Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

Author: Peter LoveseyISBN-10: 1569473226ISBN-13: 9781569473221Publisher: Soho CrimeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2003Pages: 352Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.64lbsSize: 7.30h x 4.76w x 1.02d

Author: Peter LoveseyISBN-10: 1569472564ISBN-13: 9781569472569Publisher: Soho CrimeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2003Pages: 354Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 7.50h x 5.00w x 1.00d

This classic mystery begins when a young American in London, bored with his routine, becomes intrigued by a cryptic message in the newspaper's "Agony Column." What starts as idle curiosity quickly leads him into a thrilling web of intrigue, romance, and danger. As he...

Murder never shocks Leonora Spencer. Violence is a fact of life in Victorian London, and most of the corpses Leo attends to inside her uncle's city morgue are its victims. But when she witnesses a woman's death at a popular night club, and then...

Our memories hold the key to our very being.Her lost memory conceals truths that will change lives forever. After taking down numerous wicked men and women throughout her career, Emma finally considers taking some much-needed rest.But when Xavier is drawn to a strange case...

Author: Matthew SweetISBN-10: 1398530905ISBN-13: 9781398530904Publisher: Simon & Schuster (UK)Language: EnglishPublished: 06/09/2026Pages: 416Format: Paperback

The Ticket is a contemporary suspense novel about an ordinary woman who wins an extraordinary fortune and has to outsmart the very modern dangers that follow.Rachel Mercer is in her forties, stuck in a call center job in Forney, Texas, and living quietly in...

A mysterious and thrilling novella, with just a hint of science fiction, about a young police officer who makes his career solving three mysterious murders at Golden Park. Twenty-five years later, a new body shows up in the exact same spot. Our young police...

"Let's say, a man's presumed innocent--""A very proper attitude," Denning applauded. "But don't you think you're carrying it a little too far?"Antony and Jenny Maitland's stage actress friend Meg Hamilton (see Bloody Instructions) tells them that her lover Roger Farrell is the prime police...

And then he received the small note in a laboured, childish scrawl: "She didn't...she didn't...she didn't!"Is beautiful Barbara Wentworth, on trial for the fatal poisoning of her wealthy sister, Laura Canning, whose heir she was, telling the truth--or is she deceitfully spinning a web...

"He didn't know where he was......and hard on that realization the further thought came with the force of a blow. He didn't know who he was."Antony and Jenny Maitland's old friend Peter Hammond didn't think he had smuggled heroin into the country when he...

Murder cloaked in rhyme and terror grips New York in The Bishop Murder Case, the fourth thrilling entry in S. S. Van Dine's legendary Philo Vance Mystery series. A fiendish killer is on the loose-one who leaves behind cryptic nursery rhymes at the scenes...

A terrible scream rent the air. "Too late!" Holmes exclaimed, and started running towards the sound. I followed after, my pistol cocked at the ready. Had my dream mysteriously and horribly foreshadowed what was to happen? For here was Holmes again, rushing back towards...

"The 39 Steps" is a heart-pounding espionage thriller that catapults readers into a world of danger, intrigue, and relentless pursuit. Penned by the legendary author John Buchan, this classic novel introduces Richard Hannay, an ordinary man unwittingly swept into a deadly conspiracy. Framed for...

Eight traditional Sherlock Holmes cases from the pen of Paul Metcalfe.The Case of the Australian Atlases - As Inspector Lestrade asks: why, gentlemen, would someone break into a house, murder the owner and then steal only one volume of an Australian atlas, when all...

Author: Agatha ChristieISBN-10: 0062165496ISBN-13: 9780062165497Publisher: William Morrow & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/13/2016Pages: 304Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.63lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.76dAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 6.3Point Value: 11Interest Level: Upper GradeQuiz #/Name: 8880 / Murder of Roger Ackroyd

The Queen of Mystery has come to Harper Collins! Agatha Christie, the acknowledged mistress of suspense creator of indomitable sleuth Miss Marple, meticulous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and so many other unforgettable characters brings her entire oeuvre of ingenious whodunits, locked room mysteries, and...

The Secret of Chimneys, a classical book, has been considered essential throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and...

P.I. Peri Min­neopa has had enough. She's clos­ing her busi­ness, mar­ry­ing her detec­tive boyfriend, and set­tling down to a life of ease-until her brother shows up, accused of a mur­der he swears he didn't com­mit. Now she's back in the thick of things, inves­ti­gat­ing...

Never guessing that their very lives might be in danger, well-to-do women come from all over the country to stay at guest ranches around Reno to establish the six weeks' residency required for a quickie Nevada divorce in 1955.When a Circle E Ranch guest...

Nine amazing novels featuring Inspectors Lestrade, Bradstreet, Gregson, and Hopkins, along with Our Heroes, Sherlock Holmes and Doctor WatsonIn 2008, Marcia Wilson began simultaneously writing a number of novels and short stories relating the stories of the Scotland Yard Inspectors who worked closely with...

In 2009 Ross K.Foad founded No Place Like Holmes, A Sherlock Holmes media entity group that has risen from obscurity to becoming the Number 1 Sherlock Holmes Fan Video Site. From its humble start as a low key web drama comedy based upon the...

In Charles M. DuPuy's suspenseful mystery Easy Kill, book 1 of the E.Z. Kelly Series, readers will meet a new leading lady willing to kick her opponent's butt, whatever the circumstance. Will dangerous lady E.Z. Kelly succeed in finding the real culprit?E.Z. Kelly is...

'Criminally underrated.' MW Craven, author of the Sunday Times bestselling Washington Poe series'One hell of a writer.' Ken BruenCorporate corruption, a burning vengeance and a man who's died twice. This could be Konstantin's strangest investigation yet... When the corpse of an old friend turns...

First published in 1890, The Sign of Four is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's second book starring legendary detective Sherlock Holmes. The story is complex, involving a secret between four ex-cons from India and a hidden treasure. More complex than the first Holmes novel, The...

How can a Greyhound Bus with four bank robbers, $10 million in cash, the contents of all of the safety deposit boxes and 12 hostages being followed by the San Francisco Police vanish off the Golden Gate Bridge? The police are stumped so a...

Detective Chief Inspector Tom Stone was very worried. Although he had just returned from a well-deserved holiday, after helping to solve one of the country's highest profile murder cases, he suspected that his recent feeling of both personal and professional contentment would soon be...

It began as a murder mystery, more than twenty years old and remaining unsolved, and it held a special fascination for Kim and Diana because Kim had inadvertently rented the scene of the crime - but as they were to discover, once you start...

"One of the most iconic British fictional detectives of the 21st century . . . a delight." --Daily MailNo fingerprints. No weapon. No witnesses. Can DS Cross prove it was murder?When a young woman is found dead - with no fingerprints, no weapon, and...

"They call me Mina. I was once like you, but everything changed the day he left. Now I'm a warrior in a struggle that I can't face alone. Some days I don't know who I am, but I won't stop going until I know...

The Hunt for Ned October is an advanced novel for children. The story is about a little six year old boy who lost his pet turtle. The pet turtle Ned seeks out his friends to help him find his way home and the little...

Once again Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation agents Carrie Border and Randy Jeffries are working hard to find who's drowning young girls drawn into prostitution and human trafficking. With personal issues new and old still unresolved, will they be able to take down the...

'Gripping' JANICE HALLETT'Gut-wrenching' M. W. CRAVEN'Devastating' JACKIE KABLER'Compelling' JO CALLAGHAN------------------------One heroic act rips a small town apart in this unmissable summer thriller, perfect for fans of Andrea Mara and Ann Cleeves.------------------------ HE RUNS INTO THE FLAMES A HERO. Steve thought he had left his...

Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and became, quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history. Her first novel, 'The Mysterious Affair at Styles', written towards the end of the First World War, introduced us to Hercule Poirot, who was to become the...

Bobby Jones is playing golf ... terribly. As his ball disappears over the edge of a cliff, he hears a cry. The ball is lost, but on the rocks below he finds a dying man. With his final breath the man opens his eyes...

A potentially momentous discovery. A suspicious fire. A 50-year-old missing person's case. Are they connected? When Buddy Bolden died in a Louisiana insane asylum in 1931, a quarter century after his reign as the undisputed first "king" of jazz, he left behind no known...

The past proves deadly when a witness to a case gone cold is murdered--a chilling message meant to silence those involved . . . Summoned to Gravesend, Scotland Yard Inspector Henry Field is shocked to discover the body of a man he interviewed only...

A dark cloud casts a long shadow in this thriller from the bestselling DI Bob Willis series.It is 1986. Assigned to a new Cold Case Unit, retired Detective Inspector Mungo 'Bob' Willis has reopened the investigation into the 1962 disappearance of a nine-year-old boy....

The past proves deadly when a witness to a case gone cold is murdered--a chilling message meant to silence those involved . . . Summoned to Gravesend, Scotland Yard Inspector Henry Field is shocked to discover the body of a man he interviewed only...

Author: Bartholomew GillISBN-10: 0380722062ISBN-13: 9780380722068Publisher: Avon BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/1996Pages: 256Format: Mass Market PaperboundWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 6.70h x 4.30w x 0.70d

Author: Christopher JansmannISBN-10: 1960914308ISBN-13: 9781960914309Publisher: Ephram Cotte & Company, PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/18/2025Pages: 278Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.83lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d

Author: G. R. JordanISBN-10: 1917497342ISBN-13: 9781917497343Publisher: Carpetless PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/18/2025Pages: 242Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.54lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.55d

Miles from civilization. Minutes from death.From USA Today Bestselling Author Bev Pettersen comes another heart-pounding K9 mystery that will keep you guessing until the final page.Private investigator Nikki Drake thought she was heading to California's remote Marble Mountains for a simple insurance claim-investigating a...

"It had sometimes seemed to Maitland, in the course of his researches, that there was nothing original left to be done when it came to extracting poisonous substances from the hedgerow; they were all there, foxglove and monkshood and deadly nightshade, and man's ingenuity...

" 'To my son Andrew, ' it said, 'I leave the problem of the Velasquez.' " He leaned forward and added eagerly, "The thing is, you see, there wasn't any Velasquez... there never had been."The Gaskells, wealthy owners of a family shipping line, were...

Mystery runs deep along the Grand Strand-deeper than the tides, older than the oaks, and darker than the summer storms that crash in without warning.Along the South Carolina coast, the marsh breathes secrets to life, and the riptide carries stories that linger just out...

On trial for murder, a young bride recalls the steps that led her to the dock. The state has accused beautiful young Elinor Norton of murder, and she refuses to mount a defense. Guilt is written all over her elegant features, but her childhood...

The Roman Hat Mystery (1929) is more than just a classic whodunit-it's the landmark debut of the writing team known as Ellery Queen, the pseudonym for cousins Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee. The novel introduces readers to Inspector Richard Queen and his son...

Eight traditional Sherlock Holmes cases from the pen of Paul Metcalfe.The Case of the Australian Atlases - As Inspector Lestrade asks: why, gentlemen, would someone break into a house, murder the owner and then steal only one volume of an Australian atlas, when all...

Sixteen Sherlock Holmes stories from Alan Dimes combining two collections: The Book of Lucifer and Other New Sherlock Holmes StoriesFrom the pages of the celebrated MX Books of New Sherlock Holmes come eight previously untold stories of Sherlock Holmes and his faithful chronicler Dr...