Classic crime and mystery fiction Books

Paru en 1855, L'Assassinat du Pont-Rouge est te premier roman policier français. Dans cette oeuvre, qui fait apparaître en son coeur Baudelaire et même l'un de ses poèmes - offert à son ami Chartes Barbara deux ans avant que ne paraissent Les fleurs du...

Eddie Holland is back. The former FBI agent turned private detective in Austin, Texas, returns for another fast paced mystery. Following on the heels of The South Coast and Ballyvaughan, Hangfire keeps you guessing until the very end. Clem Akins has...

A friendly game of poker leads three detectives and a lawyer to tell some tall tales about a case. Murder, mayhem, and a missing toaster are all on the menu. Are they playing liar's poker, or merely bluffing?Three novellas come to light, that will have...

Sometimes taking a spin makes you crash and burn.When a neighbor disappears, Myrtle and Miles shift gears and hit the road to search for him. They discover their neighbor slightly off the beaten track—murdered with a tire iron. Myrtle has no...

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...

"[W]orthy of being compared to Dickens's creations . . . First-class entertainment." - William F. Deeck, The Mystery Fancier"An exciting story told in a pleasant narrative style with considerable skill, and a whole portfolio of Dickensian characters,...

Living in a paradise of white sand beaches and warm tropical waters, Benny is enjoying his senior year in college when a beautiful co-ed turns his world upside-down. Her dedication to ecology and saving sea turtles becomes his. They encounter poachers...

This is an omnibus edition consisting of the three stories in the Ghost and Detective McNab series with all being set in modern day Edinburgh, Scotland. A Misplaced Body introduces the young Probationary Detective Constable Hamish McNab who is sent...

July, 1900.Sam Blackstone has only gone to New York to pick up a prisoner, but he soon finds himself drafted in to investigate the murder of Inspector O'Brien, a man famed for rooting out police corruption.Working with Alex Meade, an enthusiastic young...

The cold night breeze slams the barn door shut with a sickening crash. The girl curled in the corner wakes with a start. Her gold butterfly necklace catches the pale moonlight as she clutches it tight, thinking of her family. Will she ever escape? Or is...

In Wendy Sand Eckel's much-anticipated third book in the Rosalie Hart Mystery Series, Rosalie's hard-earned organic farm certification is threatened by a toxic neighbor who is about to crop dust his winter wheat. When their impulsive farm hand decides to...

Sheriff Jax Turner is staring down the barrel of his broken past. On the brink of ending it all, he feels like a failure following his daughter's tragic passing and his subsequent divorce. But when a schoolgirl vanishes and her backpack is found in a sex...

November, 1956 Seattle A couple witness a murder in their suburban neighborhood. Inspector Riggs identifies the victim as Loretta Newcastle, a local art critic who should have been at the neighbor's dinner party at the time of her murder. Loretta...

Hoping for an exciting life abroad, Daniel Darrow crosses the Atlantic to serve as the assistant reverend at a small church in the Scottish Highlands capital of Inverness. Fresh out of seminary, he feels he is ready for anything - until he meets his new...

Sherlock Holmes was the greatest sleuth in all of English literature. Collected here in this giant oversized volume are seven Sherlock Homes books including A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Memoirs of Sherlock...

CHLOE MORRAND HAD TURNED HER LIFE AROUND.She’d been taking her meds. She’d kicked her drug abuse. And she loved her new job at Yellowstone National Park. Life was looking up...Her father, Rick Morrand—local attorney—is hopeful...

The Man Who Knew Too Much: From behind the overhanging rock came a noise and rush like that of a railway train; and a great motorcar appeared. For the fraction of a flash it seemed to leave the ledge of rock like a flying ship; then the very sky seemed...

Chesterton portrays Father Brown as a short, stumpy Roman Catholic priest, with shapeless clothes and a large umbrella, and an uncanny insight into human evil. "How in Tartarus," cried Flambeau, "did you ever hear of the spiked bracelet?" -- "Oh, one's...

BOOK 3 IN THE TRILOGY - Our SUPER SLEUTHS are back with 5 impossible mysteries!• WHO KILLED SIR GEORGE? Our amateur detectives come full circle when the mining magnate who united them is found murdered, his trusty assistant arrested - and with good...

When young Michael Callaway is murdered at the cloistered confines of Kings School, an exclusive private boarding school for the sons of the British upper classes, Chief Inspector Thomas Ford of Scotland Yard is dispatched to investigate. But Ford is...

Private investigator Neil Ames is haunted by the murder of his fiancée and relentless PTSD flashbacks. To hide from his pain, he sketches and immerses himself in the wisdom of Sherlock Holmes. But most of his hours are spent exposing corporate corruption...

Fyra klassiska pusseldeckare av den dekadente författaren Matthew Phipps Shiel (1865-1947). Zaleski är en briljant rysk prins som dragit sig tillbaka från världens besvikelser i ett fallfärdigt herresäte i Wales, där han fördriver dagarna med att röka...

Das Buch enthält folgende außergewöhnliche Abenteuer von Arsene Lupin:I. Die Verhaftung von Arsène LupinII. Arsène Lupin im GefängnisIII. Die Flucht von Arsène LupinIV. Der geheimnisvolle ReisendeV. Das Collier der KöniginVI. Die HerzsiebenVII. Der...

Henry Bara, weltberühmter Tenor und Frauenheld, übernimmt an einem Berliner Theater die Titelrolle der Opernrevue "Columbus". Die Premiere wird zu einem fulminanten Erfolg, doch noch in derselben Nacht fällt Bara einem Mord zum Opfer. Der Täter scheint...

Dans cet épisode, tu entendras parler :- D'un clebs plus flou qu'un pet de fantôme vu à travers une peau de sauciflard. Tain, y'a d'ces trucs !- D'un long cou de vautour autour duquel des perles maudissent Neptune, tant elles se font chier grave !...

Mézigue dans une malle. Cet enfoiré de Chien Flou, de plus en plus zarbi ! Un lapin avec une perruque. Un prétendu monstre des foins, pffffeu ! j'te jure ! Une autostoppeuse qui me stupidifit le coeur et l'esprit. Une ourse nue qui tente de me violer...

Des vols d'objets de très grande valeur sont commis par une certaine : La Féline .Qui est la Féline ? Tout le monde en parle, mais dégun le sait ! Tous les flics lui cavalent après, mais aucun n'a réussi à l'avoir, ni même à la voir.Moi aussi, je suis...

How far would you go to get justice for someone you love? Would you kill for them?Chase Humphry is tied to a chair in his living room. His mansion is located in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods of Chicago. His eyes have been removed and stuck on a...

On a snowy Valentine’s Day in Minneapolis, Minnesota, wealthy, beautiful Crystal Holt is found dead with a gun in her hand. Was it suicide or murder? Veteran Detective Isaac Holt and his frequently distracted team are tasked with finding out. All...

Delicious but deadly...When a gorgeous San Francisco socialite is accused of poisoning her tycoon husband, private eye Daniel Hannity takes the case -- and finds himself caught in a twisted web of danger, desire and deceit.A riveting whodunit in the...

The Disappearance of Darcie MaloneBook 1 of the Emily Menotti Mystery SeriesOn a warm September night in 1969, a young couple embarks on a romantic midnight picnic on the grounds of a reputedly haunted house. By morning, the young girl has disappeared,...

A hated outsider. A shocking death. And everyone has a reason for murder...DCI Harry Grimm is settling into the rhythms of Yorkshire. Though he knows the idyllic rural landscape can hide dark deeds, the methodical investigator trusts his colleagues to...

A vanished couple. A disoriented treasure hunter. A body with suspicious injuries.Harry Grimm is starting to feel like a local - almost. But when his quiet happiness is interrupted by a confused eighty-year-old detectorist claiming to have seen Medieval...

If you like Detective Series with a few laughs, you'll like this.Sergeant Llewellyn's remark that, perhaps, 'Someone else' had made them a gift of Professor Anthony Babbington as the murderer, was just sour grapes, in Detective...

Johannesburg criminal lawyer Gary Edwards has a choice to make.His childhood friend and fellow lawyer is accused of murder and all the evidence points to him being the killer... Coming to his aid means Gary will have to sacrifice his high-flying...

If you wanted to disappear, for whatever reason, would changing your name and appearance be enough? When Taylor Green returns to the Essex village of Little Eden's Corner, she hopes its inhabitants will have forgotten the event that caused her to...

One moment the lovely young woman was walking through the Battle of Hastings exhibition at the British Museum; the next, she lay dead on the checkered museum floor, a Norman arrow protruding from her breast. Inspector Lestrade believed he had solved...

Why Meiringen? Sherlock Holmes readers have always asked, why did Holmes go to Meiringen? And did Moriarty follow him there? And if Holmes did not die in the Falls, what happened next? The familiar stories tell us little. For the first time this book...

In Charles M. DuPuy's suspenseful mystery Easy Kill, book 1 of the E.Z. Kelly Series, readers will meet a new leading lady willing to kick her opponent's butt, whatever the circumstance. Will dangerous lady E.Z. Kelly succeed in finding...

Lily Parks has found her dream job as personal assistant to one of America's premier mystery writers. Penelope Walters, whose delicate appearance hides a formidable personality, enjoys both fame and fortune with her books. Unfortunately for her, the...

In 1962, Dot Morgan was told the best thing she could do besides being a nurse or teacher was to learn to type. While attending secretarial school, she decides to rub elbows with an elite ladies' club to help her father with a struggling campaign for...

In post-WWII San Francisco, Dune House is an oddity-a sprawling, heavily-gated mansion with no telephone, no radio, and no electricity. The city is abuzz when it learns that Julia Paget, the rich, reclusive mistress of Dune House, is conducting a search...

They call themselves the Big Five and a Half. In the aftermath of World War II, six high school students-rich, ambitious, handsome-are groomed for ultimate success by their teacher, Mr. Northcliffe. At their farewell picnic in Mariposa, they plan to...

After visiting the nineteenth-century German/Texan sculptor Elisabet Ney Museum in Austin, art crimes detective Professor Megan Crespi identifies an unknown bust of the young, beardless Johannes Brahms in a local antique store, and happily acquires it...

Collected here, in one volume are Gilbert K. Chesterton¿s most influential works of fiction. Harold March, the rising reviewer and social critic, was walking vigorously across a great tableland of moors and commons, the horizon of which was fringed with...