Classic crime and mystery fiction Books

Terror grips the city.In a series of brutal murders, three young women have been killed on or around the subway, and panic spreads through the transit system.To make matters worse, one of the investigating detectives is a suspect.Detective Inspector Ian...

A murder in a man's world. A reporter determined to solve the crime. Will she end up above the fold, or get buried in the back?1948: Kingston, Canada-Charley Hall knows she's a better reporter than any man in the newsroom. Frustrated to be demoted to the...

Jane Smith, an impecunious and intrepid heroine, finds herself in the wrong place at the right time, swept into an adventure which will include imposture, peril, romance and… murder.  The Astonishing Adventure of Jane Smith, the first of...

If she can't clear her friend's name, he'll go down for murder. But it's her own past that threatens to drown them all.1948: Kingston, Canada-When reporter Charley Hall's childhood friend, Dan Cannon, is found standing over the badly beaten body of his...

Does she have the prescription to stop a murderer? Or will the cure be the death of her?1948: Kingston, Canada-A school reunion turns deadly when several of Kingston's nurses suddenly fall ill and one dies. And then it happens again. And again. Like...

Bay Bishop's husband was murdered in the alley behind their Northern Michigan restaurant and she lost not only the partner in her dream but the man she thought was the love of her life.Now she's a suspect.When the detective who shows up on her doorstep...

Shanghai, 1932The city is booming. It's the Paris of Asia—wealthy, sophisticated, and fun—the most international city in the Far East. But beneath the surface fear of war is mounting. With spies and counterspies on every side and their...

Gary Lovisi presents a new Sherlock Holmes adventure set in the magical land of Oz, as Holmes and Watson take on their most fantastic case-the Red Poppy Menace! Sure to delight all fans of both Sherlock Holmes and Oz, this edition is profusely...

"Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine" returns with issue #16, 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:The Ironic Story of The Stevenson - Doyle Letters...

Father Tom Greer and Detective Helen Parr are deeply in love. Unwilling to break his vows of celibacy and chastity, they've been determined to forge a relationship based on friendship and affection only, never giving in to their physical attraction to...

A treacherous race to stop an extinction. A mysterious death linked to the past. Can a silver-haired sleuth track down the clues in time to save a life? 'Mama Rose' Hardie has always fought to conserve Kenya's precious wildlife. Officiating at an...

Dans ce roman policier classique, une série de crimes mystérieux se produit dans le monde de l'opéra, faisant planer une menace sur les stars de la scène. L'inspecteur Lecoq est engagé pour résoudre l'énigme, mais les suspects et les mobiles ne cessent...

In this classic whodunit, readers will follow amateur sleuth H. Beam Piper as he tries to solve the murder of his best friend. Along the way, Piper will encounter a colorful cast of suspects and uncover secrets that someone will stop at nothing to...

When Arnold Rivers, a wealthy man, is found murdered at a bridge party, everyone is a suspect. Detective Inspector Arnold finds himself in a race against time to solve the case and bring the culprit to justice.This work has been selected by scholars as...

The daring and thrilling adventures of the infamous thief-turned-detective, The Lone Wolf, as he solves crimes and outwits his enemies.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of...

On January 24, 1925, The Saturday Evening Post began its serialization of the book that would make Earl Derr Biggers famous: The House Without a Key, the first of the Charlie Chan series. Chan, the first Chinese detective in literature, was modeled after...

On January 24, 1925, The Saturday Evening Post began its serialization of the book that would make Earl Derr Biggers famous: The House Without a Key, the first of the Charlie Chan series. Chan, the first Chinese detective in literature, was modeled after...

Arthur Conan Doyle pretendió "asesinar" a su propia creación. De esa forma, hizo desaparecer a Sherlock Holmes en las cataratas de Reichenbach. El escritor debe haber sentido eso que llaman alivio...hasta que los seguidores del detective reclamaron...

Gold discovered that was taken from an 1880s train robbery in Montana may be the catalyst of three "double murders" in the west. Five years later, three bodies were discovered in each of two different lakes located in the same area. An FBI agent and a...

A cold winter's night in Croydon and pensioner Nelly Raven lies dead and naked on the floor of her living room. The scene bears all the hallmarks of a burglary gone wrong. It's just the beginning. Ron Butcher rose to the top of London's gangland by...

The most ESSENTIAL stories of the Sherlock Holmes canon -- with new essays and illustrations!At last! The third of four volumes bringing together, in chronological order, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most important adventures of SHERLOCK HOLMES from a...

A fast-moving traditional British detective novel with an 'old school' Detective and his modern IT savvy Asian/English Sergeant pursue a serial killer in Poetic Justice who is targetting celebrities who went to the same Dramatic Art College when...

Sometimes it's unclear who deserves a favor...Despite her life-changing injury, Dee Rommel is as determined and scrappy as ever. Still adjusting to her new life working for her godfather, private investigator Gordy Greer, Dee is ready to try out her...

The local universitys Shakespeare troupe already had plenty of drama. Then their manager was murdered.  The morning after the coroner election, Fenway Stevenson finds herself in the middle of another emotionally charged case. The manager of a...

When her stepfather dies, Miss Lois Cayley finds herself alone in the world with only twopence in her pocket. Undaunted, the intelligent, attractive, and infinitely resourceful young woman decides to set off in search of adventure. Her travels take her...

A young woman vanishes without a trace. Can an ex-soldier-turned-copper keep a mystery from becoming a tragedy?Bristol, England. DCI Harry Grimm carries his horrific IED scars both inside and out. But when the ex-paratrooper's obsession with tracking...

A murderous puzzle.A compromised crime scene.One DCI whose determination to nail the killer could cost him his life ...Detective Harry Grimm can't catch a break. When his much-needed vacation is interrupted by a call reporting a decomposed corpse, he...

How many times have I told you that we must appear to run this hotel as commercial proposition?"Newly arrived in London, journalist Charles Venables has been invited by his friend Viola to stay - at least temporarily - at a residential hotel in...

'I shouldn't have come back! They'll never give up! There's too much to lose!'George Pollicott and Henry Rowles live a solitary and meagre existence in a hut along the towering Sea Wall of the Welsh Lowlands. On a foggy night twenty years before,...

Here are more of E. W. Hornung's famous stories of adventure and crime featuring the thrill seeking A. J. Raffles and his friend, accomplice and chronicler 'Bunny'. By turns urbane gentleman about town and accomplished cricketer, life is just too...

When Buffalo Bill Cody's horse is stolen, the star of the world's foremost wild west show travels to Baker Street to consult the star of the world's foremost consulting detective agency. Like many before him, Colonel Cody takes Sherlock Holmes to be that...

Is Sherlock Holmes really as rational as he seems?  He talks about the importance of reasoning and logic, but why then does he sometimes seem like a “strange Buddha”?  On the other hand, why in The Sign of the Four does Watson smash...

In 1936 an elderly Doctor Watson sits at his desk with a dictation machine, over a two week period, recounting the significant moments in his life. The expected publication of his autobiography never materialised. But in 2017 the wax cylinders containing...

In 1910, American author and social critic Jack London began writing The Assassination Bureau, Ltd., a work that he never completed. Now, thanks to the recently discovered manuscript of Dr. John Watson, we know why. The early part of London's book...

Sherlock Holmes is missing. Dr. Watson receives a cursed note, summoning him to the city of Milan. In his plight, he turns to the one person who can help him: Mycroft Holmes, secret agent and eternally concerned elder brother. Mycroft has to team up with...

Sherlock Holmes had never met a writer who had ridiculed him as bitterly as Samuel L. Clemens had. For that matter, Holmes had never met a writer who fancied himself a detective. Yet Sam Clemens not only unraveled Holmes investigation into the murder of...

They called her Lady Stewart when she was married to a British aristocrat. They called her Miss Cora when she ran a brothel in Florida. But she called herself Mrs. Crane when she asked Sherlock Holmes to locate her common-law husband, writer Stephen...

An invitation to take lunch at the Great Western Hotel at Paddington station leads Sherlock Holmes into a baffling mystery. Who is it that is watching every move made by popular journalist, Farringdon Blake, and why? When the trail goes cold in London,...

"Merlin predicted you would say that." When a knight from the Round Table of Camelot bursts into 221-B Baker Street demanding the help of Sherlock Holmes, there begins the oddest, most mystical adventure Holmes and Watson have ever experienced...

The mists of Britain’s insula antiquity have drifted into the modernity of the nineteenth century bringing with them echoes of the savage rituals of its ancient peoples. The Press has fuelled the Public’s fear over dismembered victims...

An unidentified woman is found dead with a set of false teeth mysteriously gripped in her hand. A young tutor finds himself accused of a bizarre art theft.A Russian refugee in hiding is helped by Watson's wife Mary, and now Mary has disappeared.In these...

Part X: 2018 Annual (1896-1916) features contributions by: Mike Hogan, Kelvin Jones, Jim French, Arthur Hall, Steve Ehrman, Greg Hatcher, Jayantika Ganguly, Paul Freeman, Dick Gillman, Maurice Barkley, Daniel D. Victor, Martin Rosenstock, Peter Coe...

When misadventure led a schoolboy in London to employment at Baker Street, few could have guessed where his introduction to Sherlock Holmes would lead. But as the lad matures and he finds himself caught in the middle of a murder investigation, his...

Bodies washing up along the eastern coast of New England and the mysterious grounding of a "ghost ship" near Manhattan combine to bring Sherlock Holmes out of retirement to resume his pursuit of the villainous Baron Antonio Barlucci-the Whitechapel...

In Imogene and the Case of the Missing Pearls, a day after Imogene's obnoxious step-cousins pay a visit, her mother's pearls go missing. When Sherlock Holmes is called in, Imogene, harboring a secret desire to become a detective, sees her chance to learn...

1888: Dr. John H. Watson, Army Corps surgeon turned colleague of the celebrated consulting detective Sherlock Holmes, decides not to assist in future cases as he is engaged to Mary Morstan. 1926: Mary Forrester discovers her mother's diary, covering the...