Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

Volume VI contains the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth Thorndyke novels, published in 1927, 1928, and 1930, respectively.A Certain Dr. Thorndyke - Unique among the Thorndyke narratives, this story is as much an adventure tale as a mystery. A man falsely accused finds a new,...

A sharp-witted detective investigates the mystery of a gem, plundered from India and now vanished in England, and discovers shifting motives, unreliable testimony and growing danger in this foundational classic of mystery fiction. The Moonstone justly occupies an exalted position as a groundbreaking novel...

Lestrade is deeply troubled. The disappearance of five boys has been left unsolved for almost twenty years. Under Lestrade's watch, the wrong man was arrested and imprisoned for murder. But after a long appeal, the court has suddenly overturned its decision.The man is free....

In the 1800s, a number of Victorian and Edwardian writers began writing detective mystery stories - for this was the era when Arthur Conan Doyle was creating Sherlock Holmes tales on a regular basis. Modern authors have attempted to recapture the mystique of Conan...

Raina Sun is cashing in a gift certificate for a free hairstyle from the town's premier beauty salon and day spa. No more walking dandelion head, thank you very much. Life is on the up-and-up-until she finds an attacker holding her best friend in...

Raina Sun thought cleaning her grandma's house in San Francisco to prepare for Chinese New Year would be a breeze. Instead, she finds her deceased grandfather's secret journal and ends up French kissing the train tracks in a mugging incident. After putting the move...

The story begins in 1881, when Dr. Watson, having returned to London after serving in the Second Anglo-Afghan War, visits the Criterion Restaurant and runs into an old friend named Stamford, who had been a dresser under him at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. Watson confides...

The world of Big Tech is full of eccentric characters, but shamanic billionaire Gerald Byrne may be the strangest of the bunch. The founder of Byrner, a global social media platform, Byrne is known for speaking with vague profundity and for dabbling in esoteric...

Author: Anthony FlaccoISBN-10: 1648755518ISBN-13: 9781648755514Publisher: Severn River PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/03/2022Pages: 318Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.98w x 0.47d

G. K. Chesterton's celebrity priest-detective returns in The Secret of Father Brown, the fourth of five collections of short stories featuring Father Brown. Through his uncanny ability to anticipate the actions of others and his profound understanding of human nature, Father Brown uncovers the...

Der Gehilfe des Londoner Staranwaltes Septimus Salter, Jim Steele, ist mit dem pl tzlichen Verschwinden der Millionenerbin Dorothy Danton vor 20 Jahren sehr besch ftigt. Kurz zuvor war auch Dorothys Mutter Lady Mary Danton verschwunden. Da Dorothy damals eineinhalb Jahre alt war, meint Jim...

"If one man does not make a move, the other must, and by permitting the adversary to make the attack one learns something about him."In The Big Four, Hercule Poirot investigates a string of murders that appear to be disconnected on the surface, but...

Set in the sleepy English village of Cherringham, this cozy detective series brings together an unlikely sleuthing duo: English web designer Sarah and American ex-cop Jack. Each of the self-contained episodes is a quick listen for the morning commute, while waiting for the doctor,...

From NY Times bestselling author of the award-winning Justice series who has sold over 4 million copies worldwide. A killer hiding in plain sight with everything to lose... When the remains of a person, reported missing over six years ago, are discovered, DI Sally...

Katelyn Took came home to settle her grandmother's estate, only to discover not only did Gram leave seventeen cats. But Ruth Beauregard, a childhood chum, had moved in. Ruth was confused, penniless, and abandoned by her in-laws because they believed she had murdered her...

For ex-con Casey Cavendish, a quest for family and a new life becomes a primal battle for survival.   After clearing her name but burning her bridges in Ohio, Casey Cavendish ventures to New England in search of a mystery man she believes to be...

At a very early age, Kate's mother tells Kate that her father is going to become deathly ill at the dinner table, and regardless as to how distressed he becomes, Kate is to sit quietly without emotion. A few days after the father dies,...

Though Rook Campbell's life is full of challenges with work and caring for her ailing grandma, she's decided it's time to focus on her job at a local distillery, reignite her love life, and move forward from her ex --all which proves to be...

Once again, hidden on the fog shrouded streets of London are heinous criminals set upon their nefarious schemes. All that stands in their way are two men, stalwart and unafraid to take on villainy in all its insidious disguises; Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.In...

The Cambridgeshire hamlet of Jude's Ferry is a lonely, forgotten spot. Requisitioned decades earlier by the Ministry of Defence for military training, one of its few claims to fame is that in its entire thousand-year history, it never recorded a single crime. But when...

These are E. W. Hornung's famous stories of adventure and crime featuring the thrill seeking A. J. Raffles and his friend, accomplice and chronicler 'Bunny'. By turns urbane gentleman about town and accomplished cricketer, life is just too ordinary for Raffles and that sets...

*NATIONAL BESTSELLER*A New York Times Editors' ChoiceBooker Prize winner and "Irish master" (The New Yorker) John Banville's most ambitious crime novel yet brings two detectives together to solve a globe-spanning mysteryIn 1950s Dublin, Rosa Jacobs, a young history scholar, is found dead in her...

The eleven stories gathered together in these two volumes share their own common feature. All have connections to the world of belles lettres, the world of literature--some to celebrated authors in particular, others to themes or stories associated with specific writers . . ....

From J. A. Jance's New York Times bestselling Brady and Walker novels, federal investigator Dan Pardee, Brandon Walker's son-in-law, crosses paths with Sheriff Joanna Brady as he traces the bloody path of a merciless serial killer across the Southwest in this intense thriller.Driven by...

Part XIV: Charles Veley and Anna Elliott, Mark Sohn, David Marcum, S. Subramanian, Roger Riccard, Marcia Wilson, Tracy J. Revels, Arthur Hall, GC Rosenquist. Edwin A. Enstrom, Jayantika Ganguly, C.H. Dye, Matthew Booth, Stephen Herczeg, Geri Schear, Liz Hedgecock, Carl Heifetz, Gayle Lange Puhl,...

There is always room in the world for more gripping tales about the exploits of the inimitable Sherlock Holmes and the redoubtable Dr Watson. Here is a collection of five previously unknown cases from the astonishing career of the consulting detective and his ever-loyal...

Spenser investigates the past secrets of an elusive tech billionaire in this latest installment of Robert B. Parker's beloved series, and the first written by celebrated writer Mike Lupica. Andrew Crain has it all: a brilliant scientist and astute businessman, his groundbreaking work with...

Sherlock Holmes's investigations were not always the neat and self-contained stories that were presented for publication. As Watson writes in his "Foreword" Holmes's cases overlapped one another considerably, often with the next beginning while the current was still in motion. Some moved linearly from...

"Curl up by the fire (and lock all the doors) for this Christmas cracker of a book." --C.S. Green, author of Sleep TightTwelve clues. Twelve keys. Twelve days of Christmas. But how many will die before Twelfth Night?Agatha Christie meets Clue in this delightful,...

There is nothing more tragic than a story left untold. At least that is what Sherlock Holmes thought. Through his urgings Doctor Watson opens his tin dispatch box to recall a series of strange and grotesque events which consumed their daily lives in the...

The cast and crew of a hit British TV show are rumored to be cursed--but are these spooky deaths coincidences or murder? It's up to Bath detective Peter Diamond to find out. In the six years since the start of the hit British TV...

She kissed her daughter, turned out the light and entered her own room. Too late to run, she stood frozen as a figure stepped out from behind the door and a hand covered her mouth. Fear was a bomb in her chest ready to...

The recent decease of one of the descendents of Dr. Watson has brought to light his personal papers. These include a number of stories that Dr. Watson suppressed at the time for various reasons. As all involved are long dead, the inheritor has agreed...

Ann Cleeves--New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, both of which are hit TV shows--returns with The Raging Storm, the extraordinary third installment in the Matthew Venn series.Fierce winds, dark secrets, deadly intentions. When Jem Rosco--sailor, adventurer, and...

Volume 2 includes more Sherlock Holmes and Watson tales collected by David Ruffle from writers around the world.Author: David RuffleISBN-10: 1780922477ISBN-13: 9781780922478Publisher: MX PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/02/2012Pages: 198Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.42d

In National Bestseller David Rosenfelt's 'Twas the Bite Before Christmas, all through the Carpenter house, five dogs are stirring, and not even Andy can get out of working this next case at his door. Reluctant lawyer Andy Carpenter is at the Tara Foundation's annual...

When journalist Alan Rudberg investigates his father's death, he encounters a conspiracy of silence. Law officers in the rural North Florida community treat his passing as an accident, but the facts suggest something deeper. Rudberg's father was investigating a six-decade-old civil rights slaying. When...

Thinking of a jaunt to England? Let Arthur Bryant and John May, London's oldest police detectives, show you the oddities behind the city's fa軋des in this tongue-in-cheek travel guide. "The best fun is running all over the city with these amiable partners."--The New York...

Alec Maitland, after several years abroad, returns to London down on his luck, when he meets a former friend, Charles Biddulph, an official in one of the chief Government Offices in Whitehall. Biddulph, aware of Maitland's special gifts and at the moment in need...

Previously published as Murder for Christmas/A Holiday for Murder.Author: Agatha ChristieISBN-10: 0063143550ISBN-13: 9780063143555Publisher: William Morrow & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/09/2021Pages: 304Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 7.95h x 5.28w x 0.87dAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 4.6Point Value: 9Interest Level: Upper GradeQuiz #/Name: 49873 / Hercule Poirot's Christmas

The whole situation was most provoking and mysterious; the sudden radical change in the iodine shipments, the truculent, insulting letters. Further negotiations by mail were hopeless--someone had to go to France, to the agent in Paris and to the Brittany coast, where the seaweed...

The world's greatest detective, Hercule Poirot--legendary star of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile--puts his little grey cells to work solving a baffling Christmas mystery.It's December 19, 1931. Hercule Poirot and Inspector Edward Catchpool are looking forward to...

Three all-new Sherlock Holmes adventures: The Adventure of the Nebrodi Sapphire: Sherlock Holmes receives a coded message warning of a jewel robbery in Paris. By the time he and Watson arrive, the man charged with safeguarding the jewel is dead, presumably murdered, yet the...

Former Detective Hillary Greene and her cold case team are handed an impossible case.Thirty years ago, two days before Christmas, the much-loved Reverend Keith Coltrane was hit over the head and left to die inside his own church. The killer was never caught.This shocking...

While in Stratford, widow Sheila Malory always stays with her old friend, actor David Beaumont. On this visit she finds him in dire straits: his career is on the skids and his finances are in ruins. Unless he can convince his penny-pinching brother Francis...

As a massive weather system barrels toward them, Vance Township Police Chief Pete Adams and his wife, County Coroner Zoe Chambers-Adams, soon learn how unprepared they really are. A 911 call reports a dead young mother, her critically injured husband, and their missing seven-year-old...

STAND-ALONE MURDER MYSTERY, #9 IN THE SERIES. MEET MAVERICK BRITISH DETECTIVE DI SKELGILL... "MAD, BAD AND JUST A LITTLE BIT COZY."WHEN LATTER-DAY LOTHARIO and expert kayaker Roger Alcock disappears on the night of the 'Great Cockermouth Flood', his attractive wife Maeve takes 24 hours...

In a Manhattan brownstone that has long served as a manse for him and his predecessors, the Rev. Seth Ludington discovers the bones of an infant...49 years dead. With his sidekick, the acid-tonged Harriet van der Berg, Ludington struggles to resolve the mystery of...

On the night of April 12, 1912, off the coast of Newfoundland, one of the greatest disasters of all time took place - the Unsinkable Titanic struck an iceberg and sank with a horrendous loss of life. On board that ship was Sherlock Holmes's...

1920s India: Perveen Mistry, Bombay's only female lawyer, is investigating a suspicious will on behalf of three Muslim widows living in full purdah when the case takes a turn toward the murderous. The author of the Agatha and Macavity Award-winning Rei Shimura novels brings...