Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

A VALUABLE INHERITANCE, NO SIGN OF THE HEIRS...and a looming deadline. Can the women of the WISE ENQUIRIES AGENCY track down the missing men in time? Or are there good reasons for them not wanting to be found?The sixth book in the series finds...

Tasty Trials, Donut 29 in the Donut Mysteries by New York Times Bestselling Author Jessica Beck!When Suzanne and Jake win a weekend getaway to a luxury resort island in the mountains, they think they're in for the time of their lives. Little do they...

The first ever Christmas mystery in the beloved New York Times bestselling Bibliophile Mystery series! San Francisco book-restoration expert Brooklyn Wainwright and her hunky security-expert husband, Derek Stone, face a locked-room murder mystery during the holidays in Scotland. In the middle of a wonderful...

The Secret Adversary is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the United Kingdom by The Bodley Head in January 1922 and in the United States by Dodd, Mead and Company later in that same year. The UK edition...

A week at a resort high in the Rockies, enacting and solving a Dorothy L. Sayers-style mystery- a perfect spring break for two English professors. And all the more perfect for Elizabeth when the man of her dreams enters the scene. Until the play-acting...

From the author of the Agatha Raisin television series...DEATH OF A MACHO MAN: A Hamish Macbeth MysteryWhen Hamish Macbeth, local constable of the Scottish village of Lochdubh, tries to break up one of the many fights involving Randy Duggan, the ruffian challenges him to...

"Carr (1906-1977) is at the top of his game in this taut whodunit first published in 1931."--Publishers Weekly, Starred reviewThe British Library resurfaces an early gem from one of the great writers of the Golden Age of classic crime fiction.As the thick, autumnal fog...

A day after closing down the Whispering Pines country club house for winter break, the narrator is surprised to see what looks like smoke emanating from the building's chimney. Upon investigating, he witnesses his sister's fiancé flee the building crying and, upstairs, finds her...

Book eleven in the Inspector Lestrade series. The Papers call it suicide. The deceased's father doesn't. But when Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard investigates the death by duelling pistol of Anstruther Fitzgibbon, 27, son of the Marquess of Bolsover, his suspicions of foul play...

She didn't have a stalker case-she had a crush. But when spoiled heiress Ronni Peters hires sexy PI Cotten Hammond, she discovers someone wants her out of the way. Can they expose a killer before becoming the next victim?Set in the historic district of...

Increasingly conscious of his lonely state, Detective Inspector Joe Rafferty signed up with the Made in Heaven dating agency, using an assumed name to stop his colleagues and his nosy Ma finding out what he'd done. What he hadn't bargained on was that he...

A young playwright and an attractive interior designer find themselves suspects when the unhappily married wife of a prominent Senator is found murdered. Attending Mrs. Kirby's house party, Stephen Ransom and Ann Vickery struck up a conversation, and Stephen jokingly outlined a plot for...

Can writing detective stories be deadly?Or did the erotic stories she had published make someone angry enough to kill? Were her stories based on facts rather than fiction? That is the question the Faukon Abbey police, Detective Inspector Peter Greene, Detective Constable Terence Ford,...

Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder"Despite its title, this British Library Crime Classics reissue of a 1936 novel isn't just an entertaining Christmas read. It's a fine example of the old-time country-house murder mystery, with loads of suspects, lots of...

Jamie Forest, transplanted New Yorker, is enjoying her first spring in the Northwoods of Minnesota when her octogenarian friend Clarence introduces her to an elderly recluse, Nella Fox. Nella wants help writing her memoirs. She is the owner of an estate that was once...

All The Lonely People is the curtain-raiser to a successful nine-book series featuring Liverpool solicitor Harry Devlin. Devlin finds himself number one suspect in a murder case that is far too close to home. The victim is his estranged wife, Liz, who is found...

This all started in the fall of 2011 when my wife Joyce and I stumbled across the Napoleon Museum during our "Roaming Rome" vacation. Inside there was an art exhibit by Chiam Koppleman, the American artist known for his works of Aesthetic Realism. The...

DEATH TAKES A (WORKING) HOLIDAY!Becca Cole is a big fish in a small pond. The former big-city homicide detective is now the Chief of Police in Summer Haven a sleepy Florida beach town where nothing ever happens. But all that changes when she is...

Book twelve in the Inspector Lestrade series. 'You're promising me a peaceful one, eh? This Year of Our Lord Nineteen Hundred and Ten? Let's hope you're right.' Unfortunately, his men can't fulfil Superintendent Lestrade's wish. Nor can his daughter Emma, who moments later brings...

In this clever and fast-paced mystery is an endearing hero immersed in the world of antique books.Michael Bevan, book merchant extraordinaire, hopes to uncover hidden literary gold while at the Kansas City auction house. Though the ad mentioned rare erotica, Michael is amazed when...

"Lady Molly of Scotland Yard" contains a wonderful collection of short stories by Baroness Orczy that centre around Molly Robertson-Kirk, a quick-witted detective who relies on brains rather than brawn to get to the bottom of mysteries that completely elude her male counterparts. Highly...

The sleepy beach town of Summer Haven is waking up to a new nightmare-reality TV!Lance Avery--host of the popular adventure documentary show "Mysterious Expedition"--is in town to investigate a sunken shipwreck rumored to be the flagship of the infamous pirate Baron Tombstone, allegedly the...

Living in a nursing home is not as safe as we think it is...Catania House is a sixty bed aged care facility built for the Italian community in the 1970's when family members were welcome and al fresco dining was the norm.Today, the manager...

"A vile crime is being planned," he said."And heaven knows, it may even have been executed."When an old schoolfriend whisks private detective Asbj rn Krag away by train to an isolated snow-covered manor house, his curiosity is aroused.John Aakerholm, a wealthy landowner with peculiar...

The Moonstone (1868) by Wilkie Collins is a 19th-century British epistolary novel. It is an early modern example of the detective novel, and established many of the ground rules of the modern genre. The story was serialised in Charles Dickens's magazine All the Year...

Our endearing hero is in deep water once again whilst on an unforgettable treasure hunt.Michael Bevan is barely surviving with his used bookstore and rare book collection when he discovers a well-worn journal dating back to 1768. The dilapidated log appears to belong to...

Lanky young criminologist Abelard Voss is enticed to investigate two separate mysteries in this volume.Murder's Coming: A small mill town brews with the threat of violence as union organizers come to town. The discovery of a body in the river just when Abelard Voss...

"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...

A secret on the savannah. A bewildering death. Can a silver-haired sleuth solve a mystery before the sun sets? Community vet "Mama Rose" Hardie just want to enjoy her golden years in Kenya, taking care of local animals, and supporting her disabled husband. But...

Murder, political intrigue, theft, secret identities, and deception--this Agatha Christie mystery has it all! In this fast-paced mystery from Agatha Christie--one of the masters of detective fiction--Prince Michael, heir to the throne of Herzoslovakia, is found murdered at the English countryside manor known as...

"Suspenseful cold case investigation by a detective on maternity leave and her husband, helped by community members - and their adorable dogs."Fifty years ago, nine people sat atop a disabled Ferris wheel while in the crowds below their dangling feet, an eleven-year-old girl disappeared....

When Lila Dryden is discovered standing over her fiance's body with dagger in hand, Miss Silver is called in to investigate, only to discover Lila's sleepwalking patterns, the return of her former lover, and the victim's circle of acquaintances - all of whom occasionally...

In this humourous story Rodney Goodale, a young would-be writer in London during the Great Depression, struggles to make a living until he finds a job as valet to the Hon. Frederick Oglethorpe, an eccentric gentleman with his own unusual priorities, and discovers a...

The public weeps as the killings begin again. With the chase now on, agendas are quickly accelerated. Can Macleod and McGrath pull together a ragged investigation to stop an unholy sacrifice?Reinstated but still under the public glare, DI Macleod knows that the dark cult...

A delightfully retro murder mystery, set in the Blue Ridge mountain town of Fernglade, NC in the late 1970s. The Last of the Swindlers follows NY book editor Oliver Swindler as he returns to his home town as editor of the local newspaper, The...

The Icarus Club is one of London's most prestigious gentlemen's clubs, counting amongst its members the very elite of society. Beneath the veneer of respectability, however, there swarm dark secrets, tense rivalries, blackmail, and murder. Jacob Erskine is a man who can count many...

A Rupert Wilde Golden Age Murder Mystery. It is the 1920s and Ambrose De Lacy is the doyen of mystery writers and founder of The Murder Club, an exclusive social club for successful authors of crime fiction. He receives death threats by post and...

Detective Paddy Durr is back in Burnt to a Crisp, Michael O'Keefe's third installment in the Durr series. This time out, life hasn't gotten any easier for Paddy and his heroic wife, Mairead. She is near death from 9/11 cancers, contracted from her time...

A murder suicide investigation at Langsdale House raises significant concerns for Inspector Bradstreet of Scotland Yard--but his superiors consider the matter closed. When Dr Wallace Houston-Smythe, a well-respected medical man, apparently kills his stepson, Harold Houston, and then himself, Inspector Bradstreet's misgivings on the...

A rural Virginia community is torn by a battle to acquire a lakeside property. County medical examiner, Dr. Hardy, and Detective Duffer are swept into the dispute as they investigate mysterious crimes and deaths that emerge in the wake of the heated controversy. Could...

When Olive Wallace offers to take several friends and relatives on a once-in-a-lifetime bus tour through post-WWII Europe, they all jump at the chance-even though Olive can be petty, demanding, and judgmental. But do they really care about seeing the wonders of Europe-the magnificent...

Desperate to prove herself, just how far will she go to get the story?1948: Kingston, Canada-When the man who replaced her on the Kingston Tribune's city beat, asks for help with a story about corruption at City Hall, reporter Charley Hall grudgingly agrees. At...

Book nine in the Inspector Lestrade series. Sholto Lestrade had never smelt the tangle o' the Isles before Arthur, Duke of Connaught put him on the trail to the Highlands. Murder is afoot among the footmen on the Royal Household; a servant girl, Amy...

The discovery of human bones on the idyllic shores of Echo Lake forces Detective Jake Cashen to expose long buried truths.Worthington County's coldest case heats up when ground-breaking on a new luxury subdivision comes with a grisly surprise. In full view of the media...

Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of MurderTwo mysteries of the kind John Bude does best, with well-drawn and authentic period settings and a satisfying whodunit structure, following the traditional rules and style of the Golden Age of the genre.Death in White...

Book eight in the Inspector Lestrade series. Britain has entered the twentieth century. Queen Victoria is dead and the Boer War rages on. Inspector Lestrade is called upon to investigate the brutal death of Ralph Childers, MP. It is but the first in a...

It was a truth universally acknowledged: Marcia Deaver's untimely death elicited very little grief from her colleagues at Valerian Hills High School. Some staff members speculate the cause of death was a heart attack, or perhaps a suicide, but Liz Hopewell knows no self-respecting...

Book seven in the Inspector Lestrade series. He was in his forty-third year and knee-deep in murder. Well, what was new? Sholto Lestrade wouldn't really have it any other way. The first fatality in a series of killings which was to be-come the most...

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...

A car bomb kills a New Orleans' Port Commissioner, and a series of thefts from New Orleans' famed above-ground cemeteries may be related to the crime. Especially when the thefts are accompanied by a disembodied arm at a family crypt, and a factory fire...