tied together. Did a workman perish in a vat of molten steel, or is his disappearance part...

At a quiet resort on the French Riviera Anthony Tolworth, companion and agent of the exiled king of Athenia, lands from the King's yacht in his search for entertainment and remuneration for the Royal household, but he meets a corpse on the beach in...

A client forsworn, a threatened town, and a Goliath of unimaginable proportions . . . Sherlock Holmes has survived a three-year vendetta against him by Moriarty's remaining henchmen. Wounded and bleeding, with Mycroft's help he clandestinely boards an Atlantic steamship. At the close of...

Madelaine Jones is awakened moments before her farmhouse explodes. Soon after, she discovers a letter that says her husband, who was in the Army, may have died for reasons other than being a war casualty, as she had been told. Determined to find answers,...

Two missing masterpieces scatter a trail of death in Book One of the Jessie O'Bourne art mystery series. Jessie, accompanied by her huge orange tomcat, Jack, returns to Sage Bluff to house sit for her dad and judge an art competition. She is painting...

The unrelenting presence of murder interrupts the bliss of Thomas Ford's honeymoon in June of 1923. Ford, a Detective Chief Inspector from Scotland Yard, is enjoying his honeymoon with his new wife, Victoria, in a remote fishing village in Cornwall when fishermen discover the...

The 'whodunit' you will not solve!Detective Inspector Kit Colley knew that one day there would be a case that would change his life. When a woman dies under suspicious circumstances, he meets Pattie and her partner, Mak, a middle-aged rock musician, plagued by debt...

The Lodger is the first known novelization of the Jack the Ripper story. It follows the lives of Mr. and Mrs. Bunting, a maid and butler. An eccentric lodger, Mr. Sleuth, arrives at their lodging-house just as a wave of horrific murders begins to...

City Clerk Donald Dingle is a pest. He's a tightwad with the city budget and criticizes the police department to the point that Police Chief Elizabeth Friedman would love to see him retire. And she did mean retire, not expire. When he dies soon...

His daughter's in a coma. His marriage is on the rocks. Can Detective Michael Lawrence hold it together long enough to catch a killer? Beloved music professor Emma Gagnon is dead. It doesn't look like murder... until someone breaks into Emma's office and another...

It is a story about two brothers: "Colonel Bohun, a drunkard and playboy, and Reverend Bohun, curate of an Anglican church." Jennifer Halloran notes that it echoes the story of Cain and Abel. "How in Tartarus," cried Flambeau, "did you ever hear of the...

Florence,1855. "The English are dying too much," the city's police chief observes. And members of the foreign community in this quaint Italian backwater, both English and American, are indeed dying at an alarming rate and in an extraordinary variety of ingenious and horrible ways....

A bed & breakfast haunted A guest stabbed A couple's future in ruins Real estate rule #3: It's the rare buyer who wants to buy a haunted house. A grand opening for Captain's Quarters Bed & Breakfast on the outskirts of the little Chesapeake...

Lawyer Andy Carpenter and his humorous investigating team return in Santa's Little Yelpers, the next Yuletide mystery in David Rosenfelt's bestselling series. 'Tis the season in Paterson, New Jersey: Lawyer Andy Carpenter and his golden retriever, Tara, are surrounded by holiday cheer. It's even...

Ever since A. C. Black & Co. brought out their first Whos Who? of the great and good in 1849 (followed in 1897 by Who Was Who after death intervened and removed their entries to a separate volume) people have been fascinated by the...

When a legendary alpine climber leads a professional workshop on dangerous Search and Rescue techniques, the last thing you would expect is that someone would die. And yet...It's up to Ranger Dan Courtwright and his friend Sheriff Cal Healey to uncover the truth. And...

When Harlan Grant, famed spiritualist medium (and blackmailer) is found dead in a locked room, actress Norah Fallon and her scientist boyfriend, Richard Stoddard, are implicated. Norah turns to author and playwright (and occasional amateur detective) Jimmy Lane to help clear their names. Why...

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...

Winner of 2021 Readers' Favorite Bronze Medal in Crime Fiction. No Good Deed Goes UnpunishedThe war in Vietnam didn't kill Peter O'Keefe. Neither did his run-in with ruthless crime boss "Mr. Canada" in the Arizona desert. But chasing after justice in his own hometown...

Does she have the prescription to stop a murderer? Or will the cure be the death of her?1948: Kingston, Canada-A school reunion turns deadly when several of Kingston's nurses suddenly fall ill and one dies. And then it happens again. And again. Like clockwork,...

"The writer who doesn't take himself too seriously is apt to go far in the detective-story racket. A capacity for poking good-natured fun at his characters, his plot, and the mystery story in general tends to make for books that are pleasant as well...

Belgian detective Hercule Poirot is trapped on a train with a killer in his most famous mystery from Agatha Christie. Now with a beautiful new series look."The murderer is with us--on the train now . . ."Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is...

As the German planes came, London burned. Like everyone else, Dory had a job to do, searching for the threat that came in the night sky. Night after night, she and Vera searched for the enemy, while the bombs fell on street after street....

After confessing to killing fourteen young men in La Crosse, Wisconsin, sultry serial killer Genevieve Wangen escapes custody for the second time. Aided by her Mafia contacts, she settles in at a remote cabin in the Bitterroot Mountains of Montana. Now, safely hidden behind...

The 'Land of Mist' is the third novel in Arthur Conan Doyle's 'Professor Challenger' series. The first was written in 1912 and is entitled 'The Lost World', describing an expedition to a plateau in South America where dinosaurs still survive. Then in 1913 he...

Agatha Christie once again demonstrates her mastery of the short form mystery with Parker Pyne Investigates--short stories of crime and detection featuring Parker Pyne, certainly one of the most unconventional private investigators ever to pursue a hot lead.Mrs. Packington felt alone, helpless and utterly...

Game Warden Mike Bowditch's engagement party is interrupted by the discovery of a gruesome double murder in this new thriller from Edgar Award-winning author Paul Doiron.On the evening of their engagement party, Maine Game Warden Investigator Mike Bowditch and Stacey Stevens witness what seems...

The setting: Hollywood.The year: 1943.When death strikes at the austere, castle-like home of Earl Falkoner, an erratic designer of Hollywood sets and a would-be playwright, his hired writers and hired help-not to mention his dogs, his massive bodyguards, and his lady friends-become enmeshed in...

"All we need is a pumpkin, a wand, and six white mice." Sherlock Holmes, the world's greatest detective, has taken on such opponents as Dracula, Dr. Fu Manchu, and Jack the Ripper. Now Holmes is presented with a puzzle that even he admits "This...

Written by one of the most popular and widely acclaimed mystery novels writer in English - Agatha Christie, the present novel, The secret adversary, is a detective novel. It introduces the characters of Tommy and Tuppence who feature in three other Christie novels and...

1888 - In the midst of the murderous phrenzy plaguing the streets of Whitechapel, a case of mistaken identity, a courier's dispatch containing a coded message, and an urgent request from Scotland Yard draw Sherlock Holmes into a case that uncovers criminal schemes fixed...

Charles Bentley, a professor at prestigious Opal College, is forced into retirement when the college hires Garrison Underwood, an academic star from England, to teach Bentley's courses in American literature. Not only does this Englishman take his courses, he immediately takes Charles' office. After...

When a fellow cop is shot dead, homicide detective Quentin Archer suspects that there's far more to this case than meets the eye. One of Quentin Archer's fellow officers has been shot dead in broad daylight, in his own squad car. A random cop...

After his father dies, Grayson Dyle, the owner of a fledgling product design firm, observes his mother hiding an envelope in the casket. He retrieves the letter, revealing that he and his brother Dean, a home automation guru, were adopted. Eager to learn more,...

Movie star Nicky Tallon selects architect Wren Fontaine to renovate Turnbull House, where he'll be filming his next movie. Even to Wren, used to old homes, this one is special: a 200-year-old federal-style home on a private island in New York harbor, designed by...

The Greatest Works of Edgar Allan Poe brings together the haunting and mesmerizing tales of the literary master. Immerse yourself in Poe's macabre imagination, explore his gothic themes, and experience the chilling beauty of his prose. Discover the iconic stories and poems of Edgar...

Returning to Fox Island where she grew up, Kate Sloan begins her career as a professional organizer. When a woman accuses Kate's police chief brother of having an affair, her priority shifts from organizing to proving her brother's innocence. Kate visits the woman, hoping...

All aboard the good ship SS Columbus for an African adventure to die for . . . February 1939. Mamie Mason isn't enthusiastic when Bert, her husband of thirty years, persuades her to join him on an African cruise. Bert might be pining for...

Private Investigator Brig Ellis is on his way to spread the ashes of a friend with whom he once soldiered. His nostalgic journey soon becomes a nightmare, however, when hideous murders occur and Ellis is labeled the prime suspect. The more information that comes...