Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

A body in a cave. A family full of secrets. And time running out before the killer strikes again...The case is one of the strangest Detective Lexi Bennett has ever seen. In a cave beneath a vineyard, a young woman wearing angel wings lies...

There were legends about Moordym Downs, that the Moor had given up the stones to build the castle, and that sometimes the Moordyms gave back one of their own in payment. People disappeared out in the rugged, untamed distance and were never heard from...

No one knew who the girl was; she was just a lovely, tragic, haunted face briefly glimpsed in a newsreel of a gala movie premi鑽e. But because of the time and the place, Bynum Fels, assistant district attorney, wanted her for murder. Film producer...

Eddie Maguire's Sherlock Holmes and the Bolshevik Plot follows on immediately after the conclusion of Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Mission, in which our two heros find themselves in Italy where it is clear that the future of Europe and its leaders are in...

In The Granite Coast Murders, the sixth installment of Jean-Luc Bannalec's bestselling mystery series, Commissaire Dupin returns to investigate a murder at a gorgeous Brittany beach resort. Inspector Dupin and Claire are on a two-week vacation, but while Claire seems to enjoy the quiet...

The Missing Corpse is internationally bestselling author Jean-Luc Bannalec's fourth novel in the Brittany Mystery series. It's picturesque, suspenseful, and the next best thing to a trip to Brittany. Along the picturesque Belon River, home of the world famous oyster beds, between steep cliffs,...

Deep sea fishers, dolphin researchers, smugglers, and an island shrouded in myth in the middle of the rough Atlantic ocean: Commissaire Dupin had sworn he would never again investigate on the ocean, but his fifth case takes him offshore, off the west coast of...

A poisoned pawn in chess is defined as any pawn that, if captured, would lead to a serious disadvantage for that player. Here, presented for your enjoyment, are three new cases for Sherlock Holmes. Someone, or something, that may at first seem trivial, is...

The second volume of the complete adventures of Dr. Nikola Leonaur have brought the complete Dr.Nikola stories together in two complementing volumes available in soft cover and hard cover with dust jacket. The three books in this second volume are The Lust of Hate,...

Years after its final episode was broadcasted by the BBC, The Baker Street Sleuth continues to be the most famous Sherlock Holmes TV series of all time, with constant re-runs and thousands of fans. Jerry Bellamy is one of them, and his passion for...

"The 26th issue of Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine features new and classic mystery tales FEATURES: From Watson's Notebooks, by John H Watson, M D Ask Mrs Hudson, by (Mrs) Martha Hudson NON FICTION: Screen of the Crime: Sherlock Gnomes, by Kim Newman Quail, Partridge,...

Sherlock Holmes Mystery Megazine returns with its tenth issue, presenting the best in modern and classic mystery fiction This time we feature an "All Sherlock Holmes" issue, so all stories are Sherlockian puzzlers. Included are the usual columns by Lenny Picker and Mrs Hudson,...

Book eighteen in the Inspector Lestrade series. Many readers of the Lestrade books wonder what is fact and what is fiction - and the author is delighted that they can't always tell! So, for all the readers out there who have ever asked that...

A routine software installation turns into a race against time and death... Meet Sam Norris, a software developer whose latest creation for a midsize company promises to revolutionize their manufacturing plants. He and his team travel to a remote city in Wyoming to implement...

Discover a breathtaking 1930s-style detective story in "The Amelia Earhart Mystery - Charlie Chan in the Pacific". When famed American-Chinese detective Charlie Chan receives a mysterious message suggesting that legendary aviatrix Amelia Earhart may still be alive, he is drawn into a web of...

Many have been the retellings of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's intriguing accounts of the greatest of all sleuths, the world's first and, in his day, only consulting detective, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, but occasionally there comes along a new rendering of the man's adventures and...

In a bid to heal from the grief of a personal loss, forensic genealogist, RaeJean Hunter, takes on a straightforward case -identify human remains found on a nearby college campus, believed to be the 180-year-old remains of Mary Rogers, a woman who died mysteriously...

Killer on the loose.Tracking Rivalry.Revenge could get them killed.Fish and Wildlife Oregon State Trooper Gabriel Hawke is set to teach a class at a Search and Rescue conference in Idaho when a dangerous inmate breaks out of prison. It is believed the man is...

Book 6 in the Gabriel Hawke Novels.Accident or Homicide? State Trooper Gabriel Hawke is called to a vehicle on fire. When the steam and smoke clears, a charred body is slumped over the steering wheel. The Muzzleloader Rendezvous has attendees from all over the...

In the summer of 1885 Watson ran into an old rugby pal, now a successful London businessman. The man unburdened himself of certain suspicions and soon he was before Mr. Sherlock Holmes. "Please tell me I'm seeing evil where there is none for I...

An enemy lurks in the prince's inner circle. He'll do anything to escape justice... even commit murder.England, 1923. Love is in the air and all eyes are on Windsor Castle, where the royal family is celebrating a new royal engagement.When party invitations are sent...

From The Davies Brothers, winners of the BAFTA Rocliffe New Writers Showcase (supported by the London Book Fair)... The Centurion Papers is a thrilling new series of Sherlock Holmes mysteries. Too explosive for publication, kept hidden for a hundred years... until now. More mystery,...

Myth. Mystery. Murder.DCI Tom Raven's hopes for a few quiet days with his daughter, Hannah, are shattered when a shocking murder plunges him into a macabre mystery in the nearby coastal town of Whitby.In the hallowed grounds of the ruined abbey, a man lies...

On a frigid January day on London's Whitehall in 1843, a Scottish woodturner named Daniel M'Naghten guns down Edward Drummond, believing him to be British Prime Minister Robert Peel. M'Naghten, who sympathizes with the Chartist cause in Great Britain, claims he intended to murder...

Private eye Garrison Chase can't catch a break. After serving time in jail, he returns home with Carrie Page to reconnect with his loved ones. When Carrie suddenly disappears on a top-secret mission, Chase's world is turned upside down once again.Desperate to find her,...

Henry. Five years in prison.Now back behind bars again.The crime? Murder. He's in despair.His Probation Officer, Madeleine Brooks, is worried about him. She knows he's innocent of the murder - she's spoken to a reliable witness who can alibi Henry and she's informed the...

From International Bestselling author, A.J. McCarthy, comes a new Charlie & Simm Mystery. Shanna McGuire is convinced a strange man is following her. When he approaches her on the street, he shocks her with a story that makes her question her family history. She...

Stewart "Hoagy" Hoag hasn't written any fiction since his debut novel rocked the literary world of the 1980s and then left him with a paralyzing case of writer's block. Since then, he's been reduced to ghostwriting celebrity memoirs. But his newest project could have...

Walking home wearily from an evening spent poring over the books of the Parchly Heights Methodist Ladies' Aid searching for a fifty-eight-cent error, Miss Jennifer Murdock becomes witness to a terrible scene: A man, stumbling drunk, arrives home--and just as he fumbles with his...

When the Cape Cod Players roll into towns along the lower Cape, the locals expect a great show, replete with games, magic, and merriment. Of course, they usually have an audience, too. When Boston widow Victoria Ballard, visiting the Cape to recover from a...

John Dickson Carr is famous for his puzzling "impossible crime" plots in which corpses are discovered in scenarios that seem to lack any logical explanation. Among all of Carr's ingenious crime scenes, the present case is one of the best known: a dead man...

What has become of Marguerite Fulmer? On an otherwise average day in Upstate New York, the young woman left her family home, never to return. No note was left, no explanation; just a messy bedroom and her sister Gigi, driven to dig through the...

John Dickson Carr is famous for his puzzling "impossible crime" plots in which corpses are discovered in scenarios that seem to lack any logical explanation. Among all of Carr's ingenious crime scenes, the present case is one of the best known: a dead man...

Walking home wearily from an evening spent poring over the books of the Parchly Heights Methodist Ladies' Aid searching for a fifty-eight-cent error, Miss Jennifer Murdock becomes witness to a terrible scene: A man, stumbling drunk, arrives home--and just as he fumbles with his...

When the Cape Cod Players roll into towns along the lower Cape, the locals expect a great show, replete with games, magic, and merriment. Of course, they usually have an audience, too. When Boston widow Victoria Ballard, visiting the Cape to recover from a...

While on a remote island in Orkney to the north of Scotland, a member of a tour group reluctantly led by a young minister is found dead in a Neolithic tomb. The police suspect the death to be the work of a serial killer...

A storm. A disappearance. A race against time . . . Mustique is in a state of breathless calm as tropical storm C ristobal edges towards it across the Atlantic. Most villa owners have escaped the island but a few young socialites remain, unwilling...

A frugal fashion model hangs up her second-hand stilettos and returns to her small town to open a business-but then she's forced into the role of amateur sleuth after becoming a suspect in a murder.Melanie Tower is done with the drama of New York...

Wycliffe tackles a case which reaches back down the generations ... When Cedric Tremain is charged with murdering his father by booby-trapping his fishing boat, all the locals are agreed that he is an unlikely murderer. But the case against him is strong: he...

What happened to the young woman who went to pick up a pizza in Miami and disappeared?Was she murdered? Or abducted, never to be seen again?That's what her father-young physician Matthew Paine's colleague-desperately wants to know as they rush to search for her, racing...

In a tranquil town tucked away in America's forgotten corners, unsettling mysteries loom large. Disappearances that have left a community haunted and searching for answers. Enter Curtis Styles: a fearless investigative journalist with an unyielding determination. As he dives deep into a web of...

In Mrs. McGinty's Dead, one of Agatha Christie's most ingenious mysteries, the intrepid Hercule Poirot must look into the case of a brutally murdered landlady.Mrs. McGinty died from a brutal blow to the back of her head. Suspicion falls immediately on her shifty lodger,...

From the author of the BBC 2 Between the Covers hit, The Fine Art of Invisible Detection 'The world's greatest storyteller' Guardian'One of the finest crime writers of any generation' Daily Mail'Our finest practitioner of the double-cross plotting' Mick Herron______________________________________ Umiko Wada never set...

A baffling murder and a missing detective.When a young woman is murdered on Tower Bridge, former spy Augusta Peel expects Scotland Yard to call on her for help.But no call comes.Meanwhile, Augusta is preoccupied with the success of her Bloomsbury bookshop. It's doing so...

SPECIAL EDITION: MURDER Not even in Alpine, Washington, could the death of octogenarian Jack Froland be considered big news--except by his drinking buddies at Mugs Ahoy. But that suddenly changes when in the middle of the funeral, Jack's widow hysterically insists that he was...

Maisie Dobbs--"one of the most complex and admirable characters in contemporary fiction" (Richmond Times-Dispatch)--faces danger and intrigue on the homefront during World War II. Spring 1940. During the months following Britain's declaration of war on Germany, Maisie Dobbs investigates the disappear-ance of a young...

In this first case for Paul Temple he meets journalist Steve Trent, who has changed her name from Louise Harvey in order to pursue a gang of jewel. The murder of her brother, a Scotland Yard detective, unites Temple and Steve in their determination...

Sherlock Holmes and The Chinese Junk Affair - Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are called upon once again to save Queen and Country.Upon receiving a card from Sherlock's brother Mycroft, the duo are briefed by the Prime Minister on an astounding fact: a man...

When a beer barrel containing the body of a man is delivered to the door of 221b Baker Street, an intoxicating new adventure begins for Sherlock Holmes. Together with his faithful companion, Dr John Watson, Holmes travels north to Burton-upon-Trent to investigate the poisoning...

Join Holmes and Watson on eleven original adventures, spanning their earliest collaboration to their service to the Crown in the Great War. Revisit A Study in Scarlet, return to The Copper Beeches, and learn the shocking truth behind the Bogus Laundry Affair. There will...