Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

Do you want to read An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge? If so then keep reading..."An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge" was originally published by the in 1890 it is set during the American Civil War. It is the story of Peyton Farquhar, a...

A while ago, I began wondering how the Sherlock Holmes stories would read if the famous fictional detective and his sidekick had been women. Fortunately, the stories from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes have been in the public domain for some time now. It...

Robert Turold had spent his life trying to prove his claim to an ancient title. Yet, when it seems he is about to finally succeed, his body is found in a remote cottage on the Cornish coast, an apparent suicide. When his sister expresses...

An ancient curse had predicted that the Heredith line would end in horror. Now it seems that curse may well come true. The young wife of the last of the Heredith family has been found murdered in her bed while guests of the Heredith...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was a Scottish physician and writer. Although he wrote a number of series, such as his Professor Challenger stories, he is by far best known as the creator of Sherlock Holmes. In later life he gained notoriety for his...

The Frozen Deep is an 1856 play, originally staged as an amateur theatrical, written by Wilkie Collins under the substantial guidance of Charles Dickens. The play's genesis lay in the conflict between Dickens and John Rae's report on the fate of the Franklin expedition....

An urgent cry for help brings Poirot to France. But he arrives too late to save his client, whose brutally stabbed body now lies face downwards in a shallow grave on a golf course.But why is the dead man wearing his son's overcoat? And...

What do an Internet scam, a conference for mystery writers, and "The Great Sausage Scandal" have in common? They're all connected to the latest adventure of Addy Zhuang- an employee of the real-life bank at 221B Baker Street tasked with answering all of the...

STORMY TIMES FOR THE COMISSﾁRIOA storm is brewing over the Atlantic island and the body of a touristwashes up in Funchal harbour. Did the young man really just underestimate the raging sea? Comiss疵io Avila doesn't have a good feeling about the matter, but he...

A seemingly idyllic summer picnic ends in a macabre murder that echoes a pair of slayings fourteen years earlier in this riveting new historical mystery from the USA Today bestselling author of Who Cries for the Lost. July 1815: The Prince Regent's grandiose plans...

When a simple missing heiress case lands in the laps of private investigators Nick and Lola, little do they know it's just the tip of the iceberg.As the duo digs deeper, they find themselves entangled in the treacherous world of Honduran crime and the...

Hercule Poirot must solve a baffling case from the past in this classic Agatha Christie mystery. Now with a beautiful new series look. Beautiful Caroline Crale was convicted of poisoning her husband, yet there were five other suspects: Philip Blake (the stockbroker) who went...

Just as Namekagon County sheriff John Cabrelli adjusts to his new job, a body is discovered in the woods-and he must race against time to unravel the case. Stressed relationships, public outcries for justice, and pressure from the media compound the situation. As the...

Moriarty! He was, according to Sherlock Holmes, 'the Napoleon of crime', - a mathematical genius gone mad who was the thinker and organiser behind nearly every great crime that came Holmes's way. Why then was the professor, whose evil pervaded the city like a...

Sergeant Hamish Macbeth faces a string of mysterious robberies that are only the beginning of an international threat to his sleepy Scottish village of Lochdubh in the latest mystery in M.C. Beaton's beloved, New York Times bestselling series. Sergeant Hamish Macbeth has some major...

Hollywood influencer and super-secret spy Poppy Fields is finally taking a well-deserved vacation with her partner Thor. A woman. A man. A private Greek island. What could go wrong? When a storm washes six teenage girls onto the island, trouble comes knocking. The men...

An uncanny literary thriller addressing the painful legacy of lynching in the US, by the author of Telephone Percival Everett's The Trees is a must-listen that opens with a series of brutal murders in the rural town of Money, Mississippi. When a pair of...

Author: Lawrence BlockISBN-10: 1645241300ISBN-13: 9781645241300Publisher: Subterranean PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2023Pages: 280Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.29lbsSize: 9.26h x 6.36w x 0.74dReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 08/28/2023

Ann Cleeves--New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, both of which are hit TV shows--returns with The Raging Storm, the extraordinary third installment in the Matthew Venn series.Fierce winds, dark secrets, deadly intentions. When Jem Rosco--sailor, adventurer, and...

Since 1888 the gruesome crimes of Jack the Ripper have been a never-ending source of fascination to generations of professional, amateur, and armchair detectives. What is more, those murders are no nearer being solved today as they were back in Victorian times - or...

A hard-hitting detective with a thirst for justice and a Highway Patrol trooper with an obsession for finding the truth team up to take on the case of a lifetime. Detective Sergeant Nick Wolf is tasked with dissolving a human trafficking ring on one...

Volume II contains roughly the first half of the Thorndyke Short Stories. In all, there are over forty Thorndyke short stories, spread over six books. This volume contains the fifteen short stories from the first three, John Thorndyke's Cases, The Singing Bone, and The...

Books, magic, and a cat with character!Travel to Charing Cross Road in London and join sales assistant Jemma, bookshop owner Raphael and Folio the cat in three spellbinding cozy mysteries.Every Trick In The BookWhen Jemma James takes a job at Burns Books, the second-worst...

"Published in 2020 by arrangement with Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC/St. Martin's Publishing Group"--Title page verso.Author: Nicholas MeyerISBN-10: 143287621XISBN-13: 9781432876210Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/05/2020Pages: 379Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 8.70h x 5.60w x 0.80dLarge Print

Ted Darling is back and his boss has news for him. He'll be taking on more responsibility over an expanded area, with a bigger team. Before he even has chance to take stock, he's facing his first body in what could be the most...

SECRETS AND LIES Sherlock Holmes's latest case takes him to Paris in pursuit of Marguerite Hardy: a Frenchwoman who fled her London home in mysterious circumstances. Holmes discovers she left after receiving a mysterious letter, containing an obituary and the words "four for the...

A brand-new Sherlock Holmes mystery from acclaimed Sherlockian author David Stuart Davies, featuring the sinister Dr Caligari Sherlock Holmes has just uncovered the truth about the theft of a priceless ruby. The wealthy Lady Damury staged the theft and tried to frame her husband...

Burgeoning, brash and bold, a new Metropolis has burst forth from the golden soil of Terra Australis, proclaiming its virtues but harbouring many of the evils of old which have been attracted by fortunes won from the Earth itself. Shadowy figures menacingly emerge from...

More Menacing than the Menacing Moors, the Great Metropolis harbours evil and deviltry far more sinister than Dartmoor could offer - it is not for nothing that Watson describes London as the great cesspool draining the Empire of its dregs. Its evil stems from...

When a Halloween Party turns deadly, it falls to Hercule Poirots to unmask a murderer in Agatha Christie's classic murder mystery, Hallowe'en Party.At a Halloween party, Joyce--a hostile thirteen-year-old--boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no one believes her, she storms off home....

Murder is for Keeps, the latest book in an award-winning mystery series, celebrated for its small-town charm and picturesque Welsh setting, starring amateur sleuth Penny Brannigan. Local artist Penny Brannigan has been spending her summer painting Gwrych Castle and its surrounding landscapes. A privately...

What do an Internet scam, a conference for mystery writers, and "The Great Sausage Scandal" have in common? They're all connected to the latest adventure of Addy Zhuang- an employee of the real-life bank at 221B Baker Street tasked with answering all of the...

It's 1898. Kismet brings about a chance reunion at a London club between Dr. Watson and Colonel "Maiwand Mike" Fenlon, former military comrades from their Northwest Frontier days and the desperate Battle of Maiwand. A week later an urgent cable seeking Sherlock Holmes's help...

A killer is stalking high-priced escorts and leaving a trail of bodies in empty mansions along Miami Beach's intracoastal waterway. When the crimes become too much for the locals to handle, FBI Agents Kate Walsh and Declan James must find a killer walking among...

Also known by its US title The Problem of the Green Capsule, this classic novel is widely regarded as one of John Dickson Carr's masterpieces and remains among the greatest impossible crime mysteries of all time.A sinister case of deadly poisoned chocolates from Sodbury...

Stewart "Hoagy" Hoag is walking on cloud nine after a meeting with his editor, Norma Fives, where she predicts his new book is sure to establish him as the next great American author. It has been years since he has even dreamed of such...

Canine homicide is not the best way to kick off the New Year for Los Angeles Homicide Detective Leo "Lee" Van Cleef, especially after the recent loss of his own 18 year old German Shepherd named Bogart. But when Van Cleef is called out...

The Priest's Hat is a suspenseful, moving, and darkly funny tale loosely based on Count Alessandro Faella's murder of the priest Virgilio Costa in Imola in 1881. Against the background of late nineteenth-century Naples, the novel brings us the meltdown of an aging playboy,...

Charlie and Diesel must catch a killer before he strikes another deadly note in this latest installment of the New York Times bestselling Cat in the Stacks Mysteries. Charlie Harris remembers Wilfred "Wil" Threadgill as one of the outsiders during high school in Athena....

Real love, much like the justice system, is messy. Fresh out of jail, Russell Siriano, boss of the Siriano Organization, is kidnapped. He was supposed to be safe in U.S. Marshal Kelly Chambers's custody. Now it's her responsibility to solve the strange crime. Using...

"Golden Age fans with a taste for deferred gratification are in for another unexpected treat."-Kirkus ReviewsA fair play, double twist mystery where a beloved London bookseller with a passion for rare books is found shot to death in his locked bookshop.Mr. Richard Dodsley, owner...

Crissy Montgomery possesses a flash drive that holds the key to toppling a powerful figure. Fearing for her life, she turns to Bella Martin for help. But when Crissy is found murdered the next day, Bella begs David Thorne to find those responsible.David's life...

The ninth mystery in the critically acclaimed Joe Sandilands series, a story of murder, mystery and espionage against the backdrop of the Romanov murders and the disappearance of the Tsar's fortune. It's 1922. Joe Sandilands is just back in England from his trip to...

Arlen's success in stopping the international crime figures who came close to his residence in Meadowview Assisted Living Facility, led Lt. Crowder to ask for his help in solving the many deaths of older people in some local rest homes. His move to Paradise...

DCI David Vogel investigates a sudden death at a local book festival in this gripping police procedural: Agatha Christie with an edge! When Delia Day, the world's most successful living romantic novelist, accepts an invitation to be the headline author at a prestigious book...

Two shadowy brothers slain on the very same day When a leading authority on antique books is summoned to a remote Northumbrian mansion, he's struck at once by its faded grandeur and the raw beauty of his new surroundings. However, barely has Mr. Middlebrook...

An American Tragedy is a tour de force, one of the most important novels in the American cannon. Ripped from the headlines, it follows Clyde Griffiths, a handsome, ambitious man whose religious upbringing has left him unprepared to pay the price required to realize...

Fisher College at Cambridge lies between St John's and Trinity Colleges, a fact which may escape those who visit Cambridge trusting only to the official guide books and seeing no more than a gap of twenty feet between those two great houses of learning....

One morning before dawn in the stables of her country estate, Lady Truelove meets a violent death in an encounter with a dangerous horse. Classified as "death by misadventure," this appears a gruesome accident. But Scotland Yard Detective Joe Sandilands suspects foul play--a misgiving...

There's a corpse in the bathtub, wearing nothing but a pair of pince-nez spectacles. Enter Lord Peter Wimsey, the original gentleman sleuth. Urged to investigate by his mother, the Dowager Duchess of Denver, Lord Peter quickly ascertains that the sudden disappearance of a well-known...