Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

"Tujunga is a mountain/canyon community within Los Angeles' city limits, long proud to have no police stations within its borders, and the fact that little old ladies can walk its streets unmolested at any hour.Author: George CombeISBN-10: 1946232033ISBN-13: 9781946232038Publisher: Full Moon Publishing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

Set in April 2003: Carly witnesses a bank robbery, but doesn't realize it until later; Mike's brother has a gambling problem, and is on the run from some people he owes money to, and disappears, leaving his son with Carly and Mike; Carly's credentials...

Two years after their marriage, Jim Culback wasn't the man Clare thought he was. How many more broken promises could she accept? After packing and moving everything they owned from Ohio to Naples, Florida, she actually thought their marriage would improve. But as time...

When an elderly pawnbroker is murdered in the London parish of Paddington, a young, down on his luck writer is accused of the crime. But then it's found the pawnbroker had had in his possession an extraordinary South African diamond worth over eighty-thousand pounds...

Lady Marmalade is invited to a lecture that Mahatma Gandhi is giving at Abbot House where all proceeds are going to the children's orphanage located there. What she ins't expecting is to be the witness to a murder of one of Gandhi's closest allies....

First published in 1890, the second of Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, The Sign of the Four is a classic of detective fiction and a forerunner of this now-ubiquitous genre. The story has everything - a beautiful damsel in distress, mysterious disappearances, a...

Book 9 in the Utterly Crime Series.On Maundy Thursday 2014, DI Clive Merry is called to a man found dead with his head submerged in a moat about to be dredged near Eye. Could something as harmless as laughing gas be a murder weapon?The...

Some time in the 1970s, Konstantin Alpheyev, a well-known Russian musicologist, finds himself in trouble with the KGB, the Russian secret police, after the death of his girlfriend, for which one of their officers may have been responsible. He has to flee from the...

Large Print Edition of a Detective story published in 2016. Exiled Liverpudlian, Bernie Fazakerley, makes a sentimental journey back to her home city to visit relatives and to take her daughter, Lucy, back to their roots. Before long, events take a sinister turn when...

When the bursar of Lichfield College is found strangled in an Oxford hotel, Detective Chief Inspector Jonah Porter rapidly concludes that the killer is one of the nine college staff attending a meeting there, but who is the most likely suspect? Is it mathematics...

Having relocated from Scotland Yard to the village of East Molesey in Surrey, Detective Inspector Rufus Stone is looking forward to a quieter life, away from the Metropolis, as well as the chance to spend more time with Amelie, the young woman who has...

It's been thirty years since they witnessed the accidental drowning of their friend.Those who were present - now parents themselves - have begun to receive messages claiming to be from the boy who died.The troubling notes become more alarming when a child disappears.Time is...

Dr. Garzon accepts an invitation from Felix O'Neill to visit him at an isolated estate but he soon finds himself involved with child murder in a house of fear. The estate is owned by O'Neill's uncle, an eccentric professor who is surrounded by his...

A young medium is welcomed into the home of an elderly woman, raising the suspicions of her relatives who ask Polly to investigate. As Clarrie and Sarah are involved in their own crises, Polly decides to tackle the problem on her own but, in...

Joyce is angry that her boss won't leave his wife, so his wife will have to be removed... one way or another! A poisoning is planned and Joyce sets out to leave a lasting impression... then Joyce goes missing... A malevolent ghost and psychic...

Chasing the Dead: Death Stings is a stand-alone mystery introducing Sir James Marchant, a recently widowed landowner who is running a sanctuary for retired Police horses. It is also the first of three books featuring Sir James and reveals an ancient vendetta that spans...

Sarah sees and hears ghosts. For her it is a normal and mostly ignored part of her daily life. She doesn't like to talk about it. Only a few close friends know. Sarah hates publicity and won't hold séances. Her ability is private and...

When the body of a beautiful woman is pulled from the black waters of a remote moorland lake by police frogmen, Detective Inspector Mark Hobson is faced with a highly complex case. Given the fact that the victim was universally detested and that a...

British journalist Hilary Blyth famously liked a drop or two as well as a midnight dip, and when his body was fished out of the sea near the infamous Denti dei Cani Rocks, the verdict was accidental death. His widow disagreed, but she went...

While walking home late one evening, Frank Spargo, assistant editor of London's WATCHMAN newspaper, sees a dead body that the police have just discovered in Middle Temple Lane, that has no identification. At first it appears that this might simply be a case of...

The curate was embarrassed in the middle of a funeral service by the ringing of his mobile phone and hurried away to the vestry, while the rector carried on alone, little knowing that next time he saw his curate he would be lying across...

A mining town in Britain in 1951. Cassie's husband Eddie disappears, leaving her to raise their young son. Despite no contact, maintenance payments are made. Cassie returns to work, supported by friends, and tries to build a new life. She is introduced to books...

Samuel Warden of the Detective Police had been forewarned. A message reached him at home that very morning suggesting he should 'settle his immediate affairs' and arrive at the detectives' headquarters, Great Scotland Yard, just off Trafalgar Square, ready for 'a few days in...

It is August 1889 and the Great London Dock Strike is in progress. In the East End of London, a man is found stabbed to death near the notorious Ten Bells public house. The police call it the result of a drunken brawl; the...

Amateur sleuth Astrid Swift investigates a maritime mystery in this cosy crime adventure set on the Isle of Wight. The sailors are ashore, and murder is afoot. It's summer in the Isle of Wight, and the islanders have little more to do than munch...

Elizabeth and Richard want nothing more than a quiet, romantic honeymoon with a touch of literary charm. So they have chosen the Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon. Perfection. Until they find that Desdemona's brilliantly acted death scene wasn't acted and Elizabeth's costume designer sister...

Has extortionist extraordinaire Caleb Cassowary gone off the grid? Not hardly! He and his assistant Byzantia Bonobo escaped from Earth and landed on Biosphere X and Exoplanet Gaea, respectively. Caleb has persuaded the leaders of the Biosphere (Home World) with his plans for interplanetary...

Janey Wiggins lives a desperate life in London's East End at the end of the nineteenth century. With little education and fewer prospects, she has no hope of escaping the grinding poverty, constant hunger, and ever-present danger of life on the street -- that...

Christmas at the lavish Polar Paradise resort in the Shetlands, home of Bearoness Belinda Béarnaise Bruin Bear (nee Black); wife of Octavius Bear and mother of twin Cubs Arabella and McTavish. The entire Octavian team is on board including the Artificial Intelligence System Ursula...

Can it be true? Is Octavius Bear actually accused of murder? When Professor Hercules Ovibos, an extortionate fraud pursuing a law suit against Octavius, is found floating in the Detroit River, evidence brought forward by the Professor's lawyers seems to point toward the Great...

Sherlock Holmes had never met a writer who had ridiculed him as bitterly as Samuel L. Clemens had. For that matter, Holmes had never met a writer who fancied himself a detective. Yet Sam Clemens not only unraveled Holmes investigation into the murder of...

An unknown American tourist, who will one day achieve greatness, visits Carlisle to research his family history. His arrival coincides with Inspector Armstrong's investigating of a macabre series of grave-robbing incidents in the city. The detective's enquiries inadvertently lead him into investigating a case...

They called her Lady Stewart when she was married to a British aristocrat. They called her Miss Cora when she ran a brothel in Florida. But she called herself Mrs. Crane when she asked Sherlock Holmes to locate her common-law husband, writer Stephen Crane,...

The demure, elegant female enters the beer garden; she walks with intent to a bench, and sits beside a gentleman. They order a drink, which she sips elegantly. A few moments later she leans into the male, there is a pop, and she kisses...

'Daffodils freeze and shrubs cry in Stormhaven. They call it 'The Beast from the East' and the temperature's unholy; it crucifies all with cruel nails of ice; a Siberian chill piercing their bones. And there will be a further killing tonight - human, not...

This story is about a missing thirteen year old schoolgirl Gillian Walters, who was presumed to have been abducted from her home in 1977. Thirteen years had passed and she was presumed dead as the 'girl's body' had not yet been found. The local...

Benedict Cumberbatch plays the young, feisty, devastatingly acute Horace Rumpole in this collection of cracking cases, also starring Timothy West as the older Rumpole. Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders: It is the fifties, and two war heroes have been shot dead. Defending the...

The second volume of the investigations of a 19th century French police detectiveMonsieur Lecoq is one of the earliest fictional detectives and his success with the reading public undoubtedly influenced Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in the creation of his more renowned fictional detective, Sherlock...

The Case of Scotch - Volume Three of the Casebooks of Octavius Bear, concluded with a triumphant singing debut at the Edinbeargh Opera by Octavius' and Bearoness Belinda's protégés Bearnice Blanc, a polaratura soprano and her baritone singing partner, Leperello, a highly talented Himalayan...

After a two volume absence, the mad duck, Imperius Drake, and his dumb heavy subordinate, Bigg Baboon return with a vengeance (literally.) Set on conquest of the cosmos, the duck has hatched (sorry) a plot to revivify a savage ancient Egyptian Pharaoh, Tsk VI...

Who's your favourite Dr Watson? Martin Freeman or Jude Law? Lucy Liu or Edward Hardwicke? It's so hard to choose, so spare a thought for poor Sherlock Holmes - faced with so many Watsons old and new, what will he do? Who's too techno-garish?...

Cleverly plotted, with wry wit, a likable copper hero, and an ingenious plot, this one will keep even seasoned mystery fans off-balance A deadly fire at a nudist club plunges DCI Harry Brock and DS Dave Poole into an explosive mix of deception, betrayal...

When Gabriel Ash comes across a terrified young woman fleeing a brutal attacker, he and Hazel Best are drawn into a complex and baffling investigation. Rachel Somers, running . . . Something appalling happened in the wood. When Gabriel Ash and his dog come...

The truth is stranger than fiction for Albert Campion in this gripping mystery where murder, detective novels and the supernatural collide. 1946, London. The eagerly anticipated new detective novel from Albert Campion's godsibling, bestselling author Evadne Childe, is proving to be another runaway success....

TRADE PAPERBACKCoffee and Christmas cookies in hand, detective Jen Mahoney spends her maternity leave reviewing a missing child case, and the changing seasons bring peril... "Suspenseful cold case investigation by a detective on maternity leave and her husband, helped by community members - and...

TABLE OF CONTENTSSTORY OF THE DOORSEARCH FOR MR. HYDEDR. JEKYLL WAS QUITE AT EASETHE CAREW MURDER CASEINCIDENT OF THE LETTERINCIDENT OF DR. LANYONINCIDENT AT THE WINDOWTHE LAST NIGHTDR. LANYON'S NARRATIVEHENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASEAuthor: Robert StevensonISBN-10: 1774817551ISBN-13: 9781774817551Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/06/2022Pages:...

From Award-winning and USA Today Bestselling Author, P.D. Workman!Zachary Goldman, Private Investigator, is flawed with a capital F.Shattered by the tragedies of his own life, he will somehow still manage to pick himself up and dig just a little bit deeper than anyone else...

From USA Today Bestselling Author, P.D. Workman!Zachary Goldman, Private Investigator, is flawed with a capital F.Shattered by the tragedies of his own life, he will somehow still manage to pick himself up and dig just a little bit deeper than anyone else to find...

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of the first twelve short stories based on the famous detective, including the cases of The Red-Headed League, The Speckled Band, and A Scandal in Bohemia. Holmes will need to use his various skills, including an...

Rare edition with unique illustrations and elegant classic cream paper. The Moonstone is a page-turner, it catches one up and unfolds its amazing story through the recountings of its several narrators, all of them enticing and singular. Wilkie Collins's spellbinding tale of romance, theft,...