Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

Jeffrey Anderson was a big man with a foul temper - a sadist and an ugly drunk. When his horse, The Black Emperor, an animal as mean as its owner, came home riderless, no one cared. And no one cared when no trace of...

Numerous general references to Holmes' cigar, cigarette, and pipe smoking habits have been published in the past. In addition, a few thoroughly researched articles on single aspects of Holmes' pipes or tobaccos are available. This monograph, in contrast, presents a complete analysis of all...

A babbling brook runs alongside a wooded glade, surrounded by autumn light and birdsong. But next to the stream a young woman lies dead, her once bright blonde hair now limp and lifeless... Melissa Craig has settled into a new job in the charming...

The first of the Grantchester Mysteries, and inspiration for the PBS/Masterpiece television series, finds Vicar Sidney Chambers beginning his career, as both a spiritual leader and a detective. It is 1953, the coronation year of Queen Elizabeth II . Sidney Chambers, vicar of Grantchester...

When New Orleans coffee merchant Louis Durand first meets his bride-to-be after a months-long courtship by mail, he's shocked that she doesn't match the photographs sent with her correspondence. But Durand has told his own fibs, concealing from her the details of his wealth,...

When New Orleans coffee merchant Louis Durand first meets his bride-to-be after a months-long courtship by mail, he's shocked that she doesn't match the photographs sent with her correspondence. But Durand has told his own fibs, concealing from her the details of his wealth,...

Hildegarde Withers is just your average school teacher--with above-average skills in the art of deduction. The New Yorker often finds herself investigating crimes led only by her own meddlesome curiosity, though her friends on the NYPD don't mind when she solves their cases for...

"A fast-paced noir thriller. The Ice Maiden deserves a spot at the top of your reading list." -Best ThrillersGet ready for a pulse-pounding thrill ride that will leave you gasping for breath! The Ice Maiden, the first book in the Doug Bateman Thrillers series,...

Whose Body? is perhaps the greatest debut novel every written. In it Dorothy L. Sayers introduces us to her brilliant detective Lord Peter Wimsey. Lord Peter receives a call from his mother, Dowager Duchess of Denver, telling him that there is a dead man...

Large Print, Illustrated Edition of this Classic Agatha Christie Novel. Styles was Christie's first published novel. It introduced Hercule Poirot, Inspector (later, Chief Inspector) Japp, and Arthur Hastings. Poirot, a Belgian refugee of the Great War, is settling in England near the home of...

SOMETHING OLD...Anthony Hetheridge, ninth baron of Wellegrave and chief superintendent for New Scotland Yard, will marry Kate Wakefield in three weeks. It's inevitable--the invitations are out, the flowers are ordered, the cake is chosen. But murder waits for no man, and no wedding.SOMETHING NEW...In...

Sergeant Hamish Macbeth--Scotland's most quick-witted but unambitious policeman--returns in M.C. Beaton's new mystery in her New York Times bestselling series. From the author of the Agatha Raisin series. When Police Sergeant Hamish Macbeth hears reports of a haunted castle near Drim, he assumes the...

Travel to the Scotland Highlands with this classic Hamish Macbeth cozy mystery from the author of the Agatha Raisin series. Death of Yesterday: A Hamish Macbeth Mystery When a local woman tells Sergeant Hamish Macbeth that she doesn't remember what happened the previous evening,...

Happily retired in the village of Three Pines, Armand Gamache, former Chief Inspector of Homicide with the Surete du Quebec, has found a peace he'd only imagined possible. On warm summer mornings he sits on a bench holding a small book, " The Balm...

Edgar Award-shortlisted author Ashley Weaver returns with Death Wears a Mask, the witty and stylish next installment in the delightful 1930s Amory Ames mystery series "Amory Ames and her rakish husband Milo might just be the new Nick and Nora Charles." --Deborah Crombie It...

DCI David Brock and DI Kathy Kolla, of Scotland Yard, find themselves pulled into a case of murder, a mysterious death among the houseboats that line the canals around greater London, in Barry Maitland's The Raven's Eye. DI Kathy Kolla of Scotland Yard is...

When a quilting event falls to pieces, Beatrice works to patch things up. Dappled Hills quilters are eagerly anticipating new events at the Patchwork Cottage quilt shop. The shop's owner, Posy, has announced 'Sew and Tell' socials and a mystery quilt group project. But...

The second book in the Nora Tierney mystery series follows Nora to the Lake District where she is expecting two things: the publication of her first children's book and the birth of her first child. When Nora stumbles across the corpse of the heir...

A BRAND-NEW MYSTERY FROM THE TWO-MILLION-SELLING AUTHOR. Former Detective Hillary Greene and her cold case team are taking a fresh look at the unsolved murder of Michael Beck, found bludgeoned over the head and dead in a river near his home in 2012. Just...

"[We] can't get enough of Christie's plush and murderous thrills." -Entertainment WeeklyA dying man's cryptic last words provide the spark for this beloved Agatha Christie mystery, now a BritBox limited series directed by Hugh Laurie and starring Will Poulter and Lucy Boynton. While playing...

"Around these parts, the publication of a new George Dawes Green novel is an event. ... Green leans all the way into Southern Gothic, but the main grotesquerie is the city's history, built on the backs of enslaved people. His prose is languid, even...

Frank Corso runs his own Wall Street research consultancy and has an unusual ability to make friends. A forty year old bachelor living in New York, he is getting increasingly comfortable to a high-life marked by eroding moral virtue. On a business trip to...

Frank Corso runs his own Wall Street research consultancy and has an unusual ability to make friends. A forty year old bachelor living in New York, he is getting increasingly comfortable to a high-life marked by eroding moral virtue. On a business trip to...

When John Frankel's ex-wife is discovered dead on the floor of his Manhattan studio apartment, the NYPD Detective instantly becomes the prime suspect in her murder. Then more information surfaces, linking his gun to the fatal bullet, a motive is discovered, and Frankel flees...

If you're on the list, someone wants you dead. From the New York Times bestselling author of Eight Perfect Murders comes the heart-pounding story of nine strangers who receive a cryptic list with their names on it--and then begin to die in highly unusual...

Lizbeth Newman is a freelance writer in Santa Fe, New Mexico, whose father's passing changes her life in more ways than one. Anthony Fox Newman was a best-selling author whose novels, set in the badlands of Indian country in New Mexico, generally hit the...

A suspected car-jacking leads to something deeper and darker in the compelling new Will Traynor forensic mystery. The emergency call comes in the early hours of the morning. A man and a woman found in a car in a rundown part of the city,...

A summer festival ends in disaster for chef sleuth Nell Drury in this gripping historical mystery full of dark secrets, disturbing discoveries and page-turning twists. 1926, Kent. Chef Nell Drury is busy with preparations for Lady Ansley's luncheon to welcome Wychbourne Court's new neighbours,...

When the truth could cost you everything...sometimes murder is the only way out.When her husband is found dead in their Vail, Colorado mansion, Victoria Banks is accused of murder. Determined to prove her innocence, she hires famed detective Jack Martin to help find the...

When the truth could cost you everything...sometimes murder is the only way out.When her husband is found dead in their Vail, Colorado mansion, Victoria Banks is accused of murder. Determined to prove her innocence, she hires famed detective Jack Martin to help find the...

Aiden devoted thirty years of his life to the NYPD wherein he worked aggressively as a street cop and homicide detective. Friends and colleagues affectionately dubbed him 'The Hammer'. His retirement from the NYPD was a bittersweet turning point in his life. In 2015,...

London: June 1897. It's the day before Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee and her son, the playboy Prince of Wales, arrives at 221B Baker Street pursued by anarchist assassins. The greatest chef in the world, Auguste Escoffier, also arrives, his career about to be shattered...

London. December 1888. The notorious and as-yet undiscovered genius, Vincent van Gogh, presents Sherlock Holmes with a most unusual case. Aided by his partner Dr. Watson and his paramour Irene Adler, the trio embark on a rousing adventure and find themselves confronting the evil...

This story takes place in northern France, where Belgian detective Poirot's long memory for similar crimes proves useful in resolving the crime. When this book was published years ago reviews compared A. Christie favourably to Arthur Conan Doyle in his Sherlock Holmes mysteries. "One...

With the Archbishop's blessing, Helen and I are spending Lent building a relationship built on love--but without physical intimacy. And yes, it's as hard as it sounds. But this penitential season, I have other work to do. I need to rebuild my relationship with...

Jane Smith is a feisty young woman but looks a lot like her dear cousin Renata Molloy. One day, while sleepwalking, Molloy reaches where she shouldn't-in the den of Number One, the most notorious mind behind a secret organisation. Now it is up to...

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...

Anthony Cade was only trying to do a friend favor. It was just his luck that this favor landed him smack dab in the middle of a dangerous murder investigation. First he has to try to prove he's not the murderer and then while...

When the family butler is brutally attacked, land agent Matthew Rowsley and his wife Harriet determine to find the culprit in this gripping Victorian mystery. With his lordship's mental health failing, management of his grand country estate has been assigned to a group of...

Midnight treasure hunts, fancy-dress parties, and a blue-blooded murder . . .November, 1923. Olive's school chum, Gigi, invites Olive to London because Gigi's dotty grandmother fears for her life-or so she's said to Gigi. However Olive is surprised to find that the dowager is...

Welsh Canadian globetrotting sleuth, and professor of criminal psychology, Cait Morgan, is supposed to be "celebrating" her fiftieth birthday in Jamaica with her ex-cop husband Bud Anderson. But when the body of the luxury estate's owner is discovered locked inside an inaccessible tower, Cait...

Dr John Watson welcomed the arrival of the telephone at 221B Baker Street - it would after all, do wonders for his social life. Sherlock Holmes was not so sure feeling that the ring of the telephone bell might somehow bode no good.It was...

With a picturesque black and white lighthouse, pebble beaches and stunning views of sea and mountains, the island of Anglesey off the coast of North Wales is the perfect place for an idyllic mid-summer painting holiday.And watercolour artist, businesswoman, and amateur sleuth Penny Brannigan...

The journey of the Mexico City-bound Pullman seems ill-fated from the outset -- what with the engine troubles and the threat of an impending railway strike -- but no one aboard expects the terror that will descend upon the luxury train between Laredo and...

Some of the Latest and Best from the Whodunnit Genre"...simply the best short mystery and crime fiction of the year and a real treat for crime-fiction fans." ―Leonard Carpenter, author of the Conan the Barbarian books and Lusitania LostThe Book of Extraordinary Impossible Crimes...

The trial of Stephen Bellamy and Susan Ives, accused of murdering Bellamy's wife Madeleine, lasts eight days. That's eight days of witnesses (some reliable, some not), eight days of examination and cross-examination, and eight days of sensational courtroom theatrics lively enough to rouse the...

The prize-winning author of Edinburgh Twilight returns to the darkening shadows of nineteenth-century Scotland to track a killer on a profane mission of revenge.A wicked Scottish winter has just begun when pioneering female physician Sophia Jex-Blake calls on Detective Inspector Ian Hamilton to investigate...

Someone has volunteered to spend the night in the haunted room at the Darnley House. The room is sealed by pressing a unique coin, selected moments before, on the wax. But when the door is re-opened, someone else's body is lying there, the seals...

In her first published mystery, Agatha Christie introduced readers to her Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot. When the wealthy mistress of Styles Court is murdered, Poirot is on hand to wade through the confusing clues and long list of suspects A classic whodunit.Author: Agatha ChristieISBN-10:...

The brilliant novel in the New York Times bestselling series by Louise Penny, one of the most acclaimed crime writers of our time.No outsiders are ever admitted to the monastery of Saint-Gilbert-Entre-les-Loups, hidden deep in the wilderness of Quebec, where two dozen cloistered monks...