Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

Ms Rinehart is considered to be the American equivalent of Agatha Christie. She is the author of the phrase "the butler did it". Rinehart has written hundreds of short stories, plays, travelogues and special interest articles. In The Circular Staircase a spinster aunt and...

The greatest of Braddon's sensational novels.Author: Mary Elizabeth BraddonISBN-10: 1523483458ISBN-13: 9781523483457Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/20/2016Pages: 352Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.98lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.79d

Set in 1919, young couple Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley form a partnership, hiring themselves out as ''young adventurers''. Their first case, however, is more of an adventure than they expect - working to find documents that, if they were known to the general...

Who shot Lucy Watson's estranged brother, the popular high school teacher who brought snacks for the staff and volunteered to help troubled students? When Lucy Watson returns to her hometown in New Hampshire to bury her brother, she learns law enforcement is looking into...

A sharp-witted detective investigates the mystery of a gem, plundered from India and now vanished in England, and discovers shifting motives, unreliable testimony and growing danger in this foundational classic of mystery fiction. The Moonstone justly occupies an exalted position as a groundbreaking novel...

Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library...

"One of the best British murder mysteries I've read in a long time." Escape to the country? Or escape to murder? November, cider-apple time, and Inspector Zig Batten is regretting his enforced transfer from urban Yorkshire to not-so-sleepy Somerset. When hikers discover a dead...

During World War I at Styles Court, an Essex country manor. Upon her husband's death, the wealthy widow, Emily Cavendish, inherited a life estate in Styles as well as the outright inheritance of the larger part of the late Mr. Cavendish's income. Mrs. Cavendish...

RAISE THE HUE AND CRY A wealthy merchant has been murdered in his own home, and the suspect has fled to sanctuary in a local church. Enter Sir Faucon de Ramis, the king's new Keeper of the Pleas, to solve the murder, assisted by...

Sir Charles Baskerville, baronet, is found dead on the grounds of his country house, Baskerville Hall. The cause is ascribed to a heart attack. Fearing for the safety of Sir Charles's nephew and the only known heir, Sir Henry Baskerville, Dr James Mortimer travels...

"The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it."―Hercule Poirot, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie (1926)The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) by Agatha Christie is a work of detective fiction considered controversial because of Christie's...

The suspense in this engaging crime narrative is riveting and keeps building up until it reaches a most unexpected climax filled with excitement and pathos.Fourteen years after the end of World War II, former RAF fighter pilot Ben Benison gets a frantic phone call...

Join a young James Leipfold as he discovers his knack for uncovering the truth and takes the early steps towards forming his detective agency, Leipfold Investigations.His journey will take him from the deserts of Kuwait to the inside of Reading Jail and have him...

When PI Tracey Marks receives a distraught phone call from Stephanie Harris, urgently asking to see her, but never shows, Tracey drives to Stephanie's home in Scarsdale, NY only to discover Stephanie has been killed.Though the police are ruling it a robbery, Tracey has...

Dora Amy Elles (15 October 1877 - 28 January 1961), who wrote as Patricia Wentworth, was a British crime fiction writer.She was born in Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India (then the British Raj), and was educated first privately, then at Blackheath High School for Girls in...

Joseph Smith Fletcher (7 February 1863 - 30 January 1935) was an English journalist and author. He wrote more than 230 books on a wide variety of subjects, both fiction and non-fiction, and was one of the most prolific English writers of detective fiction.Fletcher...

The Secret Adversary is the second published detective fiction novel by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in January 1922 in the United Kingdom by The Bodley Head and in the United States by Dodd, Mead and Company later in that same year.The book...

The Mysterious Affair at Styles is a detective novel by British writer Agatha Christie. It was written in the middle of the First World War, in 1916, and first published by John Lane in the United States in October 1920 and in the United...

** Tied for First Place in the 2019 Douglas Preston Award for Published Fiction. ** Sponsored by The Albuquerque Museum Foundation.After twenty years of being an outcast, Jossenda Ledesma suddenly shows up at a family gathering. She latches onto Becca Sandoval, a relative newcomer...

The War is over, but only just, and San Francisco is still crammed with military uniforms. It is also crammed with Bohemians. Noel Bruce, the protagonist of this mystery with elements of romantic suspense, straddles both camps: By day she's a straight-laced driver for...

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ DL (22 May 1859 - 7 July 1930) was a British writer, who created the character Sherlock Holmes. Originally a physician, in 1887 he published A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and more than fifty...

Whose Body? is a 1923 novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, which introduced the character of Lord Peter Wimsey. Lord Peter is intrigued by the sudden appearance of a naked body in the bath of an architect, and investigates. A noted financier has also gone...

Here is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's best known Sherlock Holmes novel. Holmes is persuaded to investigate the death of Sir Charles Baskerville. Is the death supernatural, is there really a family curse hunting Baskerville's down through the ages, or is it something more earthly....

The Beetle is about about a mysterious oriental figure who pursues a British politician to London, where he wreaks havoc with his powers of hypnosis and shape-shifting, Marsh's novel is of a piece with other sensational turn-of-the-century fictions such as Stoker's Dracula, George du...

It was a strange impersonation--one young girl with an air of dauntless gallantry assuming the name and personality of that other girl, who was so done in, so beaten in spirit Begun half in jest and a dare, this transition led the tired girl...

When George Palmerston Gaynleigh ("the 'Palmerston' was silent, in so far as George could preserve silence on that painful infliction"), author and "spasmodic" detective novelist (you will of course recall his two excellent published mysteries, The Sheaghan Shillelah and The Murder at the Microphone),...

This volume of 2 Detectives pairs two early "lady detectives" who showed that intelligence, investigative skills, and courage were not limited to those of the masculine variety. Loveday Brooke's undercover skills allowed her to blend into the background and gather intelligence without tipping off...

Romney Pringle, poor literary agent and avid cyclist, is in truth a conman of the highest caliber. The complete twelve stories are included in this volume. This criminal rogue is a well-deserved member of "Queen's Quorum" of influential and important mystery and crime stories.Author:...

The unsolved murder of New England Professor Jackson Lawrence in the venerable Hendley Library draws the attention of Lawrence's replacement, untenured professor Jeremy Nichols, who seeks more specialized academic clues to solve the mystery and whose own life, past and present, is filled with...

When retired Southern sheriff-turned-New York City detective John Le Brun and his wife, Lordis, set sail in 1910 for a long-awaited honeymoon on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia, they expect to find relaxation in paradise. However, they soon discover they've been lured to...

Sherlock Holmes must solve three cases that carry him into the unnatural: the disappearance of the Baker Street Irregulars, the true identity of a Great War veteran, and a vampyre's grisly death. He must cross into the worlds of the Grimm Brothers and Bram...

When famed television producer and celebrated Aspen luminary Conrad Harvey dies in Florida, the assignment gets dumped into the lap of sardonic beat reporter Bernard "Mac" McCaffrey. Only Harvey himself isn't the story. It's his bombshell daughter, Roxanne, who's been spotted crashing Alcoholics and...

"Mallory and Garth are destined to become icons in the jazz age, historical mystery genre. They are private investigators with flair " -Connie Shelton, USA Today bestselling author A fortune in stolen antiquities, a bag of loose diamonds, and two dead men. It's bitter...

A family's legacy, a mother's anguish, deadly revenge, and bridezilla wannabes are set to rendezvous around the Christmas tree this Yuletide season. Rumor has it a feature film is in the works for the hit period drama series, Castlewood Manor, as the PR plans...

Mystery/SuspenseDEADLYSTROKEA Port City MysteryOn a dark and frigid February morning, an archaeologist drowns while rowing on the Potomac River. Contrary to official reports, his death was no accident, and only one person suspects the horrible truth - but not the terrifying litany of problems...

Penny Weaver and her friends are engaged in a tense political campaign to elect new Commissioners in imaginary Shagbark County, N.C. One of their opponents' campaign managers is killed, and their own leading candidate, African American Rick Clegg, is arrested. Then the campaign turns...

Intrigue and scandal threaten to rock the monarchy in wartime Britain...Windsor, 1943. Britain is in the grip of war and treachery is afoot. The body of controversial former courtier Lord Blackwater is found in the abandoned Fort Belvedere, once the country bolthole of the...

The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the 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 in...

When the body of young man is found in the bayou north of New Orleans with a crossbow arrow in his chest, Gator and his team of Homicide Detectives reluctantly volunteer to take on the investigation. Little do they know that the trail will...

The last twelve stories written about Holmes and Watson, these tales reflect the disillusioned world of the 1920s in which they were written.Author: Sara Lopez, Arthur Conan DoyleISBN-10: 1539180794ISBN-13: 9781539180791Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2016Pages: 224Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.67lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.47d

Thomas Lyne, poseur, poet and owner of Lyne's Emporium insults one of his staff, Odette, causing her to resign. Lyne later summons the detective, Tarling, to investigate his staff... Tarling's investigation soon leads him to the felon Sam Stay and a dead body adorned...

A murder takes place... and it takes place within a locked room two hundred feet above the deadly silver Moon Rock... ...who is guilty of this terrible crime, and equally important - how did they do it? From the Golden Age of Detective Fiction...

The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the 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 in...

When Lord Montbarry dies suddenly in his Venice palace, and his courier goes missing, suspicion is instantly thrown on his new wife, the beautiful Countess Narona, who has collected his life insurance and fled to America. Montbarry's former fiancé Agnes, still harbouring feelings for...

Devil's Swamp holds three hundred years of deadly secrets and the blood of murder victims beneath its murky waters according to legends. What's the connection to psychic LaShaun Rousselle's latest case?Two leaders of the Third Eye Association die under suspicious circumstances, throwing the global...

Squatter's Gold (The Sam White Homeless Mysteries)A crime mystery of murder, gangs and found treasure; A story of colorful homeless campers and their personal struggles; The politics of homelessness and advocates at an interfaith center; protest, justice and redemption.Squatter's Gold is a novel that...

Kirkus Reviews Featured Indie Book. It's a scorching hot day, the kind of day that grows warmer when the gusts come. Lanna Zar is learning to swim at the town pool where she befriends Sam. Meanwhile, her father is flirting with Sam's mother, a...

All three "Buck Taylor/Crime" novels available together in one volume with a bonus short story. A great gift for the lover of crime fiction. Follow Colorado Bureau of Investigation Agent Buck Taylor and his team as they investigate crime in the mountains of Colorado....

Revenge is best served BOLD.When Beverly Laborde becomes a con artist to exact vengeance on the man who shut down her grandmother's antiques business and sent her to an early grave, she comes face to face with the handsome but haunted Vermont police detective,...

The citizens of Gallen are increasingly anxious due to the presence of a serial murderer, nicknamed the Cascade Killer, who has been preying on female students at Grover University. Professor Gus Villard of the Criminal Justice Department is asked to consult with the police...