Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

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...

The first in a charming, evocative, and sharply plotted Victorian crime series starring a detective duo to rival Holmes and Watson After her father dies, March Middleton has to move to London to live with her guardian, Sidney Grice, the country's most famous private...

Was the wrong man hanged for a young woman's murder, or is a copycat killer on the loose? DCI Henry Johnstone and DS Mickey Hitchens must crack a darkly complex case when the community close ranks. 1930, Leicestershire. Everyone in the quiet market town...

Two beautiful women have been found strangled in the studio of a well-known London artist. To investigator William Monk and his wife, Hester, the murders are a nightmare. One of the victims is the wife of Hester's cherished colleague, surgeon Dr. Kristian Beck, a...

IN THESE TWO HOLIDAY MYSTERIES SET IN VICTORIAN LONDON, CHRISTMAS COMES WITH A HELPING OF MAGIC AND MURDER. A CHRISTMAS PROMISE Three days before Christmas, in London's East End, thirteen-year-old Gracie Phipps encounters eight-year-old Minnie Maude Mudway, freezing and alone. Only the day before,...

A daughter's grief . . . A mother's madness . . . And a daring act of love that defied every law . . . "The best mystery writer anywhere in the English-speaking world."--The Boston Globe Mopsa, driven by a past scarred by madness...

Becca Flynn, a private investigator and want-to-be artist, never imagined underwear could cause such an uproar. When her best friend, Treasure Winslow, opens a lingerie boutique in serene Bayleys Landing, residents make their feelings about its too-hot-for-Main Street presence known. After a tabloid television...

Author: Peter RobinsonISBN-10: 8200119688ISBN-13: 9798200119684Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2011Format: CDWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 5.60h x 5.80w x 1.10d

'The Man Who Was Thursday' is a novel by G.K. Chesterton, first published in 1908. The book has been referred to as a metaphysical thriller. It is the story of Gabriel Syme, who is recruited by Scotland Yard as part of an anti-anarchist task...

As a fifth generation Earp, he was the first since the original to make his living as a lawman. Twenty years as a police officer in Fairbanks, Alaska has given him the experience and investigative skills to be a Village Public Safety Officer (VPSO)...

'When a man has three separate notices by three different women inserted in the local paper, and he's my own namesake besides, I feel I owe him something.' Sequential death notices appear for Robert Raynald: one by his mother, one by his estranged wife,...

Garrulous Bill Myers is too nosy for his own good. A retired investigative reporter, he is sniffing into dangerous pots of greed and avarice. When he is found dead, Nancy and the 90s Club step in to find the killer and discover what's really...

Philadelphia, June 1780. George Washington's two least likely spies return, masquerading as husband and wife as they search for traitors in Philadelphia. Months have passed since young widow Becca Parcell and former printer Daniel Alloway foiled a plot that threatened the new nation. But...

In Hollywood, five people in the movie industry agree to participate in a devious and ingenious lottery to commit murder. The lottery is designed so that four of the five will have no way of knowing who the actual killer is. Their intended victim...

This first book in an irresistible new series introduces librarian and reluctant sleuth Raymond Ambler, a doggedly curious fellow who uncovers murderous secrets hidden behind the majestic marble fa軋de of New York City's landmark 42nd Street Library. Murder at the 42nd Street Library follows...

It is 1895, and Sherlock Holmes's new client is a High Court judge, whose free-spirited daughter has disappeared without a trace.Holmes and Watson discover that the missing woman--Hannah Woolfson--was herself on the trail of a missing person, her close friend Sophia. Sophia was recruited...

Three bad menSpainAn ex-con breaks into a villa by the sea to steal something very precious from a safe. He will not leave without hurting someone.EnglandTycoon Simon Chan asks Eric Ward to find a missing businessman. And Ward is also involved in a case...

DARK DEALINGS IN THE BOARDROOM AND ON THE STREETSEileen O'Hara isn't used to hearing no. She's the stunning chairman of Broadlands construction. But now she is facing a management takeover, with rivals bidding for control of her company.Both are crooked with old scores to...

Colin Bannock is hiding quite the secret.By day, he's a smooth-talking lawyer. After hours, he is someone else entirely.He corners Arnold Landon, wanting him to join his society of history fanatics.Appalled, Arnold declines outright. He's never been a joiner and, besides, he has enough...

A missing woman. A chilling connection to a baby trafficking ring. Will the Cold Case Investigators stop the killers before another woman is taken?Martina and Detective Hirsch, still reeling from their last high-profile case, agree to reopen the missing person case of Sadie Jarreau,...

This is an omnibus edition consisting of the three stories in the Ghost and Detective McNab series with all being set in modern day Edinburgh, Scotland. A Misplaced Body introduces the young Probationary Detective Constable Hamish McNab who is sent on his first case...

The nude body swung-right-left-as its weight played on the rope which the hook held.Dr. Julian Field had a straightforward day ahead of him-a short train journey to visit his patient, the wife of Philip Stanhope of Stoke Pelly, and then a journey home. So...

Elisabeth slept! It is perhaps a matter for wonderment that her sleep was untroubled. For-had she but known it-she was so close to Terror and Tragedy! So close to Death and deaths-so close to the menace of Mr Levi'!Mr Medlicott, a solicitor, heads to...

"There's little doubt, as I see it, that Flagon was killed by a dart thrown with amazing skill and dexterity."The Bar Point-to-Point meeting at Quiddington St Philip is always an auspicious occasion. This year, Justice Nicholas Flagon is the favourite to win-there's big money...

"A dead man in my car? But how can that be? Do you mean somebody-er-that was taken ill or something?""No, sir. The dead man in your car was murdered."When Richard Langley entered the town of Angel, he encountered the unexpected. He never expected to...

Less than an hour later, the nude body of the dead man lay in the outhouse which did duty at St. Mead as the official mortuary.Anthony Bathurst is taking the sea-air at the village of St Mead, when the local constabulary drag him into...

Stretched across the road was the body of a policeman.On the way home one evening in the Romney Marsh, Bookseller Theodore Terhune and friend Julia are caught in heavy coastal fog. A passing lorry provides some guidance on the narrow country roads, but the...

A personal trip turns perilous for Elena Standish after the murder of a British spy forces her to face dark family secrets in this exciting 1930s mystery by bestselling author Anne Perry. "An absorbing and calculating thriller/mystery that grabs the reader from the first...

The new novel from the author of Art in the Blood. December 1889. Fresh from debunking a "ghostly" hound in Dartmoor, Sherlock Holmes has returned to London, only to find himself the target of a deadly vendetta.A beautiful client arrives with a tale of...

Blood thirsty vampires, Rampaging, ravenous werewolves. A Dark Wizard who conjures demons. A Master of Horror who will stop at nothing to win! Just a few of the obstacles that Holmes and Count Dracula must face and defeat once they come together as a...

At the end of his own birthday celebration, Major Peterson shocks his seven guests by leaving the breakfast table, going into his study, and apparently shooting himself... Inspector Delaware discovers conflicting evidence, however, and calls for help from Sherlock Holmes. Upon their arrival, Holmes...

In this addition to a New York Times bestselling mystery series, Sergeant Hamish Macbeth--Scotland's most quick-witted but unambitious policeman--investigates the disappearance of a local woman who is more than she seems. Kate Hibbert is all too eager to lend a hand to her neighbors....

In this addition to a New York Times bestselling mystery series, Sergeant Hamish Macbeth--Scotland's most quick-witted but unambitious policeman--investigates the disappearance of a local woman who is more than she seems. Kate Hibbert is all too eager to lend a hand to her neighbors....

Sergeant Hamish Macbeth--Scotland's most quick-witted but unambitious policeman--is back and may have finally met the woman of his dreams in this new mystery in M.C. Beaton's beloved, New York Times bestselling series. Hamish's new constable, Dorothy McIver, may be the most beautiful woman he's...

Death of a GossipWhen society widow and gossip columnist Lady Jane Winters joined the fishing class, she wasted no time in ruffling the feathers--or was it the fins?--of those around her. Among the victims of her sharp tongue and unladylike manner was Lochdubh Constable...

The New York Times Bestselling master of suspense is back with a riveting thriller, as reward seeker Colter Shaw plunges into the woods and races the clock in a case where nothing is quite what it seems. THERE ARE TWO FUNDAMENTAL RULES OF SURVIVAL....

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns in the eighteenth entry 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....

"Another tense puzzle from Bannalec, with the Breton landscape once more the star of the show." --Kirkus Reviews Mysterious, ingenious, and suspenseful: Dupin's seventh case takes him and his team into the very heart of Brittany in The King Arthur Case. The forest of...

London, 1893 - deadly doings are afoot in the British Museum and private enquiry agents Cyrus Barker and Thomas Llewelyn must unravel a mystery involving a mummy, a giant ruby and a murder, in Will Thomas's Heart of the Nile. Cyrus Barker, along with...

In this Christmas mystery, lawyer Andy Carpenter and his golden retriever, Tara, are on the beat after a body turns up in the snow and a journalist is the prime suspect. Christmas has come early to the town of Paterson, New Jersey, in the...

In all of Commissaire Georges Dupin's time living in Brittany, there has never been a murder on his home turf, until now, in Jean-Luc Bannalec's The Body by the Sea. A town on the sea, Concarneau's nickname is Ville Bleue, or the Blue Town....

"Super-fun." -The Boston Globe A Lefty Nominee for Best Mystery NovelAn Agatha Nominee for Best Contemporary Mystery Novel One murder. Four impossibilities. A fake s饌nce hides a very real crime. Secret Staircase Construction just finished their first project with Tempest Raj officially a part...

Author: Agatha ChristieISBN-10: 0063310953ISBN-13: 9780063310957Publisher: William Morrow & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/09/2023Pages: 272Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 7.98h x 5.34w x 0.65dReview Citation(s): Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2023

Here's a story written in breezy journalese that has all the ingredients of a first-class thriller: crime, mystery, and love. Fresh and hot as "front page" stuff, it travels swiftly, keyed to the author's enthusiasm for the setting-her own town, Chicago-her newspaper experience, her...

SHERLOCK HOLMES UNCOVERS HELLISH CRUELTY AND HIDDEN WICKEDNESS IN TWELVE NEW TALES OF MYSTERY, IMAGINATION AND FOLK HORROR"It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than...

SHERLOCK HOLMES UNCOVERS HELLISH CRUELTY AND HIDDEN WICKEDNESS IN TWELVE NEW TALES OF MYSTERY, IMAGINATION AND FOLK HORROR"It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than...

A collection of three books in the Det. Lt. Nick Storie -Mysteries series.Morality PlayA man who owns a plastics plant that employs troubled youths who have had trouble with the law is murdered. Nick identifies the killer, then the killer is murdered.Deadly OperationSerena Lovell,...

Some people need killing, but Derwood Flynn is retired and doesn't do that sort of thing anymore. He wants a quiet life, rebuilding the broken relationship with his teenage daughter. When a hurricane ravages the landscape and washes a murder victim from the failing...

What if someone you love is a serial killer? DCI Eric Shaw, leading a forensic team at Scotland Yard, together with DI Miriam Leroux from a Murder Investigation Team, is investigating the death of a known offender. Killed by two gunshots: one to his...

HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO TO PROTECT WHAT YOU BELIEVE IN?Eric Ward agrees to represent the interests of a local environmental campaign. Then an explosion at the industrial-waste plant leaves his client dead.Joe Paulson wasn't exactly a criminal. But his after-hours activities--gathering the secrets...