Classic crime and mystery fiction Books

In Hollywood, five people in the movie industry agree to participate in a devious and ingenious lottery to commit murder. The lottery is designed so that four of the five will have no way of knowing who the actual killer is. Their intended victim is Abel...

Lieutenant Peyton "Mack" McWhirter, a highly respected fire officer is suspended after a fatal fire kills one of his rookies. The uninvestigated fire and his quick suspension cause concern for the fire department. Taking  the advice of his rodeo...

Did you ever hear of the Salami Technique? No? Then perhaps you have never spent any time in jail for using it. Ira Sanderson did. With it, he ripped off a bank for $100,000. The irony is that he could have taken more. But now Ira has been caught, tried,...

In the desert landscape of northern Baja, a vacation turns deadly when a family man is brutally murdered on the peaceful pickleball courts of San Amaro. Detective Sergeant Julia Garcia is thrust into a web of lies, deceit, and hidden motives. As the...

When a monk is found poisoned at St. Emma's Priory, the Chief Constable - a friend of the Prior - insists that Andy Ross and his team handle the investigation.The case turns out to be more complex than they first thought. After a second victim is found...

Es geht weiter mit den spannenden Fällen für Privatdetektiv Dominique DemesyDer fesselnde Cosy Krimi für Fans von Abenteuern und ReisenDer französische Privatdetektiv Dominique Demesy und seine Tochter Jennifer arbeiten...

Solve an old bank heist? How could a computer geek do that? A brilliant computer scientist/engineer assists a retired SJPD detective with solving cold cases. They take on a nearly ten-year-old bank robbery of a bank in Willow Glen, CA. The robbers made...

In 813, Maurice Leblanc's epic tale, Arsène Lupin, master of disguise and celebrity thief, is framed in the murder of millionaire Rudolf Kesselbach, nicknamed alternatively the King of Diamonds and the Lord of the Cape. Lupin assumes the identity of the...

Arsène Lupin, an aristocratic thief, burst onto the scene in 1905 as the French answer to Sherlock Holmes. Stylish, rogue, and fiendishly clever, Lupin eludes the law as he concocts capers, heists, and, often, schemes to right a wrong or help the...

The small community of Candice Bay thought they were safe...In the seemingly peaceful suburban community of Candice Bay, teenagers Casey and Janie are caught up in a series of mysterious events, beginning with the sudden disappearance of their friend and...

Nothing ever happens in Cockington, a sleepy thatched village in the heart of the Devonshire countryside. The odd stray sheep perhaps. Or a drunken argument in the 16th century Drum Inn is about as exciting as it gets.That is until Inspector Findlay and...

In Gemmas malerischem englischen Tearoom herrscht ungewohnte Stille, und sie kann sich nicht erklären, warum - bis sie von der trendigen neuen „Tea Bar" erfährt, die am anderen Ende des Dorfes eröffnet hat. Zu ihrem Entsetzen muss sie bald feststellen,...

From multi-million-selling Faith Martin, one of Britain's best-loved mystery writers.Meet Jenny Starling: travelling cook and reluctant amateur sleuth.Jenny Starling is catering the twenty-first birthday party of upper-class twins, Alicia and Justin...

After a policeman is shot dead, DCI John Blizzard seizes a chance to settle old scoresWhen a high-profile detective on a reality TV cop show is killed, John Blizzard fancies old-school gangster Nathaniel Callaghan for the crime.With the aging boss's...

In these six adventures, Holmes solves cases in alternate universes and alongside famous historical and fictional figures. In the title story, Watson is slandered by mysterious forces who spread the rumor that the good doctor pushed Holmes off of...

Sherlock Holmes' adventures continue in seven surprising cases. Holmes and Watson investigate an alleged haunting at the Diogenes Club, vandalism at a prominent art gallery, the case of a frightened amnesiac, the takeover of 221B by vicious...

Following the success of the earlier volume, The Baker Street Epilogue, we have another collection of previously unknown Holmes and Watson tales to excite the interests of readers across the globe - The Baker Street Archive.A decade before his death, Dr...

An uninhabited Scottish island.Ten stranded strangers.A murderer on the loose.Ursula Smart, along with her dysfunctional family, heads to Scotland for a gentle weekend of foraging and camping in the Outer Hebrides.Their boat capsizes. Washed up on an...

A faded country house in the middle of nowhere.The guests are snowed in.The murders begin.Withering and waspish, Ursula Smart (not her real name) gate-crashes her mother's book club at an isolated country house for a long weekend retreat. Much to...

Along the rugged coast of Whitby, dark dealings are afoot.The discovery of a headless corpse out at sea has everyone on high alert. The dead man is a notorious villain, last seen sailing his luxury yacht round the Med.Now he's all washed up in the North...

Some liaisons are deadlier than others . . .After a long day of meetings, Arnold heads back to his hotel room. That's when he hears it.A ragged scream coming from Room 307.Arnold races to the door to find his boss, Simon Brent-Ellis, in bed with a...

All's not entirely fair out on the North Yorkshire moors . . .Constable Nick has attended many a village fair in his time. From horse fairs to game fairs, it's all in a day's work for Aidensfield's favourite bobby.Who else would be there to keep the...

THE PEOPLE'S BOOK PRIZE WINNER VICTORIA DOWD'S LATEST MYSTERY!If you love Richard Osman, Robert Thorogood, Agatha Christie, Anthony Horowitz, Faith Martin and Sophie Hannah, you'll love this brilliant whodunnit.The phones are out.The roads have flooded...

A BRAND-NEW MYSTERY FROM THE TWO-MILLION-SELLING AUTHOR.Former Detective Hillary Greene and her cold case team are taking a fresh look at the unsolved murder of Michael Beck, found bludgeoned over the head and dead in a river near his home in 2012.Just...

The girl is sitting upright, her dark brown hair arranged over her shoulders and her blue, blue eyes staring into the distance. She looks almost peaceful. But her gaze is vacant, and her skin is cold... Seventeen-year-old Chloe Smedley walks out of the...

Cold case detective Lauren Riley wakes up in the hospital certain of two things: she was stabbed and left for dead...and the person who did it was a cop.After being brutally stabbed at her desk late one night, Lauren Riley works her way backwards through...

The war is over, but the killing is not.Guests, invited and uninvited, gather at the mountain villa of their wealthy friend, Utagawa Kazuma, to spend the summer of 1947. Soon after the arrival of these writers, actors, and artists and their tangled...

Mac McKenzie is rich. So rich that he’s left his job as a Twin Cities police officer and spends his time doing favors large and small for friends. So when an old Marine buddy of his father’s calls with a request Mac takes the time to help him...

On a hot, sultry weekday of summer, in the bank of the small agricultural town of Geneva, business has been bustling all afternoon. Just after the doors have been closed for the day, a knock is heard -- and inwards burst two men, who seize the clerks and...

Constance Hillier and her boyfriend, Thomas Mogson, are convicted of the murder of her aunt, and both are hanged. Before his death, Thomas unsuccessfully tries to save himself by accusing Constance's sister, Margaret, of the crime. Inspector Cleveland of...

Basil stumbles across a briefcase full of money on a London street. He changes his name and tries to stay one step ahead of the real owners of the cash--a group of American gangsters. But Inspector Cleveland of Scotland Yard knows that he has a major...

When London solicitor Mr. Jellipot discovers a nude body draped over a fence, its blood drained dry, he immediately consults his friend, Inspector Combridge. The Scotland Yard detective arrests the dead man's illegitimate son, Edward Higgins, who stands...

Three book in the Det. Li. Nick Storie series.Dead Men Don't DreamA cheap hood is shot in an expensive hotel. There are some gangsters from the northeast, a newscaster, a car salesman, a retired rock star, an actress – and a few others who might...

Szkocka mgła: Tajemnica Dottie Manderson tom trzeci: nowela Po pogrzebie swojej przyjaciółki i mentorki, Pani Carmichael, Dottie Manderson otrzymuje misję odnalezienia zaginionego syna zmarłej kobiety i poinformowania go o śmierci matki,...

CD gets some cases in Florida, falls in love with the place and builds a home there.A developer is murdered. A stock broker is murdered. A young boy is murdered. Thereis a druggie execution that wasn't.CD gets to know some of the continuing characters...

The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of 13 Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1903-1904, by Arthur Conan Doyle. The stories were published in the Strand Magazine in Great Britain, and Collier's in the United States.The book was...

Wussten Sie, dass Krimis nicht erst seit Sherlock Holmes und Auguste Dupin in aller Munde sind? Schon Friedrich Schiller berichtete zu seiner Zeit aus dem Verbrechermilieu, Charles Dickens dokumentierte Polizeieinsätze und Vidocq beschrieb in seiner...

Sur un fond d'exécutions mortelles et stylisées, le, ou peut être bien plusieurs auteurs, s'efforcent de jouer à cache-cache avec les enquêteurs des différents commissariatsSont-ils simplement des justiciers comme semble penser le citoyen des faubourgs...

Jasper Moon, internationally renowned 'Seer to the Stars', had signally failed to foresee his own future. He is found dead on his consulting-room floor, his skull crushed with a crystal ball and, all around him, his office in chaos.During their murder...

Madeline Lane, co-owner of an upscale jewelry store in Boston, had never sold a $200,000 emerald necklace before, and certainly not to a billionaire jerk. But then the murders begin, and Madeline steps up to save an innocent...

Connoisseurs of fictional murder and intrigue will rejoice in Shooting Script and Other Mysteries by William Link and Richard Levinson. Spanning the years 1954 to 1966, this collection shows the young writers exploring terrain that would later make them...

Murder and peaceful spirituality don’t mix…. or at least, they shouldn’t.Valerie Inglewood and her partner Charlene Brockworth travel deep into the Northern New Mexico mountains to investigate a mysterious murder at the EdenCloud...

Spring has come at last with cheerful daffodils and plump crocus blooms, and Poppy is hoping that the new season will magically resurrect the cottage garden nursery she's inherited. But with her stock failing to grow and a mysterious "peeping Tom"...

Als Gemma Rose, stolze Besitzerin eines Tearooms in den Cotswolds, ihre kleine Tigerkatze Müsli bei der Katzenausstellung im Dorf meldet, rechnet sie nicht damit, über einen Mord zu stolpern.Und als ihre Mutter, die überall ungefragt ihre Nase...