Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

Thousands of shoulder-fired missiles vanished from U.S. military bases in the early 1990s. Most ended up in the hands of the Mujahideen fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan, while military investigators were quietly ordered to look the other way. But at an army base near...

Part XXXI featuring contributions from: Sean Wright, John Lawrence, I.A. Watson, Kevin Patrick McCann, Arthur Hall, Tim Symonds, Tracy J. Revels, Susan Knight, Hal Glatzer, Thomas Burns, Geri Schear, David Marcum, Robert Stapleton, Gordon Linzner, David MacGregor, Terry Golledge, DJ Tyrer, Steven Herczeg, Dan...

Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson are visited by Mr Josiah Endicott, an injured enquiry agent who believes that three recent murders are connected.He explains that he was attacked shortly after interviewing a friend of one of the victims and warned to discontinue his investigation....

Part XXXII featuring contributions from: Hal Glatzer, Arianna Fox, Terry Golledge, David Marcum, Craig Janacek, James Gelter, Mike Hogan, Arthur Hall, Tracy J. Revels, Will Murray, Roger Riccard, Tim Symonds, Wayne Anderson, Alan Dimes, Mike Chinn, Paul Hiscock, Ian Ableson, a poem by Kevin...

Part XXXI featuring contributions from: Sean Wright, John Lawrence, I.A. Watson, Kevin Patrick McCann, Arthur Hall, Tim Symonds, Tracy J. Revels, Susan Knight, Hal Glatzer, Thomas Burns, Geri Schear, David Marcum, Robert Stapleton, Gordon Linzner, David MacGregor, Terry Golledge, DJ Tyrer, Steven Herczeg, Dan...

'Brett performs his magic on the traditional cozy, making the frame rock with laughter at human foibles and quake with well-placed surprises' - Booklist Starred Review The genteel game of Real Tennis takes a murderous twist in Simon Brett's witty and entertaining new Fethering...

Jude has landed a starring role in the local AmDram Society's production of George Bernard Shaw's The Devil's Disciple. It's an ambitious play, culminating in a dramatic execution scene: a scene that's played for real when one of the actors is found hanging from...

Part XXXII featuring contributions from: Hal Glatzer, Arianna Fox, Terry Golledge, David Marcum, Craig Janacek, James Gelter, Mike Hogan, Arthur Hall, Tracy J. Revels, Will Murray, Roger Riccard, Tim Symonds, Wayne Anderson, Alan Dimes, Mike Chinn, Paul Hiscock, Ian Ableson, a poem by Kevin...

On a cold snowy night when the church choir met for practice, young organist Carol Tolliver didn't show up. That's when Tess King dropped her music behind the choir pew, and picked it up-screaming.It is hard to associate a church with violence. Alec MacDonald,...

Part XXXIII featuring contributions from: Terry Golledge, Naching T. Kassa, Susan Knight, Martin Daley, Dan Rowley, Marcia Wilson, Tracy J. Revels, Josh Cerefice, Craig Stephen Copland, Jeffrey A. Lockwood, Mark Wardecker, David Marcum, Kevin P. Thornton, Tim Symonds, Tom Turley, David MacGregor, Andrew Bryant,...

"Wildly entertaining." --The New York Times Book Review A Lefty Nominee for Best Mystery NovelKnown for her wonderfully addictive characters, multiple award-winning author Gigi Pandian introduces her newest heroine in this heartfelt series debut. Under Lock & Skeleton Key layers stunning architecture with mouthwatering...

Drew and Madeline Farthering celebrate their six-month anniversary by attending a fancy Regency-era costume party. Drew is glad to see Talbot Cummins, an Oxford classmate, and his fianc e, Alice Henley, though many present seem worried about the couple. Everyone s concerns are realized...

Nasty Knead, Donut Mystery #46From New York Times Bestselling Author Jessica Beck.When former resident and once-famous country music singer Charlie Gray comes back to April Springs to try to save his career, he gets Suzanne to agree to do a donutmaking demonstration for television,...

Father Brown is back in The Wisdom of Father Brown (1914), the second of five collections of short stories featuring G. K. Chesterton's unlikely, lovable priest-detective. Included are "The Paradise of Thieves" and "The Purple Wig," which frequently rank among Chesterton's top ten tales....

Old flames threaten the relationship between Sheriff Wade Adams and Lizzie Fletcher in Book 3 of the Wilbarger County Series. The Fletcher family contemplate expanding the Paradise Creek Inn to accommodate their growing clientele while the Wilbarger County Sheriff's department tries to stop an...

He'd seen her somewhere once--he was sure of that. But the young woman gave no hint of recognition and before this could be explained, everything fell apart. . . . Tim Harding has come to Cornwall at the behest of a friend to represent...

Mike Befeler has done it again. Fans of Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, Agatha Christie, and more, hold on to your rockers! At the Old Detectives Home, the top detectives of all time must unite to solve their most difficult whodunit yet-without killing each other,...

Rushing waters...dead bodies...secrets... As Bianca St. Denis and her neighbors scour their attics for donations to the charity rummage sale, they unearth secrets as well as prized possessions. Leonard Marshall's historic inn hosts the sale each year, but it is his basement that houses...

March 1939, and try as he might, private eye Nate Ross can't seem to stay clear of Hollywood. His latest case, a penny-ante theft caper, turns deadly serious when one of the miscreants is murdered and Nate's the prime witness. No sooner does L.A.P.D.'s...

John Rawlings has returned to his beloved London after spending time in America where revolutionary trouble is dangerously brewing.Having made a substantial sum selling carbonated water, Rawlings buys a country house situated on the banks of the Thames in Strand-on-the-Green in Chiswick.But one morning...

Classic crime fiction's 'Indiana Jones' Tony Medawar unearths more unpublished and uncollected stories from the Golden Age of suspense, including John Bude, John Dickson Carr, Dorothy L. Sayers and Julian Symons.'Five books in, and the selection here might well be the strongest yet. This...

Cold case detective Lauren Riley wakes up in the hospital certain of two things: she was stabbed and left for dead...and the person who did it was a cop.After being brutally stabbed at her desk late one night, Lauren Riley works her way backwards...

Human trafficking is overtaking the U.S. Once thought of a border issue or a third worldcountry issue, drug dealers are abandoning drug sales for the no inventory overhead worldof sex trafficking (slavery).Peck Finch, a known Cajun French in New Orleans watches a kidnapping of...

Power, money, murder . . . Investigating a seemingly accidental death leads DCI Bill Slider and his team down a dark path in this gripping British police procedural. The woman lies dead at the foot of the stairs. It's obvious what happened: she tripped...

After tracking down a crazed sniper last year, homicide detectives Mike Houston and Anne Bouchard opted to leave Boston for the isolated mountains of Maine. They adjusted nicely to chopping their own firewood, relaxing in their log cabin, and simply enjoying the solitude of...

Fool's Errand marks the debut of a contemporary gumshoe whose character traits are rooted firmly in the past. Brig Ellis is an ex-military and current private investigator based in San Diego, but willing to go wherever the assignment takes him. His card reads: Investigations,...

Poirot Investigates is a short story collection written by English author Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by The Bodley Head in March 1924. In the eleven stories, famed eccentric detective Hercule Poirot solves a variety of mysteries involving greed, jealousy, and...

Guests of honor at the opening of a swish new restaurant in Arizona, Welsh Canadian criminal psychologist sleuth Cait Morgan, and her retired-cop husband Bud Anderson, are looking forward to living in the lap of luxury for a week.But an unexpected death at the...

Along the rugged coast of Whitby, dark dealings are afoot.The discovery of a headless corpse out at sea has everyone on high alert. The dead man is a notorious villain, last seen sailing his luxury yacht round the Med.Now he's all washed up in...

In this series of five short stories, Holmes and Watson continue their late investigations into dark crimes in 1920s London, joined by their excitable housekeeper at 221B Baker Street, the brilliant, buxom Miss Lily Hudson, and by Jasper Lestrade of Scotland Yard, the ambitious,...

Sir Charles Baskerville has been found dead in his garden. Is it from natural causes or is it something to do with the family curse? Is there really a Huge Hound that roams the moors beyond the borders of Baskerville Hall? Come and watch./...

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...

"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...

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...