Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

It is June 1884, a grey period for both the weather and Sherlock Holmes' mood. A lack of compelling cases has left him bored and close once again to the dull embrace of the needle. Less than a month earlier, however, he had astonished...

Meet the world's only swearing detective Swearlot Holmes of 221b is for bastard Baker Street, London. Thrill to excerpts and illustrations from many of his most curious cases such as 'The Adventure Of The Sussex Swearwolf' and 'A Foul -Mouthed Cow In Belgravia'. In...

Did Harold Vickers, the best-selling author of impossible crimes foresee his own death, or did he possibly even arrange it? When two guests knock on her door with dinner invitations, Mrs. Vickers is dumbfounded, for her husband has been locked in his study for...

Sheila Webb expected to find a respectable blind lady waiting for her at 19 Wilbraham Crescent--not the body of a middle-aged man sprawled across the living room floor. But when old Miss Pebmarsh denies sending for her in the first place, or of owning...

After six months in London, Agatha Raisin returns to her beloved Cotswold village--and her dashing neighbor, James Lacey. Well, sort of. James might not be so interested in Agatha. But soon enough, Agatha becomes consumed by her other passion: crime solving. A woman has...

Albert Campion is in the bleak, remote and very muddy village of Wicken on the Essex coast on a mission to rescue Dame Jocasta's dog, but soon finds himself sinking into something far more dangerous. East coast of England, 1971. Harvard student Mason Clay...

"If I had to vote for the single best detective story, this would be it." --A.S. ByattCelebrated amateur detective Albert Campion awakes in hospital, accused of attacking a police officer and suffering from acute amnesia. All he can remember is that he was on...

"Allingham has that rare gift in a novelist, the creation of characters so rich and so real that they stay with the reader forever." --Sara ParetskyWorld War II is limping to a close and private detective Albert Campion has just returned from years abroad...

A man is killed five months after his funeral, in a tale by "one of the greatest mid-20th-century practitioners of the detective novel" (Alexander McCall Smith).Private detective Albert Campion is summoned to the village of Kepesake to investigate a particularly distasteful death. The body...

An isolated crime scene. An underground gambling syndicate. And a rescue mission like no other.When DCI Harry Grimm is called out in the darkest hours to the middle of nowhere, he uncovers bloody evidence of an illegal gambling ring. Learning of a long-running feud...

From multi-million-selling Faith Martin, one of Britain's best-loved mystery writers.Meet Jenny Starling: travelling cook and reluctant amateur sleuth.Jenny Starling is spending Christmas in a snowed-in Cotswolds country house cooking all the traditional food she loves. But the family she's working for are not full...

From multi-million-selling Faith Martin, one of Britain's best-loved mystery writers.Meet Jenny Starling: travelling cook and reluctant amateur sleuth.Jenny Starling has her dream job cooking for Lord and Lady Avonsleigh in a genuine castle.But the dream is about to curdle. One of the castle's treasures,...

On a dark and stormy spring evening Mr. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson were dining quietly at Mancini's Italian Restaurant on the Strand, when a young man entered the restaurant and approached their table, uninvited. His expression was so strained and his path...

Unveil the dark underbelly of Edwardian England in this gripping Sherlock Holmes adventure. Step into the shadows with the legendary detective as he confronts a ruthless American crime syndicate and untangles a web of fear and conspiracy.A chilling cipher leads Holmes and Watson to...

In this official authorized edition from the Queen of Mystery, detective Hercule Poirot must solve a most confounding conundrum when Lord Edgware has a most unnatural death.When Lord Edgware is found murdered the police are baffled. His estranged actress wife was seen visiting him...

In this official authorized edition from the Queen of Mystery, Hercule Poirot must solve a perplexing case of midair murder when he discovers that the woman in seat two of the airborne aeroplane he's traveling on is quite unexpectedly--and unnaturally--deceased. Now with a beautiful...

In a bid to heal from the grief of a personal loss, forensic genealogist, RaeJean Hunter, takes on a straightforward case -identify human remains found on a nearby college campus, believed to be the 180-year-old remains of Mary Rogers, a woman who died mysteriously...

Darkness Lurks Behind Every Fairy TaleAt 33, Parker Simms had little use for "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz." A veteran of the Great War turned New York City private detective, he knew that a children's tale couldn't prepare him for Europe's brutal battlefields or...

The Sleeping Cat is a thrilling story in Isabel Ostrander's best manner. Olive Mercer invites her old schoolmate, the beautiful Gloria Warrender, to her home. A murder in the garden in open daylight, and a missing ring with links to a curious wartime past,...

People change, but some feelings last forever.Renna is accused of hiring a hitman to kill Tony Defoe, a notorious mobster. To prove her innocence, she must emerge from hiding and team up with her former lover, Hunter, who is well-known in the world of...

An escaped convict flees the country, never to be seen again. An aging rock star on the brink of a new career commits suicide. A talented young ballet student boards a train in London and never arrives at her destination. The last time they...

A violent killing. But who's the real victim? DCI Ted Darling is called to a suspicious death. His prime suspect is a young woman with special needs, daughter of a local councillor with an axe to grind. Further investigation reveals a cynical crime, new...

'Where does a wise man hide a pebble?' Home Office Pathologist Professor Nelson's question marks the beginning of Detective Chief Inspector Ted Darling's latest case. Not one he was expecting to get for him and his team. The tragic but seemingly straightforward suicide of...

'Their blood shall be upon them.'A teenager is found naked and wandering in a lane near Stockport. He can't answer any questions about the serious injuries he's sustained, only repeatedly recite a biblical passage. DCI Ted Darling's team take the case and discover he's...

Compelling, character-led police procedural crime thriller with a distinctly different type of detective in the lead role. It's a big operation and a complex one. With the Big Boss out of action, Ted's in charge of one part of the enquiry, a robbery and...

Random, unrelated killings, seemingly without motives? Or the work of a single cold-blooded killer?Author: L. M. KrierISBN-10: 2901773079ISBN-13: 9782901773078Publisher: LemasLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/14/2019Pages: 342Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.82lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.76d

A woman priest at St Margaret's? Over my dead body!Dolly Topping, head of the national organisation 'Ladies Opposed to Women Priests' and wife of one of the churchwardens, feels that strongly about it. It is unfortunate, therefore, that Father Julian, the well-loved curate of...

Death at the Deanery - sudden and unnatural death. Someone should have seen it coming. For even before Stuart Latimer arrives as the new Dean of Malbury, shock waves are reverberating through the tightly-knit and insular Cathedral Close, with sweeping changes afoot. And the...

On the eve of her wedding, stunning heiress Madeleine Van Norman is found stabbed to death in the library of her palatial country mansion, killed by a single thrust from her Venetian letter opener. Suspicion falls by turns to the groom who loved another,...

A dead witness and a forgotten crime--Hamish Macbeth has never had it so hard as he does in this twenty-ninth highlands mystery When a local Scottish woman tells Sergeant Hamish Macbeth that she doesn't remember what happened the previous evening, he doesn't even begin...

Occasionally, the rugged landscape of Scotland attracts dreamers who move north, wrapped in fantasies of enjoying the simple life. They usually don't last, defeated by the climate or by inhospitable locals. But it looks as if Effie Garrand has come to stay.When local constable...

The Valley of Fear is the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is loosely based on the Molly Maguires and Pinkerton agent James McParland. The story was first published in the Strand Magazine between September 1914 and May...

Pretty, young Anne came to London looking for adventure. In fact, adventure comes looking for her--and finds her immediately at Hyde Park Corner tube station. Anne is present on the platform when a thin man, reeking of mothballs, loses his balance and is electrocuted...

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, better known as G.K. Chesterton, was an English writer. He wrote on philosophy, ontology, poetry, plays, journalism, public lectures and debates, literary and art criticism, biography, Christian apologetics, and fiction, including fantasy and detective fiction. Chesterton is often referred to as...

In the dark, wintry highlands of Lochdubh, Scotland, where the local Calvinist element resists the secular trimmings of Christmas, the spirit of old Saint Nick is about as welcome as a flat tire on a deserted road. Nor is crime taking a holiday, as...

Spy thriller fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder"Espionage, a ghostly presence, an evil crone, a woman scorned, and secret documents on which the future of Europe depend are just a few of the melodramatic elements that enrich this fun, far-fetched tale." --Publishers...

Welcome to Keyhole Bay, Florida, an idyllic small tourist town in the Florida Panhandle, where vacation just might be murder!Murder Stacks the Shelves brings together the first four books in the Haunted Souvenir Shop Mystery series in two omnibus volumes. This omnibus edition includes:...

Dorothy L. Sayers (1883-1957) is thought to be a brilliant writer; funnier, more nuanced and unafraid to address social issues, she is often cited as an inspiration by authors like PD James, Ruth Rendell and Elizabeth George.But has her work stood the test of...

In New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz's ingenious fifth literary whodunnit in the Hawthorne and Horowitz series, Detective Hawthorne is once again called upon to solve an unsolvable case--a gruesome murder in an idyllic gated community in which suspects abound.Riverside Close is a...

A NARCOTICS PICK-UP AT SEA GOES HORRIBLY WRONG. A MAN IS LOST OVERBOARD. A DANGEROUS SERIES OF EVENTS SENDS SHOCKWAVES THROUGH THE LOCAL COMMUNITY.On a wintery day a young woman is found dead at a local beach. Sergeant Bill Granger, the local policeman, is...

They survived a plane crash only to disappear on a deserted island. In the harrowing days after Alex and her co-workers survive a plane crash, they give up hope of immediate rescue from their deserted island in the Caribbean. To commemorate the lack of...

Two fishermen haul a mysterious shipping crate ashore off the coast of Burry Port in South Wales, where they discover a brutally murdered, decaying corpse inside. The local police, perplexed by the lack of leads, called in Inspector French of Scotland Yard, one of...

A desecrated grave, an unforgotten crime, and a no-nonsense detective on the caseWhen detective John Blizzard is called to Hafton city cemetery to inspect a recently desecrated grave, he quickly suspects it is something to do with a girl who went missing years before.The...

Few tears are shed when an ex-boxer and local hard man is found dead in a disused railway signal box.When DCI John Blizzard is called in to investigate, he discovers no shortage of people who would want the bully dead. But getting any of...

A local businessman is found tortured to death at the foot of Ohio's infamous Red Sky Hill. No one heard his screams. No one came to help.Detective Jake Cashen catches the case that terrifies his small town. In his fifteen years as an investigator,...

Whilst detective John Blizzard looks into a series of drug-related deaths, an old nemesis appears who threatens to cloud his judgement.Frustrated with the slow progress of his colleagues' investigation into the deaths of several youngsters on his patch, DCI John Blizzard takes over, determined...

A corrupt industrialist is found dead. When his family shed crocodile tears, DCI Blizzard turns the screw.The closure of the Smarts factory in a northern industrial city put many people out of work. Nothing was ever proven, but suspicions of serious financial corruption were...

A prisoner is killed on a secure wing, an undercover policeman is shot in his home. DCI Blizzard investigates.Detective John Blizzard wants to be spending some time with his new-born child, instead he is on a manhunt for a hitman targeting the police.Links to...

"Beneath the Retreat's Veil" by Arthur Patterson is a gripping debut novel that takes readers on an unforgettable journey into the seemingly tranquil world of a spa retreat. What begins as a weekend of relaxation and rejuvenation for a close-knit group of friends quickly...

December, 1940. Christmas is coming, but the season of goodwill is overshadowed by the death and destruction of the Blitz. In London's Covent Garden, where the glamour of theatreland rubs shoulders with the bustle of the capital's biggest fruit and vegetable market, the war...