Classic crime and mystery fiction Books

Fully revised 2nd edition - The Investigating Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes Colloquium and donation of the third largest private collection of Sherlockiana in the world were supposed to produce a weekend of great publicity for tiny St. Benignus...

Sorry, Holmes fans, not a snake in the entire book. The Spotted Band is a rock group of jungle cats: an Ocelot, Jaguar, Himalayan Snow Leopard and the irrepressible Cheetah, Chita. (She left Arch Villain Imperius Drake in a hurry in Book One.) The story...

A New York police officer, who is on a speaking engagement in Britain finds time to visit the Dartmoor environs. As a nuts and bolts detective events occur on the moors that test his sanity and reason. What are the reasons for a sudden rash of maulings...

An accident with H.G. Wells' time machine strands Cynthia Kenyon in London, 1882. Utterly alone, the prisoner of Professor James Moriarty, there is but one name from the period Cynthia knows: Sherlock Holmes. What she could not know is how powerful an...

Gripped with fear and confusion as his paralegal takes her last breath in his arms, Jonathan vows to avenge her savage death ... or die trying.With a successful career as an attorney living in Portland, Oregon, Jonathan's life is about to take a turn...

Jeff Taylor has taken a summer internship in Sacramento before his third year of medical school. An octogenarian, conveying a saintly countenance, wanders into Jeff's office one day. After the man, who suffers from late-stage dementia, is ushered away by...

An elite, rich, and spunky older lady rents a country house for the summer along with her skittish Irish maid and her niece. Some servants sort of come with the property but most soon abandon their new matron due to happenings within this large mansion...

Homicide cop Bobby Dunston's daughter has been kidnapped, taken in broad daylight on a city street in the middle of September. The kidnappers demand a million dollars and force Dunston to get the ransom from his friend Rushmore McKenzie. It soon...

A small university in Pennsylvania has engaged Mrs. Sheila Malory to teach a course on Nineteenth-Century Women writers, and so, with some reluctance, the widow leaves her home in the charming seaside village of Taviscombe to experience academic life in...

Everyone knows that impertinent Lee Montgomery is marrying Charles Richardson for his money. After Lee vanishes, Charles' friends breathe a sigh of relief. But Charles loves his pretty fiancée and is determined to get her back. In this quest he enlists...

A murder in a crowded Broadway theater presents a full house of suspects—the first in this classic mystery series starring Ellery Queen! Despite the dismal Broadway season, Gunplay continues to draw crowds. A gangland spectacle, it’s...

A stylish puzzle mystery from the author who “took the intellectual game that was the formal detective novel to greater heights than any American writer” (The Weekly Standard). The windows of French’s department store are one of New...

This early work by Edgar Wallace was originally published in 1929 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Golden Hades' is a tale of murder and a symbol on bank notes leading to a sinister organisation. Richard...

This early work by Edgar Wallace was originally published in 1922 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Flying Fifty-Five' is a novel set in the horse racing community and follows the ups and downs of turf life...

Set in the ancient university city of Oxford, this novel tells the story of two undergraduates who become entangled in a murder investigation. With its vivid descriptions of student life and academic intrigue, it offers a humorous and engaging portrait...

A common, garden variety murder…Location scout Kate Sharp is enjoying the gorgeous Springtime in her favorite idyllic English village while coordinating locations for a Jane Austen documentary, but when she’s assigned to manage a difficult...

When Laura Fletcher approaches her home in Oxfordshire tofind hordes of photographers crowding the gates, she knows there is somethingterribly wrong. She is faced with the shocking news that her husband is dead -brutally murdered - and according to Chief...

Die spannenden ersten Fälle für den französischen Privatdetektiv Dominique DemesyEin abenteuerlicher Cosy Krimi vor der abwechslungsreichen Kulisse AsiensDer französische Privatdetektiv Dominique Demesy lebt seit vielen Jahren in...

Maggie O’Shea was in total panic having discovered early this morning, a warning note laid by the doorway with a rock holding it from blowing away. Though moisture had made some of the words blur, Maggie had no difficulty understanding a threat...

England, early May, 1926After the funerals of the late Duke of Sutherland and his daughter-in-law, Charlotte, (and of course Grimsby, the blackmailing valet), the younger members of the family-Philippa Darling, her cousins Christopher and Francis, and...

England, late April, 1926 When Henry Astley, Duke of Sutherland, turns up dead in bed at the end of an afternoon spent calling his family on the carpet, everyone assumes that the excitement finished the old boy off. He was quite old and also quite...

Elite forensic sculptor Meg Schock is obsessed with solving cold cases and bringing justice to victims. When the local US attorney brings her the skull of a young murdered woman with similarities to one she’s already reconstructed—but not...

'An entertaining confidence game, which seduces, startles, and ... assuredly succeeds in engaging one's interest.' - Kirkus Reviews'[Wilson] continues to try to find out what is really important in life ... surely his intentions deserve all our respect...

The Sherlockian, the magazine that the indefatigable Holmesian, Kelvin I. Jones, edited in the mid-1980s for publication by Magico Magazine, is re-published in one volume. New material includes essays and stories by leading Sherlockians in the UK, USA...

Six more tales of Sherlock Holmes... 'The Torso At Highgate Cemetery' I watched as the policeman took out a notebook and read from an open page. He spoke in a whisper. Inspector Lestrade's face turned ashen. He turned towards me, looking grim...

An undeclared Viking hoard has been found on the remote Isle of Harris and Lewis, in the far north of Scotland. When renowned Private Investigator Mike Telford discovers that items are being put up for sale-unbeknownst to the authorities-Detective...

Mad Music was the buzziest new show of the upcoming Broadway season, with a hot score, a cool director, and a deadly plot twist no one saw coming. When rumors of a behind-the-scenes disaster surface, ballerina Leah Siderova finds herself with the...

"It's times like these when a gal's got her ex-husband hiding inches away from her new boyfriend and a murdered man in rigor on the floor beside her that being good at lying would sure come in handy." ~ HOW TO KILL A KINGPIN Gina Malone, aka the...

A CRAFTY KILLER'S BLAME GAME Refereeing homeowner association spats over acceptable mulch color was never part of Kylee Kane's post-Coast Guard retirement plans. The irate combatants are trying the security consultant's patience when gunfire erupts...

In Killer in a Winter Wonderland, the much-anticipated holiday-themed fourth book in the Rosalie Hart Cozy Mystery Series, Wendy Sand Eckel once again brings the fictional town of Cardigan, Maryland to life and delights with suspense, humor, and...

Young architect Wren Fontaine lands her dream job: restoring Greenleaf House, New York's finest Gilded-Age mansion, to its glory days. But old homes have old secrets: Stephen Greenleaf-heir to what's left of his family's legacy-refuses to reveal what his...

The summer that Alicia Richmond and her father rented the old Greene place started out just like any other season for the families who vacationed each year at Sidley's Cove. But the pleasant, normal routine of that little Maine fishing village soon...

Here's a story written in breezy journalese that has all the ingredients of a first-class thriller: crime, mystery, and love. Fresh and hot as "front page" stuff, it travels swiftly, keyed to the author's enthusiasm for the setting-her own town,...

Murder in the Tomb is a unique adventure in mystery stories by a newcomer in the field of detective-mystery fiction; but the reader who starts the story will not be able to lay the book aside until he has read to the final page.The novel’s action...

"The tenth Clinton Driffield detective novel, 1935's The Tau Cross Mystery . . . moves away from a country house milieu . . . to a well-conveyed setting in an English suburb beset with a multitude of sins. The mystery itself is meticulously clued and...

"One of the very best of the Connington country house mysteries . . . is The Castleford Conundrum. In this tale the author does an extremely effective job of portraying an odious, stupid woman, Winifred Castleford, and her detestable, sponging in-laws...

"After both Roger and Neville Shandon are felled in Whistlefield's famous hedge maze by curare-tipped darts, Sir Clinton [Driffield] arrives to restore order at this fractious country estate. Sir Clinton's performance as a criminal investigator is...

A beautiful city with ugly traditions of corruption and racism. A black man set to hang for a murder he didn't commit. A world-famous author -- and detective -- who isn't about to let it happen..."An enjoyable tour of 1890s New Orleans.....

The 22nd issue of Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine features new and classic mystery tales -- including a brand new Nero Wolfe story! Included are 7 stories, a poem, all the usual features, and more:Features:From Watson's Notebook, by John H. Watson,...

In this intriguing novel, Dr. Thorndyke, a forensic investigator and one of the earliest fictional detectives to use scientific methods, is called upon to solve a complex case. A body is found in mysterious circumstances, leading to a web of clues that...

On the plane from New York to London, Dr. Morelle chances to meet Edwin Gale, a smooth-tongued swindler. Inexplicably, Gale finds himself drawn to the famous psychiatrist-detective, and so begins one of Dr. Morelle's most intriguing cases. Back in...

A thrilling mystery set in turn-of-the-century England, this book follows the investigation into a shocking crime committed by the enigmatic Mrs Keith. As the evidence mounts against her, will she be able to clear her name? Full of twists and turns, this...

Hermes Pimm receives a call from MI6 Chief Arthur Blake requesting a liaison. As usual, Pimm invites him to lunch at White's Club.Once they are seated, Blake reveals that the wife of a wealthy Turk has sought sanctuary from her abusive husband. Given her...

Forensic Special Investigator Amy Elizabeth Fletcher of the Metropolitan Police joined forces with Detective Inspector Thomas Dundas between 1898 and 1901 to solve seven of the most baffling and bizarre crimes ever committed in London and East Anglia...

This collection of Agatha Christie's first five novels featuring the famed detective Hercule Poirot. Books included in this collection:The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot #1): Agatha Christie's first novel featuring one her most famous and...

Respirez... si vous osez.Campagne anglaise, 1958. Le village idyllique d'Olney St. Mary s'était maintenu dans son environnement paisible pendant plus de 900 ans.Jusqu'au jour où deux adolescents sont frappés par une mystérieuse maladie. Le docteur Hilary...

Der berühmte römische Rechtsanwalt Bruno Tedesci lehnte in der stillsten aller römischen Nächte an der steinernen Brüstung der Ponte Sant´ Angelo und blickte hinab in den Tiber. Nichts war zu hören, gar nichts, nicht einmal das Fließen des Wassers tief...