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A poisoned plum pudding. A mutilated snowman. Christmas has gone disastrously wrong in Compton Poppleford.Elderly sleuths Churchill and Pemberley are enjoying Christmas dinner with friends when a guest is fatally poisoned. Who's responsible for the deadly dose? And why did they ruin the festive...

When a man dumps a body on a beach in full view of onlookers, the investigation that follows throws up a number of dark twists for DCI Henry Johnstone.January 5, 1930. On a cold, grey winter morning, a mysterious man walks along Bournemouth beach...

An ancient creature of Greek mythology drives a killer's unspeakable motives in a pulse-pounding thriller by the Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Dark of Night.On a stormy Chicago night, renowned semiotician Dr. Evan Wilding and his brother, River, who's back...

A baby and her baby-sitter have disappeared, and the only clue is a note reading "A Mr Vandyke telephoned. He left no message." In seeking to identify Vandyke, Temple must unravel the significance of a doll, the murder of a man impersonating a police...

The Secret Adversary is the second published detective fiction novel by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in 1922. The book introduces the characters of Tommy and Tuppence who feature in three other Christie novels and one collection of short stories; the five Tommy...

When Hercule Poirot and his associate Arthur Hastings arrive in the French village of Merlinville-sur-Mer to meet their client Paul Renauld, they learn from the police that he has been found that morning stabbed in the back with a letter opener and left in...

Young architect Wren Fontaine lands her dream job: restoring Greenleaf House, New York's finest Gilded-Age mansion, to its glory days. But old homes have old secrets: Stephen Greenleaf--heir to what's left of his family's legacy--refuses to reveal what his plans are once the renovation...

What would you do if suddenly you discovered that there was someone out there who killed your father and you were next on that person's hit list?This is the story of Monty, a young man with a promising future whose life is suddenly turned...

An electric, locked-room suspense thriller set in the remote Scottish Highlands, where icy temperatures and a terrible blizzard prevent any ideas of escape--from a brilliant new voice in crime fiction. One bitterly cold February night at the remote MacKinnon Hotel, Remie Yorke begins her...

Sophie Sayers is ready for a glorious summer, but when a dead body is found in the village school's lost property cupboard the summer holidays take an unexpected turn.Even more shocking is when the body goes missing. Without a body, the police refuse to...

Author: Peter LoveseyISBN-10: 1641295287ISBN-13: 9781641295284Publisher: Soho CrimeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/14/2023Pages: 312Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.90d

There are strangers in Embervale, but not everyone is pleased to see them.A conflict is brewing, and Dan senses that there's more to this animosity than meets the eye.Before long, there'll be a victim.Dan digs deeper and finds himself drawn into a web of...

The orphaned niece and nephew had been under the care of Rachel Innes, a spinster, since they were little. Rachel is persuaded to rent a summer home in the country by her siblings Halsey and Gertrude, who are now 20 and 24, respectively. Thomas,...

Now that Henry's on his own, it's not just his PI business that's falling apart...After a trip to the West Coast of Florida to visit his parents, he's not exactly sure what he's supposed to do next. With his partner, Alex, now gone, he's...

A weathered Cornish sailor has come to 221B Baker Street to see Sherlock Holmes. He shares a tale so haunting and otherworldly that it seems to offer only one possible explanation, a supernatural one. William Berryman of the coal ship Mariah went to sea...

Herbert Stover was best known for his full-length historical novels full of action and historic figures, always with a twist of romance. However, before he sold his first novel to a New York publishing house after World War II, Stover struggled as an upstart...

The Secret Adversary is the second published detective fiction novel by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in January 1922. The book introduces the characters of Tommy and Tuppence who feature in three other Christie novels and one collection of short stories; the five...

"... and what a motive! Murder to save one's artistic soul... who'd believe that?"Behind the stage lights and word-perfect soliloquies, sinister secrets are lurking in the wings. The mysteries in this collection reveal the dark side to theatre and performing arts: a world of...

Clouds of Witness is a 1926 mystery novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, the second in her series featuring Lord Peter Wimsey. In the United States the novel was first published in 1927 under the title Clouds of Witnesses.The book's title derives from Hebrews, Chapter...

" Shields and Guilds is a murder mystery/ fantasy. The story revolves around Shamus the talking raccoon; who witnesses a king collapse. He has no recollection of the event and is losing his memories. Those around him who are helping him solve the mystery...

Wilfrid Stirling asks Paul Temple to investigate the murer of his daughter, for which her boyfriend Howard Gilbert has already been convicted and sentenced to hang. As Temple races against time there are more murders, but why has a shoe been taken from each...

In 1870 London, the body of a postal clerk is found inside a pneumatic railway car, and surgeon Samson Light has been accused. Tommy Jones must abandon his many jobs to pursue the witness who can exonerate his former tutor. Inspector Morgan of St...

Mountain Rails of Old, third book in the Family History Mystery Series.Digger's mountain hides some aspects of its past. Rumor says it hosted a stop on the Underground Railroad, and it boasts remains of the first schoolhouse west of Cumberland. She never paid much...

Four years after losing her sister Stella, Grace McElroy has begun to heal. She no longer spends her days overcome with grief and guilt. But the appearance of a woman who looks just like Stella makes her doubt her sanity.Even more terrifying, she learns...

Sherlock Holmes examines the body of a murdered scrubwoman that lies on the floor of the South Kensington Museum of Art. But it is not a real corpse he looks at, for those remains have been removed by the coroner. The body Holmes studies...

Hercule Poirot finds himself embroiled in a world of international intrigue and espionage as he investigates a series of mysteries involving the shadowy organization known as the Big Four. These powerful international villains with worldwide reach are engaged in a variety of illicit activities...

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes first appeared as a series of short stories in The Strand magazine from July 1891 to June 1892. The iconic, masterful, incandescent Sherlock Holmes and his loyal accomplice Dr. Watson gained instant popularity and their appeal has never ceased....

The arrest of his brother, Gerald the Duke of Denver, for murder plunges Lord Peter Wimsey into a treacherous world where nothing is as it seems. Every new clue only compounds the mystery. When Captain Denis Cathcart, fiancé to Lord Peter Wimsey's sister, Lady...

In all of Commissaire Georges Dupin's time living in Brittany, there has never been a murder on his home turf, until now, in Jean-Luc Bannalec's The Body by the Sea. A town on the sea, Concarneau's nickname is Ville Bleue, or the Blue Town....

"Super-fun." -The Boston Globe A Lefty Nominee for Best Mystery NovelAn Agatha Nominee for Best Contemporary Mystery Novel One murder. Four impossibilities. A fake s饌nce hides a very real crime. Secret Staircase Construction just finished their first project with Tempest Raj officially a part...

Malcolm Findley was a strange little man with a large, pale, half-bald dome of a bulbous head, a trailing mane of silver-white hair, and a pair of Belgian-made golden pince-nez eyeglasses. He was also brilliant and this aspect of his personality so overshadowed the...

A plain envelope addressed to Mr. Sherlock Holmes has been delivered to 221B Baker Street. The stock is cheap and could have been purchased at any general shop. The hand, however, is rare for its graceful sweep and regularity. "A true technician," Holmes notes....

A model town at war with itself . . . George Pullman created an ideal community for his railroad car workers, complete with every amenity they could want or need. But when hard economic times hit in 1894, lay-offs follow and the workers can...

When Miss Violet Montgomery, daughter of late Hatton Garden Jeweller Harry Montgomery, writes to Sherlock Holmes asking for his help in solving a theft from her family home, the famous detective takes little persuading to agree to the case. Unbeknownst to Miss Violet, two...

WAS IT TERRORISM?Colorado Bureau of Investigation Agent Buck Taylor and his team are called to the idyllic South Park valley in Park County, Colorado to investigate the death of a state brand inspector who was discovered surrounded by dozens of dead cattle. The death...

Jamaica to Put-in-Bay to Wooster to Tulare to Las Vegas to London to Morocco to the French Riviera to Norway to New Orleans What's killing dairy cows? Investigative reporter Emerson Moore's search for the source takes a deadly turn when he focuses on infiltrating...

After three years of being presumed dead, Sherlock Holmes returns to investigate 13 mysterious cases in this enthralling collection of short stories. After his ill-fated confrontation with his formidable enemy, Professor Moriarty, at the Reichenbach Falls, Sherlock Holmes was presumed dead. Over three years...

Agatha Christie's most famous characters--including Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple--solve even the most devilish of conundrums as the sun beats down in this all-new summer themed collection from the Queen of Mystery.Summertime--as the temperature rises, so does the potential for evil. From Cornwall to...

Ranulf Briquessart, Viscount Briquessart of Rutledge, was dead. This truth was as undeniable as the noonday sun. Tragically his death had been preceded by that of his wife, a beauty of Spanish nobility who was descended from the ancient Counts of Castile. These deaths...

A floating body. Puzzling clues. When the hunt nearly lands him in the morgue, can a dedicated physician stop a cunning killer? Peak, NC. Dr. Matthew Paine lives by a high moral code. Struggling to cope with his girlfriend overseas, he agrees to continue...

Dana Madison had always rationalized her own actions. It was for the good of her family that she had married money, not once but three times. Her parents took better care of her children than she could; hence she traveled extensively in a carefree...

David Elliott from What the Barber Knew returns in a new, action-packed thriller.1953. David Elliott is a college sophomore American Literature major who also plays baseball and has a propensity to jump into things without looking. When his revered professor Steven Jeffrey ostensibly commits...

Knee-deep in grief, debating her future, and thinking about making a huge life change, Emma Campbell comes face to face with a ghost from her grandmother Nellie's past. A ghost that leads her to the seaside town of Digby, Nova Scotia. A place where...

What if the most celebrated consulting detective in the world, at the height of his powers in 1897, was on the trail of the ancient lost Crown of Scotland? The crown, its history lost in the mists of time, was torn from the head...

Young Winston Churchill, aged thirteen, is the cadet section of the Sherlock Holmes detective agency. He spends his Christmas holidays assisting Holmes and Watson in solving the case of the missing Apostles' papers, exposing the mad doctor of Hammersmith and tracking the 'Giant Moles'...

The Queen's spymasters in the newly created Special (Secret) Branch of Scotland Yard inform the Prime Minister that Her Majesty is at grave risk of assassination during the Jubilee procession to Westminster Abbey. Blood-oath Irish Republican fanatics have vowed to kill the Queen and...

Edward Winston leads a quiet, happy existence in the slow-paced Deep South . . . until his wife goes missing and his peaceful life flies off the rails. As his world collapses around him, Edward's frantic search for his missing spouse hits a dead...

Loot the market on the way up. Loot the treasury on the way down. Freddy Logan is putting a stop to that kind of thinking with the use of some unconventional means. Criminals found guilty of capital treason within major banking companies are executed...

After finding the body of a murdered colleague, amateur sleuth Ginny Forbes agrees to assist the police in their investigation. Her efforts bring her to the attention of the shadowy figure behind the pipeline of death running from south of the border to her...

When one of her ICU patients dies unexpectedly, amateur sleuth Ginny Forbes finds herself on the trail of a centuries-old secret that is of no importance and no interest to anyone other than herself. Except, of course, that no tale of secrets is ever...