Classic crime and mystery fiction Books

A solemn funeral. A bitter schism. A brutal murder.When the much-loved lord of the manor, Henry Burton, passes away, the villagers of Hambledon-on-Thames gather to pay their respects at his funeral. But the day is marred when the churchwarden is found...

It's the Roaring Twenties. London's bright young things are partying and Augusta Peel is hiding in her basement.Book repairer Augusta Peel needs some peace and quiet after serving her country in the war. Forget jazz bands and sequins, she's happy with a...

For anyone who loved St Trinian's - old or new - or loves a cozy mystery on a grand estate filled with rather 'interesting' characters.Gemma Lamb is ready for an uneventful term at St Bride's, she's had enough of dastardly deeds and sinister strangers...

    Blackett Hill, a small community with no children wasn't on any map.  When a best selling author goes there for an unwelcomed book signing and is killed, its unusual residents are more than just alarmed.  They are...

His friend was killed. Who's next?Tom O'Banion loves his hometown of Muskegon, Michigan. He has his dream job as the choral director at Muskegon High School. He has a beautiful teacher friend, Maria, that he's hoping he'll marry. One of his best friends,...

Summer on the coast of Maine can be an idyllic time. That is, until Wolfe and Baker are hired to find who tried to steal a mouse. What starts out as innocuous as a fireman saving a cat from a tree quickly morphs into something far deadlier. Johnson...

The Loot of Cities is made up of six adventures of a bored millionaire who plays the rogue, traveling Europe as he tweaks scoundrels, probes mysteries, and finds romance. Arnold Bennett was a popular English author, better known for his novels, but also...

Still reeling from the loss of his beloved but enigmatic mother, Tommy Kiernan is convinced her death is not an accident. He suspects the roots of this tragedy started twenty years ago-in the village in Brittany where his mother lived during the second...

Sixty original tales of Sherlock Holmes—which one is the best? In sixty essays, sixty Sherlockians make the case for each of the stories. Their arguments range from the playful to the academic, and are as varied as the authors themselves. As editor...

The game was up. Jimmie Rezaire knew it, but he was sure that his carefully laid plans would enable him to escape. They were complete to the last detail; nevertheless every second was valuable. His pals must shift for themselves; even Viv, much as he...

Included in this volume:"WATSON!" by Captain A. E. DingleTHE ADVENTURE OF THE DIAMOND NECKLACE, by G. F. ForrestTHE STOLEN CIGAR-CASE, by Bret HarteTHE ADVENTURES OF SHAMROCK JOLNES, by O. HenryMR. RAFFLES HOLMES, by John Kendrick Bangs

The fourth issue of Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine features Carla Coupe's new Holmes story, "The Adventure of the Elusive Emeralds,' plus tales by Stan Trybulski, Melville S. Brown, Marc Bilgrey, Hal Charles, William E. Chambers, Jean Paiva, and...

The third volume of Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine features "A Volume in Vermillion," by Kim Newman, plus fiction by Bruce I. Kilstein ("Watson's Wound"), Darrell Schweitzer ("The Death of Falstaff"), Stan Trybulski ("Tough Guys Don't Pay"), Hal...

Crime writer Alfred Culbertson concocts a scheme to increase his royalties: he'll fake the murder of his cousin, Thomas Birchell (who's also hard-up for cash), and together they'll reap a bonanza. When Tom takes a dive off a nearby cliff, supposedly to...

Peking, 1867When one of the Empress's ladies-in-waiting is killed in the Forbidden City, she orders Inspector Gong to find the killer. Unfortunately, as a man, he is forbidden from entering the Inner Court. How is he supposed to solve a murder when he...

When Autumn, the attractive young coroner of Cabbageville township, meets Matt in a near-collision on Main Street, they discover they have much in common. First, they're next-door neighbors now that Matt owns his family's ancestral estate. They're also...

Detective Gabe Nichols is ready to start fresh. A new city, a new job, a new life. After what he and Kyra have been through in the past year, they deserve it. His first day on the new job brings a bizarre case in which several victims around the city are...

L'écrivain Aaron Cohen, juif et polonais devenu français, s'installe définitivement sur une île bretonne pour boucler son dernier livre et finir ses vieux jours.Mais la célébrité fait parfois remonter à la surface certaines traces du passé...

Ne dérogeant pas à sa règle que chacun de ses polars doit passer un message fort, Blanco aborde ici un sujet d'actualité, "le cannabis". Fidèle à ses précédents polars, celui-ci en possède tous les artifices: intrigue, suspens, rebondissements,...

Printemps 1969, San Marina, petite ville touristique du Colorado, est saisie d'effroi. Un phénomène d'arythmie s'empare des enfants. Qui ose exercer un odieux chantage sur les familles par le biais de lettres anonymes ? La panique s'installe dans la...

Des ombres qui la suivent, des cauchemars répétitifs, c'est ce que vit Olivia depuis sa naissance. Longtemps à tenter de les ignorer, elle va commencer à les écouter et à les apprivoiser.Pourquoi ressent-elle tout cela ? Aurait-elle un don ? C'est ce...

The Hound of the Baskervilles first appeared as a series of short stories in The Strand magazine from April 1901 to April 1902, marking the return of Sherlock Holmes after his apparent death in "The Final Problem" (the last story in The Memoirs of...

Even long memories fade, but murder never dies.Elizabeth "E.M." Danniher has been among TV journalism's elite. But divorcing her network exec husband ends not only her marriage but her career, and she's banished to tiny KWMT-TV in Sherman, Wyoming, to...

Ranger Cade Rigens is working to establish the nation's newest national park in one of the most rugged and remote parts of the American West. On the cusp of a history-making public hearing, the park's most vocal opponent comes to Cade with news about a...

It all begins innocently enough when the corpse of a London boxer is discovered at sunrise on the Place de la Concorde in Paris. But the man was reportedly seen in London only a couple of hours earlier... A great English detective and France's leading...

Taffy Morgan thought his days of investigating murders and catching out villains were behind him. After retiring from the force to care for his terminally ill wife, he took up work as a private investigator, and when his wife sadly passed away he was...

Isabella pedals her bright red bike on the familiar route home, admiring her charm bracelet catching the light. But half an hour later, she is nowhere to be seen. All her frantic parents find is an angel-shaped charm discarded on the sidewalk...When...

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time...When a woman's body is found in the sea at Blakeney Point with a single blow to the head, DI Tom Janssen and his team must work out who wanted her dead and why? What would drive someone...

Endi and Coleman are at it again ... this time over silver-infused ballast rocks estimated at two billion dollars! Along with May, they are forced to join forces with a few unusual, and untrustworthy, partners-among whom include a part-time dentist slash...

The smallest town in the smallest state has some BIG problems!Gus Haddock has just been appointed chief of police in the town of Little Penwick, RI,replacing his father, who is now in jail. The state's Attorney General, who sent the elderHaddock away,...

Elise Edwards in a cocoon of routine designed to protect her from the outside world. When her brother is murdered, she's forced to confront her past.Working with her nemesis to investigate the murder, she uncovers shocking secrets... including her...

Howard Giordano's charismatic protagonist, Luke Rizzo, is back in The Dark Side of the City. In this story, Rizzo takes on the Mafia. Again collaborating with his favorite FBI agent, Rizzo brings down a flourishing money-laundering operation, all the...

Meet the brilliant French Inspector Gabriel Hanaud. Hanaud is a towering figure in the history of genre mystery fiction as he is the obvious inspiration for Hercule Poirot. Collected here together for the first time are four of his most famous cases. At...

When Roger Rorch, the talented chairman of the London-based advertising agency RTB, supposedly commits suicide, banker and detective Mark Treasure is certain that all is not as it seems.Treasure's search for foul play reveals a tangled web of deals and...

King Charles Island, a sleepy British colony in the West Indies, comes suddenly awake after the terrible murder of its most influential citizen. The supposed culprit is the hapless Peregrine Gore - assistant to banker sleuth Mark Treasure - but he'd...

University College, Itchendever is short of funds - and up for grabs. The rival parties in the proposed takeover seem to be the American Funny Farms Foundation, run by the widow of a board-games mogul, and a calculating Arab prince. Banker sleuth Mark...

To steal a painting from the Hermitage museum in Leningrad is going to take planning, nerve and ingenuity - and that's how Sergey Vasilefski does the job, unaided. But there's no way he'll be able to get the painting out of Russia alone...The police come...

"What type of skulduggery is the Master Mind contemplating this time?" That is the question put to Jimmy Strange by his long-suffering girlfriend Sandra. But the answer always depends on which type of criminals Jimmy is pitting his wits against. Whether...

Jimmy Strange is a mysterious young man who turns up when he is least expected. Whenever and wherever there is trouble, he appears from behind some dark corner. No one knows much about him, though he is always a gentleman. He is never short of money,...

"""Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine"" returns with issue #15, 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:Tuning in Sherlock, by John LongenbaughDr...

The second issue of SHERLOCK HOLMES MYSTERY MAGAZINE includes contributions from Darrell Schweitzer ("The Adventure of the Hanoverian Vampires"), Marc Bilgrey ("You See, But You Forget"), David Waxman ("Tough as Diamonds"), Ron Goulart ("The Mystery of...

In The Bell Street Murders, Evelyn Merivale had helped the police solve the murder of her friend, Wilfrid Ralston, who'd invented a process to revolutionize the motion picture industry. But the master criminal, Professor Blinkwell, still wants the...

Jane Kanwhistle leaves ten thousand pounds from her estate to her nephew, Frederick Corder--provided that he commit a different crime each and every day for a year, and avoid prosecution and imprisonment. Fred and his writer wife Adeline decide to carry...

When a young entrepreneur is killed, everyone in town points fingers at his New Age, neo-hippie, miracle-manifesting smokeshow of an ex-girlfriend, Gabbi-including the victim's best friend, Jenna. As detective Lindy D'Arnaud and her partner, Boggs,...