Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

The fiery midnight crash of a Stealth fighter on a New Mexico reservation and the disappearance of a young Navajo woman put psychologist Ben Pecos and tribal police officer Tommy Spottedhorse on a sinister and mysterious trail. Tribal police lock horns with air force...

Salvador Zuni is a master carver of traditional Native American fetishes. He is also a cheat. He makes synthetic amber that rivals anything to be found in nature, complete down to the insects he places inside. His recipe is worth a fortune, and someone...

In the 3rd book of the Simon & Elizabeth Mysteries, Elizabeth Tudor is accused of treason and imprisoned in the Tower of London. Most, including Elizabeth herself and her old friend Simon Maldon, believe she will never leave the place alive.Loyal to a fault,...

P.I. Peri Min­neopa has had enough. She's clos­ing her busi­ness, mar­ry­ing her detec­tive boyfriend, and set­tling down to a life of ease-until her brother shows up, accused of a mur­der he swears he didn't com­mit. Now she's back in the thick of things, inves­ti­gat­ing...

A Detective Simon Brade Mystery Who let the dog in? When Selford Prentice is found murdered in his sitting room at Medbury Grange, there were suspects with motive and suspects with opportunity. Unfortunately, it appeared that there were no suspects with both. The crime...

Three Full Length Novels in One Whose Body by Dorothy L. SayersThe Westminster Mystery by Elaine HamiltonThe Clifford Affair by A. E. FieldingPrior to World War I, detective fiction in Britain was largely a male preserve, but in the period between the wars-an era...

Hal Harrison and his orchestra The Harmony Men were one of the hottest new bands in the country. Their two night stand at the Crystal Gardens in San Francisco was going to be the biggest thing to hit that city in years. But when...

Addie Jackson has witnessed people trying to kill her family her entire life, and now her grandparents' attackers are hunting her. The Memphis police are never able to catch these crooks since the cops have been bewitched to stay away. Her grandparents, Pop and...

In a world of make-believe, only imprints can uncover the truthAutumn Rain's unique ability to read imprints is put to the test as she attempts to find a missing actress-and ends up discovering a murder. When her investigation leads to an eight-year-old mystery that...

From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author CJ Lyons, a new installment in her award-winning thriller-suspense series featuring Lucy Guardino: A secret buried in an open grave returns to haunt a small town... When divers discover an antique car with a skeleton...

Ten strangers are lured to a remote Scottish island at the invitation of a reclusive industrialist.Stranded on Lord Black's wondrous estate, the disparate guests have more in common than they first realize.Accused by a mysterious letter of having committed crimes in their past, one...

Last Carol of the Season is filled with local settings and holiday traditions. Detective Kara Langley and her friends are preparing for the Annual Winter Wonderland Festivities on Wakefield's Main Street. Their Black Friday shopping spree is suddenly interrupted when Sophia discovers the body...

Twenty-six years later, Deanna Iris and her son Brent move back to the town she grew up in--back where her secret began and when her life changed forever.As she's unpacking boxes, she receives a call from Officer Bates stating her sister and son have...

An Inspector Reynolds of Scotland Yard MysteryA notorious international jewel thief, infamous for committing his crimes at midnight while leaving no witness alive; the detectives of Scotland Yard who are trying to catch him; and one young woman caught in the middle and unable...

Connoisseurs of fictional murder and intrigue will rejoice in Shooting Script and Other Mysteries by William Link and Richard Levinson. Spanning the years 1954 to 1966, this collection shows the young writers exploring terrain that would later make them world famous as co-creators of...

Sight Unseen - The Confession: Two novels by Mary Roberts Rinehart Sight Unseen When a group of neighbors hold a s ance after one of their regular dinner parties, they were expecting to be amused. not to have the medium give them a blow...

When the wife of Humphrey Challoner, criminal anthropologist, is senselessly murdered during a robbery, he chooses a most unusual means of seeking vengeance. R. Austin Freeman, author of the Dr. John Thorndyke series, turns to the macabre in this story of the lengths a...

When Harry Marsland was caught in a sudden down pour he sought shelter at Cliff Farm. Met at the door by a young woman clearly expecting someone else he is only too glad to get inside to wait out the storm. When they hear...

Richard Harrison has spent most of his life as a spy. But that's all behind him; he wants nothing more than a quiet retirement in the cathedral town of Canterbury. But the past has a way of refusing to stay buried - something Harrison...

Old Mr. Otway stays up late one night, conversing with his dear friend and neighbour, Philip Bennion, on De Quincey's notion of "Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts." What is his shock, then, when he awakens to find his friend mysteriously dead...

"In my time I have seen men who have come to their death by violence, but I have never seen such an extraordinary sight as he presented. It was as if some savage thing, fastening upon him, had torn him to pieces with tooth...

One of England's largest historic landed estates is to be sold. Thousands of acres of farmland, hundreds of cottages and priceless paintings and treasures from within the stately home are up for sale.James Aden, in his mid-thirties, is the land agent for the late...

When Scotland Yard send for Paul Temple to help them apprehend the daring group of jewel robbers known as The Front Page Men he enlists the help of glamorous journalist Steve Trent who has a personal interest in the case. When murders begin to...

Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library...

When the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is accused of murder, adultery and plagiarism, there is only one team that can clear his name. Holmes and Watson, with the help of a little time travel, head to Devon to solve the...

The notion was an odd one - Sherlock Holmes in retirement. That alert mind occupied by nothing more than catching a local schoolboy poaching It was indeed an odd notion to Dr Watson, who became worried that Holmes, without a challenging case, would soon...

How many times have I told you that we must appear to run this hotel as commercial proposition?"Newly arrived in London, journalist Charles Venables has been invited by his friend Viola to stay - at least temporarily - at a residential hotel in Kensington....

Jeff Taylor has taken a summer internship in Sacramento before his third year of medical school. An octogenarian, conveying a saintly countenance, wanders into Jeff's office one day. After the man, who suffers from late-stage dementia, is ushered away by a friend, Jeff discovers...

Jeff Taylor has taken a summer internship in Sacramento before his third year of medical school. An octogenarian, conveying a saintly countenance, wanders into Jeff's office one day. After the man, who suffers from late-stage dementia, is ushered away by a friend, Jeff discovers...

From award-winning author Robert J. Mrazek, ex-army officer Jake Cantrell embarks on a harrowing journey, unraveling the conspiracy behind an opioid epidemic and strange disappearances in upstate New York. Jake Cantrell tried to put his past behind him and settle down after suffering an...

Santa Fe artist Jimmy Mackey wakes up in his studio on Canyon Road with a massive hangover. His morning gets worse when a police cruiser pulls into his parking lot next to a strange car and even worse when police find a dead woman...

Though not exactly a mystery in the traditional sense, Mary Roberts Rinehart's Where There's a Will certainly has its fair share of intrigue, chicanery and deception. At stake is the ownership of Hope Springs, a family-owned health resort whose future appears uncertain in the...

"I I am not a susceptible woman. I am objective rather than subjective, and a fairly full experience of life has taught me that most of my impressions are from within out rather than the other way about. For instance, obsession at one time...

THE GAME IS AFOOT 30+ illustrations from the original editions. Giant format - 8.5" x 11" desktop size - biggest edition available ANYWHERE - looks amazing on your bookshelf & provides the ideal reading experience for this classic work. Huge 18pt text, beautiful professional...

THE GAME IS AFOOT 25+ illustrations from the original editions. Giant format - 8.5" x 11" desktop size - biggest edition available ANYWHERE - looks amazing on your bookshelf & provides the ideal reading experience for this classic work. Huge 18pt text, beautiful professional...

Jesse Fairlane is missing. Max Larkin and Special Agent Michaels are unsure if this is related to a recent case involving human trafficking or something else. On top of trying to locate his partner, Max has to make a decision as to whether he...

Book seventeen in the Inspector Lestrade series. Everybody, they say, has a book in them. Retired Chief Inspector Walter Dew certainly did. And it took him back to the good old days, when coppers lived in station houses, that nice Mr Campbell-Bannerman was at...

A mysterious murder near Esher, a gruesome delivery of two human ears packed in coarse salt, the disappearance of secret submarine plans, the sudden descent into madness of two brothers - these are only some of the apparently unsolvable cases contained in this volume,...

Once again the eminent detective is presented with a series of seemingly impenetrable cases: an anonymous but illustrious client employs him to rescue the daughter of a famous personage from the clutches of a roguish aristocrat and suspected murderer; a retired art-supply dealer asks...

An atmospheric, intricately plotted new mystery in which Sherlock Holmes and Henry Vernier race to catch a villainous murderer at large in the Vatican and Rome. Sherlock Holmes and Henry Vernier are visiting Rome on a diplomatic mission when the Pope asks the world's...

From the author of Sherlock Holmes & The Christmas Demon another beautifully presented seasonal mystery. 1889. The First Terror. At a boys' prep school in the Kent marshes, a pupil is found drowned in a pond. Could this be the fulfilment of a witch's...

A beautifully produced edition of the world's greatest crime writer's best and most influential mystery, which changed the game with an unprecedented plot twist With its famously shocking ending, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is one of Agatha Christie's greatest mysteries, and the book...

When amateur sleuth Augusta Peel receives a mysterious letter about a missing young woman, she can't resist helping with the search. But the case takes a turn when an art student is found dead in a Bloomsbury square.Could the murder have something to do...

Set in a military hospital during the Blitz, Green for Danger is widely regarded as a classic mystery from the Golden Age of the detective story. When a patient and a nurse are murdered, Inspector Cockrill finds himself with six possible suspects.Author: Christianna BrandISBN-10:...

Trooper Jim Duncan's first day with the Criminal Investigation Division starts off with a bang when he is called to a murder scene with a badly decomposed body. After he finds an abused greyhound in the victim's garage, the simple homicide becomes more complicated....

Mick Herron, "the le Carré of the future" (BBC), expands his world of bad spies with an even shadier cast of characters: the politicians, lobbyists, and misinformation agents pulling the levers of government policy. "Confirms Mick Herron as the best spy novelist now working."--NPR's...

"If you have a Jane Austen-would-have-been-my-best-friend complex, look no further . . . [Barron] has painstakingly sifted through the famed author's letters and writings, as well as extensive biographical information, to create a finely detailed portrait of Austen's life--with a dash of fictional murder...

Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Peter Lovesey presents a collection of short fiction spanning fifty years, including the first story he ever published and three brand-new stories. More than fifty years ago, Peter Lovesey published a short story in an anthology. That short...

For fans of Christine Carbo and Scott Graham, an ex-FBI agent is on a desperate hunt for a party of vanished campers while a killer is on the loose. The rugged landscape of Sequoia National Park is a challenge on the best of days--but...

Who would kill the perfect gentleman? When Ernest Fletcher is found bludgeoned to death in his study, everyone is shocked and mystified: Ernest was well liked and respected, so who would have a motive for killing him?Superintendent Hannasyde, with consummate skill, uncovers one dirty...