Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional

From the Collins Crime Club archive, the second Inspector French novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed 'The King of Detective Story Writers'. THE RETURN OF INSPECTOR FRENCH When young Maxwell Cheyne discovers that a series of mishaps are the result of unwelcome attention...

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From Dorothy L. Sayers, one of the Queens of Crime, comes the third addition to the Lord Peter Wimsey series, Unnatural Death. "The death was certainly sudden, unexpected, and to me mysterious," is what the letter from Dr. Paterson read. Lord Peter Wimsey and...

From Dorothy L. Sayers, one of the Queens of Crime, comes the third addition to the Lord Peter Wimsey series, Unnatural Death. "The death was certainly sudden, unexpected, and to me mysterious," is what the letter from Dr. Paterson read. Lord Peter Wimsey and...

A murder, a missing man, and his newest constable's secret past are all that's standing in the way of Sergeant Hamish Macbeth settling in for a relaxing winter in his sleepy Scottish village of Lochudch. All Hamish Macbeth ever really wants is a quiet...

Nothing can go wrong in beautiful Vermont. Can it?Detectives Reese Clayton and Emerson Lake are headed to Manchester, Vermont to visit Reese's sister Olivia and her parents and finally plan the wedding of their dreams.As they step off the plane, anticipating a leisurely escape...

Bones are found in the lane behind her son's house. Her best friend and one of the owners of her local become persons of interest for a murder she knows they couldn't possibly have committed. And the most incompetent homicide investigator on the planet,...

Where does obligation end when work is the source of pride and fulfillment and family a quagmire of dysfunction and deceit? Tom Morgan has tried to lose himself in the work and rewards of a high-stakes legal career, putting time and distance between him...

"Solid legal thrills from a master of the light touch." -Kirkus Reviews Retired lawyer Andy Carpenter has run the Tara Foundation--the dog rescue organization named after his beloved golden retriever--for years. It's always been his calling, even as Andy's pulled into representing clients in...

Anne Beddingfeld is on her own and ready for adventures when one comes her way. She sees a man die in a tube station and picks up a piece of paper dropped nearby. The message on the paper leads her to South Africa as...

Darkness and mystery follow four friends to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, threatening them at every turn... Laurel and Arnie are delighted when their friends Claire and Charles join them for a visit at their summer home. Tucked away on beautiful Manistique Lake in...

Jasper Moon, internationally renowned 'Seer to the Stars', had signally failed to foresee his own future. He is found dead on his consulting-room floor, his skull crushed with a crystal ball and, all around him, his office in chaos.During their murder investigations, Inspector Rafferty...

When Rick Ryder comes across a body at the bottom of a 30-foot waterfall in the Blue Ridge mountains, he has no idea the death will put his work, as well as his life and friendships, in jeopardy. On the same property, police discover...

Daniel Penrose, an eccentric collector of antiquities and jewelry has gone missing. The police position is that he is on the run because of his involvement in the death of an elderly woman while driving intoxicated on sherry. Dr. John Thorndyke, noted expert in...

A NEW LORENA MCGEE MYSTERY In this third "quirky Southern" mystery series, Lorena McGee, Coroner of Colquitt County, Georgia, again must solve a mystery: what happened to the "unpopular" and cantankous nun and who was responsible for her untimly demise? Readers will also enjoy...

In her first collection of fictional short stories, Christine Bagley demonstrates her exceptional talent for diverse storytelling. So intimate are the inner lives of her characters; it's like peeking through your neighbor's window or eavesdropping at a closed door. A woman, unable to conceive...

Author: G. K. ChestertonISBN-10: 1557424241ISBN-13: 9781557424242Publisher: Wildside PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/30/2024Pages: 188Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d

Author: Delia PittsISBN-10: 1250904234ISBN-13: 9781250904232Publisher: Minotaur BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/15/2025Pages: 336Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 8.25h x 5.38w x 1.00d

Author: Paul DoironISBN-10: 1250864445ISBN-13: 9781250864444Publisher: Minotaur BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/13/2025Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 8.25h x 5.38w x 1.00d

One house. Two families. A web of secrets. On his thirteenth birthday, Thomas' mother vanished without a trace, never to be seen again. Forced to leave his family home after the tragedy, the mansion sat empty for years. He struggled to piece his life...

Can this broken FBI agent and young professor work together to take down a dangerous cult despite their rocky past or will their true identities be exposed, threatening their lives and future together.Going undercover with the FBI to infiltrate a dangerous cult was the...

Orlando Pearson, master narrator of history and Holmestry, has done it again. In this eighth volume of the acclaimed Redacted Sherlock Holmes we learn: what Moriarty had done to be regarded as the Napoleon of crimewhy Watson's wound was first described as being in...

In The Man Who Was Thursday we are transported to a surreal turn-of-the-century London Gabriel Syme a poet is recruited to a secret anti-anarchist taskforce at Scotland Yard. Lucian Gregory an anarchist poet is the only poet in Saffron Park until he loses his...

When Inspector Duke Dempsey boarded the luxurious streamliner known as The Holy City Express, he expected a peaceful vacation, a brief respite from his crime-ridden beat. But as the train whisks through the scenic vistas, a chilling scream shatters the calm, and Duke is...

Read along with the new TV drama, coming September 24 to FOX TV and Hulu! For fans of Louise Penny's Chief Inspector Gamache Mysteries. Karl Alberg, currently at his wits' end, was a big-city cop before moving to sleepy little Sechelt on the Sunshine...

In late Victorian England, private enquiry agents Cyrus Barker and Thomas Llewelyn find themselves in the middle of the deadly chaos when powerful forces align to take over London's criminal underworld. Private enquiry agent Cyrus Barker, along with his partner Thomas Llewelyn, has a...

It was early one morning when going down to bathe that Roland Lawson came suddenly upon a grim spectacle-the body of Monsieur Auberge, stabbed to death. Why had this Frenchman been murdered just after his arrival in England?A murder in Paris makes the case...

R F Wilson's popular detective Rick Ryder, a one-armed attorney, recovereing alcoholic, and all-around lovable jerk, embarks on yet another mystery quest when he's asked to discover how and why a famous professor died -- and what happened to the million dollars stashed in...

This Christmas, lawyer Andy Carpenter and his golden retriever, Tara, can't say no to helping young Danny and his dachshund, Murphy. Lawyer Andy Carpenter and his wife, Laurie, have started a new Christmas tradition. Their local pet store has a Christmas tree, where instead...

This brand-new novel featuring Margery Allingham's Mr Campion recaptures the Golden Age of British Detective Fiction. The Danish Ambassador has requested Albert Campion's help on 'a delicate family matter'. He's very concerned about his eighteen-year-old daughter, who has formed an attachment to a most...

When the womanizing aristocrat George March is found dead over his morning coffee, the immediate concern of his shocked Cardington Crescent household is quieting the scandal as discreetly--and quickly--as possible. Unfortunately for March's wife, Emily, that means accusing her of the murder. But the...

Thomas Pitt, mainstay of Her Majesty's Special Branch, is summoned to Connaught Square mansion, where the body of a junior diplomat lies huddled in a wheelbarrow. Nearby stands the tenant of the house, the beautiful, notorious Egyptian woman Ayesha Zakhari, who falls under the...

When an obscure moneylender named William Weems is murdered in the humble Clerkenwell district, there are no mourners--and there is more than a little discreet rejoicing among those whose meager earnings he so mercilessly devoured. Yet when Inspector Pitt finds in the murdered man's...

No breath of scandal has ever touched the aristocratic Moidore family-until Sir Basil's beautiful widowed daughter is stabbed to death in her own bed, a shocking, incomprehensible tragedy. Inspector William Monk is ordered to investigate in a manner that will give the least possible...

When the distinguished Mr. Justice Stafford dies of opium poisoning, his shocking demise resurrects one of the most sensational cases ever to inflame England: the murder five years before of Kingsley Blaine, whose body was found crucified in Farriers' Lane. Amid the public hysteria...

Inspector Thomas Pitt is shocked. The body of a boy, clearly from the upper classes, has been found in the filthy sewers of Bluegate Fields, one of London's most dangerous slums. What's more, the unfortunate boy had been violated before he was murdered. So...

Yorkshire's detective duo descends into the kinky world of underground films in an "undeniably lively" mystery of murder and illusion (Kirkus Reviews). Reginald Hill "raised the classical British mystery to new heights" when he introduced pugnacious Yorkshire Det. Inspector Andrew Dalziel and his partner,...

Yorkshire's detective duo descends into the kinky world of underground films in an "undeniably lively" mystery of murder and illusion (Kirkus Reviews). Reginald Hill "raised the classical British mystery to new heights" when he introduced pugnacious Yorkshire Det. Inspector Andrew Dalziel and his partner,...

Author: Arlene KayISBN-10: 1685127223ISBN-13: 9781685127220Publisher: Level Best BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/20/2024Pages: 232Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.53d

Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley form a partnership, hiring themselves out as ''young adventurers''. Their first case, however, is more of an adventure than they expect - working to find documents that, if they were known to the general public, would fuel a communist...

Author: G. R. JordanISBN-10: 191556297XISBN-13: 9781915562975Publisher: Carpetless PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/11/2024Pages: 240Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.55d

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's immortal detective returns for ten puzzling cases ranging from his earliest career to his final bows."The Adventure of the Improbable American" tells of Sherlock's first U.S. friend, while "The Adventure of the Christmas Lesson" recounts Holmes's and Watson's first Christmas...

Lady Valerie Meux is a fabulously wealthy socialite in late Victorian London whose every move is keenly followed by Fleet Street's army of reporters always eager to report on her latest wasteful extravagances - But her past is kept a closely guarded secret. When...

Step back into the 1920s with the thrilling debut of Detective Charlie Chan! In his first case, young Charlie Chan faces danger, betrayal, and intense action to bring justice to Honolulu.When a wealthy jade dealer, Mr. Li, is found murdered, Charlie, a humble patrol...

Only Ann KnowsA Horrible Accident or Brilliantly Planned Social Statement Ann Miller still grieves deeply five months after her son and only child was killed during the Virginia Tech mass shooting. A lifelong gun rights advocate, she works passionately as an executive for a...

What is a crimson trail? Is it blood? Or paint? Or yarn? Why would Sherlock Holmes revisit a previously solved case? How could an open window be important and how can a house be blackmailed? Dr. John Watson reveals the answers to these questions...

A body is found on a subway platform under the frigid streets of Boston, thrusting Detective Alan Sharp into the gritty urban underbelly to uncover the truth behind the violent death. A tangled web of corruption, betrayal, and societal neglect is revealed, forcing Alan...

It was a model English village, filled with flowers, Tudor cottages, and cobbled streets. Joan Brook loved working there as a companion to Lady d'Arcy, living in the huge mansion with its surrounding park. And small though the village was, it was not too...

'Yes'. A perfectly harmless message. Except when it is written in the blood of an innocent man.In the heart-pounding thriller "Misadvertised," DI Carson is thrust into a grisly murder case that sends shockwaves through London. When a young man is found brutally murdered, his...

In this chilling classic British mystery thriller, a Scotland Yard inspector and his sister search for her missing fianc? in a city of vanishing people. Petty con man Alfred Routh thinks a place like Milton Manor outside Oxford will have something nice to steal....