Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

"Trust the train, Mademoiselle, for it is le bon Dieu who drives it. [...] And trust Hercule Poirot. He knows."Unhappy with her marriage, Ruth Kettering, a pampered American heiress, is on her way to meet her lover in the French Riviera, but she will...

Date with Justice, the ninth novel in Julia's Chapman's witty and engaging Dales Detective series, sees Delilah's brother under suspicion of murder. Can Delilah and Samson prove he's innocent? The Dales Detective Agency is on the brink of closure. Samson O'Brien has returned to...

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

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

" I, Richard] will leave you dizzy, dazzled and dying for more."--PeopleHailed by The New York Times as "a master of the British mystery," award-winning author Elizabeth George is one of our most distinguished writers, widely admired by readers on both sides of the...

In 1990, Katherine Kenny described the book as the most successful of Sayers' early fiction, coupling a slick detective plot with vivid details of post-war English life. "The book is a tightly constructed little drama based upon the old joke about an Englishman's club...

"Trust the train, Mademoiselle, for it is le bon Dieu who drives it. [...] And trust Hercule Poirot. He knows."Unhappy with her marriage, Ruth Kettering, a pampered American heiress, is on her way to meet her lover in the French Riviera, but she will...

The Red House Mystery is a mystery novel by A. A. Milne, published in 1922. It was Milne's only mystery novel; he is better known for his children's stories like "Winnie the Pooh" and poems. The Red House is an English country house loaded...

From a British mystery author known as "the master of the whodunnit," an amateur sleuth searches for a source of poison-pen letters in an English village (The New York Times Book Review). The small town of Cotten Abbas is losing some of its quirky...

This 1945 classic British mystery from "a master of the whodunnit . . . combines a flawless plot, witty dialogue and a touch of surreal hilarity" (The New York Times Book Review). On holiday in the town of Tolnbridge with his butterfly net in...

Raising butterflies is peaceful and calm, until someone dies. Majestic Monarch Butterfly Farm might flitter away forever. That is, unless Seneca James acquires the property next door. She and Winifred, her costume-wearing cat, have a fight on their hands. Their land sits next to...

Agatha Christie's famous serial-killer mystery starring Hercule Poirot. Now with a beautiful new series look."Let us see, Mr. Clever Poirot, just how clever you can be."There's a serial killer on the loose, working his way through the alphabet and the whole country is in...

***Nominated for the Agatha Award for Best First Mystery Novel***Rare books librarian Juniper Blume knows this much...an ancient Celtic manuscript shouldn't be in a Maryland cemetery. But that's exactly what her brother-in-law claims. Last year, Juniper saw the 1,200-year-old Book of Kells in Ireland....

The Malice Domestic cozy anthology series returns with a new take on mysteries in the Agatha Christie tradition -- 30 original tales with historical settings Included are: The Blackness Before Me, by Mindy Quigley Honest John Finds a Way, by Michael Dell Spirited Death,...

Prepare to embark on a thrilling journey aboard the luxurious Blue Train, bound for the French Riviera. A beautiful heiress, a precious collection of rubies, and a love triangle form the backdrop of Agatha Christie's fifth Hercule Poirot novel. As the Belgian detective sets...

From America's Queen of Suspense Mary Higgins Clark, an investigation into the connection between a long-ago murder and a plastic surgeon's obsession with a perfect face catapults prosecutor Kerry McGrath into the strange and ominous territory of those so hungry for beauty they'll kill...

Everyone is a character in somebody's story, but not everyone finds out they are. Things get complicated when Sherlock Holmes can't prove he's real. We thought we lived in 21st-century London, but when everything around us turned into that Victorian cesspool on the pages...

To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope they may experience at second-hand the delights and dangers of adventure. --Told by the bestselling book writer of all timeIt was 2 p.m. on the afternoon of May 7, 1915. The Lusitania had been...

When a monk is found poisoned at St. Emma's Priory, the Chief Constable - a friend of the Prior - insists that Andy Ross and his team handle the investigation.The case turns out to be more complex than they first thought. After a second...

The Art of Sherlock Holmes Global Edition 1 is truly unique. While there have been literally hundreds of Holmes pastiches written (even a few of mine), before our two volumes, The Art of Sherlock Homes-West Palm Beach and USA, there had never been volumes...

A young ship's officer stands in the sitting room at 221B Baker Street, begging Sherlock Holmes, the great detective, to help recover his sister. "It's desperation that drove me to your door, Sir. You may not know it but...if you won't help us, then...

An identified killer ... A simple arrest . . . What could go wrong?It was supposed to be a routine arrest. Detective Mike Salas has identified the killer . . .Salas knows where the killer is . . .His plan: Arrest the suspect before...

The Sign of the Four is the second novel by British Writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring Sherlock Holmes. The story begins on a foggy day in 1888 when Dr. Watson confronts Holmes about his cocaine use. Holmes is bored because he has no...

English novelist Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes wrote a book titled The Lodger. The short tale was initially released in the January 1911 issue of McClure's Magazine. The story is told from Ellen Bunting and Mr. Bunting's perspectives as they work together to run a...

One murder mystery movie. Three Dahlias. And a whole cast of suspects... Ex child star Posy Starling is finally filming her dream role - Dahlia Lively in The Lady Detective movie. But things take a nightmare turn when a prop weapon is replaced with...

A Toronto homicide detective is attacked at his doorstep when his investigation into possible links between the Nazi occupation of Italy and the murder of his brother decades later gets too close to the truth--in the new crime thriller from bestselling author Robert Rotenberg....

""The Leavenworth Case"" is a classic mystery novel written by Anna Katherine Green and was first published in 1878. It is considered one of the earliest detective novels in American literature. The story revolves around the murder of wealthy businessman Horatio Leavenworth and the...

With Trouble in Queenstown, Delia Pitts introduces private investigator Vandy Myrick in a powerful mystery that blends grief, class, race, and family with thrilling results. Evander "Vandy" Myrick became a cop to fulfill her father's expectations. After her world cratered, she became a private...

A cryptic note to a long-retired policeman. A clergyman stabbed by a masked figure in public. Can Macleod and McGrath find the story behind the panic as it becomes open season on the church?When a note is delivered to a care home on the...

Cryptic clues beyond the newspaper crossword. Old cases that were pushed aside for all the wrong reasons. Will Macleod and McGrath prevail as the Avenging Angel seeks out larger conspiracies?Angry at the escape of the serial killers they pursued across Scotland, DCI Macleod and...

Messages passed to a policeman in hospice care. Apocalyptic tales found in notes in his room. Is Macleod losing his mind as well as his health, or is there one last hurrah for a familiar foe?When Seoras Macleod believes he sees an horrific figure...

The best stories are the ones we didn't know needed to be toldThe small, rundown village of Great Diddling is full of stories--author Berit Gardner can feel it. The way the villagers avoid outsiders, the furtive stares and whispers in the presence of newcomers......

In the small, conservative town of Forest Glen, Oregon, the police department finds itself at the whim of a lawsuit that will shift the face of the department: "The Singleton Settlement" requires the next six recruits be from minority groups, and Quinn Summer-having returned...

WHERE EVERY MURDER IS A MASTERPIECE A double murder, a public spectacle, a killer toying with the police. And then, from nowhere, a mysterious woman with a story to tell, a suspect handed to DI Buchan on a plate. ______ It's been a bad...

For fans of Dan Brown and Michael Crichton--an eerie, evocative thriller set in the unforgiving Arctic from the author of The Orpheus Descent.Deep in the Arctic, the US Coast Guard icebreaker Terra Nova batters its way through the frozen sea. A gaunt figure skis...

In the English countryside, one of the well-mannered guests at Pigeonsford Estate may be a murderer in this series debut by an Edgar Award-nominated author. As war rages in Europe, the citizens of London flee to the country. At Pigeonsford, a group of guests...

Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger: Scotland Yard's James Pibble puzzles over the murder of a pygmy tribesman in the middle of London in this "first class" mystery (The Times Literary Supplement). Oddball cases are James Pibble's specialty. But the brutal bludgeoning of the...

Mystery fans will devour this entry into the classic, wisecracking Nero Wolfe series, in which Wolfe must track down a dangerous gunman--or risk losing his right-hand man Archie Goodwin is chipper as he strolls home from his weekly poker game, money in his pocket...

Silver Dagger Award Winner: In this medieval mystery, Brother Cadfael faces suspicion when one of his herbal ingredients is used to kill a man. Gervase Bonel is a guest of Shrewsbury Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul when he suddenly takes ill. Luckily,...

Medieval monk Brother Cadfael races to save a young man he believes is falsely accused of robbery--in the Silver Dagger Award-winning mystery series. In the gentle Shrewsbury spring of 1140, the midnight matins at the Benedictine abbey suddenly reverberate with an unholy sound--a hunt...

The Edgar Award-winning author's tale of a missing woman and a crime ring, featuring the lawyer and detective who inspired the HBO limited series. Defense lawyer Perry Mason needs a temporary typist, but the one he hires turns out to be more temporary than...

In this mystery in the award-winning series featuring a twelfth-century Benedictine monk, Brother Cadfael must travel to the heart of a leper colony to root out the secret behind a savage murder. Setting out for the Saint Giles leper colony outside Shrewsbury, Brother Cadfael...

A monk must find a killer among a flood of religious pilgrims in this medieval mystery by the Edgar Award-winning author: "A series like no other" (The San Diego Union-Tribune). In the year of our Lord 1141, civil war over England's throne leaves a...

A monk embarks on a dangerous quest to find a trio of missing travelers in this medieval mystery by an Edgar Award-winning author. The winter of 1139 will disrupt Brother Cadfael's tranquil life in Shrewsbury with the most disturbing of events. Raging civil war...

In the twelfth century, merchants gather at a summertime fair--but when one of them is found dead in a river, a crime-solving monk must step in. St. Peter's Fair is a grand, festive event, attracting merchants from across England and beyond. There is a...

On the night of a tragic fire at an orphanage in Canada that takes the lives of three boys, the orphanage director, Father Robert Porter, is found passed out in an alcoholic haze. Although he isn't blamed for the fire, Father Robert is recalled...

Strangers seek refuge at the abbey as floodwaters rise, a body falls, and a relic vanishes--in this "top drawer" mystery featuring the twelfth-century monk (Chicago Sun-Times) In the chill, rainy autumn of 1144, two groups of visitors seek the hospitality of the Abbey of...

"Hooked from the start . . . absolutely brilliant. Wish I could rate it higher . . . Just wow!" --Amazon reviewer, five stars Her new house has a mysterious past--and her new life in the English countryside is about to take a dark...

Inspector Cockrill's dull vacation is jolted by a Mediterranean murderFrom the moment he steps on the plane, Inspector Cockrill loathes his fellow travelers. They are typical tour group bores: the dullards of England whom he had hoped to escape by going to Italy. He...

The sleuthing monk unravels a thorny case of murder in this "accomplished whodunit meticulously wrought with a wealth of medieval detail" (Booklist). A late spring in 1142 brings dismay to the Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, for there may be no roses...