Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

When the papal apartments are burgled in 1901, Sherlock Holmes is summoned to Rome by Pope Leo XII. After learning from the pontiff that several priceless cameos that could prove compromising to the church, and perhaps determine the future of the newly unified Italy,...

Across Ethiopia and beyond, Sherlock Holmes encounters both the hideous and the divine, ripping asunder the fragile veil separating us from worlds unknown--all while in the company of the renowned Allan Quatermain. The last of Allan Quatermain's true African adventures to appear, The Treasure...

Lestrade panted, getting to his feet as the gang of Cheathams fell back. "Right now I can think of worse things than rescue by an amateur detective.""My dear Lestrade, we're simply ensuring the fight is fair." Sherlock Holmes somehow dissuaded the truth of that...

A bumper helping of the detective stories of Arthur Morrison British author, Arthur Morrison was a writer and journalist principally known for his authoritative work on Japanese art, novels of working class life in the East End of London and collections of detective fiction...

Meet Educated Evans and 'The Miller' in the shady side of London between the World Wars Edgar Wallace was a prolific author of crime, adventure and humorous stories, whose best known creations include The Four Just Men, Sanders of the River, and J. G....

Diane Gilbert Madsen's new book from MX Publishing, Cracking the Code of the Canon, breaks the Canon wide open to offer a totally unique and different way of looking at Holmes and Watson and all the stories in the Canon you know and enjoy....

Sherlock Holmes had never met a writer who had ridiculed him as bitterly as Samuel L. Clemens had. For that matter, Holmes had never met a writer who fancied himself a detective. Yet Sam Clemens not only unraveled Holmes' investigation into the murder of...

Ten new and original tales of the master detective, told by his loyal friend and assistant, Dr. Watson. The World may not yet be ready for the Giant Rat of Sumatra but it will assuredly be eager for these stories of murder, kidnap and...

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...

It is summer 1890 and the game is afoot. When an elephant escapes from the London Zoological Gardens, Holmes and Watson become embroiled in one of their strangest cases yet. Engaged by a jeweller in fear for his life, the trail leads Sherlock to...

Jewel thefts, missing persons, even murder are all elements in the world of the great detective Sherlock Holmes. What connects the stories in this book is that the cases he and his biographer Dr. John H. Watson investigate are based on adventures beloved of...

London, 1924: When Alfie Barrington is stabbed to death outside his club, suspicion quickly falls on his widow, the lovely Sarah - and on her former beau, Enoch Hale. The American journalist has an alibi, but he doesn't know her name and Scotland Yard...

They called her "Lady Stewart" when she was married to a British aristocrat. They called her "Miss Cora "when she ran a brothel in Florida. But she called herself "Mrs. Crane" when she asked Sherlock Holmes to locate her common-law husband, writer Stephen Crane,...

Sherlock Holmes and John Watson have wandered far from the light of Victorian gas lamps. As Holmes and Watson they've tangled with Nazis, as Sherlock and John they roam the corridors of New Scotland Yard. In a world of so many fresh adventures, why...

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...

Imagine if Sherlock Holmes was a bear? Alternative Universe Mysteries for Adult Animal Lovers that relate the exploits of super-sleuth Octavius Bear and his cohorts. Just for fun, this series swaps anthropomorphic animals for humans in a world very similar to our own 21st...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is one of those authors whose literary creation is much more famous than the man himself. Those who do know the name Arthur Conan Doyle tend to know him only as the inventor of the world's greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes....

Europe 1911. The Great Powers vie for influence and are divided by political quarrels. War is in the air. For retired detective Sherlock Holmes, who has just suffered a coronary, these distant matters are of little concern. But politics are about to turn his...

London, 1922: Two years after helping Sherlock Holmes solve the Hangman Murders, American journalist Enoch Hale becomes even more intimately involved in another puzzling mystery. Langdale Pike, veteran purveyor of gossip to the trash newspapers, is poisoned while sipping tea with Hale - and...

Sherlock Holmes, the best-known detective (sorry, consulting detective) on earth, celebrates his one hundred and sixtieth birthday on 6 January 2014. As a tribute to his genius, and to mark the occasion, The Holmes Sutra is presented (by a crazed fan) as: (a) a...

Spanning events over thirty years, Volume II of The Papers of Sherlock Holmes relates further narratives of Holmes and Watson's days in Baker Street, as well as particulars of Holmes s supposed retirement. Follow along as The Master and his Boswell travel to Yorkshire,...

An impossible poisoning case... A master thief discovers something nasty in a chimney... A murder is committed on Baker Street in broad daylight, and the culprit is captured, but one man still has his doubts. Six new cases featuring Victorian England's greatest detective, these...

London, 1920: Boston-bred Enoch Hale, working as a reporter for the Central News Syndicate, arrives on the scene shortly after a music hall escape artist is found hanging from the ceiling in his dressing room. What at first appears to be a suicide turns...

It was the time of Queen Victoria's "Little Wars" and the "War to End All Wars". It was also the time of Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson. Watson, the man, would be formed by his experiences in the British "Second Afghan War", before...

There is melancholy here; there are laughs, tears and numerous flights of fancy. Did I mention weirdness? The overall content of the forum is varied in the extreme, covering every aspect of Holmes and Watson's lives and careers and along the way we have...

The year is 1898. Doctor Watson is once more in Lyme Regis to visit the lady in his life, Mrs Beatrice Heidler. A gruesome death with echoes of one of Sherlock Holmes previous cases brings Holmes himself down to Dorset. In the company of...

A New York police officer, who is on a speaking engagement in Britain finds time to visit the Dartmoor environs. As a nuts and bolts detective events occur on the moors that test his sanity and reason. What are the reasons for a sudden...

A Novel It's July 1975 and Dave Rogers has just landed his first reporting job at the Granby Leader Mail. Having grown up in Montreal, it's not a part of Quebec's Eastern Townships he knows very well, despite having been born there. Amidst the...

In the fertile artistic milieu of 1927 Toronto... After winning the commission to paint a war memorial mural for Christ Church Grange Park, Nora Britton is found dead on the church floor. An accidental fall from the scaffold she was working on? So it...

Award-winning author Heather Spears recreates the atmosphere of Victorian Scotland as she cracks the silence surrounding a murdered aunt. Part historical fiction, part murder mystery and true crime, with amazing authenticity, the novel gives voice to 'Chattie, ' Miss Charlotte Spears of Annville, a...

The Man in Lower Ten is the first book ever written by Mary Roberts Rinehart, arguably the greatest American mystery writer of her generation. Vividly imagined, it combines adventure, suspense, horror, and mystery at breakneck speed.Author: Mary Roberts RinehartISBN-10: 1729602746ISBN-13: 9781729602744Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing...

You are going to die. We all die sometime. But what if you could choose not how you died, but where you go afterwards? What if you could travel to a world where all the characters you've ever written or liked exist as real...

Bletchley Park in Milton Keynes, England, has recently been restored at great cost, and remains of abiding interest to the public. This was where the computer was born and the German Enigma code was broken during World War II. In this action-packed novel, Chief...

The most significant thing about Doyle's London was that it was inhabited by Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson, who seem more real to us than most historical figures. They've managed to convince any number of people of their reality. Presumably the British post office...

For more classic mystery reprints, visit CoachwhipBooks.com]Before the midnight when young Johnny Angel went whistling up his steps to find a gun jammed unceremoniously into his stomach, he would have described himself as a simple, everyday sort of person. He loved his job as...

Long before Charlie's Angels, Jessica Fletcher, Miss Marple, and even Judith Lee, there was Ethel Boston, the first female consulting detective in America, a former associate of Nick Carter, trained by famous detective William Hopkins. Miss Boston was the prototype of the New Woman,...

Twenty-year old luxury cruise ship waiter Li Johnson is used to the humiliation of trying to satisfy entitled rich jerk customers and a sadistic supervisor, but his problems get even bigger when he finds a passenger sunburned to death on the Sunbathing Deck. Now...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's dauntless detective returns in an all-new adventure exploring the sleuth's untold origin Join Dr. John Watson as he meets young Sherlock Holmes in a fateful encounter that will forever shape both men's destinies Mysteries and murders most foul abound as...

Richard Austin Freeman (11 April 1862-28 September 1943) was a British writer of detective stories, mostly featuring the medico-legal forensic investigator Dr. Thorndyke. He invented the inverted detective story (a crime fiction in which the commission of the crime is described at the beginning,...

Among the stories is one of Chekhov's classics, "The Bet," in which a greedy banker makes an ill-considered bet regarding capital punishment with a young and impressionable guest. Fifteen years later -- the surprise ending provides one of Chekhov's most thought-provoking tales. The title...

The grand dame of the cozy English murder mystery, Agatha Christie introduced Tommy and Tuppence, her duo of likeable upper-class detectives, in this 1922 novel, her second book. International intrigue, secret treaties, disguises, and blackmail follow this roguishly charming 1920s couple in their globetrotting...

Lord Charles Danvers, still mourning his lost love Charlotte, hopes to escape from his ghosts at the gala coming-of-age celebrations for the son of an old family friend. All is jubilation and proper respectability until the evening is shattered by a brutal murder. The...

Many residents of Little Wyvern, a village in Hammershire County, don't have a pulse. The village boasts a population greater than can be seen with the naked eye. Ghosts walk among the living, will-o'-the-wisps roam the old graveyard of St Barnabas Church, and many...

Shots rang out at Campus Martius sending everyone falling to the ground. Paramedics rushed in to save the wounded, as blood poured out of the chest of the target. Although downtown Detroit had flourished the past few years, the undertow of drugs and murders...

Charles Fort, phenomenologist and consultant detective to the British Government has been summoned to Scotland with his long-suffering partner Edward Moreton. Together they must investigate a strange murder at Boleskine House on the banks of Loch Ness. But what dark creature lurks at the...

STAND-ALONE MURDER MYSTERY, #7 IN THE SERIES. MEET MAVERICK BRITISH DETECTIVE DI SKELGILL... "MAD, BAD AND JUST A LITTLE BIT COZY."ONE WEEK AFTER THE DEATH of his 93-year-old twin brother, the reclusive Declan Thomas O'More is found murdered in his study at the ancestral...

Diamonds may be a girl's best friend, but for customers of Cooper's Fine Jewelry, diamonds can be murder Detective David Graham is facing two of the toughest cases of his career. People whose only connection is that they shopped at the same jewelry store...

An impetuous young girl helps the gorgeous Inspector Hunnam solve the case, in this suspenseful, romantic, murder mystery adventure set in 1920's London. 1928 London, we are introduced to all the guests who are attending the murder mystery dinner, two attractive party girls, a...

"His Last Bow" is a series of stories featuring the world's most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes. This particular book is the 8th story of this series. Enjoy Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's imagination as you read "The War Service of Sherlock Holmes". 8th book of...

"The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes" is the second series of stories featuring the world's most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes. This particular book is the 8th story of the second series. Enjoy Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's imagination as you read "The Resident Patient". *Matte cover...