Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

After his son, Peter, is lost and presumed dead in the wilds of the Labrador coast, Benjamin Crane turns to spiritualism for solace and comfort. So profound is his belief in the medium, that he writes a successful book about his experiences. But when...

Ursula Pell was both wealthy and eccentric, being perhaps too fond of playing elaborate jokes on her long suffering niece and nephew. Therefore, when she was found brutally murdered in her locked study, the motive was only too obvious, the hoard of gems worth...

When the wealthy financier Joseph Crawford is found dead in the study of his home in West Sedgwick the only clue is the ladies gold evening bag on his desk. But does the bag indicate an unknown late night lady visitor as the murderer?...

Political ambition, a decades old feud, romantic aspirations, an age old family legend foretelling doom. When a former governor is shot dead at the country home of an old political rival, the famed detective Fleming Stone must determine which of these was a factor...

The Hume-Frazer family was cursed. For four generations the head of the family had met a violent end. When the fifth Baronet is found murdered on the family estate, Reginald Brett, barrister-detective, is called in to clear the name of the murdered man's cousin,...

Four men murdered, a fortune in diamonds belonging to the Turkish Sultan stolen and the Foreign Office representative in charge has gone missing. This is the situation that Reginald Brett, Barrister Detective is faced with. Set against a background of international intrigue, Brett must...

Max Carrados is everything a proper Edwardian Detective should be, intelligent, observant, educated, of independent means. He's also blind, but he never lets that stop him from solving a crime. Taken from the pages of the _Strand_, where he often received top billing over...

It's 1942 and the war still rages on. Lady Marmalade is staying in London against the advice of her son and her butler. It's to dangerous with Germany's ongoing air raids, but she won't have it any other way. And that's a good thing...

Adam Barrie has a gift - some would say a curse - and can see and communicate with the dead. When suspicious activity is discovered at the local girls' boarding school, Barrie investigates. What he discovers shocks him to the core. Leonard Shaitan, a...

For some, a life at sea, is all they want. That's certainly the case for Adam Barrie. Out there, among the waves, he has a peace he cannot find on land. When tragedy strikes his family, Adam's commitment to them has to become his...

On a boat trip from the fishing village of Downburgh, Paul and Steve Temple are shot at and later the boatman dies in a cliff-top fall. Back in London, the daughter of the head of M.I.5. has disappeared and it soon transpires there is...

Moving to Spain, to live with her mother, seemed like the perfect solution to end Sally Wright's problem relationship with her ex - and it might have worked, if she hadn't found a dead body. Now, she is embroiled in a murder investigation and...

Returning from America by ocean liner, the Temples meet wealthy Sam Portland whose UK agent Hubert Greene has received messages about Portland's past from a private detective called Madison. But Portland dies on board, and Temple is left to unravel a case involving international...

Any reasonable summary of this book's plot would give away too much of the mystery it describes, so suffice it to say that it is a definite 'page-turner.' Right from the first chapter, when we learn about the mysterious recently-turned-millionaire Fenwick being strangely horrified...

The report from New Scotland Yard of the escalating thefts of drugs from pharmacies in the south of England reached Chief Inspector Brenda Masters' desk in Meadowbank at the same time as she heard of Mark Astley's murder. Mark Astley, originally from Winchester, had...

As the country mourns the passing of Queen Victoria, Inspector Cornelius Armstrong finds himself wrestling with a series of complex investigations that threaten to overwhelm the City Police Force. After he is called away to attend the scene of a seemingly unconnected suicide, Armstrong...

Does Octavius have a doppelgänger? Could be! One who's insisting that he is the Great Bear. The Octavians insist that he is a nut intent on creating chaos or worse.The plot gets much thicker. It seems the real target of this complex charade isn't...

Doctor Llewellyn Llama, Director of the Pharm and Pharma Division of Octavius Bear's Universal Ursine Industries (UUI) is found dead in his hotel room in Washington DC. How did he die? The DC Police believe he was poisoned. Why did he die? Unknown!He was...

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 streetwise youth from the Grimpen housing estate and he's definitely no doctor. The mismatched duo take on bizarre cases...

Welcome back, once again, to Polar Paradise in the Shetland Islands, part-time home of Octavius Bear's spouse Bearoness Belinda Béarnaise Bruin Bear (nee Black.) In Book Eight - The Crank Case, we introduced you to Preston Pavel Polar, Russian movie star and matinee idol....

Under extreme duress, publican and ex-spy Mike Strange hands over vital coded information about an impending terrorist incident to Frank Sterling. Straight away, the private investigator is impelled into a fast-moving, unorthodox race against time. With diverse, eccentric and often unexpected support, can Sterling...

This extraordinary story unfolds in the dim streets of Victorian London's notorious East End. Poverty, squalor and crime fester and proliferate, blighting the lives of all who are unfortunate enough to dwell there. Yet from within the gloom, a random illumination- a beam of...

Sherlock Holmes and Doctor John Watson are returning to London from Bucharest after the great detective has interceded in a delicate matter relating to the Rumanian Royal House. As they depart from Bucharest they receive their mail forwarded from London. Doctor Watson opens a...

What if two had perished at Reichenbach Falls? One simple, disastrous error throws Sherlock Holmes from his intended Hiatus into a tortuous journey of sorrow and remorse. Far from home, broken in body and spirit, the haunted detective fights to survive the single most...

A family in Wales are defrauded by what appears to be a Nigerian internet scam, but it tracks to an office in Lewisham, South London. DCI Catrin Sayer, Metropolitan Police, believes the case belongs to the local borough detectives, not to her specialist team...

The body of a fifteen-year-old boy is discovered ten years after he disappeared. Dennis Lewis's remains are bound with rope in a makeshift grave in a farmer's field near Maryport, Cumbria.Community Sergeant Harriet Calder was not involved in the original investigation, but her name...

The tenth and final novel in the Catrin Sayer series.In the middle of family upheaval during the Covid pandemic, Catrin Sayer takes a career development assignment with the Devon and Cornwall Police. There, at the rank of superintendent, she chairs a reorganisation task force,...

In the heart of New York City plagued by crime, the opioid epidemic, and mental health crisis, the NYPD Chief of Police proposes an audacious experiment. A partnership born of necessity - blending the skills of two enigmatic experts.Jed Gray and Christie Jamison, handpicked...

The events in room 201 of the Red Cove Travel Inn, in Fleetham, were about to turn the small, sleepy, Texas town into a hotbed of police activity. When local prostitute, Tessie Johanan, is found brutally murdered, it leaves Sheriff Robert Binder and Detective...

Chris Lash had seen a lot of corpses in his years as Lieutenant of Detectives in Homicide, but never one as beautiful as the blonde with a goldfish on her chest.But that was only the beginning, as more goldfish were found on more corpses....

Author: A. Conan DoyleISBN-10: 1613826060ISBN-13: 9781613826065Publisher: Simon & BrownLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/08/2012Pages: 138Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.83lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d

The Priest's Hat is a suspenseful, moving, and darkly funny tale loosely based on Count Alessandro Faella's murder of the priest Virgilio Costa in Imola in 1881. Against the background of late nineteenth-century Naples, the novel brings us the meltdown of an aging playboy,...

The story is set in 1888. The Sign of the Four has a complex plot involving service in East India Company, India, the Indian Rebellion of 1857, a stolen treasure, and a secret pact among four convicts ("the Four" of the title) and two...

The public may possibly wonder why it is that they have never heard in the papers of the fate of the passengers of the Korosko. In these days of universal press agencies, responsive to the slightest stimulus, it may well seem incredible that an...

Features the following classic detective stories: A Scandal in Bohemia, The Red-Headed League, A Case of Identity, The Boscombe Valley Mystery, The Five Orange Pips, The Man with the Twisted Lip, The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, The Adventure of the Speckled Band, The...

A deadly mystery unfolds from New York to the Mexican border when private detective Nat Ridley is drawn into a string of ritualistic murders tied to a secret society, the Tola. With every victim marked by the same ominous double-dagger symbol, Ridley must navigate...

This classic tale follows the unexpected adventures of a mild-mannered English vicar who finds himself embroiled in international intrigue. When the vicar's roguish brother Edmund returns home with a mysterious cargo and dubious associates, the quiet clergyman is drawn into a web of smuggling...

In Castlebay, North Wales, Dick Merrill is on trial, accused of murdering his wife by administering a lethal dose of arsenic. Merrill, good-looking and attractive, is fatally in love with Margot Stone, who's herself already married. Philip Vane, a lawyer whose career was mysteriously...

Three women of very different characters and social backgrounds have been betrayed by the same man, Bruce Nolan, who married them for their money -- without bothering with messy divorces. Lady Eleanor Cresswell, Edith Westerham, and Lucille Belloes all learn the hard way that...

Francis Hammerton is arrested and convicted of involvement with a gang of confidence men--a charge of which he is entirely innocent--but escapes police custody when a cell door is left unlocked. He finds refuge at a nearby boarding house, but is arrested again when...

Roger Truscott and brother Cyril inherit a controlling interest in their late father's firm. Rowton, the company manager, urges them to sell out before the business fails. The brothers argue in Rowton's office, and shortly thereafter, Cyril is shot dead on the entrance stairs....

Crime writer Alfred Culbertson concocts a scheme to increase his royalties: he'll fake the murder of his cousin, Thomas Birchell (who's also hard-up for cash), and together they'll reap a bonanza. When Tom takes a dive off a nearby cliff, supposedly to reappear at...

When the blackmailer Henry Coldwater is murdered, Basil Forbes becomes the prime suspect, since he admits having thrashed Coldwater an hour before his death. But solicitor Mr. Jellipot has no trouble clearing Forbes' name, leaving Scotland Yard Inspector Combridge with a terrible dilemma: who...

Constance Hillier and her boyfriend, Thomas Mogson, are convicted of the murder of her aunt, and both are hanged. Before his death, Thomas unsuccessfully tries to save himself by accusing Constance's sister, Margaret, of the crime. Inspector Cleveland of Scotland Yard is faced with...

When Bulfwin is found murdered in his office, the prime suspect becomes his American partner, Kingsley Starr, who admits having visited the man on the night of his death. But then the coroner finds that Bulfwin had been murdered by two DIFFERENT guns fired...

When Mrs. Hamilton dies, Inspector Combridge receives an anonymous letter stating that she was poisoned. Post-mortem evidence finds traces of a rare dental anesthetic in her body, and her stepdaughter and heir, Ada, becomes the prime suspect, since she works in a dental office...

When Arabella Hackett is found poisoned, her sister and heir, Anne Bickerton, is accused of the crime. She's arrested and brought to trial, but the only defense she can make is to proclaim her innocence. Can anyone save Anne Bickerton from the hangman's noose?Author:...

Wilfrid Ralston's new invention will revolutionalize the film industry. But the big potential payoff results in his brutal murder, and his girlfriend, Evelyn Merivale, becomes the prime suspect. Only Scotland Yard Inspector Combridge and the solicitor friend, Mr. Jellipot, can crack the enigmatic case...

Prof. Blinkwell, the suave, unscrupulous scientist and criminal mastermind, is back, this time visiting Paris. When Henri Reynard, the official investigating Blinkwell, is murdered in the hotel suite of the U.S. Ambassador, the prime suspect becomes Scotland Yard detective William Kindell, who's released when...

Cornelius Mildew is dead, but his drug-trafficking gang lives on! The Hon. Peter Boyle has taken administrative control of the organization, and appears to be as ruthless as his former master. But is Boyle the only member of London high society involved with the...