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Four dead.One clinging to life.A tragic accident or is someone out to kill?Detective Dove Milson is called out to a gruesome scene under the pier: four bodies floating in a flooded escape room. The chamber is meant to flood with seawater as the tide...

The award-winning Julius Katz mysteries have delighted thousands of mystery fans since first appearing on the pages of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine in 2009, winning a Shamus, Derringer and two Ellery Queen's Readers Awards. 'Julius Katz' introduced readers to Boston's most brilliant, eccentric and...

Set in the heart of downtown Nashville, Tennessee, amid bustling streets filled with tourists seeking the glimmer of country stardom, hidden beyond the neon lights and echoing sounds of the "Honky Tonk Highway," a forgotten homeless population becomes increasingly vulnerable. While the city may...

Boston PI Sunny Randall investigates the dark side of social media in the latest exciting thriller in the bestselling series. Sunny Randall's newest client, Blake, seems to have it all: he is an Instagram influencer, with all the perks the lifestyle entails--a beautiful girlfriend,...

A bookseller finds an old diary containing a condemned man's last words-but can they be trusted? "A compelling book, superbly plotted" (Peter Lovesey, author of The Last Detective). Browsing through a collection of old volumes, a bookseller comes across a diary-contained in it, the...

Whispers of the Silent Shadows," a mysterious disappearance, sets the stage for an intricate web of secrets and enigmas. As detective Sarah Reynolds delves into the case, she discovers a series of cryptic messages, hidden rooms, and long-buried family secrets. The story weaves through...

Immerse yourself in the fog-shrouded streets of Victorian London and the atmospheric charm of 221B Baker Street, which make up the world of Sherlock Holmes. As the legendary detective navigates the criminal underworld, encountering cunning adversaries and perplexing cases, readers are treated to a...

The 19th mystery in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Armand Gamache series. Relentless phone calls interrupt the peace of a warm August morning in Three Pines. Though the tiny Québec village is impossible to find on any map, someone has managed to track down...

A CANINE CRUISE. A STORM OF MURDER. A LABRADOR NAMED RANDOLPH: OVERWEIGHT, OVERLY INTELLIGENT--AND OVERBOARD... For Randolph and his owner, Harry, a struggling artist, it was dog heaven: a pet lovers cruise filled with canine experts and gung-ho trainers--plus plenty of art lectures for...

An "excellent," darkly-told crime novel in the tradition of Tana French and Ian Rankin (Wall Street Journal). Sergeant Alexandra Cupidi is a recent transfer from the London metro police to the rugged Kentish countryside. She's done little to ingratiate herself with her new colleagues,...

The 19th mystery in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Armand Gamache series. Relentless phone calls interrupt the peace of a warm August morning in Three Pines. Though the tiny Québec village is impossible to find on any map, someone has managed to track down...

2024 Reprint of the 1928 Edition. Poirot boards Le Train Bleu [The Blue Train] bound for the French Riviera. So does Katherine Grey, who is having her first winter out of England, after recently receiving a relatively large inheritance. On board the train Grey...

Discover the captivating treasures buried in the British Library's archives. Largely inaccessible to the public until now, these enduring crime classics were written in the golden age of mysteries.At a soir e like this, anyone can be the life--or death--of the partyThe British Secret...

Jake and Scarlett are back!As a former member of the FBI's prestigious Hostage Rescue Team, Jake Shepherd is accustomed to rushing into danger when others are rushing out. His experience and training, combined with his intelligence and intuitive nature, make him a highly respected,...

When Ellery Queen, described by the London Times as "the logical successor to Sherlock Holmes," is invited by his friend, a doctor, to witness an operation, he accepts the offer in hopes of furthering his capabilities as an amateur detective, but soon ends up...

Every moment of Sir Hugo Fletcher's life has been chronicled in the British press: his privileged upbringing, his high-profile charity work to end human trafficking--even his two marriages. But when the billionaire philanthropist is discovered murdered in his London home, tied naked to a...

A daring and delightful crossover of Sherlock Holmes and his criminal adversity: Ars鈩e Lupin, the Gentleman Burglar. These superb sleuths will solve intricate riddles and journey across France and beyond to uncover the long-lost treasure of the House of Bourbon. Sherlock Holmes and his...

Gold discovered that was taken from an 1880s train robbery in Montana may be the catalyst of three "double murders" in the west. Five years later, three bodies were discovered in each of two different lakes located in the same area. An FBI agent...

SHE WALKED TO THE KLIN ROOM DOOR WITH A GROWING PRICKLINESS ON THE BACK OF HER NECK. A CRY CHOKED SOMEWHERE DEEP INSIDE HER THROAT. SHE RAN OVER THE GIANT KLIM NUMBER 6 WHERE THE LEGS OF MARJORIE MILLER STUCK OUT AND THE HEAVY...

For the first time in his career Inspector Maigret receives written summons to the Prefect's office where he learns that he has been accused of assaulting a young woman. With his career and reputation on the line, Maigret must fight to prove his innocence....

Miss Marple senses danger when she visits a friend living in Stoneygates, a rehabilitation center for delinquents. Her fears are confirmed when someone shoots at the administrator. Although he is not injured, a mysterious visitor is less fortunate--shot dead simultaneously in another part of...

‛Tis the season to be jolly. But unless one detective can find a missing ballerina, it won't be a happy Christmas...Private investigator Alexandra Neve is determined to live up to her newfound fame. Delighted that clients are coming their way, she's barely squeezing in...

Have this ambitious private eye and her blind sidekick just accepted the wrong client?Newbie investigator Alexandra Neve is sick and tired of tracking down cheating spouses. Fearing her business partner won't stick around without something to sink his teeth into, she's excited when an...

She's lost a friend. He's lost his sight. Can this unlikely duo solve an untouchable murder?College student Alexandra Neve never backs down from a challenge. So when her BFF Irina dies of an apparent suicide, she channels her grief into cracking the case police...

Rufus King (1893-1966) was an American author of Whodunit crime novels. He created four series of detective stories: the first one with Reginald De Puyster, a sophisticated detective similar to Philo Vance; the second one with his more famous character, Lieutenant Valcour; Colin Starr,...

June, 1916. With a world war raging on the continent, exhausted John H. Watson, M.D. is operating on the wounded full-time when his labors are interrupted by a knock on his door, revealing Sherlock Holmes, with a black eye, a missing tooth and a...

Sealed away from public view more than a century at the instruction of their author, Dr John Watson, these three cases of Sherlock Holmes are available here for the first time. Like the earlier volume in this series, each reveals the role Holmes and...

DCI David Vogel investigates a sudden death at a local book festival in this gripping police procedural: Agatha Christie with an edge! When Delia Day, the world's most successful living romantic novelist, accepts an invitation to be the headline author at a prestigious book...

This playful whodunit featuring an Oxford don and a permanently silenced opera singer is "a splendidly intricate and superior locked-room mystery" (The New York Times).When an opera company gathers in Oxford for the first postwar production of Wagner's Die Meistersinger, its happiness is soon...

A village in Cornwall is thrown into turmoil after a young girl falls from a train to her death. Was this an accident? Or murder? The mystery deepens when clues link the girl to a double homicide committed ten years earlier. Braddon's sensational novel...

Ben the tramp, the awkward Cockney with no home and no surname, turns detective again - and runs straight into trouble.Ben encounters a dead man on a London bridge and is promptly rescued from the same fate by a posh lady in a limousine....

BOND MUST PROVE HIS LOYALTY TO MI6 IN A DEADLY DUELBond may have a license to kill, but "Pistols" Scaramanga has a talent for it. He's a KGB-trained assassin who's left a trail of dead British Secret Service agents in his wake. His weapon...

Victims lost after a storm sweeps the moors. A distracting flood of fans and journalists. Is he tracking down a tragic accident or gruesome murder?Harry Grimm views change with a wary eye. But as the usually steadfast boss struggles with upheavals among his team,...

With contributions from Stephen Fry, Mark Gatiss, Douglas Wilmer and many more.1903 saw The Adventure of The Empty House and the return of Sherlock Holmes to 221b Baker Street where he explains the deception of his death at the Reichenbach Falls to his faithful...

A hated outsider. A shocking death. And everyone has a reason for murder...DCI Harry Grimm is settling into the rhythms of Yorkshire. Though he knows the idyllic rural landscape can hide dark deeds, the methodical investigator trusts his colleagues to guard his back. And...

Leaving Tallahassee, Florida, and her dead-end job as a reporter behind her, journalist Mari Ross travels to Roan Mountain in upper East Tennessee to take a Writers Residency. At her side is Rambo, the white German Shepherd she rescued. Together they navigate hairpin curves,...

Bullseye is the debut book of the new whodunit Jesse Quinn Detective Series. A. E. Howe, author of the Larry Macklin Mysteries says that Bullseye is, "A fast paced whodunit with lots of surprises Deputy Jesse Quinn is a welcome new addition for mystery...

When Richard Viner discovers a body on an evening stroll he quickly finds himself "In the Middle of Things." Called upon to prove the innocence of a school chum and protect the interests of the young ward of the murdered man he must not...

For the first time, a very special hardcover edition combining two of the most intricately intertwined Sherlock Holmes adventures.In The Secret Journal of Dr. Watson: it's the height of the Russian Revolution; Holmes and Watson are sent by the British PM, David Lloyd George,...

Please visit www.ArcManor.com for more books by this and other great authors.Author: Gilbert K. ChestertonISBN-10: 1604501731ISBN-13: 9781604501735Publisher: Tark Classic FictionLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/28/2008Pages: 136Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.46lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.32d

Follow Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson to a university town where they investigate three students to uncover who is attempting to cheat on a valuable examination paper. In this short Sherlock Holmes story, the famous detective is called away from his usual high-stakes crime...

When a careless and headstrong teenager manages to drop a suitcase into a small central-Ontario lake, her obsessive need to recover it is the initial element that unleashes a chain of stressful and ominous events. But worse, much worse, is to come.The lake holds...

Watson is in the vaults of his bank Cox & Co. looking for a gift given to him by his wife Mary, shortly after they met. While he is there, his eye inevitably falls upon his old despatch box and he spends the following...

"It is past the half-hour. My time is coming nearer with every tick of the clock."Horace Manning, scientist, recluse and "closed book" even to his friends is found dead in his study at 4am, following a dinner in honor of his daughter's engagement. An...

A house full of suspects. Two dogged detectives. One impossible murder. When the owner of the Treefall Estate, Alexander Grimbourne, is murdered on the morning of his daughter's wedding, the local police are stumped by the case. After all, Alexander's body is found inside...

"Ahoy, my lad!" he bellowed back."I didn't expect you so early. Come for a dip! The water's fine. Everything is--"Then it happened.Mystery and murder run amok amidst ominous peaks and icy lakes. In hushed valleys, venom flows through villages harboring grievances that span generations....

Mark Beckner's fourth book in a line of thrilling murder mysteries is now available. Unveil the chilling secrets that lie along the banks of the swirling waters of Boulder Creek in this riveting murder mystery. Follow Boulder Detectives Caroline Shaw and Tom Nichols as...

On the eve of her adored adopted daughter Augusta's twenty-first birthday, and after bullying her harpist Tenella, and telling her great nephew Palin a family secret so dreadful he leaves Tristowell Castle and goes straight down a pothole, old Lady Elizabeth Carn is found...

'It is not for you to exact vengeance on my behalf. Remember that.'When successful novelist Christabel Strange dies suddenly aged 32, the bequests are hard to fathom. She leaves one wing of the ancestral home to good friend Marcia Wentworth for her ongoing use;...

While the Blitz bombards London, the boisterous grandchildren of Sir Richard March have descended upon Swanswater Manor in Kent for a family gathering and the finalising of the patriarch's will. Disgruntled by the behaviour and life choices of his heirs, March seems poised to...