Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

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...

A quiet tree-lined street in New Orleans erupts in panic when the body of Sally Wilcox is discovered by her landlord. Sally had been stabbed, and she was clutching a kitchen knife in her hand at the time of her death. Later, police discover...

An artist's legacy lives on--through murder in this Albert Campion mystery masterpiece from "one of the finest Golden-Age crime novelists" (The Sunday Telegraph). To vex his rival from the grave, a famous artist has left twelve paintings to be sold after his death. Each...

His latest case has him chasing ghosts. But the murderer is flesh-and-blood hiding in the ashes...DCI Harry Grimm is on the cusp of a stunning decision. Considering making his move to the scenic Yorkshire Dales permanent, he ends up reviewing details of a terrible...

Murder's all wet! It's 1956 and WPC (Woman Police Constable) Rosa Reed has left her groom at the altar in London. Time spent with her American cousins in Santa Bonita, California is exactly what she needs to get back on her feet, though the...

As Liverpool's Special Murder Investigation Squad prepares for Christmas, Detective Inspector Andy Ross receives a phone call.Someone has murdered Santa Claus (well, a department store Santa). As the officer on call for the night, Ross attends with his sergeant Izzie Drake, and begins one...

Everyone knows that impertinent Lee Montgomery is marrying Charles Richardson for his money. After Lee vanishes, Charles' friends breathe a sigh of relief. But Charles loves his pretty fianc e and is determined to get her back. In this quest he enlists the talents...

64 new, traditional Sherlock Holmes Stories making up the latest three volumes in the world's largest collection of Sherlock Holmes Stories - XIX, XX and XXI.In 2015, the first three volumes of The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories arrived, containing over 60...

"Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine returns with its May/June 2014 issue, presenting the best in modern and classic mystery fiction Included this time are the usual columns by Lenny Picker and Mrs Hudson, plus the following stories: Living The Lie, by Marc Bilgrey The Adventure...

'Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories' is a collection of mystery stories, often with humorous elements. It includes one of Wilde's best supernatural tales, 'The Canterville Ghost'. CONTENTS: - Lord Arthur Savile's Crime - The Canterville Ghost - The Sphinx Without a Secret...

G. K. Chesterton's Father Brown is perhaps the most lovable amateur detective ever created. This short, shabby priest with his cherubic, round face attracts situations that baffle everyone--except Father Brown and his rather naive wisdom. The twelve enthralling stories in this book take Father...

Looking for a fresh start, advice columnist Sissy Yoder heads to small-town Yoder, Kansas, to help in her aunt's café. But when a milkman is murdered, the newcomer becomes the prime suspect . . . After Sissy's rodeo cowboy boyfriend turns out to be...

SOMETHING'S WRONG WITH CHRISTMAS! When it comes to Christmas, Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson find many things the same as usual. But this Christmas...everything is going to be anything but normal! Follow the two detectives as they face Christmas challenges in four different cases:...

Holmes is back and...the game is still afoot! The year is 1899 and Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson are at home at 221B Baker Street as London endures its coldest winter in memory. Then comes a telegram from Sir Henry Baskerville, Baronet, filled...

A celebration in Oxford for university tutor and bestselling author Jason Verdoot, attended by DCI St. Just and his fianc馥 Portia, is a night to remember . . . for all the wrong reasons.University of Oxford tutor and bestselling author Jason Verdoodt has it...

Sherlock Holmes, his trusted friend, Dr. John Watson, and his older brother, Mycroft, successfully unraveled a devious assassination plot against one of Queen Victoria's family. Aided by a colorful assortment of associates, a clever trap was set to attempt to stop the gang of...

"I wish I could go back and see through the kindness, beyond the charm, and past his appeal. I would've known he was far from benign, tainting every crevice of my life with his demons. I doubted myself, failing to believe the red flags...

London, end of the century, the capital of the largest empire of the world: a sprawling city populated by millions of people. Yet not all that glitters is gold. Behind, or rather beneath the lights and extravagance, the theaters and music, and the crowds,...

With gentleman sleuth Albert Campion on the case and plenty of European intrigue, "Sweet Danger is for the connoisseur of detective fiction" (Sunday Times).Nestled along the Adriatic coastline, the kingdom of Averna has suddenly--and suspiciously--become the hottest property in Europe, and Albert Campion is...

From the Golden Age mystery author comes "a richly detailed and entertaining romp, with a fascinating resolution and an unconventional and winning sleuth" (Chicago Tribune). Albert Campion heads to Cambridge as a favor to a friend, whose fianc馥 is employed by the elderly Faraday...

A body surfaces off the Isle of Man in a puzzling mystery by the master of the "pure British detective story" (The New York Times). The Manx Shearwater was scallop dredging--but it dragged up a body from the water instead. Considering that the corpse...

Murder's such a shock! When Rosa Reed-aka WPC Reed of the Metropolitan Police-and her cousin Gloria decide to spend a fun-filled afternoon in 1956 at the fair on the boardwalk in Santa Bonita, California, they're in for a shocking surprise. After a ride assistant's...

When a book launch party turns murderous, can he capture a killer before they escape justice?DCI Harry Grimm has a sneaking suspicion the bleak Yorkshire Dales are growing on him. Though shadows from his big-city past still loom, he's finding his place among the...

A young woman vanishes without a trace. Can an ex-soldier-turned-copper keep a mystery from becoming a tragedy?Bristol, England. DCI Harry Grimm carries his horrific IED scars both inside and out. But when the ex-paratrooper's obsession with tracking down his murderous father nearly throws an...

Ian Charnock's first novel, The Elementary Cases of Sherlock Holmes, explored some of the detective's early cases from the viewpoint of Stamford, a dresser at Barts hospital and friend of Dr. Watson. In this volume Stamford continues his unconventional take on the legend as...

The first ever Christmas mystery in the beloved New York Times bestselling Bibliophile Mystery series! San Francisco book-restoration expert Brooklyn Wainwright and her hunky security-expert husband, Derek Stone, face a locked-room murder mystery during the holidays in Scotland. In the middle of a wonderful...

Of all the conundrums that have puzzled Sherlockian scholars, few have been thornier than the "vexed question" of Dr. Watson's wives. In these ten stories, readers will meet the all-but-unknown women who preceded and succeeded Mary Morstan, as well as learning more about poor...

A macabre discovery in the cloisters of Westminster Abbey.Augusta Peel is puzzled by a mysterious customer in her bookshop. But when the encounter leads to an attack in the abbey cloisters, she finds herself entangled in a murder investigation. Who is the mystery customer?...

Callista Kingfisher is a former mixed martial arts fighter and one of the top stunt performers in Hollywood. But when an accident on a movie set leaves her badly injured, she goes home to Corpus Christi, Texas, to recuperate. Callie's triplet brother Joseph is...

Sherlock Holmes, the world's "only unofficial consulting detective", was first introduced to readers in A Study in Scarlet published by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887. It was with the publication of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, however, that the master sleuth grew tremendously...

'I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world.' Mary Morstan receives a large pearl through the post once a year without any clue as...

Depending on who you ask, the term "whodunit" was first coined sometime around 1930, but the literary form predates that name by several decades. Still, it was in the years between the two World Wars--the so-called "Golden Age" of mystery fiction--that the style flourished....

64 new traditional Holmes adventures in three simultaneously published volumesIn 2018, MX Publishing presented Parts XI and XII of this acclaimed and ongoing series, Some Untold Cases. Now that theme is revisited with 64 new Sherlock Holmes adventures that explore those many tantalizing references...

Rosalie has determined to begin a new life, but she is haunted by shadows of her unscrupulous past. She knows she needs to stay focused on the job at hand, ​​​and a lucrative one at that. When her insatiable need for male companionship leads...

Twelve 'killer' tales, each connected with one month of the year For those who already know Cathy Ace's characters Cait Morgan and Bud Anderson - or the women of the WISE Enquiries Agency - this collection of novellas and short stories will bring the...

For fans of Stephen Booth and LJ Ross, a captivating crime novel that will have you reading till late. A man suffers a heart attack. Another can't escape his captivity. A third tries to cope with the absence of his wife. DS Daniel Newton...

THE GLORIOUS YACHT. On the night of April 12, 1912, off the coast of Newfoundland, one of the greatest disasters of all time took place - the Unsinkable Titanic struck an iceberg and sank with a horrendous loss of life.On board that ship was...

In the Spring of 1963, a series of brutal murders puts a Texas cop on notice. "Catch me if you can. Before I strike again." Taunting the cops desperately trying to catch him, the Texas Ripper plays a game of mental chess with a...

A murder committed in the night of dead. It's all a game for Detective Wycliffe to solve in a puzzling case. Writer David Cleeve lived exactly the way a bestselling novelist should live - in an opulent house set in a beautiful corner of...

On the beautiful, tranquil Scilly Isles, a brutal murder is uncovered... There was no doubt at all that the girl was dead. The front of her skull and her facial bones had been splintered like the cracked shell of an egg. What made it...

A family feud leads to murder - and Superintendent Wycliffe is on the case... Caroline Bryce came from the top of the social register in the tranquil town of Treen. So it was quite a scandal when her body was dragged from the bottom...

A high-profile murder investigation for Wycliffe, in Cornwall's heartland. Cochran Wilder disappeared fifteen years ago while on a walking holiday in Cornwall. Recently released from a psychiatric hospital after being convicted of indecent assault, he had been a serious embarrassment to his father, a...

Why, in the 60 Sherlock Holmes stories, is there not a mention of Jack the Ripper? In this investigation into the murky world of murder, Kelvin I. Jones, award-winning Holmes author finds definitive answers, giving a clear dossier of the Ripper's true identity. Jones...

Beloved detective Hercule Poirot embarks on a journey to Egypt in one of Agatha Christie's most famous mysteries. Now with a beautiful new series look.The tranquility of a luxury cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot...

Poirot becomes involved in investigating the brutal murder of American heiress Ruth Kettering and the disappearance of her fabulous ruby known as the 'Heart of Fire' while he is on the Blue Train traveling between Calais and Nice. Who is to blame for this?...

The Skull Collector Alex walked slowly from room to skull filled room as she tried to contain her emotions. In the back most room she came upon the skull of the first victim resting on the tallest pedestal. She tried to comprehend how any...

Featuring Contributions by: Roger Riccard, Tracy Revels (2 stories), Liese Sherwood-Fabre, Brenda Seabrooke (2 stories), Gordon Linzner, Mike Adamson, Hugh Ashton, David Marcum, Jane Rubino, Brett Fawcett, Susan Knight, Alan Dimes, Arthur Hall, Paula Hammond, Tim Newton Anderson, Robert Stapleton, and a poem by...

Featuring Contributions by: Stephen Herczeg, Margaret Walsh, Paul D. Gilbert, Will Murray, David MacGregor, Barry Clay, Mike Chinn, Tim Newton Anderson, Ember Pepper (2 stories), Martin Daley, Arthur Hall, Naching T. Kassa, David Marcum, Adrian Middleton, and a poem by Kevin Patrick McCann.53 New...

Featuring Contributions by: Arthur Hall (2 stories), Alan Dimes (2 stories), Tracy Revels, DJ Tyrer, David Marcum, Dan Rowley (2 stories) and Don Baxter, Deanna Baran, Thomas A. Burns, Jr., Brenda Seabrooke, I.A. Watson, Tim Newton Anderson, Chris Chan, Barry Clay (2 stories), Susan...

Gentleman sleuth Albert Campion tries to solve the murder of a prominent publisher in this "vivid and witty" British mystery (The New York Times).Scandal hits the prestigious publishing house of Barnabas when one of the directors is found dead in a locked cellar. All...