Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

"Wonderfully plotted . . . A marvelous mixture of witchcraft, sacred relics and ancient oaths. [Allingham was a] rare and precious talent." --The Washington Post Estranged from his father, young Percival St. John Wykes Gyrth wanders the streets of London, penniless and homeless, until...

Murder is a hit! It's the summer of 1956 and Private Investigator Rosa Reed (former Woman Police Constable from the London Metropolitan Police) attends her first rock and roll concert featuring the young and upcoming music sensation Elvis Presley. The high note goes sour...

A chance meeting on a snowy platform, an old miser with a fortune worth killing for, and the wrong man found dead beside the fireplace.England, 1927. When Lord Edgington hears of a failed attack on an eccentric viscount, it's the perfect excuse to get...

Classic crime featuring the ever-popular Chief Superintendent Wycliffe - 'Another must for collectors' Sunday Times. On the peaceful and secluded estate of Lord and Lady Bottrell, the body of amateur flautist Tony Mills has been found, shot by his own gun. It appears to...

An ancient legend, an all-too modern murder, and Chief Superintendent Wycliffe must find the link between them ... Every year, at Halloween, high on the Cornish cliffs, a life-sized effigy of a man is strapped to a blazing wheel and run into the sea...

A respectable bookseller is found bludgeoned and strangled and it's up to Chief Superintendent Wycliffe to find out why . . . When Matthew Glynn is murdered, Wycliffe is mystified. Why would anyone want to kill him? But a look at Glynn's background reveals...

"Masters's tantalizing mystery" - Publishers Weekly Detective Inspector Joanna Piercy investigates the disappearance of a young husband - and discovers all is not as it seems. Jadon Glover is good-looking, professional, reliable and a perfect husband, according to his wife. So when he fails...

In Killer in a Winter Wonderland, the much-anticipated holiday-themed fourth book in the Rosalie Hart Cozy Mystery Series, Wendy Sand Eckel once again brings the fictional town of Cardigan, Maryland to life and delights with suspense, humor, and mouth-watering menus. Holidays are fickle things...

Charlie and Diesel must catch a killer before he strikes another deadly note in this latest installment of the New York Times bestselling Cat in the Stacks Mysteries. Charlie Harris remembers Wilfred "Wil" Threadgill as one of the outsiders during high school in Athena....

Would you risk your life to find a killer?"Death at Wildbough is part police mystery, part steamy romance, and will be the book readers will not be able to put down this summer. After the death of a famous violinist, Chief of Police Richard...

A runaway witness leads a lawyer into a whodunit: "The only dull pages in this book are the blank ones" (The New York Times). Defense lawyer Perry Mason is surprised to receive two checks from a stranger named Lola Allred. And when he speaks...

A national manhunt for the killer Kaleb Carmichael is stretching police resources to its limits. He is out there, waiting, watching - on a relentless quest for revenge. He strikes again, toying with police. Detective Sergeant Jarrod O'Connor's world implodes following a personal tragedy....

Behind the Veneer of Success Lies a Sinister Secret in Such a Good Man, a Detective Joe Burgess Murder Mystery Thriller from Kate Flora --Portland, Maine-- When Dr. Eliot Spence is found dead in his pristine condo, Detective Joe Burgess and his team must...

Embarrassed by the failure of law enforcement to capture the HARLEQUIN, THE GOVERNOR OF PENNSYLVANIA ORDERS THE FORMATION OF A TASKFORCE DEDICATED TO BRINGING THE HARLEQUIN TO JUSTICE. Federal agets and State Troopers join cops from three adjoining counties in the effort, but do...

When Hollywood comes to small-town Connecticut, it should be the stuff of dreams-but when a fading movie star ends up dead, a whole different kind of stuff hits the fan. Unity Historical Society head and antique household items-stuff!-expert Christian Shaw is on set when...

"I was ten years old when I found a murder weapon...it had killed 'The Girl with the Opal Fingers'..."Welsh Canadian professor of criminal psychology Cait Morgan, and her retired-cop husband Bud Anderson, are visiting Cait's sister, Si穗, and brother-in-law, Todd, in Australia. They're enjoying...

AN ENTHRALLING MURDER MYSTERY FULL OF SHOCKING TWISTS FROM A BESTSELLING AUTHOR.Sometimes you can just murder your ex. But would you?Corrie Dawes is exhausted after a long day catering for the wealthy residents of exclusive, gated Eden Park.She pulls open the back of her...

The bait is half of a $10,000 bill, delivered to Perry Mason by a man who promises the second half of the note should his companion, a silent masked woman, ever require the lawyer's services. When a dead body is discovered soon after, Mason...

The tranquillity of suburban Craynebrook is disturbed when a lifeless, nameless body is found dumped on the local common.Enter newly promoted Detective Inspector Matthew Stannard, a policeman with a reputation that precedes him and which threatens to drag him down.As Matthew seeks the killer,...

A dazzling collection of new Sherlock Holmes stories, which sees the detective solving fiendish crimes, many involving methods beloved of Victorian murderers, poison by arsenic or cyanide, or even by venomous arachnids and reptiles. The colourful cast of characters includes villains bent on vengeance,...

An American Fiction Award nominee, The Man Who Had 9 Lives begins when a skier is pulled from under the snow after an avalanche. He tells his rescuers that this would not have been the first time he died. His close call at a...

Summer 1776. Different missions call Faith Clarke and Jeremy Butler to Philadelphia, where delegates are meeting to determine the path of the rebellious American Colonies. Faith has been called back to her childhood home to make peace with her terminally ill mother, while Jeremy...

Sherlock Holmes has been missing and presumed dead for some time, and his grief stricken landlady, Mrs Hudson, is anxious for a distraction. However, she is in for a culture shock when she travels to Ireland with her friend Kitty Melrose, to try and...

There's no holiday from homicide for amateur sleuth Sebastian McCabe and his long-suffering brother-in-law, Jeff Cody. Murderers' Row, their second casebook of shorter stories, collects three adventures connected with what should have been happy occasions.When Meg Russert's destination wedding on the tropical island of...

A distraught young woman arrives at Baker Street urgently requesting the assistance of Mr Sherlock Holmes. But the great man and his assistant Dr Watson are away. What to do? She confides in Holmes's landlady, Mrs Hudson, who over the years has developed certain...

A quartet of stories set in the World of Sherlock Holmes, in which nothing is ever as it seems.Page 1: The Detective Who Wasn'tPage 83: The Detective Who Wasn't TherePage 130: The Unlikely DetectivePage 175: The Tinseltown DetectiveAuthor: Mark SohnISBN-10: 1787053407ISBN-13: 9781787053403Publisher: MX PublishingLanguage:...

An invitation to take lunch at the Great Western Hotel at Paddington station leads Sherlock Holmes into a baffling mystery. Who is it that is watching every move made by popular journalist, Farringdon Blake, and why? When the trail goes cold in London, Holmes...

When Harriet Vane attends her Oxford reunion, known as the Gaudy, the prim academic setting is haunted by a rash of bizarre pranks: scrawled obscenities, burnt effigies, and poison-pen letters including one that says, Ask your boyfriend with the title if he likes arsenic...

Gert O'Connell and her amateur sleuthing friends, Judith and Henry Geeth, find themselves once again in the middle of a baffling murder case, this time at a sinister ancient Irish castle during the ghoulish season of Samhain. It is Hallowe'en night in 1953, and...

December 1939. Germany and Great Britain are in the fog of the phoney war. The First Sea Lord Winston Churchill knows that England is not nearly ready for the fight. Four British spies have perished in strange circumstances in Nuremberg trying to discover the...

Applauded by T. S Eliot as ' the best of English detective novels, 'this classic tale of mystery and intrigue is the first of its kind in this genre of literature. Right from its title, the novel carries an indian flavour. Moonstone is the...

Unearthed after being lost for nearly a century, at last the memoirs of Mycroft Holmes are available to the general public.Students and followers of his brother, the Great Baker Street detective, Sherlock Holmes, have to date only been offered two stories in which Mycroft...

A dazzling collection of new Sherlock Holmes stories, which sees the detective solving fiendish crimes, many involving methods beloved of Victorian murderers, poison by arsenic or cyanide, or even by venomous arachnids and reptiles. The colourful cast of characters includes villains bent on vengeance,...

Lights, camera, action in bestselling author David Rosenfelt's Flop Dead Gorgeous, as Andy Carpenter goes bicoastal to prove an old friend's innocence. Retired lawyer Andy Carpenter remembers every dog that's come through the Tara Foundation's doors, but the most well-known alum of the dog...

Set in rural Ireland, this gripping novel follows the trials and tribulations of a young man named Paul Beck, who is wrongly accused of murder and must clear his name in a tense courtroom drama. Bodkin's masterful storytelling and vivid descriptions of Irish village...

Can even the most powerful vampire of all time, Count Dracula, flee forever from justice? He has been called many things...all right, but this time they are wrong. Very wrong. And if he doesn't get help soon, even Dracula will come to the end...

On a beautiful April day, the seasons suspended between spring and summer, a woman in a bridal gown lies under a stand of oak trees, throat slit, ring finger missing. She's the latest victim of the Wedding Crasher, a meticulous murderer who's killed five...

When will Frank catch a break? When will Sam put his life back together? When will someone put an end to Benny's harassment? Franklin Roberts is a good man who does not deserve the outrageous misfortune that has left him homeless and destitute. It's...

DISCOVER THE FIENDISHLY TWISTY, UTTERLY ADDICTIVE CRIME FICTION OF VICTORIA DOWD.**FROM THE WINNER OF THE PEOPLE'S BOOK PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021 AND SHORTLISTEE OF THE CWA DAGGER AWARD 2023**A winter wedding.A mysterious disappearance.A body under the ice.Handsome Spear proposes marriage and Ursula Smart suddenly...

A second helping of deadly justice from the Four Just Men This is the second volume of stories of vigilante justice meted out at the hands of the Four Just Men. These are iconic stories of adventure, intrigue and retribution set in the time...

Justice-without jury, without appeal and without mercy These are stories of the Four Just Men, Edgar Wallace's famous characters known to the wider public principally as a result of the early television series of the same name. The source material is, of course, far...

Here are more of E. W. Hornung's famous stories of adventure and crime featuring the thrill seeking A. J. Raffles and his friend, accomplice and chronicler 'Bunny'. By turns urbane gentleman about town and accomplished cricketer, life is just too ordinary for Raffles and...

Part XV: Mark Mower, Thomas Fortenberry, Robert Perret, Tracy J. Revels, Robert Stapleton, Peter Coe Verbica, Maurice Barkley, Edward A. Enstrom, William Todd, Roger Riccard, Kelvin Jones, Arthur Hall, Jack Grochot, David Marcum, Dick Gillman, Will Murray, Tim Symonds, Mike Hogan, Leslie Charteris and...

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson return in six further adventures which display the great detective's brilliance once more. In these adventures set across the span of the duo's lives at 221b Baker Street, Holmes and Watson travel from the highest realms of society to...

During a late-night storm, the abrupt arrival of a distraught client on the doorstep of 221B Baker Street, forces Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson to investigate a case that will lead them through the most sinister streets and alleys of London, confronting dangerous...

A gruesome display of corpses on the frozen Thames spells doom for Mycroft Holmes. Scotland Yard singles him out as the main suspect of a series of violent crimes, because they're all connected by a single thread: Mycroft's name. As public attention rises, he...

The Sherlockian Canon, as prolific as it is, contains few accounts in which Mr. Holmes as his medical colleagues Drs. Watson and Verner, solve cases involving frightening medical conditions. It strikes me that many more such cases were successfully solved by Mr. Holmes and...

Part X: 2018 Annual (1896-1916) features contributions by: Mike Hogan, Kelvin Jones, Jim French, Arthur Hall, Steve Ehrman, Greg Hatcher, Jayantika Ganguly, Paul Freeman, Dick Gillman, Maurice Barkley, Daniel D. Victor, Martin Rosenstock, Peter Coe Verbica, Hugh Ashton, Will Murray, Robert Perret, Thaddeus Tuffentsamer,...

Once again, the adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson continue in this acclaimed anthology series, with thirty-seven new tales presented in two companion volumes - more Holmes than could fit into one book In 2015, The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories...

2017 is the 130th anniversary of the publication of A Study in Scarlet, the first recorded adventure of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John H. Watson. What an amazing journey it's been In addition to the pitifully few sixty tales originally presented in The Canon,...