Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

We are in Victorian London, with its gaslight and fog, not long after the Jack the Ripper Murders. A mysterious cloaked figure wearing a hideous, leprous mask and sleigh-bells is stalking the countryside outside the capital, committing murder wherever it goes, yet leaving no...

What was the link between the murder of a senior civil servant in the UK government, a small time drug pusher and addict and an unsolved cold case murder committed three years earlier? What was it that turned a loving husband into a brutal...

When DNA evidence links a present-day murder to the disappearance of a young boy four years earlier, detectives Anderson & Costello are plunged into a baffling mystery. It's been four years since four-year-old Johnny Clearwater disappeared without trace one hot summer afternoon. Now, a...

When the decomposed remains of a young woman are discovered just outside Birmingham, criminologist Will Traynor is drawn into a baffling investigation."Plenty of unexpected twists sure to set pulses racing, leading to a shock ending guaranteed to blindside even the most experienced thriller reader"...

Jack and Betty Haldean's weekend in the country is disrupted by sudden, violent death in this intricately-plotted 1920s mystery."The surprising revelations just keep coming. This is a real treat for those who enjoy Agatha Christie village murders" - Publishers Weekly Starred Review"There's something in...

Donald Langham and Maria Dupr� must navigate a rocky road to find a killer when a body is found next to a standing stone.Newlyweds Donald Langham and Maria Dupr� have moved to the country. They're excited about starting a new life in the picturesque...

The search for a missing artist draws Donald Langham and Ralph Ryland into London's criminal underworld, with deadly consequences. London. April, 1957. Private investigator Donald Langham is approached by retired businessman Vernon Lombard to find his missing son, Christopher. But what appears to be...

Power, money, murder . . . Investigating a seemingly accidental death leads DCI Bill Slider and his team down a dark path in this gripping British police procedural. The woman lies dead at the foot of the stairs. It's obvious what happened: she tripped...

When the decomposed remains of a young woman are discovered just outside Birmingham, criminologist Will Traynor is drawn into a baffling investigation."Plenty of unexpected twists sure to set pulses racing, leading to a shock ending guaranteed to blindside even the most experienced thriller reader"...

The first in a brand-new WWII historical mystery series introduces WPC Billie Harkness - a female police officer who risks her life to protect the home front in the British coastal city of Hull. 1940. Britain is at war. Rector's daughter Wilhelmina Harkness longs...

Miss Bridge takes us to Portugal; not only the well-known world of Estoril and the Embassies, but behind the scenes, into the life lived on country estates by the Portuguese themselves. Both aspects are seen through the fresh eyes of a young Hungarian girl...

This unique collection of Sherlock Holmes stories features the master detective in three fascinating cryptographic mysteries. Join the legendary detective, Sherlock Holmes, as he solves some of the most challenging code-breaking cases in this thrilling collection of three stories. From deciphering ancient rituals to...

"The Moonstone" was originally published in 1868 by William Wilkie Collins. A 19th-century British epistolary novel, it is generally considered to be the first detective novel, and also established many of the ground rules of the modern detective novel. The story follows the theft...

This is the Fourth Little Wychwell Mystery in the series and follows Did Anyone Die?, A Very Quiet Guest and All that Glisters is not Silver. Priscilla has once again been persuaded to stay at The Old Vicarage in Little Wychwell while Elodea and...

The French De Ception A Moriston House Murder Mystery By Jennifer A. GirardinCrime is merely a hedgerow away in the sleepy English village of Halfereton, pleasingly nestled among gently rolling hills, cozy old world cottages, and the latest unsolved mystery.As England's avid crime host,...

Gary Lovisi presents a new Sherlock Holmes adventure set in the magical land of Oz, as Holmes and Watson take on their most fantastic case-the Red Poppy Menace! Sure to delight all fans of both Sherlock Holmes and Oz, this edition is profusely illustrated...

The Malice Domestic anthology series returns with a new take on mysteries in the Agatha Christie tradition -- 30 original tales set around the world Included are: The Barrister's Clerk, by Michael Robertson The Belle Hope, by Peter DiChellis Arroyo, by Michael Bracken Muskeg...

Slowly I turned to face the hall and the doorway. I waited in an agony of suspense. The great house was as silent as an empty grave, with the pulse of time beating eternally against it: tick, tock; tick, tock; tick, tock...Gradually I relaxed...

In five short stories and one long novelette, Rufus King introduces Colin Starr, a young physician whose medical knowledge enables him to detect murder where a less able doctor would have signed a certificate of death from natural causes. Because of his shrewd understanding...

"Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine" returns with issue #16, presenting the best in modern and classic mystery fiction Included this time are the usual column by Dr John H. Watson, plus the following works: The Ironic Story of The Stevenson - Doyle Letters by Gary...

Sherlock Holmes summons his old friend, Dr. Watson, to work with him again on what starts out as a rather mundane investigation. But it is not long before the mystery grows more complex expanding to international proportions. It also attracts the attention of Sherlock...

Author: S. S. Van DineISBN-10: 1473305969ISBN-13: 9781473305960Publisher: Moran PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/14/2013Pages: 386Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.08lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.86d

"The North-West Frontier, 1910. The screams of a wounded British officer abandoned at the bottom of a dark ravine are heard by a young Scottish subaltern. Ignoring the command to retreat back to base the Highlander sets out alone, with dagger in hand, to...

Author: Graham IsonISBN-10: 1471920887ISBN-13: 9781471920882Publisher: Murder RoomLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/07/2022Pages: 208Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 7.70h x 5.10w x 0.80d

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

Irene Adler is the beautiful opera singer who bested the best detective in the world, the only woman to ever outwit Sherlock Holmes. She has spent years in self-imposed exile in Europe, in an attempt to reinvent herself and create a new life, because...

On a mission to the East End to retrieve his wayward nephew, Dr. Watson not only meets Sherlock Holmes in Disguise but together both find themselves in a murder scene and in the midst of the terrible Dreyfus Affair that is tearing France apart....

The Mysterious Affair at Styles, a detective novel by Agatha Christie, written in the middle of World War I.Styles was Christie's first published novel, introducing Hercule Poirot, Inspector Japp, and Arthur Hastings. Poirot, a Belgian refugee of the Great War, is settling in England...

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - IT was 2 p.m. on the afternoon of May 7, 1915. The Lusitania had been struck by two torpedoes...

The Mysterious Affair At Styles is a classic detective novel written by Agatha Christie. The story is set in the early 20th century in the English countryside, and revolves around the mysterious death of wealthy heiress Emily Inglethorp. The novel follows the investigation led...

Reviewers said: "Five stars! Delightfully entertaining, rich characters, suspenseful, charming all in one; anxiously awaiting the next one!" "a fascinating tale set in England in the 1930s. This 'cosy crime' novel, with its measure of burgeoning romance, is a good read; something to entertain...

The riveting adventure classic by John Buchan pairs elements of espionage mystery with a thrilling and fast-paced narrative. Published in 1915 as public interest in espionage and spy adventures grew, The Thirty Nine Steps brought the fast-paced adventures of Richard Hannay to an eager...

Richard Hannay arrives in London on the eve of World War I, where he meets an American agent seeking help in stopping a political assassination. Before long, Hannay finds himself in possession of a little black book that holds the key to the conspiracy...

When Jack Thorne was given the assignment to protect a corporate whistleblower in the wealthy town of Westport, Connecticut, he is thrown into a passionate romance that would result in a daring escape with a fatal end. Thorne loses the will to remain in...

Murder, Mystery, and MagicMandamon Feldo is scheduled to meet a high-profile diplomat to present his newest invention, but instead finds the diplomat dead in a pool of blood on the floor of his office. Even worse, the diplomat had been holding a list of...

Shot to death in his home, Morgan Tutwiler leaves behind a multimillion-dollar business and a daughter who hasn't spoken to him in years. And she isn't alone in wanting him dead. Plenty of people wanted the most hated man in Denver dead in P....

Young attorney, Zana West, is assigned the perfect case for a triathlete--a lawsuit filed by Brad Jordan, a man who claims he was paralyzed during the Honolulu Olympic triathlon trials. As an added bonus, Zana's television crush, Jerry Hirano, the star of "Fighting in...

Mirabella Hudson soon learns that the Great Detective has more in store for her than washing jars and labeling specimens: pistol shooting, fencing, boxing, and Jiu-Jitsu. This she can master, but Mirabella must face the greatest horror of all: Miss de Beauvais' Finishing School...

Lee's Uncle T o is smitten with the guest chef at a Silicon Valley culinary arts institute. When the woman is arrested for the murder of a fellow chef, a reluctant Lee agrees to help prove T o's lady love innocent. But Lee suspects...

A fortune in drugs is missing. Finding them starts with finding her. Colin isn't a cop. Joe is, but isn't up for this. Mamadou was an excellent police officer back in Senegal, but in Washington DC he drives a limo. Josie's just a girl--a...

"The plot becomes more unnerving as it progresses, and an impressive twist leads to a lengthy final act featuring Rosica at her most ferocious...Cory's concise prose establishes a consistent pace that never wavers, and even her descriptions of architecture are exhilarating." The KIRKUS REVIEWThis...

Accused of murdering his wife, bank executive Josh Stephens hires ace defense attorney Adam Drake. With the help of Macy Merit and Spencer Rawlings, it's a race against time and the judicial system, as Macy, Spence, and Drake navigate their way through a maze...

THE KILL CALL is the 9th novel in the multiple award-winning Cooper & Fry crime series, set in England's beautiful and atmospheric Peak District On a rain-swept Derbyshire moor, hounds from the local foxhunt find the body of a well-dressed man whose head has...

Sherlock Holmes joins forces with his faithful companion Dr Watson in a new adventure story, set in 1911 in a fog-bound London. The story offers an alternative explanation about the fate of the RMS Titanic and is based partly on fiction and on fact...

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...

Chesterton portrays Father Brown as a short, stumpy Roman Catholic priest, with shapeless clothes and a large umbrella, and an uncanny insight into human evil. "How in Tartarus," cried Flambeau, "did you ever hear of the spiked bracelet?" -- "Oh, one's little flock, you...

Hannah, her sisters and fourteen-year-old niece Julie set sail from Baltimore on a bonding cruise, and have a dramatic first night when Pia Fanucci, a bubbly bartender magician's assistant whom Hannah befriends, narrowly escapes injury during an illusion. But while Pia may make light...

When a student is found murdered in her room, the police soon recognize the similarities to an unsolved crime committed fifteen years before. A crime investigated by the now discredited DI Joe Jackson, Naomi Blake's one-time mentor. It seems Jackson had a perpetrator in...

When three bodies are unearthed in the front yard of a cottage, DCI Henry Johnstone is summoned. Two victims are identified, but who is the third? Johnstone's use of modern methods of detection soon ruffles feathers. Frustrated by the unhelpful local police, he fears...

1925. When Lord and Lady Ansley host a fancy dress ball, Chef Nell Drury is in for a busy weekend. What she doesn't expect to encounter is death. A body is discovered in the minstrels' gallery and Nell is caught up in the police...