Classic crime and mystery fiction Books

Langdon is muddling his way through the pandemic like everybody else. Business restrictions have dealt a blow to his mystery bookstore, and nobody leaves the house anymore to get into trouble and create a need for a PI. At the same time, his marriage is...

A Geologist Lies Comatose in a Portland, Maine Hospital in A World of Deceit, a Detective Joe Burgess Thriller by Kate Flora--Portland, Maine--Unable to awaken her father--eminent geologist, Ted Gabbro--nine-year-old Arielle approaches the vacationing...

In "The Final Reflection: Shadows of Justice," Detective Ian Mercer faces the darkest case of his career, set against the chilling backdrop of Willow's End. Tasked with solving what initially appears to be a simple suicide on Willow's Bridge, Mercer's...

FBI Agent Megan Raines is investigating her first major case, a horrific serial killer in Omaha, Nebraska.The Midwest Madman has been killing for years, but he doesn't just kill his victims, he tortures them slowly.Megan and her partner, James, work with...

Un giallo ambientato nella costa del Lancashire, nell'Inghilterra nord-occidentale.John "Slim" Hardy, in congedo dall'esercito e forte bevitore, adesso imbranato investigatore privato, viene assunto per indagare su Ted Douglas, un consulente finanziario...

When Southwest Pennsylvania's summer rains flood the Casselman River, State Police Trooper Jim Duncan finds a John Doe body in what is initially believed to be a tragic accident. But when a second victim, John Doe's partner in an environmental...

Four decades ago, Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Lawrence Block introduced the world to one of his most beloved and enduring creations: Bernie Rhodenbarr, the clever, nimble-fingered star of novels such as Burglars Can't Be Choosers, The...

Un meurtre au sein de la haute société. Une lady détective brillante. Saura-t-elle démasquer l'assassin avant qu'un innocent ne porte le chapeau ?Londres, 1923. Olive Belgrave a besoin d'un travail. Malgré son éducation aristocratique, elle est...

Chasing the Dead: Death Stings is a stand-alone mystery introducing Sir James Marchant, a recently widowed landowner who is running a sanctuary for retired Police horses. It is also the first of three books featuring Sir James and reveals an ancient...

Roger Riccard, respected and prolific author of Sherlock Holmes stories with over fifty to his credit since his first novel in 2012, has already taken readers through the Twelve Days of Christmas and An Alphabet of Cases. He now he turns his...

With a myriad of motives, the question is who?Detective Sergeant Michael Brennan of the Wigan Borough Police has no time for tales of ghosts and the afterlife, or of the dead contacting the living.So, when he finds himself investigating the case of...

Roxxy Foxx, Retired US Airforce Security Forces Sniper, is a daring Private Investigator in the river city of Sacramento, California.Sacramento is the hub of the western United States for human trafficking. The human trade business is big money, and The...

Alice MacDonald Greer is relishing life, love, and her thriving wills and real estate law practice in small town Coffee Creek, deep in the scenic Texas Hill Country. She's engaged to Ben Kinsear but still puzzling over how they'll merge their lives. Then...

Everyone has a secret, and in 1964, Dot Morgan's new job at KDUD Radio is filled with them. Her boss, Holden Ramsey, is a terrible flirt, but he's also engaged to a beautiful socialite. When Dot finds out he's hiding involvements with other women, these...

Sociology professor Felix Thayer is brilliant but hateful. A near genius in his field, but impossible to get along with. When his colleague Michael Hartness is found murdered in his office, it doesn't surprise anyone that Thayer is arrested for the crime...

Daring thieves steal the 200-year-old Jade Lily from a Minneapolis art museum and then offer to sell it back for one-third of its insured value—$1,300,000. But there’s a catch. They demand that unlicensed P. I. Rushmore McKenzie act as...

This classic tale follows the unexpected adventures of a mild-mannered English vicar who finds himself embroiled in international intrigue. When the vicar's roguish brother Edmund returns home with a mysterious cargo and dubious associates, the quiet...

IN THE MANSION OF MURDER...A self-made millionaire, whose true story was not fit to print...His beautiful "friend"...His wife, and her friend, a very suspect psychiatrist...And a man from the haunted past, with his father's blood on his...

When Ella Flynn's estranged father dies in his hometown of Prosper, Georgia, the Chicago Police Detective arrives to tie up loose ends with Funeral Director, Jackson Lee Armstrong. Ray Flynn has left his daughter a time-worn blue house and a very loud...

Everyone is dying to attend the Christmas gala-the event of the season-until one of the hosts turns up that way. Dead, that is.When a doctor is urgently summoned, Matthew rushes to help. But he's too late.Was the man murdered?Suspecting foul play,...

Maia Whitney has held men as they died before, but never in peacetime, and never in her aunt's front hall. And this unexpected death is only the beginning. Someone is stealing magic and life from England's magicians and using them for his or her own gain...

The Valley of Fear is the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is loosely based on the Molly Maguires and Pinkerton agent James McParland. The story was first published in the Strand Magazine between September 1914 and May...

THE MEMOIRS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1894, by Arthur Conan Doyle.The twelve stories (eleven in American editions) of the Memoirs are: "Silver Blaze", "The Adventure of the...

Berättelsen utspelar sig mellan åren 1918- 1920 i Stockholm och i den mindre hamnstaden Vikar och dess skärgård. Under Gerards sökande efter sanningen kring ett antal mord och kring sitt eget liv söker vi efter sanningen om honom. Vi själva måste vara...

Le premier contact entre Sylvia, journaliste intrépide, et François, commissaire, est loin d'être des plus chaleureux. Lorsque Sylvia sauve Anne des griffes de ses agresseurs et se noue d'amitié avec elle, elle est loin de se douter qu'elle va être...

Alors que Joshua et Irine vivaient paisiblement et attendaient leur premier enfant, l'accouchement ne se déroula pas comme prévu.Le 29 octobre 2004, le médecin annonça : la naissance de Sasha et le décès d'Irine.Père et fille passèrent les 14 prochaines...

Bluetown, ville touristique pourvue d'îles paradisiaques est la proie d'un audacieux voleur de tableaux. Robert Fisher, policier local, ne possède ni piste ni indice. Alan Katerman, éminent chirurgien, est missionné dans cette petite ville. Homme...

Two murders, mirror image victims... one trail to the killer.Private Investigator Fen Maguire is called in to assist a new police chief in solving a woman's murder on the Guadalupe River. All evidence points to a long-time homeless person, prompting a...

There's more to this game than dodging paintballs... a killer is on the loose. Newly licensed private investigator Fen Maguire gets his next case - to investigate an extortion ring putting the squeeze on loggers in the piney woods of East Texas...

In one of Maurice Leblanc's most ornately constructed and beguiling tales, master of disguise and gentleman-burglar Arsène Lupin transforms both himself and (among those in the know) his reputation as a charming but incorrigible rake. When the heirs to a...

Father Brown is back in The Wisdom of Father Brown (1914), the second of five collections of short stories featuring G. K. Chesterton's unlikely, lovable priest-detective. Included are "The Paradise of Thieves" and "The Purple Wig," which frequently rank...

Widowed Lady Rosamund spends the first months of her mourning in the Lake District, where it's safe and peaceful, and murders are exceedingly rare. Luckily, she is rescued from this tedium by a house party comprised of playwrights, poets, and actors-an...

From the moment Dana Bowman sees the redheaded nun arguing with a man on Main St. and Bast Overture receives an email from Eli Foster asking him to find her birth parents, the twin PIs are thrust into a complex chain of events involving extortion,...

A Papal legate, on a secret mission to England from Rome, is discovered dead. How did he die? And why? Mycroft Holmes, master of many of the secrets of the realm, calls in his younger brother Sherlock to discover the answer to these questions.When he...

Lestrade panted, getting to his feet as the gang of Cheathams fell back. “Right now I can think of worse things than rescue by an amateur detective.”“My dear Lestrade, we’re simply ensuring the fight is fair.” Sherlock...

From the curious clauses in a miser’s will, to a plea for help on a tiny scrap of paper, these six cases, from the early years of Holmes’s career in the 1880s, present a singular collection of mysteries for the world’s first consulting...

Nothing's ever easy when Sherlock Holmes is involved. Joanna Watson needs sports and academic scholarships if she is going to make it all the way to med school. That means keeping out of trouble, and her school record squeaky clean. But upon...

Lazalier Brady is an ex-firefighter on the verge of homelessness. When he discovers his sick toddler, Ellie, abandoned by her mother, fatherly instincts take hold despite his dark, haunting secret.Intent on providing for Ellie, Laz accepts a humble...

From award-winning author Eliot Parker comes the gripping story of a cop who must fight to protect a city and his family from a dangerous new drug threatening to rip the city apart.When off-duty Charleston police sergeant Ronan McCullough responds to the...

When FBI Special Agent Frank Jankowski goes undercover at Isabelle Anderson's Brownstone on E. 83rd, he thinks he's the one calling the shots. Isabelle knows she is. As Isabelle's butler, Ronnie Charles is privy to all her schemes-knowledge that will...

If laughter is the best medicine, John Smith belongs in everyone's medicine cabinet.  In In$urance to Die For, a scam artist's plan for making money off of insurance turns deadly.  John Smith, an insurance investigator as ordinary and...

Mrs. Boyd's first mystery Murder Breaks Trail had an Alaskan background, and introduced F. Millard Smyth, small-town groceryman with a passion for detective fiction, who was forced to turn detective himself. In her second story, Doom in the Midnight...

April 1775.  Unrest grows in the colonial capital of Williamsburg, VA.  Opinions turn ugly when the city's armory is seized in the middle of the night by the British.  Faith prepares to be a bystander as her father-in-law Ezra takes lead...

"On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me the reason your husband had to die." ​ Anna Greenan finds the cryptic lyric shoved against her front door. Each day of Christmas brings Anna a new stanza with a new clue...