Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

Million-copy bestselling author Kate Ellis returns with the new mystery in the DI Wesley Peterson crime series. 'A beguiling author who interweaves past and present' THE TIMES November. With the tourist season over in South Devon, Detective Inspector Wesley Peterson is looking forward to...

England, early May, 1926After the funerals of the late Duke of Sutherland and his daughter-in-law, Charlotte, (and of course Grimsby, the blackmailing valet), the younger members of the family-Philippa Darling, her cousins Christopher and Francis, and Crispin, Viscount St George-are invited to a weekend...

LARGE PRINTA cold-blooded killer lurks in the luxurious winter wonderland of St. Moritz . . . Switzerland, 1924. Lady sleuth Olive Belgrave is set to enjoy a holiday of ice-skating and snowshoeing in the glamorous alpine setting of St. Moritz, but her plans are...

Author: Lyndsay Faye, Lindsay FayeISBN-10: 166514677XISBN-13: 9781665146777Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/07/2017Format: CDWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 5.83h x 5.59w x 1.10d

To mark the publishing centenary of Freeman Wills Crofts, 'The King of Detective Story Writers', this is one of six classic crime novels being issued in 2020 featuring Inspector French, coming soon to television.Anne Day is the new housekeeper at Frayle, the home of...

Cold cases cast long shadows'Young girls are going missing in their search for fame and fortune. Ted Darling and his team are on the case.But when little Storm Moonchild disappeared without trace years earlier, the system seemed to forget about her.A chance encounter in...

A serial sex attacker is spreading fear in Stockport and DI Ted Darling and his team are on the case. The man randomly targets young women and abducts them from busy supermarket car parks. He's armed with a knife and is clearly highly trained...

The uniqueness of this book is the essays and activities that include both serious and farcical writings about Arthu Conan Doyle's, Sherlock Holmes. A travelogue that compares Reichenbach Falls and Trummelbach Falls for Professor Moriarty's demise; and notes from a visit to Trinity College...

In appearance Hercule Poirot hardly resembled anancient Greek hero. Yet--reasoned the detective--like Hercules he had been responsible for riddingsociety of some of its most unpleasant monsters.So, in the period leading up to his retirement, Poirotmakes up his mind to accept just twelve more cases:...

The King Arthur Case is the seventh installment of Jean-Luc Bannalec's bestselling mystery series. The forest of Broceliande, with its picturesque lakes and castles, is the last remnant of the fairy kingdom, if Breton lore is to be believed. Innumerable legends spanning thousands of...

A murder mystery in which a lawyer traveling on a train finds himself a prime suspect in a case involving a dead woman and missing jewelry. As he tries to clear his name, he uncovers a tangled web of lies and deceit. Fans of...

Set in rural Vermont in the volatile 1960s, Agony Hill is the first novel in a new historical series full of vivid New England atmosphere and the deeply drawn characters that are Sarah Stewart Taylor's trademark. In the hot summer of 1965, Bostonian Franklin...

This collection of short stories features the detective character Uncle Abner, a self-taught man of keen intellect and unshakable faith in God. Set in rural West Virginia, these tales offer a unique blend of mystery, morality, and regional flavor.This work has been selected by...

Spirited female sleuth Elizabeth Fairchild is drawn into Chicago's growing jazz scene - and murder - in this compelling 1920s mystery. July, 1926. When Elizabeth Fairchild's beau, Fred Wilkins, suggests going to Chicago's Sunset Club to see Louis Armstrong, the world's best trumpeter, in...

When a guest goes missing at an isolated Gothic mansion, bang in the middle of a glamorous birthday party, the MURDER MYSTERY BOOK CLUB abandon their champagne flutes and start searching.What begins as a fun game of hide-and-seek quickly turns into a horror story...

It's New Year's Day. But there's no rest for Detective Markham and the gang.Not when they've found a body down at Beauclair Drive allotments!Headteacher Catherine Leckie loved nothing more than pottering in her shed. This time, someone was there waiting - and left her...

Four dead.One clinging to life.A tragic accident or is someone out to kill?Detective Dove Milson is called out to a gruesome scene under the pier: four bodies floating in a flooded escape room. The chamber is meant to flood with seawater as the tide...

The award-winning Julius Katz mysteries have delighted thousands of mystery fans since first appearing on the pages of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine in 2009, winning a Shamus, Derringer and two Ellery Queen's Readers Awards. 'Julius Katz' introduced readers to Boston's most brilliant, eccentric and...

Boston PI Sunny Randall investigates the dark side of social media in the latest exciting thriller in the bestselling series. Sunny Randall's newest client, Blake, seems to have it all: he is an Instagram influencer, with all the perks the lifestyle entails--a beautiful girlfriend,...

A bookseller finds an old diary containing a condemned man's last words-but can they be trusted? "A compelling book, superbly plotted" (Peter Lovesey, author of The Last Detective). Browsing through a collection of old volumes, a bookseller comes across a diary-contained in it, the...

Whispers of the Silent Shadows," a mysterious disappearance, sets the stage for an intricate web of secrets and enigmas. As detective Sarah Reynolds delves into the case, she discovers a series of cryptic messages, hidden rooms, and long-buried family secrets. The story weaves through...

Immerse yourself in the fog-shrouded streets of Victorian London and the atmospheric charm of 221B Baker Street, which make up the world of Sherlock Holmes. As the legendary detective navigates the criminal underworld, encountering cunning adversaries and perplexing cases, readers are treated to a...

The 19th mystery in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Armand Gamache series. Relentless phone calls interrupt the peace of a warm August morning in Three Pines. Though the tiny Québec village is impossible to find on any map, someone has managed to track down...

A CANINE CRUISE. A STORM OF MURDER. A LABRADOR NAMED RANDOLPH: OVERWEIGHT, OVERLY INTELLIGENT--AND OVERBOARD... For Randolph and his owner, Harry, a struggling artist, it was dog heaven: a pet lovers cruise filled with canine experts and gung-ho trainers--plus plenty of art lectures for...

An "excellent," darkly-told crime novel in the tradition of Tana French and Ian Rankin (Wall Street Journal). Sergeant Alexandra Cupidi is a recent transfer from the London metro police to the rugged Kentish countryside. She's done little to ingratiate herself with her new colleagues,...

The 19th mystery in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Armand Gamache series. Relentless phone calls interrupt the peace of a warm August morning in Three Pines. Though the tiny Québec village is impossible to find on any map, someone has managed to track down...

2024 Reprint of the 1928 Edition. Poirot boards Le Train Bleu [The Blue Train] bound for the French Riviera. So does Katherine Grey, who is having her first winter out of England, after recently receiving a relatively large inheritance. On board the train Grey...

Jake and Scarlett are back!As a former member of the FBI's prestigious Hostage Rescue Team, Jake Shepherd is accustomed to rushing into danger when others are rushing out. His experience and training, combined with his intelligence and intuitive nature, make him a highly respected,...

Every moment of Sir Hugo Fletcher's life has been chronicled in the British press: his privileged upbringing, his high-profile charity work to end human trafficking--even his two marriages. But when the billionaire philanthropist is discovered murdered in his London home, tied naked to a...

A daring and delightful crossover of Sherlock Holmes and his criminal adversity: Ars鈩e Lupin, the Gentleman Burglar. These superb sleuths will solve intricate riddles and journey across France and beyond to uncover the long-lost treasure of the House of Bourbon. Sherlock Holmes and his...

Gold discovered that was taken from an 1880s train robbery in Montana may be the catalyst of three "double murders" in the west. Five years later, three bodies were discovered in each of two different lakes located in the same area. An FBI agent...

SHE WALKED TO THE KLIN ROOM DOOR WITH A GROWING PRICKLINESS ON THE BACK OF HER NECK. A CRY CHOKED SOMEWHERE DEEP INSIDE HER THROAT. SHE RAN OVER THE GIANT KLIM NUMBER 6 WHERE THE LEGS OF MARJORIE MILLER STUCK OUT AND THE HEAVY...

Miss Marple senses danger when she visits a friend living in Stoneygates, a rehabilitation center for delinquents. Her fears are confirmed when someone shoots at the administrator. Although he is not injured, a mysterious visitor is less fortunate--shot dead simultaneously in another part of...

‛Tis the season to be jolly. But unless one detective can find a missing ballerina, it won't be a happy Christmas...Private investigator Alexandra Neve is determined to live up to her newfound fame. Delighted that clients are coming their way, she's barely squeezing in...

Have this ambitious private eye and her blind sidekick just accepted the wrong client?Newbie investigator Alexandra Neve is sick and tired of tracking down cheating spouses. Fearing her business partner won't stick around without something to sink his teeth into, she's excited when an...

She's lost a friend. He's lost his sight. Can this unlikely duo solve an untouchable murder?College student Alexandra Neve never backs down from a challenge. So when her BFF Irina dies of an apparent suicide, she channels her grief into cracking the case police...

Rufus King (1893-1966) was an American author of Whodunit crime novels. He created four series of detective stories: the first one with Reginald De Puyster, a sophisticated detective similar to Philo Vance; the second one with his more famous character, Lieutenant Valcour; Colin Starr,...

Sealed away from public view more than a century at the instruction of their author, Dr John Watson, these three cases of Sherlock Holmes are available here for the first time. Like the earlier volume in this series, each reveals the role Holmes and...

This playful whodunit featuring an Oxford don and a permanently silenced opera singer is "a splendidly intricate and superior locked-room mystery" (The New York Times).When an opera company gathers in Oxford for the first postwar production of Wagner's Die Meistersinger, its happiness is soon...

A village in Cornwall is thrown into turmoil after a young girl falls from a train to her death. Was this an accident? Or murder? The mystery deepens when clues link the girl to a double homicide committed ten years earlier. Braddon's sensational novel...

Ben the tramp, the awkward Cockney with no home and no surname, turns detective again - and runs straight into trouble.Ben encounters a dead man on a London bridge and is promptly rescued from the same fate by a posh lady in a limousine....

BOND MUST PROVE HIS LOYALTY TO MI6 IN A DEADLY DUELBond may have a license to kill, but "Pistols" Scaramanga has a talent for it. He's a KGB-trained assassin who's left a trail of dead British Secret Service agents in his wake. His weapon...

Victims lost after a storm sweeps the moors. A distracting flood of fans and journalists. Is he tracking down a tragic accident or gruesome murder?Harry Grimm views change with a wary eye. But as the usually steadfast boss struggles with upheavals among his team,...

With contributions from Stephen Fry, Mark Gatiss, Douglas Wilmer and many more.1903 saw The Adventure of The Empty House and the return of Sherlock Holmes to 221b Baker Street where he explains the deception of his death at the Reichenbach Falls to his faithful...

A hated outsider. A shocking death. And everyone has a reason for murder...DCI Harry Grimm is settling into the rhythms of Yorkshire. Though he knows the idyllic rural landscape can hide dark deeds, the methodical investigator trusts his colleagues to guard his back. And...

Leaving Tallahassee, Florida, and her dead-end job as a reporter behind her, journalist Mari Ross travels to Roan Mountain in upper East Tennessee to take a Writers Residency. At her side is Rambo, the white German Shepherd she rescued. Together they navigate hairpin curves,...

Bullseye is the debut book of the new whodunit Jesse Quinn Detective Series. A. E. Howe, author of the Larry Macklin Mysteries says that Bullseye is, "A fast paced whodunit with lots of surprises Deputy Jesse Quinn is a welcome new addition for mystery...

When Richard Viner discovers a body on an evening stroll he quickly finds himself "In the Middle of Things." Called upon to prove the innocence of a school chum and protect the interests of the young ward of the murdered man he must not...

For the first time, a very special hardcover edition combining two of the most intricately intertwined Sherlock Holmes adventures.In The Secret Journal of Dr. Watson: it's the height of the Russian Revolution; Holmes and Watson are sent by the British PM, David Lloyd George,...

Please visit www.ArcManor.com for more books by this and other great authors.Author: Gilbert K. ChestertonISBN-10: 1604501731ISBN-13: 9781604501735Publisher: Tark Classic FictionLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/28/2008Pages: 136Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.46lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.32d