Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

"Listening to Grover Gardner narrating a David Rosenfelt novel is like sliding into favorite slippers at the end of a long day: One feels the joyful gratification of a perfect fit." --AudioFile on Bark of Night In National Bestseller David Rosenfelt's 'Twas the Bite...

'Ibbley, obbley, onker, my first conker ' The ancient warcry of English conker battles heralds autumn in the Kentish countryside, where Plummergen, Miss Seeton's home village, and its great rival Murreystone, are holding their Produce Show and - this year - impromptu fisticuffs Plus...

Things are eerily quiet at Gemma's quaint English tearoom and she can't understand why - until she learns about the trendy new "tea bar" that's opened on the other side of the village. To her horror, she soon finds her customers being stolen and...

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Early AdventuresThere is a persistent and incorrect idea, reinforced by countless film misrepresentations, that Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson were always staid and dull British chaps of middle years (or older), with Holmes a spry, cranky, and impatient...

A tragic death. A hotel filled with suspects. A baffling mystery in Venice.Private detective Henry Fleming, having just wrapped up a case which has taken him to Venice, has decided to stay for a few more days to explore the city and sample some...

Meet the brilliant French Inspector Gabriel Hanaud. Hanaud is a towering figure in the history of genre mystery fiction as he is the obvious inspiration for Hercule Poirot. Collected here together for the first time are four of his most famous cases. At the...

London, February 1896. A bright crisp day is the first hint of the spring to come, a welcome intrusion into the winter gloom of the great industrial city. But as Watson welcomes the sun and tries to cheer up a restless Holmes, there is...

Nick, a freelance photographer, is on assignment from Travel USA magazine to photograph every single state capitol building in a single year. But mystery and even romance seem to follow him pretty much everywhere he goes. Will he be able to help solve the...

The House that Hate Built: When widowed bank president James Clark wed a second time, to the previously married Margaret Branch, mother of glamourous divorcee Margo Branch, it was a dark day indeed for James Clark's blue-blooded spinster sisters, Elizabeth and Mary, who made...

When Santa Fe historian Kate Isaacs disappears while staying and doing research at the historic Mabel Dodge Luhan House in Taos, Isaacs' wife hires private investigator Fernando Lopez to find the missing woman. At the Luhan House, now a bed and breakfast inn, Lopez...

In this book the author of Death at Dayton's Folly and Murder on the Day of Judgment has done for the small-town high school what Dorothy Sayers did for Oxford's woman's college in Gaudy Night.Once again the amiable and homespun Rocky Allan, aided and...

A hit and run. A suspicious death. A vendetta.Sam Earnshaw's recovery from a year-long coma should be an occasion for celebration. Instead, he reveals that the hit and run incident that left him close to death was no accident. Someone deliberately pushed him into...

In 2015, The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories burst upon the scene, featuring adventures set within the correct time period, and written by many of today's leading Sherlockian authors from around the world. Those first three volumes were overwhelmingly received, and there...

Private security specialist, Greg Stern, is a reluctant guest in a remote and inaccessible Zen monastery. His wife, Vega, sent him there after a marital transgression to ponder and improve his interaction with women. When a dead boy is found in the meditation hall,...

The miracle of Sherlock Holmes is that for twenty-five pounds in 1887, Conan Doyle created a truly universal and immortal literary figure. Sherlock Holmes is a household word in virtually every country in the world. A few of Shakespeare's characters are nearly that well...

Once again it's time to grab your favorite drink, plop down in your most comfy chair, and catch up on the latest happenings in Oak Grove County. Professors at the university are encouraged to become entrepreneurs, and many succeed with lucrative inventions. What could...

Can Private Investigator Hugo Flynn solve the peculiar case of one man and both of his deaths, or uncover the deadly meaning behind a series of numbers whispered by a doctor in his dying breath?Does the English countryside lose its appeal for the Emerald...

A buried skeleton. A dark conspiracy. A ruthless killer.When flash floods unearth a human skeleton at a local beauty spot, DCI Tom Raven is called to investigate. Who is the dead man, and how did he end up there?Help is on hand from forensic...

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his famous detective tales.These are the first of the Sherlock Holmes short stories, originally published as single stories in the Strand Magazine from July 1891 to June 1892....

"I came here to make a dead man change his mind."So begins a creepy and unusual mystery celebrated to this day as one of the greatest "impossible crime" novels of all time. When a family's promise to protect the beloved pine grove of their...

The Circular Staircase is a mystery novel by American writer Mary Roberts Rinehart. The story follows dowager Rachel Innes as she thwarts a series of strange crimes at a summer house she has rented with her niece and nephew. The novel was Rinehart's first...

Clouds of Witness is a 1926 mystery novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, the second in her series featuring Lord Peter Wimsey. In the United States the novel was first published in 1927 under the title Clouds of Witnesses.The book's title derives from Hebrews, Chapter...

A dead vicar in the vestry, the wrong man condemned, and a village with secrets to bury.After the vicar of Condicote is found murdered at the funeral of a dissolute baron, the police soon identify the likely culprit. But faced with countless rivalries and...

Second in a series of period-authentic Holmes adventures, faithful to the style and chronology of the original Doyle tales.Author: Richard K. RadekISBN-10: 1082759295ISBN-13: 9781082759291Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/17/2019Pages: 278Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.67lbsSize: 7.99h x 5.00w x 0.63d

Agatha Christie's first published novel, it introduces many of the plot points and styles that would come to characterize her writing. It also introduced the world to the character of Hercule Poirot. Set in a remote manor with only a limited number of suspects,...

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson become involved in a case that begins with blackmail and then takes a horrifying turn. Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard calls in Holmes for assistance in this baffling mystery. The case of The Iron Dog requires all of the...

When the sudden illness of her father-in-law pulls Victoria Sedgewick away from London, she finds herself at the gloomy Yorkshire estate of her late husband's family. There she discovers that her relations are in danger from a bitter darkness that threatens to engulf them...

The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of 13 Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1903-1904, by Arthur Conan Doyle. The stories were published in the Strand Magazine in Great Britain, and Collier's in the United States. The book was first published in...

POIROT INVESTIGATES: - is a collection of eleven short stories written by English author Agatha Christie -- the best-selling author of all time. This was first published in the UK in March 1924. In the motley collection of superb short stories, Hercule Poirot --...

The Valley of Fear is the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is loosely based on the Molly Maguires and Pinkerton agent James McParland. The story was first published in the Strand Magazine between September 1914 and May...

The writer of several hundred stories and novels, English author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle began his writing career in 1879. While he introduced the world to his most famous character, Sherlock Holmes, in the 1887 novel "A Study in Scarlet", it would not be...

Aus dem Buch: "Ich ging aber vor allem deshalb den Klippenpfad hinunter, weil es furchtbar st rmisch war und weil die Klippen mich gegen den Regen sch tzten. Ich wu te aber nicht, da im letzten Sommer ein Erdrutsch gewesen war. Der Weg brach...

An international wildlife conference. A murdered keynote speaker. Can a golden years amateur sleuth solve the case before she becomes an endangered species? Community vet 'Mama Rose' Hardie is passionate about saving elephants in her native Kenya. She attends a wildlife conference on the...

Aus dem Buch: "Nur wenige Dienstboten genossen so viel Freiheit und Behaglichkeit wie Tonger, der das ganze oberste Stockwerk des Hauses bewohnte. Marshalt hatte ihm dort ein Schlafzimmer, ein Wohnzimmer und ein Bad eingerichtet, und Tonger verbrachte den gr ten Teil seiner Abende in...

Albert Campion travels to Dorset as he attempts to get to the bottom of a series of shocking events connected to a TV adaptation of one of Evadne Childe's famous novels. "Ripley's brilliant inventiveness demonstrates that golden age characters and tropes can still work...

Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) war ein englischer Schriftsteller, Drehbuchautor, Regisseur, Journalist und Dramatiker. Wallace geh rt zu den erfolgreichsten englischsprachigen Kriminalschriftstellern. Die Romane von Edgar Wallace wurden in vierundvierzig Sprachen bersetzt. Aus dem Buch: "Pl tzlich erkannte er instinktiv, in welcher Gefahr er schwebte, und...

At the age of ten in the mid-1970's, David Marcum discovered Mr. Sherlock Holmes, and from that point, he knew that the original 60 Canonical adventures would never be enough. This, coupled with his life-long desire to write, meant that eventually he would find...

From USA Today Bestselling Author, P.D. Workman!A dead child.A mother deep in mourning.Private Investigator Zachary Goldman's life isn't all roses, but he tries to put his own shattered life behind him to investigate the death of five-year-old Declan Bond.Declan's death has been ruled an...

Set in the mountains of Southwest Virginia, Duke is a mean old moonshiner. His son Hillard, growing up way before his time, escapes the ridge, determined not to follow in his father's footsteps. However, just like so many before him, the mountain draws him...

Holmes and Watson return in this atmospheric crime novel, featuring the wild Devonshire moors, a phantom hound, and a centuries-old familial curse. Investigating the sudden death of Sir Charles Baskerville, Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson must rely on their rationality to solve what appears...

Two roommates, Michael and Jimmy, are invited to visit Michael's elderly aunts, Martha and Barbara Farrington (the Skipper), at their isolated island mansion on Long Island Sound. Aunt Martha likes to play matchmaker, so has invited young Jude Blinshop, while Michael has brought along...

Bryson Franklin made bad choices in his past. When he inherits his grandparents' farm outside the small town of Willow River, however, he sees it as a chance for a fresh start. But patterns from his past resurface when Bryson takes up with Daniel...

When English tearoom owner, Gemma Rose, finds herself on an unexpected trip to Scotland, she is delighted by the chance to stay in a beautiful Scottish castle-complete with mounted stag heads, cosy fireplaces, and misty mountain views. She's looking forward to a relaxing weekend...

STAND-ALONE MURDER MYSTERY, #10 IN THE SERIES. MEET MAVERICK BRITISH DETECTIVE DI SKELGILL... "MAD, BAD AND JUST A LITTLE BIT COZY."WHEN THE TWISTED CORPSE of elderly zoo-owner Antonia Crow is found beneath the precipitous jaws of Dead Crags, and her twin Vivienne narrowly survives...

A small island with big lies...Welcome to Rockfish Island.In book three of the series, dark deeds, intended to remain hidden beneath the cold waters bordering the island, have surfaced, shocking the small community and casting a dark shadow over its residents.Confronted with a blood-speckled...

Fall is a deadly time of year as proven by this clean collection of traditional mystery short stories. Discover your new favorite author or spend time with a familiar friend in this anthology featuring the work of nine multi-published mystery writers.Author: Linda Gordon Hengerer,...

A woman finally convinces her wealthy husband that they should take a vacation. He is not an outdoorsman and works long hours, so she is surprised when he chooses a chalet in the Smoky Mountains outside of Gatlinburg, Tennessee. All is fine the first...

Following the events of the fateful murder party at the Jilde Estate, the Criminology Society has continued on with their lives as usual. Since then, the remaining members have gained a new perspective of the world. Now, with their new vision, they will face...

Rosalie has determined to begin a new life, but she is haunted by shadows of her unscrupulous past. She knows she needs to stay focused on the job at hand, ​​​and a lucrative one at that. When her insatiable need for male companionship leads...

Million-copy bestselling author Kate Ellis returns with the brand new book in the DI Wesley Peterson crime series.'A beguiling author who interweaves past and present' THE TIMES November. With the tourist season over in South Devon, Detective Inspector Wesley Peterson is looking forward to...