Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

"A boldly portrayed Holmes. Exciting, ingenious, and a delight to read". The Sherlock Holmes Journal.Sherlock Holmes-Far And Wide is a compilation of Gretchen Altabef's somewhat broader short stories and one play, originally published separately in anthologies and now collected in this volume."Sir Arthur &...

Murder. Scandal. Secrets. Lord & Lady Hetheridge are back in a thrilling new novel by New York Times Bestselling Author Emma Jameson. When a hated instructor at England's last ladies' finishing school is found murdered, two things are missing-the dazzling London blue ring she...

Christmas has served as a fertile background for mystery fiction for a very long time, perhaps because it has the appearance of a time of peace and love while being so deeply at odds with violence, crime, and even murder. Many of the stories...

"A boldly portrayed Holmes. Exciting, ingenious, and a delight to read". The Sherlock Holmes Journal.Sherlock Holmes-Far And Wide is a compilation of Gretchen Altabef's somewhat broader short stories and one play, originally published separately in anthologies and now collected in this volume."Sir Arthur &...

"Blue Deer Thaw is a delight." --The Seattle Times "The fourth book in the Blue Deer series is another gem." --The Washington Post Alcohol and art, love and death. When a woman freezes to death in a snowdrift, Jules follows the mystery back to...

"Harrison takes her time resolving these criminal matters, allowing us to linger in Blue Deer long enough to learn its history, drink in the scenery and laugh at the kinds and quirks of its idiosyncratic residents. No wonder the world-weary Jules came running back...

Victor Silvius has spent nine years as an inmate at The Grange, a private sanatorium, for the crime of attacking judge Sir Giles Drury. Now, the judge's wife, Lady Elspeth Drury, believes that Silvius is the one responsible for a series of threatening letters...

Thanksgiving night in Kansas City means the Plaza Lighting Ceremony. When Ellison Jones and her family go to her great-aunt's apartment to see the lights come on, she doesn't anticipate a murder (she never does). But when a shirt-tail relative falls from a seventeenth-floor...

Equal parts thought-provoking and entertaining, Off the Air introduces Jolene Garcia in Emmy Award-winning reporter Christina Estes's Tony Hillerman Prize-winning debut. Jolene Garcia is a local TV reporter in Phoenix, Arizona, splitting her time between covering general assignments--anything from a monsoon storm to a...

Hercule Poirot is without a doubt the greatest detective since Sherlock Holmes. He'll need all of his skill intelligence and wit to solve this crime. He is called to France and must solve a brutal murder on an upscale golf course. His only clues...

Best friends and sometimes lovers Edward "Mitch" Mitchell and Harry "Boy" Morgan have been in terrible jams before -- their adventures of murder, mystery, and unstoppable sex have made The Back Passage and The Secret Tunnel international bestellers. In A Sticky End, Mitch must...

"""Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine"" returns with issue #15, presenting the best in modern and classic mystery fiction Included this time are the usual column by Dr John H. Watson, plus the following works: Tuning in Sherlock, by John Longenbaugh Dr. Watson: Action Hero? by...

Two adventures based on episodes of The Saint with Roger Moore: In the first, Simon Templar is gassed by a toy soldier, shot with an arrow, mowed down with a submachine gun, and blown up by a plastic bomb hidden in a light fixture....

The second book in the critically acclaimed medieval mystery series featuring Sir Geoffrey Mappestone In the year 1101, Sir Geoffrey Mappestone returns to his home at Goodrich Castle on the Welsh border. He is travelling in the company of a knight who claims to...

Chesapeake Bay's favorite sleuth unearths a vineyard's poisonous secrets. Real Estate Rule #4: Beware a house covered in tangled vines, for they conceal deceit. Realtor Helen Morrisey is smiling. Her family is close. Her business solid. Her feelings for a local detective stronger than...

Eccentric Detective Richard Langley from the Art and Antiquities Unit is on the hunt for a stolen 16th-century masterpiece by the artist El Greco. The infamous thief stole the priceless painting from an apartment in Kensington, London, and-in the process-knifed a Russian woman to...

Author: DoyleISBN-10: 0194024199ISBN-13: 9780194024198Publisher: OxfordLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/31/2018Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 7.91h x 5.12w x 0.21dAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 5.7Point Value: 3Interest Level: Middle GradeQuiz #/Name: 30517 / Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Author: Julie BatesISBN-10: 1685128467ISBN-13: 9781685128463Publisher: Level Best - HistoriaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/15/2025Pages: 276Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.82lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.62d

Collector's Edition Laminated Hardback with Jacket London's fog-drenched streets hide secrets only one man can unravel-Sherlock Holmes. With his keen intellect and unshakable resolve, he faces cryptic puzzles, ruthless criminals, and the ever-present danger of the unknown. Alongside the steadfast Dr. Watson, he navigates...

On a sultry afternoon in July, a man stumbles through thick foliage and rough ground, making for the coast. He wears prisoner's garb and the guards are hot on his heels. Happening upon a bather's clothes - the bather nowhere in sight - the...

June, 1951...It's a tense summer in the City of Angels. A killer is on the loose. She's blonde, she's beautiful, and she murders bad guys. On three different occasions, she thwarted a mugging in progress, saving the innocent, dispatching the guilty, and fading away...

Author: Jean-Luc BannalecISBN-10: 1250423708ISBN-13: 9781250423702Publisher: Minotaur BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/21/2026Pages: 320Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 8.25h x 5.38w x 1.00d

A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Poe's most macabre and irresistible stories with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, and a silk ribbon bookmark. Edgar Allan Poe's stories uncover the deeply unnerving strangeness lurking within us all. His genius for horror and suspense went...

The Floating Admiral was the first of the Detection Club's collaborative novels, in which twelve of its members wrote a single novel. Eighty-five years later, fourteen members of the club have once again collaborated to produce The Sinking Admiral.'The Admiral' is a pub in...

Author: Dorothy L. SayersISBN-13: 9798217007578Publisher: VintageLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/06/2026Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.81lbs

Cameron Winter is falling in love. After finally working up the courage to contact the attractive therapist Gwendolyn Lord, he finds himself immersed in a passion that feels heaven-sent. When Gwendolyn tells him about a true-life "locked room mystery," Winter feels compelled to investigate....

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE AWARD-NOMINATED CRIME THRILLER BACK FROM THE DEAD, THE FIRST BOOK IN A NEW SERIES OF GRITTY SCOTTISH MURDER MYSTERIES How far would you go to protect yourself if the truth is too hard to swallow?Strathburgh DI Brian Brandon's first...

Born during intermission in a seedy New Orleans playhouse, Drury Lane has spent the better part of his life in the theater. A majestic old-fashioned thespian, he made his name in London, where his record-breaking run as Hamlet defined the role for a generation....

Dundee, Scotland, 1862. After the mill of businessman Matthew Beaumont burns to the ground, Detective Sergeant George Watters is sent to investigate.Soon, George discovers that this is not the first property that has been targeted. When a man is found dead in the hold...

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."...this crime is conditioned by the place. To understand the one you've got to study the...

Author: Kyle David VanduzerISBN-13: 9798998652103Publisher: Kyle Vanduzer BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/26/2025Pages: 146Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.81lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d

Author: Agatha ChristieISBN-10: 0063376954ISBN-13: 9780063376953Publisher: William Morrow & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/27/2026Pages: 320Format: Paperback

When Stefan and Cecilia Rhodes stepped aboard the luxurious yacht Omert? for an exclusive dinner cruise, they expected an evening of elegance and fine dining. But as the night unfolded, they realized there was more here than met the eye. Shortly after Stefan returned...

Jim Thompson received a phone call from a dead man-a man he watched die one drunken, adulterous night while out of town on business. Jim's wife, Deirdre, doesn't know his secret. Neither does Detective Frank Gibbons, who is hot on the case of the...

Helen Kendal's woes begin when she receives a phone call from her vanished uncle Franklin, long presumed dead, who urges her to make contact with criminal defense attorney Perry Mason; soon after, she finds herself the main suspect in the murder of an unfamiliar...

Why should Dorothy Parker's friends be the only ones making "enviable names" in "science, art, and parlor games"? Dorothy can play with the best of them--as she sets out to prove at a New Year's Eve party at the Algonquin Hotel. Since the swanky...

Author: Agatha ChristieISBN-10: 0063442019ISBN-13: 9780063442016Publisher: William Morrow & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/16/2025Pages: 288Format: Hardcover

The sequel to the Times Thriller of the Year bestseller, This is the Night They Come for You. Trouble has a way of finding those those who spend most of their time trying to avoid it. Or so it appears to Superintendent Taleb, whose...

An original spin on the crime novel in which the race to gain the rights to an author's backlist proves to be more head-scratching - and deadly! - than the plots in his books. The Librarian It's been two decades since mystery writer Duncan...

Author: James RonaldISBN-10: 1899000984ISBN-13: 9781899000982Publisher: Moonstone PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/17/2025Pages: 300Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.86lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.82d

The iconic Miss Marple must investigate the case of a girl found dead in Agatha Christie's classic mystery, The Body in the Library.It's seven in the morning. The Bantrys wake to find the body of a young woman in their library. She is wearing...

From the New York Times bestselling author of the TikTok sensation Murder in the Family and the popular DI Adam Fawley series comes a brand-new gripping thriller in which a true-crime TV show turns up the heat on a controversial case from Fawley's past...When...

Whether presented with a severed foot, a robbery at the British Museum, a catatonic man in a locked room or burnt human remains in a wickerman, Sherlock Holmes relies on his intelligence and deductive brilliance to discover clues and unearth the solution to many...

"There is a spirit that moves amongst us. They call him the Messenger of Death. And tonight...tonight...he called my name."The Loxworths are a family of clairvoyant mediums. Sitters at their seances are dying. Their deaths predicted by a mysterious entity known as The Messenger...

A series of murders leads Detective Inspector Sean Connor and his team into a labyrinthine investigation. The victims are dispatched using a poison previously associated with the notorious Borgia family.As the murders multiply at an alarming rate, Connor finds clues hard to come by,...

On the eve of Sherlock Holmes's retirement Watson pays a final visit to 221b Baker Street. Their quiet conversation is interrupted as other guests drift in and out of the 221b sitting-room... Also included here is the account of a visit made by Holmes...

A missing amulet and an old enemy... After a dramatic battle with Professor James Moriarty at Reichenbach Falls, Sherlock Holmes is reported dead. The news has crushed his friend and chronicler Dr John Watson, who has taken to drink, nearly destroying his practice and...

This is one of Sgt. Beef's most interesting and perplexing cases. It involves a murder, but one in which no body can be found. Young Rogers announces to Beef and others assembled in a local pub that he has committed a murder--then takes his...

Once again Lionel Townsend, Beef's Dr. Watson, faithfully records the redoubtable Sergeant's escapades. Beef has left the Braxham police and gone into business for himself. Beef gets a client: Stewart Ferrars, who has been arrested for the Sydenham Murder. Beef is hired by Stewart's...

"Blue Deer Thaw is a delight." --The Seattle Times "The fourth book in the Blue Deer series is another gem." --The Washington Post Alcohol and art, love and death. When a woman freezes to death in a snowdrift, Jules follows the mystery back to...