Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

The five collected short detective stories introduce the genius of Hercule Poirot. The Hunter's Lodge CaseThe Plymouth Express AffairThe Missing WillThe Submarine PlansThe Adventure of Johnnie WaverlyAuthor: Agatha ChristieISBN-10: 1957990414ISBN-13: 9781957990415Publisher: BigfontbooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/18/2023Pages: 104Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.33lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.22dLarge Print

Reviewers said: "Five stars! Delightfully entertaining, rich characters, suspenseful, charming all in one; anxiously awaiting the next one!" "a fascinating tale set in England in the 1930s. This 'cosy crime' novel... is a good read; something to entertain and satisfy... The settings and period...

Someone wants Daisy McLaren dead, and she doesn't know why.Daisy is a small-town reporter with big dreams. When she is drawn to the site of a small plane crash in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina, she discovers it's near a remote mountain road...

Author: Sax RohmerISBN-10: 8200128989ISBN-13: 9798200128983Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/06/2009Format: CD

Meet Ed Race who made his trade as a vaudeville gun-juggler supreme, known on stage as "The Masked Marksman" and for handling six loaded .45s to the delight of the crowds. But when this line of work became too tedious, Race took advantage of...

Author: Sax RohmerISBN-10: 8200124096ISBN-13: 9798200124091Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/24/2009Format: CD

Best friends, Akemi and Maria do everything together including lunch at school and Friday night sleepovers at each other's home. But when they disappear following a school volleyball game, their world and everyone's close to them, turns upside down.Retired army intel officer, Parker McLeod,...

Author: Sax RohmerISBN-10: 820012407XISBN-13: 9798200124077Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/24/2009Format: MP3 CD

A holiday on the French Riviera turns deadly when Lord Unsworth's old flame is found murdered in this second installment of the "entertaining" Mr. Quayle Mysteries. (Kirkus Reviews)"One murder was quite enough for this family!" Lady Constance declared. "Two starts to look like carelessness!...

Author: Sax RohmerISBN-10: 8200124061ISBN-13: 9798200124060Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/24/2009Format: CD

For Ellery Queen, there is no puzzle that reason cannot solve. In his time, he has faced down killers, thugs, and thieves, protected only by the might of his brain--and the odd bit of timely intervention by his father, a burly New York police...

The Man in the Brown Suit is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by The Bodley Head on 22 August 1924 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year.Anne...

Charles Parmer (1893-1958) knew all the major tracks in the country and his story of horse racing in America, For Gold and Glory, established him as an authority on the subject. In Murder at the Kentucky Derby (1942) he introduced Major Roderick Austen, investigator...

Fans of iconic LAPD homicide Detective Harry Bosch will feel right at home reading the adventures of homicide Detective Howard "Howie" Drew. Don't miss Omerta, the first book in a brand new police procedural series set in the City of Angels.For a homicide detective,...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.'How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?'In London, 1888, the razor-sharp detective skills of Sherlock Holmes are to...

Author: Alyssa MaxwellISBN-10: 1617738360ISBN-13: 9781617738364Publisher: Kensington Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/28/2017Pages: 339Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.90d

Book seven in the Mad Max series. Unbelievable as it seems to all the Old Boys, Maxwell's school is about to be turned into a conference centre - Halliards is to be no more. Some of his schoolfellows can't let the moment pass and...

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...

A serial killer in the City of Angels. A headstrong woman just trying to relax. If she can't move Heaven, she'll raise hell. Los Angeles. The only female rancher in four tough generations, Cache Iron was born fighting for a place at the table....

The most beautiful places often hide the deadliest secrets.Life in the mountains isn't as peaceful as Detective Jack Martin expected. Just as things settle down after his last case, a congressman's plane is blown out of the sky and comes to rest in the...

In Alice Springs one can reinvent oneself. This is exactly what Hank Jefferson needs. His wife, Bettina, disagrees. Hank settles in Alice Springs nevertheless and learns about the local art trade from Blue, a local Aboriginal man. Bettina's revenge does not work out the...

Volume VIII contains the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth full-length Thorndyke adventures, published in 1934, 1936, and 1937, respectively. For the Defense: Dr. Thorndyke - Andrew Barton dreaded meeting up with his identical cousin that he usually tried to avoid. Then Death joined them, and...

After gambler and loan shark Jimmie Flambeau leverages Joth into an uncomfortable professional relationship, Joth and private detective DP Tran develop a high risk plan to deliver Heather from impending disaster. As nerves are frayed and lines are crossed, Joth stumbles on to a...

Volume VII contains the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth Thorndyke novels, published in 1931, 1932, and 1933, respectively.Pontifex, Son, and Thorndyke - Jasper Gray is an enterprising fellow going about his typical day when he's drawn into a series of curious events. Meanwhile, Thorndyke is...

After serving ten years in prison for dealing cocaine, a crime she swears she didn't commit, Casey Cavendish returns to the small college town of Oberlin, Ohio determined to clear her name, finish her interrupted college degree, and build a new life. Her arrival...

Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder"The combination of bracing Cornish cliffs and seascapes with cozy interiors and a cerebral mystery makes this one of the most deservedly resurrected titles in the British Library Crime Classics series." --Booklist STARRED review'Never, even...

November's rain in Toronto 1936 has turned into December's cold snap. Charlotte Frayne escapes being hit by a mud-splattered car racing round the corner at Queen and Spadina. The stranger who saves her turns out to be the man her boss, Mr. Gilmore, has...

"Mallory and Garth are destined to become icons in the jazz age, historical mystery genre. They are private investigators with flair!" -Connie Shelton, USA Today bestselling author Private investigators Mallory, Garth and Mallory are settling into their new California lifestyle, and Woodie Garth has...

Murder, not pleasure, greets Jude Dillane when she takes a vacation from her East Village restaurant and embarks on a luxurious Mediterranean cruise. On board, a horrific death shatters her dreams of a romantic getaway, and a reconnection with her college friend, Monica Delmar,...

Book three in the Inspector Lestrade series. In the year 1888, London was horrified by a series of brutal killings. All the victims were discovered in the same district, Whitechapel, and they were all prostitutes. But they weren't the only murders to perplex the...

'IT MURDERED ONE OF OUR GUESTS, AND NOW IT'S TRIED TO KILL MY HUSBAND.' When the women of the WISE Enquiries Agency are approached by the frantic owner of a historic cottage in a picturesque Welsh seaside hamlet, they agree to help. After all...

Captain Heinz Noonan, Master of the Impossible Crime, is in Wyoming to solve an odd murder. A transient is under arrest, accused of murdering himself with a weapon that cannot be found at a time no one could pinpoint for an unknown motive. And...

Lieutenant Wilson is found dead at Reardon House, Dartford Kent, but was it a suicide or a murder? When Inspector Hargreaves of the Kent Constabulary seeks Sherlock Holmes' aid in uncovering the truth, Holmes and Watson become embroiled in an investigation leading to the...

A Sherlock Holmes fan for most of her life, Gayle Lange Puhl has collected in this volume her latest stories and studies on the Great Detective. Included here are her well-reviewed "Colonel Warburton's Madness" and "The Blood-Splattered Bridge," plus other entertaining adventures. Essays on...

After losing her job as an investigative reporter for The Phoenix Gazette, Kat Lawson has a new gig. The FBI has asked her to work undercover as a reporter for Journey International to cover Munich, Germany's festive holiday scene-an excuse to get close to...

Executive Protection Officer Kenna Devlin is tired of guarding the Governor's infant son, and longs for something more challenging. She's distracted, just for a minute, and Andrew is kidnapped on her watch. When he's found unharmed, everyone is relieved - except Kenna. She's stumbled...

Dancing Queen, A Connor Maxwell Mystery once again takes the reader on a thrilling journey. The Lakewood Police Department has assigned Detective Connor Maxwell one of the most baffling investigations of his career: an unsolved abduction and missing person, leaving a cold trail and...

It's 1967 in California's magical City by the Bay- a bold new era of sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll...and murder. Graduating from UC Berkeley just as the Summer of Love begins, twin brothers Jack and Bobby Doyle forge two different career paths. Jack heads...

What would you do to keep your past a secret?When the mutilated remains of a woman are retrieved by local fishermen, it falls to DI Tom Janssen and his team to identify how she came to be in the water and what put her...

A LONG ROAD TRIP ACROSS THE COUNTRY WITH FATHER ROBERTS TO SANTA FE. A TIME OF SERVICE AND REFLECTION WILL LEAD TO A CASE WHERE MARIA IS DRAGGED IN TOO DEEP. WILL NEIL BE ABLE TO SAVE HER? IN A CASE THAT WILL SEE...

How far would you go to get justice against the person who stole your deceased childhood friend's identity? If you're Isaiah Funderburke, vengeance will become an obsession. On the cusp of adolescence, Funderburke's best friend Bertie was killed in a convenience store robbery. The...

Detective Chief Inspector Wilfred Dover is the most idle and avaricious hero in all of crime fiction. Why should he even be bothered to solve the case?When Mrs Dover witnesses a young policeman's suicide and has the bad taste to report it, Dover's vacation...

This is Crippen & Landru's second collection by William Brittain. The first (The Man Who Read Mysteries) included all of the "Man Who Read...." stories and a few stories about the logical and deductive science teacher, Mr. Strang. Our second collection (of a planned...

64 new, traditional Sherlock Holmes Stories making up the latest three volumes in the world's largest collection of Sherlock Holmes Stories - XIX, XX and XXI.In 2015, the first three volumes of The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories arrived, containing over 60...

No way in. No way out. Who killed the party host? Follow the clues with Gwen in this present-day homage to locked room mysteries of the Golden Era in Milford Bed & Breakfast, book four in the Gwendolyn Strong Small Town Cozy Mystery SeriesGwendolyn...

The Godfrey family is vacationing among the picturesque rocky cliffs of the North Atlantic seaboard, expecting peace, quiet, and, perhaps, a bit of golf or tennis. But one dusky evening in an isolated spot on the grounds of Spanish Cape, Rosa and her uncle...

Do you want to read The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes? If so then keep reading... With his devoted secretary, Dr. Watson, Holmes emerges from his smoke-filled rooms on Baker Street to grapple with the forces of treachery, intrigue, and evil in such cases as...

First published in 1927, "The Big Four" is the fifth mystery by Agatha Christie to feature her most famous character, the brilliant detective Hercule Poirot. Widely regarded as one of Christie's most ambitious and complicated mysteries, the story takes place over a year as...

A masked ball.Secret negotiations.And a killer with a few tricks up their sleeve.Mardi Gras, 1936.Though the shores of Lake Como Italy may be calm, intrigue roils beneath the surface of the Marchesa's palatial villa. It's the only time a cat may dance with a...

Every summer, hordes of Ernest Hemingway lookalikes swarm Key West to compete on Papa's birthday.This summer, one of them is a killer.When a vacationing family discovers the headless corpse of a Key West party girl, the case falls to Monroe County homicide detective Jack...