Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

This is a collection of twelve short stories featuring the brilliant detective, Sherlock Holmes. The stories are widely regarded as some of the most engaging and exciting mysteries ever written. Readers will be captivated by the ingenuity of Holmes as he solves mysteries that...

Readers of mystery thrillers will find much to please them in this highly exciting story. It tells how Marjery Latimer living in a Bayswater boarding house was awakened one night by a scream. Slipping from her bed and crossing to the window she was...

A woman's memory about a fatal attack starts to return. But what she knows could endanger her life.One morning Gwen Thomas takes a short walk with her Siberian husky in the outskirts of the Welsh town she calls home.She is drawn to a desolate...

As the story begins, Nessie finds something in her camera that might help the police solve an investigation. Unfortunately, she finds its too late. It does not help, because that person has already been tried. When Nessie gets home and finds her best friend,...

A mischievously entertaining crime novel' SIMON BRETT The seventh instalment in The Falconer Files, Andrea Frazer's insanely grippingvillage detective series with a delightful slice of humour. Perfect for fans of Agatha Christie, Lillian Jackson Braun and Midsomer Murders. READER'S CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF ANDREA'S...

A mischievously entertaining crime novel' SIMON BRETT Choked Off is the second instalment in The Falconer Files, Andrea Frazer's insanely gripping detective series chock-full of picture-postcard villages, dastardly deeds and a delightful slice of humour. Perfect for fans of Agatha Christie, Lillian Jackson Braun...

What would you do if suddenly you discovered that there was someone out there who killed your father and you were next on that person's hit list?This is the story of Monty, a young man with a promising future whose life is suddenly turned...

Savannah, Georgia, 1922 A heartbroken Becky relents to her mother's matchmaking efforts and agrees to go on a date with the successful businessman Herbert Coleman. Despite her cousin Fanny's attempts to steal him away, Becky is surprised to find she enjoys Herbert's company. But...

Solve an old bank heist? How could a computer geek do that? A brilliant computer scientist/engineer assists a retired SJPD detective with solving cold cases. They take on a nearly ten-year-old bank robbery of a bank in Willow Glen, CA. The robbers made off...

"The little grey cells, my friend, the little grey cells! They told me."-Agatha Christie, The Murder on the LinksThe Murder on the Links (1923) is a mystery featuring the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and Captain Arthur Hastings, his companion. A client, who is in...

Book two in the Inspector Lestrade series It was a puzzle that faced Scotland Yard from its very begin-ning - whose was the limbless body found among the foundations? And in the murderous world of Sholto Lestrade, one question is invariably followed by another...

From New York Times Bestselling author Michael Lister John Jordan is once again carrying a gun and a badge--and he's going to need them. Balancing family life with being a cop and a prison chaplain takes grit and grace--and John has plenty of both....

When the wealthy Mrs. Inglethorpe is found poisoned at her country estate of Styles, it is fortunate that the most Belgian of detectives, Hercule Poirot is staying in the neighboring village. But who is the murderer? The recent husband of the deceased, one of...

The body of a brilliant woman journalist is recovered from the wreck of a burning car. It is soon discovered that the smash did not kill her; she was dead already, shot by a Browning automatic that was found near by. Superintendent Mitchell, with...

With friends and citizens dropping around him almost faster than he can breathe, new Sheriff Coal Savage has no time to rest.When Savage begins questioning everything he had come to believe about the spree of assassinations in Lemhi County, Idaho, and the very people...

"Mr. Holmes is an amateur, Hopkins." Lestrade was smiling around the stem of his pipe as he spoke. Hopkins could hear it. "Not a man who works well in teams, he. He still trusts Dr. Watson not to lie to him...and Dr. Watson's pulled...

It is 1878, and Dr. Poppy Stamford has reluctantly rekindled her relationship with Sherlock Holmes. Though it has been almost four years since they parted on uneasy terms and he continues to suppress his feelings for her, they are still intrigued and inspired-and frustrated-by...

Deanna Guthrie knows about success. She has transformed herself from rape victim to high-powered divorce attorney. She has represented some of the most prestigious clients making them the richest women in Atlanta. However, she began to question her so-called successful life. She had chased...

Ellery Hathaway knows a thing or two about serial killers, but not through her police training. She's an officer in sleepy Woodbury, Massachusetts, where a bicycle theft still makes the newspapers. No one there knows she was once victim number seventeen in the grisly...

Lady Audley's Secret is a sensation novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon published in 1862. It was Braddon's most successful and well-known work. The novel has been described as "the most sensationally successful of all the sensation novels". The plot centres on "accidental bigamy" which...

Between the silver ribbon of morning and the green glittering ribbon of sea, the boat touched Harwich and let loose a swarm of folk like flies, among whom the man we must follow was by no means conspicuous-nor wished to be. There was nothing...

Roger Ackroyd knew too much. He knew thatthe woman he loved had poisoned her brutal firsthusband. He suspected also that someone had beenblackmailing her. Then, tragically, came the news thatshe had taken her own life with a drug overdose.But the evening post brought Roger...

Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #24 features the best in contemporary and classic mystery fiction, with a great linup of crimes and columns. Here are: Features: From Watson's Notebook, by John H. Watson, M. D. Ask Mrs Hudson, by (Mrs) Martha HudsonNon Fiction: SCREEN OF...

The fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel features a heinous scheme from the pipe-smoking detective's most formidable nemesis, Professor James Moriarty. After receiving a pseudonymous cipher from one of Moriarty's henchmen, Holmes and Watson must unravel the mysterious murder of a country gentleman. The...

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...

His Last Bow is the final collection of thrilling short stories in the chronology of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes' series, set on the precipice of the First World War. Featuring seven tales from Holmes and Watson's adventures, this volume includes a preface from...

This volume features 12 enthralling Sherlock Holmes stories, culminating in 'The Final Problem', which caused much uproar and controversy among the fictional detective's loyal fans. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes features famous characters such as the detective's brother, Mycroft Holmes, and the evil Professor...

A volume of seemingly unsolvable mysteries, The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes features the final twelve short stories in Arthur Conan Doyle's famous detective series. First published in 1927, this volume is the last instalment in Arthur Conan Doyle's series of Sherlock Holmes' adventures....

'A fast-paced, terrifying journey.' RACHEL ABBOTT 'A born storyteller.' PETER JAMES The Sunday Times bestseller returns with his latest nail-shredding thriller - a must for all fans of Happy Valley and M.J. Arlidge. How do you find the missing when there's no trail to...

This rollicking tale of an aging robber who wants to blow up a reservoir "will keep readers laughing" (Publishers Weekly). In his day, Tom was a hard man. He came up with Dillinger in the 1930s, and pulled a lot of high-profile jobs before...

The "master of . . . cerebral puzzle mysteries" sends his Yorkshire detectives back to college to be taught a lesson in murder (The New York Times). Reginald Hill "raised the classical British mystery to new heights" when he introduced pugnacious Yorkshire Det. Inspector...

The "master of . . . cerebral puzzle mysteries" sends his Yorkshire detectives back to college to be taught a lesson in murder (The New York Times). Reginald Hill "raised the classical British mystery to new heights" when he introduced pugnacious Yorkshire Det. Inspector...

This rollicking tale of an aging robber who wants to blow up a reservoir "will keep readers laughing" (Publishers Weekly). In his day, Tom was a hard man. He came up with Dillinger in the 1930s, and pulled a lot of high-profile jobs before...

*NATIONAL BESTSELLER*A New York Times Editors' ChoiceBooker Prize winner and "Irish master" (The New Yorker) John Banville's most ambitious crime novel yet brings two detectives together to solve a globe-spanning mysteryIn 1950s Dublin, Rosa Jacobs, a young history scholar, is found dead in her...

Author: Kate KingsburyISBN-10: 042521849XISBN-13: 9780425218495Publisher: Berkley / NalLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/06/2007Pages: 304Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.54lbsSize: 7.52h x 5.68w x 0.88dReview Citation(s): Library Journal Prepub Alert 07/01/2007 pg. 62Publishers Weekly 09/03/2007 pg. 42

When Freya Sinclair was a little girl, she had no idea what her parents were hiding in the basement of her childhood home... After five years away from her hometown of Fawn Lake, Detective Freya Sinclair isn't expecting a warm welcome from the people...

In 1931, the world was introduced to one of cinema's greatest monsters... The Frankenstein Monster. Universal's original Frankenstein film, starring Boris Karloff as The Creature, was a smash hit, cementing the image of The Monster forever.In 1969, following a final interview, Boris Karloff dies...

Can Dora and Rex solve this cold case without ending up in hot water?London, 1923. In a Mayfair dining room, Theodora Laurent and Lord Rex Bankes-Fernsby make an incredible discovery. Rex's sister Caledonia is a naturally gifted codebreaker. Upon hearing this news, Lord Audley,...

Chicago has ANOTHER SOUTHSIDE!Hidden in plain sight. Enigmatic and complex. Full of intrigue, and as dangerous as you can imagine.Just the sort of place Jake Thompson, the city's quirkiest crime fighter, would ply his trade.Author: Del StaeckerISBN-10: 1938505662ISBN-13: 9781938505669Publisher: Lionheart Group, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/23/2024Pages:...

A murder investigation leads DCI Jack Harris to Scotland, but is it just a fishing expedition?When a man's body is found on the Langdon Estate in the North Pennines, DCI Jack Harris suspects the death is connected to recent attacks on anglers by a...

Things get murky when a ferry captain is found dead in the water in this mystery starring Inspector Littlejohn, "the model of a calm, rational policeman" (Publishers Weekly). After a ferry to Falbright carrying forty people runs aground, the skipper is nowhere to be...

A Death by Any Other Name is a delightful Edwardian mystery set in the English countryside. Building on the success of her last two mysteries in the same series, Tessa Arlen returns us to the same universe full of secrets, intrigue, and, this time,...

The river reveals its secrets...Amateur sleuth Augusta Peel is showing a friend the sights of London when their boat trip on the River Thames is cut short. A body has been found adrift in a rowing boat.The circumstances are puzzling. Scotland Yard takes on...

Since Sherlock Holmes first learned of the sinister house of ruthless criminals, his focus has been two-fold; stop the organization from accomplishing any more ruinous felonious acts and, more importantly, uncover the criminal genius behind the whole enterprise. In a compressed timeframe, and relying...

A spate of murderous arson attacks evokes bitter memories for stalwart detective John Blizzard...It was a defining moment in DCI John Blizzard's early career when he caught a notorious arsonist on a killing spree. Yet despite the culprit, Reginald Morris, being safely behind bars...

Set within the streets of the Mitchell Estate, this fast-paced crime drama is a mystery with an emotional pull. The small town of Stockleigh is in shock as three women are brutally attacked within days of each other. Are they random acts of violence,...

A murdered executive. Key suspects with bulletproof alibis. Can a headstrong investigator catch the killer before the trail disappears?Rome, Italy. Detective Maurizio Scala has a strong debt of honor to the victims of brutal crimes. So when a well-liked man is found dead in...

Settle in for a creepy read from the remarkable mind of expert mystery writer Anna Katherine Green. In The House in the Mist, a road-weary traveler happens upon a beautiful house in the woods and, thinking it might be an inn or a lodging...

An Ethel Thomas Detective Story A little shoving and pushing on Sale Days at a major New York department store is not unusual, and murder is definitely something out of the ordinary. But when one of the buyers at Doane's Department Store is found...

"Peter Dickinson is my own chosen demigod in the pantheon of crime fiction."--Laurie R. King For best-selling author Lady Margaret, the past is no longer a pleasant memory. Her first lover's mysterious death and the seeming inevitability of her inheriting the family's stately home...