Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

"I can look into your soul. D'you know what I see...? ... I see your soul." -- John Masefield, "The Tragedy of Nan." Kidnapping. Intrigue. A man with extraordinary abilities... A classic mystery from one of the foremost English novelists of the early 20th...

Author: Rod CollinsISBN-13: 9798990136441Publisher: Bright Works PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/07/2025Pages: 216Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.56lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.49d

Murder cloaked in rhyme and terror grips New York in The Bishop Murder Case, the fourth thrilling entry in S. S. Van Dine's legendary Philo Vance Mystery series. A fiendish killer is on the loose-one who leaves behind cryptic nursery rhymes at the scenes...

Following a successful afternoon at Beverley races, Jack and Cam, a pair of Malton-based apprentice jockeys, head out for a night in Scarborough, returning to their digs confused and unable to recall their evening. So, nothing strange there! But within days, one has uncharacteristically...

A Regency-era opera house sees more than its share of drama when its imposing patron is murdered.Louisa-Margaretta Haddington, back from Russia, is eager to find a theatre for her future husband's operatic debut. But a visitor from her past, Mr Fortescue, threatens both her...

A young man investigating his father's crimes is determined to uncover the truth in a gripping novel of suspense about family secrets, betrayal, and the weight of the past.What do I remember about the murder on the lake?Charlie Kilgore was too young to remember...

Silberpfeil wird als das schnellste Pferd Englands angesehen. Kurz vor seinem nächsten Rennen wird John Straker, der Trainer des Tieres, ermordet aufgefunden. Sein wei es Pferd ist verschwunden. Bei ihren Ermittlungen treffen Holmes und Watson auf Strakers Widersacher Silas Brown, der sich mit einem...

London, 1878. One April morning, a small boat bearing a young woman's corpse floats down the murky waters of the Thames. When the victim is identified as Rose Albert, daughter of a prominent judge, the Scotland Yard director gives the case to Michael Corravan,...

September 1878. One night, as the pleasure boat The Princess Alice makes her daily trip up the Thames, she collides with the Bywell Castle, a huge iron-hulled collier. The Princess Alice shears apart, throwing all 600 passengers into the river; only 130 survive. It...

Victorian England's best-selling woman novelist Mary Elizabeth Braddon still captivates readers with this chilling story of murder, betrayal, and friendship. Hailed as the first detective novel, The Trail of the Serpent is enjoying a much deserved revival. The Trail of the Serpent is both...

A friendly game of poker leads three detectives and a lawyer to tell some tall tales about a case. Murder, mayhem, and a missing toaster are all on the menu. Are they playing liar's poker, or merely bluffing? Three novellas come to light, that...

Has arch-villain Imperius Drake returned from the dead? Not likely but that's what someone wants Octavius to believe, leaving tantalizing clues to that effect. Is history being replayed? Why? And what bizarre plot is UUI's Chief Technical Officer cooking up over at the Deep...

Many think that Formula One is the apogee of motor racing, although a lot of NASCAR fans and drivers might disagree. The selection of the Cedar Grove Raceway as host track for this year's event was a feather in the cap of car racing...

For two detectives who hardly have two nickels to rub together, a call from one of the world's richest men is not an everyday event. An insignificant piece of art by a recently deceased artist seemingly vanished from a billionaire's personal collection, and he...

Nate Riegert had a lot going for him: good looks, a promising arm, unreal stats on the football field, and a potential shot at playing quarterback in the NFL. And then someone crushed his skull with an iron plate in the weight room at...

Notion Press proudly brings to you timeless classics from ancient texts to popular modern classics. This carefully chosen collection of books is a celebration of literature, our tribute to the pioneers, the legends and the giants of the literary world. Apart from being the...

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...

A CLASSIC WHODUNIT!!! IF YOU ARE A FAN OF TRADITIONAL DETECTIVE NOVELS, THEN THIS IS A MUST FOR YOU!!! When Zuri Dinshaw's body was found floating in a swimming pool of a secluded farmhouse, the police team reported it as an accident but Inspector...

Carly Ruth Laden marries Dorian Shiffer, the man of her dreams. A man any woman would say yes to. A man, Carly believed was her Knight in Shining Armor. A man she trusted. After discovering Dorian's secret, Carly vanishes without a trace. No one...

What if you saw something? Something heinous. Something the police have no clue about, but should? Kyra knows she's seen the killer. Actually seen him walking around the Slip Mire before and after his kills. She needs to get her information to the cops....

Who Murdered My Sister?Missing Sweethearts Found in LakeWhen her sister disappears on graduation night, a small-town café owner gives up hope after twenty years. Then picnickers at Carriage Lake find two bodies inside an abandoned car.Cyber-forensic expert Minerva and Deputy Marshal Michael identify the...

Step back in time with Agatha Christie's "The Murder on the Links," a classic detective fiction novel featuring the iconic Hercule Poirot. When a frantic plea for help arrives from France, Poirot and his companion Hastings find themselves embroiled in a perplexing murder case....

When a struggling author with a secret government past is hired by a wealthy philanthropist to investigate a cold murder case, he has no choice but to expose the dark and buried secrets of a powerful political family in Chicago.Sebastian Drake is a novelist...

The Colonel turns reluctant sleuth once more when tragedy strikes at a Christmas party, in Margaret Mayhew's latest atmospheric village mystery Frog End, that most quintessential of English villages, is preparing for its annual Christmas pantomime. This year, it's Hans Christian Andersen's dark fairytale...

Author: Arthur Conan DoyleISBN-10: 0140439072ISBN-13: 9780140439076Publisher: Penguin ClassicsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2001Pages: 160Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.29lbsSize: 7.73h x 5.06w x 0.39d

Move Over Miss Marple . . . The great and the not-so-good are gathered at Skirivour Castle Hotel, in the heart of the Highlands, for the wedding of the year - but they weren't expecting Detective Sergeant Roberta Steel to crash their party. And...

This classic detective novel presents one of the earliest examples of the locked-room mystery. When a young woman is attacked inside her locked bedroom, the case seems impossible to solve. Enter the clever and determined Joseph Rouletabille, a journalist who must unravel the truth...

A New York Times Bestselling AuthorA Cat in the Stacks Mystery (Book 17)Charlie Harris and his wife, Helen Louise Brady, have arrived in Ireland for their honeymoon. After a few days in Dublin, they head to County Clare, ancestral home to Helen Louise's extended...

The fire was just the beginning.When a grand department store in Brussels goes up in flames, the body of the night watchman is found among the ashes. It looks like a tragic accident-until Chief Inspector Holt starts digging.The deeper he investigates, the stranger things...

When Victoria Justice discovers a coworker on the phone with a mad bomber, she doesn't think twice about springing into action to diffuse the situation. After all, her work as a court reporter in the Superior Courthouse places her at the heart of all...

Holland Taylor returns in Girl in a Dumpster, the sixth book in David Housewright's Edgar Award-winning hardboiled detective series.Party girl Henrietta Weller wakes up one morning in a dumpster behind a bar in Minneapolis' notorious north side with no memory of how she got...

A deceased father of four, beheaded on a village green. A world-renowned game that starts a generational change. Can DI Emmett Grump roll the dice and find the long-forgotten killer amidst the geek millionaires?When a die turns up as a missing piece of evidence...

On the wild and windswept coast of Brittany lies a place wrapped in storm clouds, sea mist, and dreadful superstition-the mysterious Isle of Sarek. Known to fishermen and villagers as the Island of the Thirty Coffins, it has long been feared as a cursed...

You may think you know Sherlock Holmes. Chances are, you have heard many stories of his exploits. But there is one story you do not know... one case his associate John Watson did not turn into a sensational tabloid tale. Because some tales are...

A murder in a luxury Paris hotel sets off one of Arsène Lupin's most dangerous adventures. When wealthy magnate Rudolf Kesselbach is found dead under mysterious circumstances, suspicion falls on the legendary gentleman-thief himself. Yet the crime is only the surface of a much...

Foggy streets. A string of shocking crimes. A detective who sees what others overlook.The Murders in Praed Street is one of the most celebrated Golden Age detective novels by John Rhode-the pen name of prolific mystery writer Cecil Street. Featuring his brilliant and unflappable...

Arsène Lupin is no ordinary thief. Brilliant, elusive, and infinitely charming, he is a master of disguise, a gentleman burglar, and a detective with a code of honor all his own. In The Confessions of Arsène Lupin, Maurice Leblanc reveals the deeper mysteries behind...

Author: Anthony HorowitzISBN-10: 0063305747ISBN-13: 9780063305748Publisher: HarperLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/28/2026Pages: 608Format: Hardcover

A shocking murder at a grand country house shatters the tranquility of an elegant weekend gathering. When a famous explorer is found dead in a bathtub, the case draws the attention of Mrs. Beatrice Adela Lestrange Bradley, an unconventional detective with a razor-sharp mind...

High-ranking members of England's socialist movement suspect that Karl Marx's daughter "Tussy" may be in danger, but can give Holmes no reason as to what kind of danger, or why. Weeks later, Tussy is found dead, an apparent suicide. But why would she bother...

Author: Sarah Stewart TaylorISBN-10: 1250370752ISBN-13: 9781250370754Publisher: Minotaur BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/23/2026Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 8.25h x 5.38w x 1.00d

Dr. Watson is called upon to attend the execution of a man convicted of murder. Eighteen months after the ordeal, the murder victim is found on a London dock, actually murdered. If this becomes known, the public's faith in the police, the justice system,...

Delve into the intricate world of Victorian England with Mary Elizabeth Braddon's enthralling novel, "Sir Jasper's Tenant." This compelling story, set against a backdrop of social intrigue and hidden secrets, follows the intertwined lives of those connected to the enigmatic Sir Jasper. As mysteries...

There's a double murder in a Florida eldercare facility called the Green House. A national project creating small communities of 7-10 elders. Twenty-five-years-ago one of the victims won a National Book Award for his investigative book about the Isabella Stewart Gardner robbery in Boston:...

Agatha Christie's debut novel was the first to feature Hercule Poirot, her famously eccentric Belgian detective. The Mysterious Affair at Styles is a detective novel by Agatha Christie. It was written in the middle of the First World War, in 1916. Styles was Christie's...

Nine amazing novels featuring Inspectors Lestrade, Bradstreet, Gregson, and Hopkins, along with Our Heroes, Sherlock Holmes and Doctor WatsonIn 2008, Marcia Wilson began simultaneously writing a number of novels and short stories relating the stories of the Scotland Yard Inspectors who worked closely with...

When the curtain falls, the story begins...Nick Fox, a retired sheriff's department lieutenant, is trying to get his act together after nearly being blown up in a targeted explosion that cost him the loss of part of his leg and a kidney, resulting in...

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (September 9, 1828 - November 20, 1910) was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are...

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Cameron Winter is falling in love. After finally working up the courage to contact the attractive therapist Gwendolyn Lord, he finds himself immersed in a passion that feels heaven-sent. When Gwendolyn tells him about a true-life "locked room mystery," Winter feels compelled to investigate....