Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

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...

All things work together for the good for those who believe. Too bad Maura Garrison, private investigator, isn't a believer. The murder she was hired to solve hinges on its parallel in the Old Testament book, Judges, but she was just dumped by her...

E.D. Ward's first novel in the Harry Circus mystery series is a story of unforgettable suspense from the dramatic opening to the bloody finish. In rural Down East Maine, a seasoned State Trooper, Harry Circus, is driven to solve the most gruesome murder he's...

Are librarians meek and mild bookish types with orthopedic shoes and granny glasses? Or are they ruthless killers with voracious appetites for wine, women and song? Can a young widow solve a murder with the help of a Chicago policeman and an affinity for...

SHE PLANNED HER OWN FUNERAL. BUT DID SHE ARRANGE HER OWN MURDER?New York Times bestselling author of Magpie Murders and Moriarty, Anthony Horowitz has yet again brilliantly reinvented the classic crime novel, this time writing a fictional version of himself as the Watson to...

A new recording of the most widely read mystery of all time, performed by Kenneth Branagh.Now a major motion picture from Twentieth Century Fox, releasing November 10, 2017 and directed by Kenneth Branagh."The murderer is with us - on the train now..."Just after midnight,...

Miss or Mrs.? is a venerable and classic crime thriller novel from Wilkie Collins and another gripping detective story from the great English mystery author.Author: Wilkie CollinsISBN-10: 1505606632ISBN-13: 9781505606638Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/18/2014Pages: 90Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.29lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.19d

Dr Chandrix isn't a typical blackmailer. He's tricky, devious, artful, and he isn't interested in money. What he craves is knowledge and power, and he knows exactly how to get them. When Special Branch Police skilfully trap him, justice seems certain. That is until...

Sir Laurence Dies is a murder mystery in the Agatha Christie style. It's a "whodunit" A story of intrigue, guile and red herrings, half a dozen suspects, and a murder to boot. Just what is the morose butler, Dawson, hiding behind that stone faced...

Journalist Asa Lee Pinion pursues the elusive Count Raoul De Marillac, on the way he encounters four of the Count's friends calling themselves ""The Club of Men Misunderstood"". The men tell of their black and revolting crimes and how these deeds gained them the...

A stolen valuable is just the beginning of a trail of strange events Junio has to uncover in this skilfully plotted historical mystery set in 2nd century Britain."A mastery of period detail matches the engrossing plot . . . Brilliant " Publishers Weekly Starred...

When Mrs. Hudson asks Holmes and Watson to find a missing girl, neither men expected what they would find.Along with Lestrade, they are plunged into a case of abduction and murder. As they race from Marylebone, to Finchley, to Wapping, and back again, time...

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...

Brother Cadfael discovers a murder amid the wreckage of Shrewsbury Castle in this mystery series featuring "a colorful and authentic medieval background" (Publishers Weekly). In the summer of 1138, war between King Stephen and the Empress Maud takes Brother Cadfael from the quiet world...

The "irresistible" and "compelling" first novel in the historical mystery series featuring a Welsh Benedictine monk in the twelfth century (The Washington Post). A Welsh Benedictine monk living at Shrewsbury Abbey in western England, Brother Cadfael spends much of his time tending the herbs...

A small island with BIG lies...Welcome to Rockfish Island.A well-kept secret from the average tourist, Rockfish Island is the chosen destination for an all-inclusive corporate getaway with a fun-filled weekend of glamping and horseback riding planned, each guest expecting a good time despite mounting...

A fight over a rich man's will turns deadly in this murder mystery by the "kingpin among the mystery writers" from the series that inspired the HBO show (The New York Times). Marilyn Marlow has inherited a good deal of money from her mother....

A killer hiding among the crowd at a Dodgers-Giants game forces Nero Wolfe to step up to the plate in this "superb" mystery (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Archie Goodwin and Saul Panzer have ventured into the wilds of northern Manhattan to watch the Giants...

A shake-up in the NYPD homicide squad following a high-profile murder is bad for business for private investigator Nero Wolfe. When wealthy and popular crusader and reformer Lester Pierce is gunned down in front of his Park Avenue residence, the public outcry forces the...

Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin have a lot of boldfaced names on their suspect list when New York's most hated gossip columnist is murdered. There are few people Nero Wolfe respects, and Lon Cohen of the New York Gazette is one of them. So...