Classic crime and mystery fiction Books

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...

"Sherlock Holmes Mystery Megazine" returns with issue #9, presenting the best in modern and classic mystery fiction! Included this time are the usual columns by Lenny Picker and Mrs Hudson, plus the following stories:BONEYARD, by Marc BilgreyBULLY FOR...

This gripping mystery novel follows the investigation of a strange and terrifying case in rural England. The discovery of a shrieking pit leads detectives into a web of intrigue and danger as they attempt to uncover the truth about a series of sinister...

In this thrilling mystery novel, John Watson takes readers to the rugged cliffs and hidden coves of the English Downs. When a young woman goes missing, it's up to detective David Cleveland to unravel the tangle of secrets and lies that surround her...

Monsieur Lecoq is a thrilling detective novel that has stood the test of time. Set in 19th century Paris, the story revolves around a master detective named Monsieur Lecoq, who must use all his wits and experience to solve a baffling crime.This work has...

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...

In the 19th century, when the British Empire was approaching its zenith, the Victorians began to believe that, with their power and their fabulous wealth, they could do anything. Certain gentlemen became convinced that they could indeed do anything...and...

Cliff Ashton in Nicely is charged with murder. CD goes back there to straighten out the mess. He uncovers a national theft ring, but what is so important that a few hundred million is a secondary business? CD gets to use his favorite "Noigel from Belize"...

April 1961. Westberlin. Inzwischen ist eine neue Generation Polizisten herangewachsen. Gebildet, eloquent und vor allem motiviert. Doch im gespaltenen Berlin haben es die überwiegend jungen Frauen und Männer nicht einfach, den Verbrechern habhaft zu...

Anna, Peter und Spürhund Columbo machen Urlaub in einem neueröffneten Schweizer Berghotel in Graubünden, das kurz nach ihrer Ankunft eingeschneit und von der Außenweltabgeschlossen ist. Der mit mafiösen Strukturen arbeitende milliardenschwere...

A tragic death. A massive cover-up. PI Martina Monroe must face her past in order to reveal the truth.PI Martina Monroe has found her groove working cold cases alongside Detective Hirsch at the CoCo County Sheriff's Department. With a growing team of...

An isolated island. A savage storm. An English murder mystery.A storm is raging over Damson Island, a desolate yet beautiful rocky outcrop off the south coast of England.The island's magnificent main house belongs to theatre director Randall Dobson, a...

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...

A diverse collection of Sherlock Holmes related writings including several essays, short stories and two radio plays. Andriacco's obsession with matters Sherlockian is obvious, and there is much here for Sherlock Holmes fans to enjoy.

"An interesting, yet brief, message," Holmes mumbled, tapping the letter with the stem of his pipe. "We shall take the eight-seventeen out of Euston and head for the city of Carlisle, in the county of Cumberland, tomorrow." The daring theft of the...

'Art is never sordid,' said Daniel. 'And murder is one of the arts.'Volume I contains the first-ever collection of stories featuring Police Surgeon turned amateur sleuth Daniel Britling, originally published 1930-32:The Green Ghost Murder Introducing...

My great-aunt Liza is an old she-devil... but she's had a devilish raw deal.'Lady Elizabeth Carn has ruled Tristowell Castle with an iron fist for fifty years. On the eve of her adored adopted daughter Augusta's twenty-first birthday, far-flung...

'It is not for you to exact vengeance on my behalf. Remember that.'When successful novelist Christabel Strange dies suddenly aged 32, the bequests are hard to fathom. She leaves one wing of the ancestral home to good friend Marcia Wentworth for her...

Stretched across the road was the body of a policeman.On the way home one evening in the Romney Marsh, Bookseller Theodore Terhune and friend Julia are caught in heavy coastal fog. A passing lorry provides some guidance on the narrow country roads,...

"A man does not leave school at fourteen, make a fortune by forty, and go on to become a skilful and powerful politician without ruthlessness."Business magnate and MP Sir Hugh Mason is the kind of man it is very easy to hate, if you are not susceptible...

Four dead.One clinging to life.A tragic accident or is someone out to kill?Detective Dove Milson is called out to a gruesome scene under the pier: four bodies floating in a flooded escape room. The chamber is meant to flood with seawater as the tide...

Welcome to Sherlock Holmes: A Study in illustrations Volume lll, and now we finally enter the world of Sherlock Holmes in glorious colour, gone are the monochrome illustrations of Sidney Paget, Richard Gutschmidt and others, it is now, finally time...

Michael Hearns' debut novel, "Trust No One," introduced the world to Vice Intelligence and Narcotics (VIN) detective, Cade Taylor. His second book, "Grasping Smoke," solidified Cade Taylor as a dynamic, action-driven character. In...

A COMBINATION OF SINISTER BLEAKNESS AND EVER-PRESENT DANGER-FATHER BARRETT IS BACK FOR BOOK THREE IN THIS SINISTER MYSTERY SERIES.Ex-Vatican investigator Father Michael Barrett has been ordered to attend Alcoholics Anonymous by his superior, Archbishop...

When Mary-Margaret O'Shea, a woman of a certain age with mildly Machiavellian tendencies, discovers a homicide scene and meets an unimpressive lead investigator, she realizes that she has no choice but to solve the crime herself. With little help from...

After his father dies, Grayson Dyle, the owner of a fledgling product design firm, observes his mother hiding an envelope in the casket. He retrieves the letter, revealing that he and his brother Dean, a home automation guru, were adopted. Eager to learn...

Movie star Nicky Tallon selects architect Wren Fontaine to renovate Turnbull House, where he'll be filming his next movie. Even to Wren, used to old homes, this one is special: a 200-year-old federal-style home on a private island in New York harbor,...

The Skull Collector Alex walked slowly from room to skull filled room as she tried to contain her emotions. In the back most room she came upon the skull of the first victim resting on the tallest pedestal. She tried to comprehend how any...

The Rev. Victor L. Whitechurch was a prolific and popular British writer and an avid railway enthusiast. His detective creation, Thorpe Hazell, shared his railway interests, and solved mysteries with his extensive knowledge of railway equipment and...

Mrs. Edith Rossiter, a rich matron, also has a wealth of greedy relatives-a cold-blooded daughter, a wastrel son, and a desperate sister. Because she is in excellent health, none of them can hope to inherit anytime soon ... So when Edith vanishes from...

Widow Sheila Malory has been looking forward to her stay at the Bodleian Library in Oxford as a chance to research wartime women writers and catch up with old friends from her college years, the one "purely happy" time in her whole life. Her relaxing...

Two centuries from now, in the Confederation, the Tyrellian uprising has ended badly. The Loyalists have defeated the Rebels, but nothing is cut-and-dried. On Earth, the Chicago Fraud Wars have also ended. There is an uneasy truce between North American...

An adept story-teller, Charles Dickens was perhaps most at home in the detective or mystery genres, epitomised in what is commonly hailed as one of the best detective stories of all time: "Bleak House". The "Inspector Bucket" of this story is none other...

December 1939. Germany and Great Britain are in the fog of the phoney war. The First Sea Lord Winston Churchill knows that England is not nearly ready for the fight. Four British spies have perished in strange circumstances in Nuremberg trying to...

In the late 1880s, Murial Robertson has the unusual job of being a part of her father's security detail. While trying to gain public support to make Arizona a state, the Senator receives a peculiar letter threatening his life and signed by "The Serpent."...

Im neuen Pub Five Apple Kernells im schottischen St. Applewood kehrt, nach den Ereignissen des letzten Jahres, Ruhe ein. Farlan, der junge Koch, hat sich eingelebt und scheint sich in seiner neuen Heimat wohl zu fühlen. Doch eines Tages verschwindet er...

Ich bin Officer Anton Coulson und gehöre seit kurzem zur Kriminalpolizei von New York. Das heißt vor langer Zeit, denn ich meine das Jahr 1911.Da war dieser skrupellose Mörder, der Manhattan heimsuchte. Er hinterließ keine Spuren und verschwand unerkannt...

Knox ist enttäuscht. Zuerst muss er sich in sein neues Leben in Chicago reinfinden und, statt spektakuläre Verbrechen aufzuklären, wird er lediglich mit der Aufklärung eines Vermisstenfalles betraut. So hat er sich das nicht vorgestellt.Währenddessen...

When surveying a site for a proposed road construction project, an archaeologist uncovers a body. It is no surprise to discover burial remains in the 1800s-era Famine Field. However, the clothing on the corpse suggests that it is a recent burial -...

Growing up, the Schock sisters lived across the street from a serial killer—at least according to their mother. She’s spent years spying on the man and tracking his every move, but no concrete evidence has ever been found. When Helen...

"A woman priest at St Margaret's? Over my dead body!" Dolly Topping, head of the national organisation 'Ladies Opposed to Women Priests' and wife of one of the churchwardens, feels that strongly about it. It is unfortunate, therefore, that Father Julian,...

Death at the Deanery - sudden and unnatural death. Someone should have seen it coming. For even before Stuart Latimer arrives as the new Dean of Malbury, shock waves are reverberating through the tightly-knit and insular Cathedral Close, with sweeping...

"Just the place for a Nark!" the Detective cried,As he eagerly surveyed the scene;With the stout-hearted Doctor alert at his side,And the Dog standing guard in between.Imagine a world where the logic of Sherlock Holmes meets the nonsense of Wonderland!...

Graceland Cemetery is one of Chicago's most outstanding memorial grounds. It's like a little town with a private lake and mausoleums lining its streets. The funerary architecture is spectacular. Here lie Chicago's deceased:  baseball...