Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

In 1930s London, celebrity psychiatrist Anselm Rees is discovered dead in his locked study, and there seems to be no way that a killer could have escaped unseen. There are no clues, no witnesses, and no evidence of the murder weapon. Stumped by the...

Helen Kendal's woes begin when she receives a phone call from her vanished uncle Franklin, long presumed dead, who urges her to make contact with criminal defense attorney Perry Mason; soon after, she finds herself the main suspect in the murder of an unfamiliar...

In a wild, bleak corner of the Kent Coast, a derelict harbour rots beneath the tides. Here the "Doll," a film-struck waif, and her lover, ex-movie star Tod Hafferty, play out their final, tragic, ill-fated, real-life roles. Sudden death strikes the players more than...

The House Among the Laurels is one of the most celebrated short stories starring Thomas Carnacki, The Ghost-Finder, the recurring psychic investigator created by maritime horror master William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918). The story follows Carnacki's methodical investigation as he attempts to unravel a phenomenon...

Step back in time to the 1930s with Brian Flynn's classic cozy mystery, "The Billiard Room Mystery." Set against the backdrop of an English country house, this detective fiction explores the intricacies of social life and customs in early 20th century England. Flynn expertly...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER-NOW IN PAPERBACKAuthor: Martha GrimesISBN-10: 0451220722ISBN-13: 9780451220721Publisher: Berkley BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/06/2007Pages: 416Format: Mass Market PaperboundWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 7.48h x 4.28w x 1.02d

"Once again, Grimes hooks her readers with the engaging Jury and friends and with skillful tucking of hints into unexpected corners."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)When three women die of "natural causes" in London and the West Country, there appears to be no connection--or reason to...

Originally published as: Put on by cunning: Great Britain: Hutchinson, 1981.Author: Ruth RendellISBN-10: 0345341988ISBN-13: 9780345341983Publisher: Ballantine GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/12/1986Pages: 224Format: Mass Market PaperboundWeight: 0.24lbsSize: 6.85h x 4.18w x 0.61d

The ever-popular Peter Lovesey spins another fabulous mystery for his favorite subtle sleuth.Author: Peter LoveseyISBN-10: 1569473935ISBN-13: 9781569473931Publisher: Soho CrimeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2005Pages: 418Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 7.60h x 5.03w x 1.00d

This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The...

A master thief who leaves his mark and vanishes without a trace. The city is his playground, and the police his relentless pursuers. Can anyone catch the elusive Black Star?The Black Star introduces Johnston McCulley's infamous anti-hero, a criminal mastermind who taunts law enforcement...

Brilliant detective Ana Dolabra must prove a man's innocence to stop a civil war in the third book of the series that began with The Tainted Cup, named an Edgar, Hugo, and World Fantasy Award Finalist and one of the best books of the...

Author: Mark CollinsISBN-13: 9798247700722Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/10/2026Pages: 118Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.37lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25d

Author: Roger RiccardISBN-10: 1901091988ISBN-13: 9781901091984Publisher: Irregular Special PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/04/2026Pages: 214Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.56lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.45d

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 cozy, detective, ninth murder mystery novel, in the Inspector...

It's holiday time in Berry Springs, where many come together to enjoy good food, drink, and the company of friends. Unfortunately, death is among the mix as people get mysteriously ill at the town's Thanksgiving dinner. Deaths follow, and Sally must race to discover...

Two-time Crime Writers of Canada Award-winning author Anne Emery is back with another mystery "[Anne Emery] really is a fine writer; not just a good storyteller but a stylist as well: every word of her prose feels carefully chosen for the way it interacts...

Rushmore McKenzie is a former cop, current millionaire, and an occasional unlicensed P.I. who does favors for friends. Yet he has reservations when the daughter of his girlfriend Nina Truhler asks him to help her father, Nina's ex-husband Jason Truhler, a man in serious...

Girls Together magazine agony-aunt 'Mrs Friendly-wise', aka Katinka Jones, finds herself at a loose end in Swansea, and decides to pay a surprise visit to one of the magazine's regular correspondents, 'Amista'. But upon reaching the address a strange house perched atop a mountain...

"Mom had a brother she's never mentioned, who died a couple of months ago. She says he was...bad."Bud Anderson's surprise that he has a long-lost uncle is matched by his discovery that the man has met an untimely end. With claims by Bud's mother...

Something whistling through the door behind her caused her to turn. A shadow spread across the opening. She clasped a hand to her mouth, stilling the fear that was rising. The menacing shadow was followed by a face that sent a cold shiver down...

An ambitious young officer at the Yard is assigned to a baffling theft that seems to begin with a single jewel and widen into a pattern of robberies tied to a discreet circle of financiers. Ordered to keep her badge hidden, she threads through...

The line was dead...as dead as the chance of two more romantic days at sea for Cait and Bud.Cait Morgan and Bud Anderson have finally said "I do", and happily celebrate with a romantic Hawaiian honeymoon cruise. But then a man drops dead right...

A deadly party. A vicious attack. A list of suspects. When Katie Frost is murdered a few metres from home, a family is left in turmoil. Who would kill their beautiful girl? DI Allie Shenton and her team delve into the teenager's background, bringing...

A mischievously entertaining crime novel' SIMON BRETT The twelfth instalment in The Falconer Files, Andrea Frazer's insanely gripping village detective series with a delightful slice of humour. Perfect for fans of Agatha Christie, Lillian Jackson Braun and Midsomer Murders. Reverend Florrie Feldman has put...

Detective Rebecca Watson is tracking a vicious serial killer in Eugene Falls, Florida. As a distraction, she's dragged back into court for the retrial of a man convicted of murdering his girlfriend five years earlier. His defense attorney will use any means to get...

"His Last Bow" is a short story by Arthur Conan Doyle and is part of an anthology of short stories, His Last Bow: Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes (1977). It's the final work in Conan Doyle's classic mystery series about the legendary detective, Sherlock...

"Look - someone's skewered Miss Shirley to her seat with a silver saber!"Welsh Canadian foodie and criminologist Cait Morgan is taking a short break at the fabulousTsar! Casino and Hotel in Las Vegas with her significant other, retired cop Bud Anderson. But before they...

"Don't panic, Cait. This death will not spoil our wedding. I promise."It's Cait and Bud's wedding weekend and nothing is going as planned. The weather in Wales is terrible, the "romantic" castle they chose for their destination wedding feels creepy, and now there's a...

I could make out a body, and I recognized the person with their hands around its throat...Criminologist and foodie Cait Morgan was looking forward to her dream vacation in Mexico. However, she wasn't anticipating a fresh corpse on the floor of a local florist's...

Eddie Holland is back. The former FBI agent turned private detective in Austin, Texas, returns for another fast paced mystery. Following on the heels of The South Coast and Ballyvaughan, Hangfire keeps you guessing until the very end. Clem Akins has gone missing, but...

In Louisville, Kentucky, a city where secrets are as plentiful as bourbon, a murder rocks the tight-knit community. When electrician Greg Chambers is found slain in his own home, the prime suspect is none other than Robert King, a notorious loan shark with a...

Discontented with existence on the ship, Seamus decides it's time to do what he's been avoiding for six decades. Though he knows his wife and best friend teamed up to murder him, there are things about the crime he doesn't understand, as well as...

Chicago has ANOTHER SOUTHSIDE!Hidden in plain sight. Enigmatic and complex. Full of intrigue, and as dangerous as you can imagine.Just the sort of place Jake Thompson, the city's quirkiest crime fighter, would ply his trade.Author: Del StaeckerISBN-10: 1938505654ISBN-13: 9781938505652Publisher: Lionheart Group, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/23/2024Pages:...

Can DCI John Blizzard stop an ex-con from getting his cut?When an elderly couple walk into Abbey Road Police Station and announce, with a certain nonchalance, that they'll be murdered in the coming week, Detective John Blizzard has every reason to take them seriously.Some...

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are no strangers to peculiar cases. Be it the dilemma of an Indian princess on the run, perfectly healthy people dropping dead as divine punishment, being challenged to a duel, a heartbroken and suicidal young man, a beautiful woman...

The Snodgrass and Harper Detective Agency is now open for business! The team of inexperienced investigators will bring a smile to your face, assuming you are within walking distance.In Book 1, The Doctor is Not In, the boys stumble into something they didn't quite...

As far as New Yorker Carol Spencer is concerned, the war has spoiled everything. She and Don had been engaged for years and were on the verge of marriage when he was shot down in the South Pacific, leaving Carol on the verge of...

In a nightmare scenario, Frank Townsend has an apparently minor accident on his way home but he arrives to find his wife gone and doesn't recognize his apartment. He had gone to work on a normal day but didn't return for more than three...

Stewart "Hoagy" Hoag is walking on cloud nine after a meeting with his editor, Norma Fives, where she predicts his new book is sure to establish him as the next great American author. It has been years since he has even dreamed of such...

A dark cloud has descended upon the elegant mansion of Jazz Age New York's illustrious Greene family as, one by one, the heirs to the fortune die off under mysterious circumstances. It begins when an intruder shoots two daughters, leaving one dead. Soon after,...

James Aloysius Piper, mostly known as Peter, is relentless when pursuing a story for his newspaper, the Herald. So when a woman's body is found burned beyond recognition in the marsh near El Cerrito, he is even more eager than the local authorities to...

John Dickson Carr is famous for his puzzling "impossible crime" plots in which corpses are discovered in scenarios that seem to lack any logical explanation. Among all of Carr's ingenious crime scenes, the present case is one of the best known: a dead man...

Cub reporter Mary Llewellyn is on a soothing sea cruise to help her recover after a minor operation. Her fellow passengers are pleasant enough, gathering to play a friendly game of bridge to pass the time. But the game turns considerably less so when...

Walking home wearily from an evening spent poring over the books of the Parchly Heights Methodist Ladies' Aid searching for a fifty-eight-cent error, Miss Jennifer Murdock becomes witness to a terrible scene: A man, stumbling drunk, arrives home--and just as he fumbles with his...

"I came here to make a dead man change his mind."So begins a creepy and unusual mystery celebrated to this day as one of the greatest "impossible crime" novels of all time. When a family's promise to protect the beloved pine grove of their...

In an elaborate house known as the Cloisters, Maud Wainwright rules supreme. The queen of society in the small town of Beverly, she has a table long enough to seat one hundred, and she keeps an iron grip on the guest list. Her right-hand...

For Ellery Queen, there is no puzzle that reason cannot solve. In his time, he has faced down killers, thugs, and thieves, protected only by the might of his brain--and the odd bit of timely intervention by his father, a burly New York police...

In a quiet village far from the noise of Victorian London, Sydney Silchester lives the life of a recluse led by two passions: privacy and honey. He gives up the former only when his stores of the latter run low. But when his honey...

In his specially written introduction, crime novelist Martin Edwards, President of the DetectionClub and author of the multi-award winning 'The Golden Age of Murder' writes "The reappearance of 'Death in the Dark, ' truly a one-of-a-kind detective novel is long overdue and will be...