Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

What if you saw who tried to murder you but can't remember, and now your life hangs in the balance out of your control?Rita Burch is a rising star. The founder of a huge clothing brand, she is on the brink of financial nirvana....

Author: Agatha ChristieISBN-10: 0063376172ISBN-13: 9780063376175Publisher: William Morrow & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/15/2025Pages: 272Format: Paperback

A death in the House of Lords has all eyes on foreign shores. But what if the killer lies closer to home?London, 1924. Westminster is in an uproar when a promising young clerk is found dead at his desk, killed by a powerful poison...

This rare and spirited mystery novel was first published in 1956. This edition includes an introduction by CWA Diamond Dagger and Edgar(R) Award-winning author Martin Edwards.As he walked away from the phone there was a puzzled expression on Blampignon's massive countenance. He was thinking:...

A Mystery For the Ages! The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is the sixth novel by Agatha Christie and is considered her Magnum Opus; it was voted best crime novel of all time by the British Crime Writers' Association. Agatha Christie has sold more books...

Sophie Sayers is ready for a glorious summer, but when a dead body is found in the village school's lost property cupboard the summer holidays take an unexpected turn.Even more shocking is when the body goes missing. Without a body, the police refuse to...

When the body of Horace Radcliffe, headmaster of Eldersley College, is discovered on the morning of 23rd May, 1975, police are puzzled by the corpse's appearance. Clearly the headmaster has been murdered, but why did the murderer put a flower behind his ear and...

Author: J. J. ConningtonISBN-10: 1616463171ISBN-13: 9781616463175Publisher: Coachwhip PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/14/2015Pages: 250Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.82lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.57d

Less than one year into her marriage to respected magistrate George Knightley, Emma has grown unusually content in her newfound partnership and refreshed sense of independence. The height of summer sees the former Miss Woodhouse gracefully balancing the meticulous management of her elegant family...

It's fair to say that Freddy Pilkington-Soames is not having a good day. His grandmother is threatening to marry a lounge lizard, his old friend has lost her lover, a racehorse has been kidnapped, a priceless diamond has gone missing, and everybody seems to...

Author: Alison GaylinISBN-10: 1420514555ISBN-13: 9781420514551Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/30/2024Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 8.60h x 5.60w x 0.90dLarge Print

Author: Louise PennyISBN-10: 1420516485ISBN-13: 9781420516487Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/27/2024Format: Library BindingLarge Print

How it all began. Carrie was once a loving and carefree young woman until unimaginable tragedy violated her life. Emotionally soft from years of being the center of a loving family made her ill equipped to handle this life altering event.She begins her first...

Summer on Cape Cod While tourists pack the beaches and malls, Quansett locals meet for Tooner Sallid or Egz Bennie at Leo's Back End. Inventor Pam Nash bursts into this sanctuary like an IED. Can her reclusive old friend and fellow genius, the artist-author...

One of the most enjoyable resurgences in mystery fiction has been the return of the locked room mystery, a crime scene where the victim is found in a secure space with no visible means of entrance or egress. Crippen & Landru has published some...

He chases crooks in the nineteenth century. She researches the past in the twenty-first. When both attend festivals that turn sinister, can they solve the crimes?Vancouver, 1898. Detective Jack Winston is sent to police a spectacle that turns into a murder investigation.Vancouver, 2018. Riley...

What's behind a series of mysterious deaths among the favourite concubines of Sultan of Turkey, Abdul Hamid II? Suspecting a plot against himself, the Sultan has called on Sherlock Holmes to investigate. However, as a man, the detective is clearly unable to penetrate the...

Read along with the new TV drama, streaming now on FOX TV and Hulu!For fans of Louise Penny's Chief Inspector Gamache Mysteries."Wright is a master of the psychological thriller."--BooklistIn this masterpiece of psychological suspense, the real villain is self-delusion; it inflicts more damage than...

A renowned sculptor vanishes without a trace. His latest masterpiece found smashed to pieces. Can DI Clarissa Urquhart chisel away at the lies to reveal the ugly truth behind the artist's disappearance?When a celebrated sculptor goes missing from his remote Highland studio, DI Clarissa...

One house. Two families. A web of secrets.On his thirteenth birthday, Thomas' mother vanished without a trace, never to be seen again. Forced to leave his family home after the tragedy, the mansion sat empty for years. He struggled to piece his life together,...

Legendary detective Sherlock Holmes and his faithful chronicler Doctor Watson were an inseparable pair from the 1880s until the interwar era of the twentieth century. Now they are back with eight new adventures, in which the good Doctor recounts the most curious investigations he...

Near St. Brynneys in the Welsh border country, isolated by heavy snow and flooding from the thaw, a calamity has occurred. Old Dr. Robinson, a known 'menace on the roads', has met his end in a collision with a jeep on a hazardous junction....

A vicious, unprovoked attack is just the start...'A multi-faceted page turner. The perfect way to meet Jack Dylan' Alison Bruce, author of I Did It For UsWhen Detective Jack Dylan heads home after a residential course, he has no idea that an extraordinary succession...

New York taxidermy collector Garth Carson is pulled into another unusual escapade in this follow-up to "Pipsqueak." Garth acquires the most sinister stuffed critter in the world: a certain white crow in a bell jar that other people are dying to get their hands...

""The House of the Arrow"" is a captivating mystery novel penned by A.E.W. Mason, celebrated for its intriguing plot and meticulous attention to detail. Set in the idyllic French countryside, the story revolves around the enigmatic murder of a Parisian financier, leading to a...

The founder of Byrner, a global social media platform, Gerald Byrne is universally admired as a visionary, a philanthropist, and a devoted husband and father. And every person who gets in the way of his good work seems to die. When a former student...

"A vile crime is being planned," he said."And heaven knows, it may even have been executed."When an old schoolfriend whisks private detective Asbj rn Krag away by train to an isolated snow-covered manor house, his curiosity is aroused.John Aakerholm, a wealthy landowner with peculiar...

A contemporary Sherlock Holmes, the eccentric Bernie Quist is a consultant detective in the city of York. Christmas is days away and once again the reclusive sleuth will be quietly celebrating alone. His assistant Watson, a teenager from the Grimpen housing estate, has other...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was a Scottish physician and writer known around the world for his stories about detective Sherlock Holmes, which all but created the literary field of crime fiction and made the name Sherlock Holmes synonymous with detectives. Aside from the...

The game was up. Jimmie Rezaire knew it, but he was sure that his carefully laid plans would enable him to escape. They were complete to the last detail; nevertheless every second was valuable. His pals must shift for themselves; even Viv, much as...

Author: Bruce AlexanderISBN-10: 042516036XISBN-13: 9780425160367Publisher: Berkley BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/1997Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.34lbsSize: 6.76h x 4.20w x 0.89d

A Simple Twist of Fate follows detective Terry Eckhart as he investigates a suspicious house fire that killed two in the Sunset district of San Francisco. Was it just an accident or suicide? Or something more, and if so, who was the target? The...

Sarah has been receiving threatening anonymous letters seemingly from a former lover. Just one day after revealing this information to her co- worker Nancy, Sarah is shot and found in her bedroom by one of her past flames, Donald. Desperate to clear any evidence...

Read along with the new TV drama, streaming now on FOX TV and Hulu!For fans of Louise Penny's Chief Inspector Gamache Mysteries."Wright is a master of the psychological thriller."--BooklistIt's midsummer in British Columbia, and it's murderously hot. For Karl Alberg, that becomes more than...

A town judge shot dead in a house full of suspects. Can a curious young female nurse turned amateur sleuth uncover the truth before someone else dies? It's a mystery that will keep you guessing.Berkshire Mountains, Massachusetts, 1931. Aggie Burnside is ready for her...

A page-turning, compelling thriller about a woman who will stop at nothing to uncover the truth behind her sister's disappearance. Shaw Connolly is no stranger to trauma. As a fingerprints analyst, she's one of the first on-site for crimes, including murder scenes and a...

Harm no one, but let no one harm you.Author Lynn Stevens bewitches readers with this gripping new paranormal mystery. It should have been a normal day for FBI Special Agent Clara Xavier: transport a supernatural criminal to federal prison. And it would have been...

'A revealing, gritty and authentic crime story by a cop and a robber.' The Great Train Robbery was immediately the subject of world attention in late 1963. Being the biggest and most audacious robbery ever committed, it quickly led to popular myths that have...

Read along with the new TV drama, streaming now on FOX TV and Hulu!For fans of Louise Penny's Chief Inspector Gamache Mysteries."Wright is a master of the psychological thriller."--BooklistRuthless businessman Gordon Murphy has something of a Midas touch... in everything but love.Now he's set...

The Theological Odyssey of the Great DetectiveThe world of Holmes is a world of contradictions. Mysteries no author has solved... until now.What happened on that fateful day at Reichenbach Falls when Detective Sherlock Holmes met his archnemesis, Professor James Moriarty? Why did Holmes go...

The protagonist of this gripping novel is Jack Thurston, a former detective who has fallen on hard times and turned to drink. When a young woman is murdered, Thurston is enlisted to help solve the case, leading him on a perilous journey through London's...

The ultimate detective collection featuring the legendary Sherlock Holmes and his trusty companion, Dr. Watson. Follow along as they solve some of the most iconic and challenging mysteries of the Victorian era.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is...

When Santa Fe historian Kate Isaacs disappears while staying and doing research at the historic Mabel Dodge Luhan House in Taos, Isaacs' wife hires private investigator Fernando Lopez to find the missing woman. At the Luhan House, now a bed and breakfast inn, Lopez...

Ian Carmichael stars as Lord Peter Wimsey in these definitive BBC radio dramatisations of Dorothy L Sayers' classic crime novels Aristocratic amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey was the master creation of Dorothy L Sayers, widely acknowledged as one of the four original 'Queens of...

Under pressure from the reading public Arthur Conan Doyle brought his famous detective back from the dead in The Return of Sherlock Holmes. We learn that Holmes actually faked his own death in order to avoid being killed by one of his many enemies....

Author: J. J. ConningtonISBN-10: 1616463082ISBN-13: 9781616463083Publisher: Coachwhip PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/07/2015Pages: 236Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.54d

Author: Tj MedeirosISBN-13: 9798330419340Publisher: Tj MedeirosLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/30/2024Pages: 346Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.26lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d

Author: Valerie BrandyISBN-10: 1964161215ISBN-13: 9781964161211Publisher: Emerald Lion PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/17/2024Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.98lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.65dLarge Print

Author: Elle GrayISBN-13: 9798338066867Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/11/2024Pages: 266Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.69lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.56d

Author: Anthony HorowitzISBN-10: 0063444623ISBN-13: 9780063444621Publisher: Harper Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/13/2025Pages: 544Format: PaperbackLarge Print