Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK - "A heartwarming mystery with a lovable oddball at its center" (Real Simple), this cozy whodunit introduces a one-of-a-kind heroine who will steal your heart. FINALIST FOR THE EDGAR(R) AWARD - "The...

October, 1931: an anonymous telegram summons the Reverend Lucian Shaw, country parson and former army chaplain, to the deathbed of his elderly uncle in the remote Scottish Highlands. On the London to Inverness night train, Shaw chances to meet a private investigator who is...

Do you like eccentric characters? Rural settings? Weird crimes? Welcome to the world of Bobby Wing, Constable, Fence Viewer, Animal Control Officer and Deputy Fire Warden of Skedaddle Gore, Maine. To quote Bobby, "the job only pays minimum wage and mileage but it isn't...

The Sherlockian, the magazine that the indefatigable Holmesian, Kelvin I. Jones, edited in the mid-1980s for publication by Magico Magazine, is re-published in one volume. New material includes essays and stories by leading Sherlockians in the UK, USA and Canada. Contributors included in the...

Six more tales of Sherlock Holmes... 'The Torso At Highgate Cemetery' I watched as the policeman took out a notebook and read from an open page. He spoke in a whisper. Inspector Lestrade's face turned ashen. He turned towards me, looking grim. 'The Mystery...

"I am Neb-Heka-Ra... I declaim now that my curse shall fall upon he who disturbs my rest. I call upon the Gods to witness and avenge such impiety..."A trio of bizarre deaths, starting with that of a renowned surgeon, sends Sherlock Holmes, Dr. John...

From USA Today Bestselling Author, P.D. Workman!Everybody has secrets.And Zachary's family was no different.When his younger brother Tyrrell goes missing, PI Zachary Goldman is anxious to find him before something bad happens to him. Or is it already too late?The last missing person case...

Robbers and Cops is the story of two downtrodden Steinbeckian characters, their descent into criminality, and the determined efforts of law enforcement to bring them to justice. - As reviewed by Love To ReadA fascinating odyssey of complex characters-robbers and cops that spans five...

Murder is on the menu - A celebrity chef poisoned A bay town reeling A sleuth pursued Real estate rule #2: How to sell a house fast-offer a drop-dead kitchen. When real estate pro Helen Morrisey's bombshell daughter, Lizzie, a popular home shopping network...

After their divorce, Visiting Nurse Melanie Bass must keep in contact with Dr. Artie Krapaneck, her philandering ex-husband, as they share custody of her beloved dog, Bruno. When she arrives at a Connecticut highway rest stop to retrieve the dog for "her week" she...

Voted the top crime novel of all time by the UK Crime Writer's Association, The Daughter of Time is Josephine Tey's last and most successful book. Complete and unabridged. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold...

A London detective makes a gruesome discovery that could solve the riddle of his son's disappearance in this crime thriller series debut. Det. Sgt. Jonah Colley of the Metropolitan firearms unit has been wracked with guilt for the past ten years, ever since his...

Discover the captivating treasures buried in the British Library's archives. Largely inaccessible to the public until now, these enduring classics were written in the golden age of detective fiction."At 8 o'clock in the evening on the 8th of November, there was a terrific explosion...

Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder"A terrifically atmospheric puzzler...the ending is a stunner...like the best Golden Age crime fiction." --Booklist STARRED review'"A man who played about on the fringes of the Black Market, who had fought for Sinn Fein, who...

Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder'Cleverly told ... brilliant character work and plotting up to the usual Symons standard.' --Observer'An intriguing puzzle centered on identity...' --Publishers WeeklyLady Wainwright presides over the gothic gloom at Belting, in mourning for her two...

Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of MurderCapital Crimes is an eclectic collection of London-based crime stories, blending the familiar with the unexpected in a way that reflects the personality of the city. Alongside classics by Margery Allingham, Anthony Berkeley and Thomas...

Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder"This is another entry in the attractive, period-style paperbacks in the British Library Crime Classics series. Pair Murder in Piccadilly with Freeman Wills Crofts' Antidote to Venom, also notable for its psychological acuity and also...

Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers and Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley are back in the next Lynley novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George. When a police detective is taken off life support after falling into a coma, only an autopsy reveals the...

There are five trails that lead into the Granite Gorge of the Mokelumne River, but none of them connect to each other. It seems as if there are five ways in, and no way out. But when Ranger Dan Courtwright offers to help restore...

INFIDELITY CAN BE MURDEROUSLY DANGEROUS.Eric Ward thinks he is happily married--until he discovers that his wife, Anne, has been spending rather too much time with a business associate.Suspicious and angry, Ward finds comfort in the arms of a beautiful stranger. But when his new...

A string of murders, an ancient curse and a castle full of secrets.England, 1926. When esteemed detective Lord Edgington and his novice grandson Christopher plan a trip to the beautiful Forest of Dean, they hope for nothing more than a relaxing weekend with old...

A manor house full of secrets, a recluse who fears for his life, and four warring heirs out to claim their inheritance. There's murder afoot in the country this summer.England, 1926. When Lord Edgington receives a letter from Hugo Templeton-Swift, a famously rich magnate...

Partners in Janus Investigations, Lafayette "Lafe" Larson and Mike Zwygert jokingly refer to themselves as the "two ugly detectives" due to their looks.But Lafe and Mike face real ugliness when a young Down Syndrome woman unexpectedly shows up in their office and asks them...

Set in late January and early February of 1891, during the time that Professor Moriarty declares in The Final Problem, that Holmes had "incommoded" his plans, Holmes and Watson are visited by two charwomen and retained to clear the name of a drunkard lighthouse...

Pignon Scorbion is back for the second installment in his bestselling and award-winning historical mystery series! Perfect for fans of Hercule Poirot and Enola Holmes.A delightful day in 1910 at the Haxford Spring Fair turns horrifying and deadly when a balloonist plummets to the...

From the author of the BBC 2 Between the Covers hit, The Fine Art of Invisible Detection 'Truly ingenious' The TabletGoddard sprinkles head-turning double-crossing with delightful by-play between his two leads' Times'Fast-paced, beautifully crafted with some excellently drawn characters... engages from start to finish'...

Why Meiringen? Sherlock Holmes readers have always asked, why did Holmes go to Meiringen? And did Moriarty follow him there? And if Holmes did not die in the Falls, what happened next? The familiar stories tell us little. For the first time this book...

An "Old Money" Family Meets Murder Shakespearean scholar and philanthropist Ezra Bainbridge, patriarch of one of Erin, Ohio's wealthiest old families, lives quietly and happily at his Stratford Court compound with three triplet daughters until accusations of elder abuse roil the family. Amateur sleuth...

Bay Bishop's husband was murdered in the alley behind their Northern Michigan restaurant and she lost not only the partner in her dream but the man she thought was the love of her life.Now she's a suspect.When the detective who shows up on her...

Sheriff Jax Turner is staring down the barrel of his broken past. On the brink of ending it all, he feels like a failure following his daughter's tragic passing and his subsequent divorce. But when a schoolgirl vanishes and her backpack is found in...

Things are looking up for Katelyn Took. She has a job, a roof over her head, a new love, and she's down to fourteen cats. If it weren't for the human remains, she fell into on Eagle Drop Ridge, she'd be over the moon.Then...

November, 1956 Seattle A couple witness a murder in their suburban neighborhood. Inspector Riggs identifies the victim as Loretta Newcastle, a local art critic who should have been at the neighbor's dinner party at the time of her murder. Loretta was the art community's...

Danger, art, and a touch of romance collide in Trish Esden's second exquisitely crafted Scandal Mountain Antiques mystery, perfect for fans of Jane K. Cleland and Connie Berry. Some people are willing to die for their art. Others are willing to kill for it....

Introduction by Dale AhlquistThis classic novel by the brilliant G. K. Chesterton tells the rollicking tale of Innocent Smith, a man who may be crazy-or possibly the most sane man of all. Arriving at a dreary London boarding house accompanied by a windstorm, Smith...

In this colorful reinvention of a classic, Philip Marlowe finds himself tangled in two missing persons cases; "Ide has chiseled off the rust while keeping the soul of one of American fiction's icons" (Dennis Lehane). The seductive and relentless figure of Raymond Chandler's detective,...

From the author of The Devil's Feather comes a haunting psychological thriller about a scarred Iraq war veteran whose physical trauma may reflect the inner turmoil of a killer.Somewhere in the endless, deadly desert between Basra and Baghdad, Lieutenant Charles Acland's convoy was attacked....

A blistering new thriller about the horrors of war and the struggle to survive in the face of pure evil. Foreign correspondent Connie Burns is hunting a British mercenary that she believes is responsible for the rape and murder of five women in Sierra...

What if you meet an Indian Hercule Poirot who investigates an Indian Murder Mystery of a housewife?Amazon Review: Well Constructed Mystery"It was a pleasure to read this story. I liked the characters Mayur, Aisha, and Prakash very much. The author does a fine job...

From two-time winner of the Arthur Ellis Award comes a new mystery that will keep readers guessing along with Collins and Burke. From Halifax, Nova Scotia, all the way to Berlin, Germany, Father Brennan Burke searches for answers in the murder of a parishioner...

The war is over, but the killing is not.Guests, invited and uninvited, gather at the mountain villa of their wealthy friend, Utagawa Kazuma, to spend the summer of 1947. Soon after the arrival of these writers, actors, and artists and their tangled relationships of...

After spending nearly twenty-five years on death row in the Richmond State Penitentiary, Tommy Cleaves is finally executed for the murder of Kathleen Spencer.Mitch Armstrong, a private investigator and former police detective, is one of the witnesses to the execution. For most of his...

Alexander Strange wants to get to Florida in the worst way. So he arrives in a coffin. And why not? He writes about news of the weird for a living, so what could be crazier than that? Well, things do get more bizarre when...

Are you in the mood for an Irish ghost story? How about a lighthearted romance in a Technicolor setting? Or maybe a whodunit played out against the wild beauty of Conemarra? Or, better still, how about all three?American romance novelist Danielle Furey dreamed of...

In Charles M. DuPuy's suspenseful mystery Easy Kill, book 1 of the E.Z. Kelly Series, readers will meet a new leading lady willing to kick her opponent's butt, whatever the circumstance. Will dangerous lady E.Z. Kelly succeed in finding the real culprit?E.Z. Kelly is...

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,...

This is a beautifully-designed new edition of the definitive "Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Includes 12 complete short stories, comprising the best-known cases of the world's best-loved sleuth.Author: Arthur Conan DoyleISBN-10: 161293028XISBN-13: 9781612930282Publisher: Tribeca BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/04/2011Pages: 236Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize:...

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories including: Silver Blaze The Yellow Face The Stock-Broker's Clerk The "Gloria Scott" The Musgrave Ritual The Reigate Puzzle The Crooked Man The Resident Patient The Greek Interpreter The Naval Treaty The Final...

A Lenten sod turning ceremony for a new water feature in the back garden of St. Aidan of the Wood Parish Church goes utterly pear-shaped when the upturned soil reveals a human skeleton. With Berdie Elliott at the helm, the whole of Aidan Kirkwood...

Ms Rinehart is considered to be the American equivalent of Agatha Christie. She is the author of the phrase "the butler did it". Rinehart has written hundreds of short stories, plays, travelogues and special interest articles. In The Circular Staircase a spinster aunt and...

The greatest of Braddon's sensational novels.Author: Mary Elizabeth BraddonISBN-10: 1523483458ISBN-13: 9781523483457Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/20/2016Pages: 352Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.98lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.79d