Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

Vanishing Trails is the continuation of the story of Daisy McLaren and Jake Smith told in Appalachian Trails: A Smoky Mountain Mystery. It picks them up again during the Fourth of July weekend of the following year. Daisy is living with her small calico...

After three years of being presumed dead, Sherlock Holmes returns to investigate 13 mysterious cases in this enthralling collection of short stories. After his ill-fated confrontation with his formidable enemy, Professor Moriarty, at the Reichenbach Falls, Sherlock Holmes was presumed dead. Over three years...

Agatha Christie's most famous characters--including Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple--solve even the most devilish of conundrums as the sun beats down in this all-new summer themed collection from the Queen of Mystery.Summertime--as the temperature rises, so does the potential for evil. From Cornwall to...

Ranulf Briquessart, Viscount Briquessart of Rutledge, was dead. This truth was as undeniable as the noonday sun. Tragically his death had been preceded by that of his wife, a beauty of Spanish nobility who was descended from the ancient Counts of Castile. These deaths...

A floating body. Puzzling clues. When the hunt nearly lands him in the morgue, can a dedicated physician stop a cunning killer? Peak, NC. Dr. Matthew Paine lives by a high moral code. Struggling to cope with his girlfriend overseas, he agrees to continue...

Dana Madison had always rationalized her own actions. It was for the good of her family that she had married money, not once but three times. Her parents took better care of her children than she could; hence she traveled extensively in a carefree...

David Elliott from What the Barber Knew returns in a new, action-packed thriller.1953. David Elliott is a college sophomore American Literature major who also plays baseball and has a propensity to jump into things without looking. When his revered professor Steven Jeffrey ostensibly commits...

Knee-deep in grief, debating her future, and thinking about making a huge life change, Emma Campbell comes face to face with a ghost from her grandmother Nellie's past. A ghost that leads her to the seaside town of Digby, Nova Scotia. A place where...

What if the most celebrated consulting detective in the world, at the height of his powers in 1897, was on the trail of the ancient lost Crown of Scotland? The crown, its history lost in the mists of time, was torn from the head...

Young Winston Churchill, aged thirteen, is the cadet section of the Sherlock Holmes detective agency. He spends his Christmas holidays assisting Holmes and Watson in solving the case of the missing Apostles' papers, exposing the mad doctor of Hammersmith and tracking the 'Giant Moles'...

The Queen's spymasters in the newly created Special (Secret) Branch of Scotland Yard inform the Prime Minister that Her Majesty is at grave risk of assassination during the Jubilee procession to Westminster Abbey. Blood-oath Irish Republican fanatics have vowed to kill the Queen and...

Edward Winston leads a quiet, happy existence in the slow-paced Deep South . . . until his wife goes missing and his peaceful life flies off the rails. As his world collapses around him, Edward's frantic search for his missing spouse hits a dead...

Loot the market on the way up. Loot the treasury on the way down. Freddy Logan is putting a stop to that kind of thinking with the use of some unconventional means. Criminals found guilty of capital treason within major banking companies are executed...

After finding the body of a murdered colleague, amateur sleuth Ginny Forbes agrees to assist the police in their investigation. Her efforts bring her to the attention of the shadowy figure behind the pipeline of death running from south of the border to her...

When one of her ICU patients dies unexpectedly, amateur sleuth Ginny Forbes finds herself on the trail of a centuries-old secret that is of no importance and no interest to anyone other than herself. Except, of course, that no tale of secrets is ever...

New Life should be a place of rest and healing. So why would anyone dump a body in their orchard? Can the visionary Father Ambrose hold onto his own peace of mind, help his fragile community survive, and assist the police to catch a...

Mardie Wickett never gave much thought to the possibility of an afterlife. Plodding through her earthly existence was enough of a chore, working just enough to pay for good times with bad people while her brilliant estranged sister, Mili, solved murders for Scotland Yard,...

some say he got his just desserts ...University psychologist, Estela Nogales is all set for a relaxing summer break, maybe joining a gym, adopting a new hobby, or curling up with a few good books. The fun she anticipates does not include trying to...

January, 1892. Night. Fog. London. A cemetery. The police discover an abandoned hearse with an old coffin, with new nails. Inside the coffin is the body of a young, stylishly-dressed woman. Her throat has been slashed. The chase is on as Scotland Yard's best...

"Everything I want in a mystery...a plot that keeps you turning pages, terrific dialog, humor, great local color, ...oh yes, and murders too. I enjoyed every minute of it."Cape Cod To Lydia Vivaldi, fleeing a meltdown in Boston, the quaint seaside village of Quansett...

Sherlock Holmes Perhaps the greatest, and certainly the most famous, literary detective in history. His tales have entertained readers for well over 100 years, and his adventures have been adapted into over 200 movies. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's keen investigator has thrilled fans of...

Francesco Ferrari Mines the Mission, a reverent send-up of Alfred Hitchcock's major motion picture masterpiece, VERTIGO(1958), is the third and most epic entry in this crime suspense thriller series. Francesco Ferrari, San Francisco's new iconic private detective for the times(not the dated Sam Spade...

The criminal cases of Inspector Elk-six novels in three volumes There was a time, nostalgically familiar from the black and white British movies made from the late 1930s to the mid-1950s, when the detectives of the C. I. D, the men from Scotland Yard...

The criminal cases of Inspector Elk-six novels in three volumes There was a time, nostalgically familiar from the black and white British movies made from the late 1930s to the mid-1950s, when the detectives of the C. I. D, the men from Scotland Yard...

The criminal cases of Inspector Elk-six novels in three volumes There was a time, nostalgically familiar from the black and white British movies made from the late 1930s to the mid-1950s, when the detectives of the C. I. D, the men from Scotland Yard...

The penultimate volume in Leonaur's collected edition of Sapper's original Bulldog Drummond-two great adventure novels and a bonus short story These are the original adventures of Sapper's Bulldog Drummond collected together in a special Leonaur five volume collection-each special book containing two full length...

A third satisfying helping of Sapper's original Bulldog Drummond-two more exciting novels and a bonus short story These are the original adventures of Sapper's Bulldog Drummond collected together in a special Leonaur five volume collection-each special book containing two full length Bulldog Drummond novels...

The second volume of Sapper's original Bulldog Drummond-two more exciting novels and a bonus short storyThese are the original adventures of Sapper's Bulldog Drummond collected together in a special Leonaur five volume collection-each special book containing two full length Bulldog Drummond novels plus one...

Sapper's original Bulldog Drummond-5 volumes, 10 novels and 5 great short stories These are the original adventures of Sapper's Bulldog Drummond collected together in a special Leonaur five volume collection-each special book containing two full length Bulldog Drummond novels plus one short story featuring...

The first volume of a special seven volume series In Craig Kennedy the American nation might justifiably lay claim to their own Sherlock Holmes, for here is a detective whose activities projected him into the modern age. Where Conan Doyle's famous character of a...

THE SCENERY IS LUSH, THE MANSIONS ARE HUGE, AND THE SECRETS ARE DEEP. Detective Oliver Parrott's next case takes us to the ancestral home of Blake Allmond, a renowned artist, whose paintings have been stolen from his studio. Before Parrott can get a foothold...

Gemma ditches her high-flying job and returns to Oxford to follow her dream: opening a traditional English tearoom serving warm buttery scones with jam and clotted cream, and fragrant tea in pretty bone china... Only problem is-murder is the first thing on the menu...

In the cellar there was no sound at all except her own breathing and the soft rustle of her skirts. After her eyes had grown accustomed to the dark, she noticed a niche in the wall a yard from where she stood. She saw...

The discovery of a mummified body of a dead infant in the chimney of Hannah Ives' new house leads Hannah on the hunt for clues as to its identity. But she is unaware that more shocking events lie around the corner . . .Author:...

When a New York Senator's parents are murdered, Detective Tara Woods and her partner begins an investigation that leads them from murder to missing runaway teens to white slavery. Tara learns from a man who calls himself "Teach" the secrets that link the dangerous,...

An enthusiastic crowd gathered at Lyrebird Lodge in the Blue Mountains on that crisp autumn morning, all anxious to acquire one of Florence Fontaine's much sought after paintings. The only art on one visitor's mind, however, is the art of murder.Unwittingly drawn into the...

When university professor Alex Wearing is found murdered in his study, Detective Chief Inspector Alistair Fitzjohn is assigned to the case. A detective from the old guard, whose methodical, painstaking methods are viewed by some as archaic, his relentless pursuit for the killer zeros...

Peaceful life in a corner of rural England is shattered when a small village becomes the focus of a major art crime investigation. An art thief loses control of his car, the trunk flies open and valuable artwork is strewn across a quiet country...

A medieval mystery in the tradition of Ellis Peters and Edward Marston, Murder on the Canterbury Pilgrimage casts noted poet Geoffrey Chaucer in the role of detective. Chaucer uses his keen insights into human nature, his experience as a spy, and his skills as...

"Raw panic seemed to overcome Holmes' expression. I could only imagine that he suddenly foresaw the inexorable conclusion as vividly as any of his past deductions. We were about to face our own deaths " A youthful Sherlock Holmes is recuperating from the ordeal...

When the bodies of the Cowpers, a reclusive middle-aged couple, are discovered brutally slaughtered -- and their teenage daughter goes missing -- the tiny village of Nether Bowston reels in shock. And as the townspeople mull over the first murder in a century, everyone...

Author: Russell BraddonISBN-10: 0393344991ISBN-13: 9780393344998Publisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/1973Pages: 170Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.42lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.39d

Fear grips the drug underworld after two principals in the trade are murdered, and even ACC Desmond Iles is under a cloud of suspicion. Now the chief players start closing in on a fortune, while Iles, Chief Constable Mark Lane, and Detective Chief Superintendent...

Three generations torn apart -- by bullets fired fifty years ago. Philadelphia, 1965: Two street cops -- one black, one white -- are gunned down in a corner bar. One of the fallen officers, Stan Walczak, leaves behind a 12-year-old boy, Jimmy. Philadelphia, 1995:...

A missing tourist spells trouble for Senior Investigator Shana Merchant in this page-turning twisty mystery set in an atmospheric island community with a small-town vibe. Former NYPD detective Shana Merchant is a skilled Senior Investigator keeping New York's beautiful Thousand Islands community safe. She's...

As mid-winter temperatures grip the cathedral city of Ely, a man is found frozen to death in his high-rise flat. The police may think that Declan McIlroy killed himself, but journalist Philip Dryden is not convinced, and he begins digging for the truth. All...

Suspense, intrigue and a classic love triangle set against the brooding atmosphere of a remote tarn in the Lake District, from the author of STILL WATER.Adam Turner is an investigative journalist plagued by the memory of a girl who vanished from the town where...

Don't miss Lucy Foley's new book, The Midnight Feast, coming June 18th!THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Told in rotating points of view, this Tilt-A-Whirl of a novel brims with jangly tension - an undeniably engrossing guessing game." -- Vogue"[A] clever, cliff-hanger-filled thriller." -- PeopleFrom...

"Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns in the eighteenth book in #1 New York Times bestseller Louise Penny's beloved series. It's spring and Three Pines is reemerging after the harsh winter. But not everything buried should come alive again. Not everything lying dormant should reemerge....

Now that the case has been solved, Diane tries to pick up the pieces she had to leave behind. She will now have to learn to go on with life without her family. Jade has found a way to slip through the cracks and...