Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

STAND-ALONE MURDER MYSTERY, #6 IN THE SERIES. MEET MAVERICK BRITISH DETECTIVE DI SKELGILL... "MAD, BAD AND JUST A LITTLE BIT COZY."SUMMONED TO AN ISOLATED maximum-security hospital, DI Skelgill inadvertently catches the eye of a notorious female serial killer. Does she read his censorious thoughts?...

Jabez Wilson, a London pawnbroker, consults with Sherlock Holmes. While studying his client, both Holmes and Watson notice his red hair. Wilson tells them an intriguing but odd storyAuthor: D. Gardner, Arthur Conan DoyleISBN-10: 1519220685ISBN-13: 9781519220684Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/10/2015Pages: 44Format: PaperbackWeight:...

Publisher's Weekly says: "Durling integrates laugh-out-loud humor into a scrupulously fair locked-room mystery." Gunnar Bergman, a detective sergeant in a small Swedish town, is called in to investigate the death of a resident of a shady boarding house. He makes the mistake of telling...

Detective Amy Harper stood in downtown Detroit at Hart Plaza, gazing across the half-mile wide river at the Canadian skyline. The call from the Police Chief confirmed that the FBI uncovered the existence of death threats to those members of her team, this was...

Returning injured from Afghanistan, former Army Doctor John Watson is introduced to the extraordinary figure, the world's only consulting detctive, Sherlock Holmes. Watson becomes Holmes' flatmate, friend and assistant in what would become the first extraordinary case in a long and astonishing career. This...

Follow Detectives John Lowery and Mike Russo as they investigate a case involving murder, greed and corruption along with a suitcase containing more than a few surprises inside. From the author of the riveting novel "Fire in the Night" Raymond Tanza does it again...

Whose Body? is perhaps the greatest debut novel every written. In it Dorothy L. Sayers introduces us to her brilliant detective Lord Peter Wimsey. Lord Peter receives a call from his mother, Dowager Duchess of Denver, telling him that there is a dead man...

Travel with Holmes and Watson to solve five mysteries from around the world. Also Available On Audio (Narrated by Alex Hyde-White) STORY ONE: Murders on the Voyage to India. Murder; "Murder." The scream echoed down the hallway shaking me from my slumber and into...

In its starred review, Publisher's Weekly says: "Once again Halter crafts a completely logical and plausible explanation for the fantastic." It is 1902 and in London's infamously haunted East End there are rumours of a strange passageway which can swallow up anyone who ventures...

When a High Court Judge is murdered, DI Chippenfield of Scotland Yard has to pit his wits against a gentleman detective to solve the mystery first.Author: Arthur J. Rees, John R. WatsonISBN-10: 1507803338ISBN-13: 9781507803332Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2015Pages: 228Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.89lbsSize: 10.00h...

Agatha Christie demonstrates her unparalleled mastery with Three Blind Mice and Other Stories--a classic compendium of mystery and suspense, crime and detection, whose title novella served as the basis for The Mousetrap, the longest running stage play in the history of the London theater.A...

Rex Fortescue, king of a financial empire, was sipping tea in his "counting house" when he suffered an agonizing and sudden death. On later inspection, the pockets of the deceased were found to contain traces of cereals.Yet, it was the incident in the parlor...

In Agatha Christie's baffling detective story, Nemesis, a letter from a dead man instructs Miss Marple how to conduct an investigation into a puzzlingly unspecific crime.In utter disbelief, Miss Marple read the letter addressed to her from the recently deceased Mr. Rafiel--an acquaintance she...

When Lord Edgware Dies a most unnatural death, detective Hercule Poirot must solve a most confounding conundrum: if the obvious killer, the slain peer's spiteful wife, didn't do it, who did? A classic from the queen of mystery, Agatha Christie.When Lord Edgware is found...

After six months in London, Agatha Raisin returns to her beloved Cotswold village--and her dashing neighbor, James Lacey. Well, sort of. James might not be so interested in Agatha. But soon enough, Agatha becomes consumed by her other passion: crime solving. A woman has...

A Study in Scarlet is a detective mystery novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, introducing his new characters, "consulting detective" Sherlock Holmes and his friend and chronicler, Dr. John Watson, who later became two of the most famous characters in literature. Conan Doyle...

About the Author-Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ, DL (22 May 1859 - 7 July 1930) was a Scottish physician and writer who is most noted for his fictional stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered milestones in the field of...

4 people murdered and 1 suspect out of his mind on drugs and alcohol. O'Neil looked at the evidence his men had managed to collect so far. A cut and dried case; or so it seemed; but they are never cut and dried and...

LAWFUL DEATH Danny Carlow is dead. But is it murder? When a young man is shot dead during a burglary at Langley Farm, it divides the local community. Having just published his latest book on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Professor Hugh Croft agrees to...

The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set largely on Dartmoor in Devon...

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are in the countryside on a rare holiday, but matters at a nearby estate draw the great detective and his faithful chronicler from their rest. Holmes and Watson weave their way through a complicated, bewildering crime scene to flush...

Detective Inspector Mike Malone thought that histransfer to the countryside would give him the opportunity to take things easy. However, when a well-loved local philanthropist is found strangled, he realizes that maybe country-life is not so quiet after all. As he wades through wool...

John Moffatt stars as Hercule Poirot in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatization of Agatha Christie s famous novel.Hercule Poirot is a guest at a weekend house party, given at the Cornish cliff-top home of the celebrated actor Sir Charles Cartwright. The other visitors...

A gathering of nobels at the country estate of the Fifth Earl of Dunsfor, and a killer stalks the guilded halls. Each of the guests has a secret vendetta against the Earl, but when he;'s found murdered in his bed, the lords and ladies...

When the family fortune suddenly dissolved, the Brandons wrapped the threads of their former prestige about them and went into solitary confinement. Middle-aged, outwardly courteous but inwardly bitter and hateful, the three of them lived in a state of suspended animosity, pretending to ignore...

You cannot imagine how strenuous the life of a private detective is until you have been on a case with Johnny Liddell. In "Poisons Unknown," Liddell is offered a fat fee by a New York gangster to locate one Brother Alfred, proprietor of a...

'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' was Conan Doyle's first collection of Sherlock Holmes short stories, and contains the following classic mysteries: A Scandal in Bohemia The Adventure of the Red-Headed League A Case of Identity The Boscombe Valley Mystery The Five Orange Pips The...

Set in Rome, The Raphael Affair features the perpetually beset General Bottando of the Italian National Art Theft Squad; his glamorous assistant, Flavia di Stefano; and Jonathan Argyll, a British art historian. When Jonathan is arrested for breaking into an obscure church in Rome,...

This is a book containing eight detective stories by G. K. Chesterton initially published in 1922.Author: G. K. ChestertonISBN-10: 1453638458ISBN-13: 9781453638453Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/17/2010Pages: 108Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.01w x 0.22d

A thrilling collection of the 20 most challenging murder cases solved by Arthur Conan Doyle's remarkable detective, Sherlock Holmes. Join Sherlock Holmes in this new collection of classic short stories as he investigates cases involving murder and foul play. In these tales, Holmes uses...

Set in the vast and rugged moorland of Dartmoor, this gripping short story follows Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson as they attempt to discover the truth behind the disappearance of a phenomenal racehorse, Silver Blaze. When the prize-winning racehorse Silver Blaze goes missing the...

"The Moonstone" was originally published in 1868 by William Wilkie Collins. A 19th-century British epistolary novel, it is generally considered to be the first detective novel, and also established many of the ground rules of the modern detective novel. The story follows the theft...

The unrelenting presence of murder interrupts the bliss of Thomas Ford's honeymoon in June of 1923. Ford, a Detective Chief Inspector from Scotland Yard, is enjoying his honeymoon with his new wife, Victoria, in a remote fishing village in Cornwall when fishermen discover the...

Although Arthur Conan Doyle is best known for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes. He was a prolific writer whose other works include science fiction stories, historical novels, plays, romances, poetry, and non-fiction. The Tragedy of the Korosko was first published in 1898....

The Big Bow Msytery is reported to be the first 'locked-room' mystery novel - a detective story that follows the rules of 'fair play' by providing the evidence for the solution, with clues imbedded in the text. It also supplies alternative solutions and suspects,...

Sherlock Holmes That magical name conjures up all that is thrilling and exciting about the classic mystery short story. The Great Detective, created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is without doubt the most well-known and popular fictional character ever created-and with good reason. Doyle's...

In the tradition of the Ace Doubles (flip the book over to read the second title), here's the eleventh Wildside Mystery Double: THE BAKER STREET BOYS: TWO BAKER STREET IRREGULAR NOVELLAS, by Brian Ball. If Mr. Sherlock Holmes had been in the country when...

Max Carrados is a fictional blind detective in a series of mystery stories and books by Ernest Bramah, beginning in 1914. The Max Carrados stories appeared alongside Sherlock Holmes in the Strand Magazine, in which they often had top billing, and frequently outsold his...

Just after World War I, Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley are desperately short of money. With a shortage of job opportunities, they form a partnership, hiring themselves out as "young adventurers, willing to do anything, go anywhere." In their first dangerous assignment, they must...

They all wanted him dead...but which one turned hatred into murder?Slumped on a seat under an oak tree is local solicitor Sampson Warrenby, stone cold dead, with a bullet in his brain. And everybody in the village seems ready to tell Chief Inspector Hemingway...

A houseful of people he loathes is not Sir Arthur's worst problem?It should have been a lovely English country-house weekend. But the unfortunate guest-list is enough to exasperate a saint, and the host, Sir Arthur Billington-Smith, is an abusive wretch hated by everyone from...

An irresistible literary thriller in the tradition of The Alienist and An Instance of the Fingerpost, set in early 1800s England and involving a young Edgar Allan Poe. Edgar Allan Poe is an American boy in England, a child standing on the edge of...

When your ex becomes your client, the only thing more dangerous is the truth.It's 1978. With an economy on the brink and a city plagued by corruption, the glory days seem to be over for the failing P.I. agency Jake Horn inherited from his...

There's something deadly in the air at grand old Carton Hall. The sweet scent of revenge?Early one morning, the cleaner makes a shocking find in the tapestry room.A dead body lying among the priceless artworks.His handsome features are a mask of agony, but the...

What happened to the young woman who went to pick up a pizza in Miami and disappeared? Was she murdered? Or abducted, never to be seen again? That's what young North Carolina physician Matthew Paine and his colleague-the young woman's father-desperately want to know...

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In the second Lauren Rousseau Mystery by Agatha Award-winning author Edith Maxwell, a grisly murder stirs up long-buried secrets surrounding the disappearance and death of Lauren's father . . . As a bitter controversy rages over a secretive local land trust in her small...

Praise for Caron Allan's Dottie Manderson mysteries: 'Five stars! Delightfully entertaining, rich characters, suspenseful, charming all in one; anxiously awaiting the next one!" "a fascinating tale set in England in the 1930s. This 'cosy crime' novel... is a good read; something to entertain and...

Two Thousand years ago, the Druids of ancient Glastonbury forged a sword of power for their prince. The blade held curses for his enemies, and the pommel, a giant ruby held in a bronze falcon's claw, held their blessings. Armed with his sword, the...

For anyone who loved St Trinian's - old or new - or loves a cozy mystery on a grand estate filled with rather 'interesting' characters.Gemma Lamb is ready for an uneventful term at St Bride's, she's had enough of dastardly deeds and sinister strangers.However,...