Classic crime and mystery fiction Books

An unaltered edition, with original illustrations, drawn from the reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D., late of the Army Medical Department, with footnotes -

While in Stratford, widow Sheila Malory always stays with her old friend, actor David Beaumont. On this visit she finds him in dire straits: his career is on the skids and his finances are in ruins. Unless he can convince his penny-pinching brother...

The sleepy seaside town of Taviscombe has more than its share of gossips and schemers. It also has Mrs. Sheila Malory, a widow whose gift for judging character and unmasking murderers is as impressive as her knowledge of nineteenth-century literature...

She was elegant, beautiful, and a cold-blooded killer...or so it appeared. She had the perfect motive, she even admitted behing at the scene of the crime. Scotland Yard was prepared to charge Louise Colton with her husband's brutal murder.Only shy,...

"Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine" returns with issue #17, presenting the best in modern and classic mystery fiction! Included this time are the usual column by Dr John H. Watson, plus the following works:His Latest Bow, by Timothy S. GreerAn Unlikely...

When an American gangster is found murdered in London under suspicious circumstances, Sir Reginald Crowe, British banker and friend of Mr. Jellipot, is accused of the crime. Brought before a coroner's court, he's on the virge of being arrested and...

Chesapeake Crimes 3 is the latest installment of the Agatha- and Anthony-award-winning Chesapeake Crimes series. "The Chesapeake Bay area is home to strong winds, joys, and fears, where you lock your doors at night in the cities and probably should lock...

Cornelius Mildew is dead, but his drug-trafficking gang lives on! The Hon. Peter Boyle has taken administrative control of the organization, and appears to be as ruthless as his former master. But is Boyle the only member of London high society involved...

RAZOR STREETAbel Marks was not a nice man, and when he's found murdered in his Razor Street flat, suspicion falls on Carol Marks, the young women he'd married just a few hours before. It was she who'd found the body, and she who'd agreed to marry him to...

An advance edition of Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #1 features fiction by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Carole Bugge, Ron Goulart, Marc Bilgrey, Edward D. Hoch, Hal Blythe, and Jean Paiva. Features by Kim Newman, Lenny Picker, Mrs Hudson, and Marvin Kaye.

This thrilling mystery novel takes place in the rugged wilderness of Canada's backwoods, where a small community is rocked by a series of bizarre and inexplicable crimes. With its vivid setting, engaging characters, and intricate plot, Rayton is a...

400 years after the Pilgrims first landed on Cape Cod, a business lunch for leaders of GreenHome LLC and the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe leads to murder. Or does it? Stopping at a yard sale on their way to Leo's Back End, property developer Harriet Benbow...

Detective Chief Inspector Tom Stone was contemplating taking early retirement. His face just didn't fit any more and he was sure he was being deliberately excluded from bigger operations. His health was starting to suffer. His doctor said it was...

When a New York Senator's parents are murdered, Detective Tara Woods and her partner begins an investigation that leads them from murder to missing runaway teens to white slavery.Tara learns from a man who calls himself "Teach" the secrets...

Daylesford, a beautiful old village in the Victorian Highlands has just gained two new residents. Ex-nuns Audrey and Jill are about to hit town... Leaving behind them decades of convent life, they are coming to live with Audrey’s cantankerous old...

Second in the acclaimed Geoffrey Chaucer mystery series,

Our exciting adventure began innocently enough. Harry Hansen was perusing the London Times, when he discovered a lengthy obituary of a remarkable person, The Earl of North London. While searching for more information on The Earl, it became evident to...

Murder in Sin City! Samantha Olivares feels the need to get away. She's looking for adventure, but finds more than she bargains for when she joins a motorcycle club in Las Vegas. Her dreams of sightseeing and idyllic days by the pool are soon...

When a rogue magician is murdered and secret government papers disappear, Maia and Len must race against time to find the murderer and the papers to decide the fate of all of England's magicians. Lennox Davies is no stranger to plots, lies, and even...

L'histoire est inspirée d'un fait divers réel : après la seconde guerre mondiale, on découvrit notamment dans la collection du maréchal Von Goering des faux tableaux de Vermeer, oeuvres d'un faussaire nommé Van Meegeren.Dans un petit immeuble parisien...

When this odd couple signs up to be extras in a fitness video, it's lights, camera... murder. Sho Tanaka is desperate for normalcy. Uncomfortably getting by in a tiny Texas town after prescription drugs cost him his job, the last thing the disgraced...

Are you learning Spanish?Did you know that learning Spanish using stories is one of the most powerful methods for language immersion?In this book you get to follow along with the first short story written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about the world's most...

In den South Regent Mansions gibt es alle modernen Annehmlichkeiten … Mord eingeschlossen London, Februar 1924. Olive Belgrave, die diskrete High Society- Spürnase, freut sich über ihre neue Wohnung in den South Regent Mansions, wo...

Un omicidio nell'alta società. Una giovane detective piena di spirito. Riuscirà la protagonista a scoprire chi è l'assassino prima che un innocente venga ingiustamente incolpato?   Londra, 1923. Olive Belgrave ha...

Chasses au trésor de minuit, fêtes costumées, et meurtre au sang bleu . . .  Novembre 1923. Gigi, une ancienne camarade d'école d'Olive, l'invite à Londres. Elle va découvrir que la...

Ein verschneites Landhaus, ein vermisster Butler und ein Fall zur Weihnachtszeit … Olive und Jasper waren sich noch nie näher – bis auf eine Sache. Jasper ist immer noch verschwiegen, was sein häufiges Verschwinden aus der...

Mitternächtliche Schnitzeljagden, Kostümpartys und ein blaublütiger Mord … November 1923. Olives Schulkameradin Gigi lädt Olive nach London ein, weil Gigis exzentrische Großmutter um ihr Leben fürchtet –...

Ein opulentes Londoner Stadthaus und der Fluch einer Mumie … … und eine mutige Detektivin. Es ist Oktober 1923, und Olive Belgrave hat einen neuen Fall. Ihre Auftraggeberin, Lady Agnes, glaubt nicht an Flüche, und sie heuert Olive...

Zylinder und Frack. Nerze und Mord …November 1923. Eine Einladung zu einer Hausparty auf dem Anwesen Parkview Hall ist eine willkommene Abwechslung für Olive Belgrave, eine frischgebackene berufstätige Frau, die zur Löserin der...

LARGE PRINT EDITIONA high-society murder. A spirited lady detective. Can she out-class the killer before an innocent person takes the fall?  London, 1923. Olive Belgrave needs a job. Despite her aristocratic upbringing, she’s penniless...

Un magnifique cadavre. Aucun indice. La paix à Castillac une fois de plus brisée.Lorsqu'un autre habitant du village françcais est retrouvé mort, Molly et les gendarmes sont perplexes. Pour compliquer les choses, Ben est engagé pour défendre le principal...

Una sfarzosa casa londinese, la maledizione di una mummia . . . . . . e una coraggiosa detective. È l'ottobre del 1923 e Olive Belgrave ha un nuovo caso. La sua cliente, Lady Agnes, non crede alle maledizioni e la assume per dimostrare che suo zio,...

A mysterious advert in a newspaper promising to restore hope to the hopeless brings together four strangers.None realising they will end up investigating a twisted and troubling crime that threatens their very futures.Mitch, a former Crime Scene...

Three adventures of Sherlock Holmes, very much in the style of the original stories, by a writer who has been acclaimed as the reincarnation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.The Odessa Business introduces a new member of the Holmes clan, as Sherlock Holmes...

BOOK #2 IN SERIESIn the rarefied world of wine collecting, murder isn't exactly a barrel of laughs... An invitation to dinner at the home of renowned wine collector Sir William Burton-Trent soon finds Chef Maurice in the middle of an all-too-real...

BOOK #1 IN SERIES"They say one should never trust a thin chef. By this measure, Chef Maurice was very trustworthy indeed."Take one sleepy Cotswold village, mix in one Poirot-esque murder mystery, add a larger-than-life French chef with an...

Everyone agrees that Bob Dexter, the prominent Evangelical clergyman, has a great deal of personal charisma. Those who know him realise that he also has an unshakable faith in his own righteousness, and a real talent for rubbing people up the wrong way...

'But Pierre could never know that in death Fame was his, for his was the second corpse.' When a well-known local vagrant nicknamed "Peter the Hermit" dies of seemingly natural causes, the police uncover an old Bulgarian newspaper and a beautiful...

"What I read in your hand is tragedy-a horrible tragedy that doesn't come to one in a million people." Bookseller Theodore Terhune buys the substantial library of the recently deceased James Strudgewick, a wealthy Yorkshireman who fell and drowned...

"Frank Hugh Smallwood was first murdered on the 15th of April, 1927" Bookseller Theodore Terhune investigates an old homicide case after he stumbles on the freshly murdered corpse of seaman Frank Smallwood, a man thought to have been murdered nearly...

The Miller-Croft family, much respected in and around London and further afield in the market town of Meadowbank where the matriarch, Catherine Miller-Croft, had made her home for over forty years, but like many families, the Miller-Crofts had their...