Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

Sherlock Holmes has spoken little on the events following his fall and 'death' at the Reichenbach falls, his miraculous return has always been shrouded deep in mystery .Only the scantest of details has ever been told even to his closest friend Doctor Watson. That...

It was an incredible year, the start of a new century. Queen Victoria was still on the throne, the Paris Exposition was the talk of Europe and Count Zeppelin was conquering the air. The Tsar had completed the Trans-Siberian Railway, the Boxer Rebellion surged...

In the year 1933 an elderly Dr John Watson is looking back over his life and his time spent with his brilliant friend and master of deduction Sherlock Holmes. He writes in a letter to the reader that he has assembled a list of...

Chef Bear Valets has just opened his own restaurant, La Fontaine, in Aix-en-Provence. It's an immediate success -- glowing reviews and a loyal clientele, including our favorite investigative duo, Verlaque and Bonnet. But when he decides to extend his restaurant's seating into a historic...

A King... A beautiful woman... A photograph ripe for blackmail... Sherlock Holmes has a unique situation to handle. And he finds his adversary to be a most remarkable woman Dr. Watson, ever by the indomitable detective's side, puts himself at risk of arrest for...

"Rosenfelt knocks it out of the park with this fiendishly twisty serial killer thriller." - Publishers Weekly, starred review The next exciting installment in bestselling David Rosenfelt's Doug Brock series. Doug Brock hasn't had it easy since his getting shot in the line of...

To those on the outside, Weycombe is perfect. For those on the inside, the cost of perfection is deadly. Living in the gated, wealthy village of Weycombe with her titled English husband is a fantasy come true for American Jillian White. But the murder...

"A lighthearted, pleasantly entertaining read for fans of the British cozy." --Emily Melton, BooklistAuthor: Margot ArnoldISBN-10: 0881503347ISBN-13: 9780881503340Publisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/1995Pages: 238Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 7.00h x 4.27w x 0.76d

"George explores her characters' dreams and fears with a penetrating grace that makes reading her books a joy." --Washington Post Book World "Elizabeth George reigns as queen of the mystery genre. The Lynley books constitute the smartest, most gratifyingly complex and impassioned mystery series...

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners.Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully adapted versions are shorter...

Hercule Poirot is travelling from France to England by plane. During the journey one of his fellow passengers is murdered - but which of the 12 people on the plane is guilty of the crime? What motive could they have for murdering an elderly...

The girl shivers in the boat, trying to hold back her sobs as the man silently rows them towards the lighthouse under a dark sky. She thinks desperately of her big sister, how they'd laughed just a few hours before as they rode the...

The previous diaries of Arthur Conan Doyle tell of the shadowy real life Sherlock Holmes, a medical school dropout. While in the laboratory of Dr. Joseph Bell, a brilliant Edinburgh surgeon, Holmes learned anatomy, surgery, observation and deduction. These skills and his ability to...

It's true that Denton and Henry James are both American writers now living in London, but they have little else in common: James has the gravitas (and perhaps the pomposity) of a living legend, master of the literary kingdom, while Denton...well, he's scruffy and...

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...

Private investigator, Delanie Fitzgerald, and her computer hacker partner, Duncan Reynolds, are back for more sleuthing in Glitter, Glam and Contraband. In this fast-paced mystery, the Falcon Investigations team is hired to find out who is stealing from the talent at a local drag...

All's not entirely fair out on the North Yorkshire moors . . .Constable Nick has attended many a village fair in his time. From horse fairs to game fairs, it's all in a day's work for Aidensfield's favourite bobby.Who else would be there to...

Some liaisons are deadlier than others . . .After a long day of meetings, Arnold heads back to his hotel room. That's when he hears it.A ragged scream coming from Room 307.Arnold races to the door to find his boss, Simon Brent-Ellis, in bed...

How can a man drown in a hot air balloon? Can a boxcar disappear off a moving train, and is it possible for flying horses on a merry-go-round to fly away? These are just some of the impossible crimes Detective Heinz Noonan, the Bearded...

'Although seven clowns started the evening alive, only six still breathed by the evening's end. And while everyone saw the murderer and knew the murderer, no one knew their name.' Henry House, an Elizabethan manor, is now occupied by Mind Gains, a new therapy...

"Blade-sharp, whip-smart, and genuinely original -- a thriller to refresh your faith in the genre, your belief that a story can still outpace and outsmart you."-- A. J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in The Window"Clever and surprising...The superb...

William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic fiction read by some of the world's most renowned voices. Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly remastered stories are now available to download for the first...

Reprinted for the first time in almost 90 years, this original novelisation of the very first Agatha Christie film is a unique record of the Queen of Crime's movie debut and a bold attempt to turn one of her favourite short stories into a...

A brand new collection of short stories featuring the Queen of Mystery's legendary detective Jane Marple, penned by twelve remarkable bestselling and acclaimed authors.This collection of twelve original short stories, all featuring Jane Marple, will introduce the character to a whole new generation. Each...

A brand new collection of short stories featuring the Queen of Mystery's legendary detective Jane Marple, penned by twelve remarkable bestselling and acclaimed authors.This collection of twelve original short stories, all featuring Jane Marple, will introduce the character to a whole new generation. Each...

A SEAT AT THE TABLE sizzles with scandal and mystery. The story immediately grabs the reader's attention, thrusting them into a catastrophic fiery downtown blaze heightened by the discovery of a body. Identification of the victim opens an array of suspects and inspires a...

A SEAT AT THE TABLE sizzles with scandal and mystery. The story immediately grabs the reader's attention, thrusting them into a catastrophic fiery downtown blaze heightened by the discovery of a body. Identification of the victim opens an array of suspects and inspires a...

When a party thrown by the reclusive Lord Unsworth is marred by murder, his loyal secretary, Mr. Quayle, must unravel a web of red-herrings and old family secrets in this "English country house mystery infused with humor, verve, and plenty of surprises." (Kirkus Reviews)"I...

L.A.'s mean streets-filled with vulnerable children. Some are stolen.Los Angeles Police Officers, Amber and Roy Buckner, want to end their marriage amicably, while diminishing the fallout of the split for their three-year-old son, Gage. But those plans get placed on hold and their lives...

Kate Chambers knows that cold cases are almost always a lost cause.So when two skeletons are discovered in Pittsburgh and Kate believes that she has insider information about the crime, she joins Chief Detective Stefan Jablonsky in his investigation. She's determined to find justice...

Pastor Matt Hayden is asked to deliver the Texas Inaugural Ceremony's benediction after the scheduled speaker, Reverend Duff, disappears. Though happy to do a favor for his friend, the new governor, Matt soon discovers that a simple prayer can ignite a world of hate.Being...

"One of the best of this series . . . Lively and well-plotted." --The New York Times Book Review The spiritualist movement has captivated a segment of Victorian London: manifestations, the occult, and "sensitives" are in vogue. When s ance sites become targets for...

In The Lost World, Edward D. Malone, a newspaper reporter for The Daily Gazette, has been assigned to write an article on the irascible Professor George Edward Challenger who has recently returned from South America with unbelievable accounts of prehistoric life on a remote,...

NORTH, the exciting debut novel of award-winning playwright and poet Roy Robbins, has been published by Beach Glass Books. Available in a $22.00 hardcover edition, the critically acclaimed novel begins when Hal Parker, a market research executive delivered into therapy by his divorce, returns...

Murder in the Family: Helen Cauldron Cromer is mistress of the lovely old manor house, Cauldron's Folly, in the hills of Tennessee. With her live her cousin, John Cauldron, a young artist named Rawley who is evaluating the manor's paintings, and three servants. Her...

New York dilettante Philo Vance decides to assist the police in investigating the death of another man-about-town because he finds the psychological aspects of the crime of interest, and feels that they would be beyond the capacities of the police, even those of his...

While at Hyde Park Corner tube station, Anne Beddingfeld sees a man electrocuted after apparently losing his balance and falling onto the rails. A man in a brown suit examines the lifeless body and makes a hasty exit, inadvertently leaving behind a cryptic note....

When he acts in the name of God, his victims' faith could be their demise.When a young woman is found dead on her bed, dressed in an old-fashioned nightgown with her hands clasped in a prayer position, Detective Kate Murphy is called to investigate...

'He hadn't seen her arrive. She had stopped on the pavement a few steps away from him and was peering into the courtyard of the Police Judiciaire, where the small staff cars were parked.'She ventured as far as the entrance, looked the officer up...

Dr Belasco is Scotland Yard's top target and the Temples go incognito to meet Belasco's right-hand man Ross Hunter on the Harwich boat train but circumstances overtake them and Temple is faced with the murder of a private detective, cigarette lighters with a distinctive...

Librarian Tru Beckett, ardent defender of the printed word, is about to find out that keeping murder checked out of her beloved library is much harder than she thought.... Tru Beckett succeeded in building a secret book room in her now bookless library, where...

The Mysterious Affair at Styles is a detective novel by Agatha Christie. It was written in 1916 and was first published. Styles was Christie's first published novel, introducing Hercule Poirot, Inspector (later, Chief Inspector) Japp, and Lieutenant Hastings (later, Captain). The story is told...

Don't miss this page-turner for the mystery lover*NATIONAL BESTSELLER*Booker Prize winner John Banville returns with a dark and evocative new mystery set on the Spanish coastDon't disturb the dead...On the idyllic coast of San Sebastian, Spain, Dublin pathologist Quirke is struggling to relax, despite...

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...

Two cold cases are about to turn red hot...Detective Jack Rutherford's instincts have only sharpened with age. So when a violent road fatality reminds him of a near-identical crime from 15 years earlier, he digs up the past to investigate both. But with one...

"Find Me " Those are the words on the note crumpled in Laney Donohue's disabled sister's hand. All Laney knows is that the young nurse aid who wrote them was taken by a man, and no one stopped him. Laney owes this young woman....

"It's tempting to say that Agatha Christie is a genius and let it go at that, but the world's had plenty of geniuses. Agatha Christie is something special."--Lawrence Block, New York Times bestselling authorIn this official and fully restored edition, Hercule Poirot solves his...

Seattle investigator J. P. Beaumont is drawn into an intriguing, and shockingly personal, case in this superb tale of suspense from New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance.Former Seattle homicide cop, J. P. Beaumont, is learning to enjoy the new realities of retirementdoing...

In this exclusive authorized edition from the Queen of Mystery, Poirot finds himself entangled in a nasty web of family secrets when he comes across a fresh murder at an English country manor.A far-from-warm welcome greets Hercule Poirot as he arrives for lunch at...

SHE PLANNED HER OWN FUNERAL. BUT DID SHE ARRANGE HER OWN MURDER?New York Times bestselling author of Magpie Murders and Moriarty, Anthony Horowitz has yet again brilliantly reinvented the classic crime novel, this time writing a fictional version of himself as the Watson to...