Mystery

Dell Shannon - The Ace of Spades - HB - 1976 ( Originally 1961)

The Ace of Spades continues the case histories of Mendoza, the Mexican detective of the Los Angeles Police Department. Lt. Mendoza specializes in homicides … he has brains, uncanny flair, wealth, a passion for justice and Abyssinian cats. He has a...

Arthur Conan Doyle / The Great Tales of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Large Paperback)

Adventure - In this enthralling collection of Conan Doyle's best loved tales are pirates, soldiers, assassins, explorers and dabblers in the occult...   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition...

Nita Prose / The Maid's Secret (Large Paperback)

    Molly the Maid - Book 3 When a daring art heist takes place at the Regency Grand, Molly’s life is threatened. The question is who’s out to get her, and why? Long-buried secrets will be revealed in this intriguing and...

Olivia Liberty / Falling (Large Paperback)

Imogen Green is gone. Her favourite underwear is not in her drawer, her sexy summer dress no longer hangs in the wardrobe and her passport is not in the bureau. She has left her cat, her garden and her boyfriend, Toby Doubt. As Imogen's departure sinks...

Veronica Stallwood / Oxford Proof (Hardback)

Writer Kate Ivory can't believe her luck when she's head-hunted by a successful and modern publishing house. At long last it looks as if her days as a down-the-list romance writer are well and truly over. But it seems her good fortune is to be...

Adam Roberts / The Death of Sir Martin Malprelate (Large Paperback)

A gothic tale of murder and corruption set in 1840s Victorian London, taking inspiration from our most famous 19th century writers.The 1840s.Railway Baron Sir Martin Malprelate has been laying waste to the warren of Camden; buying up houses and clearing...

Richard Coles / Murder Under the Mistletoe (Hardback)

Canon Clement #3.5 It is Christmas Day and at Champton Rectory, Canon Daniel Clement and his mother Audrey are joined by the residents and guests of the big house to drink, eat and be merry.At the festive feast, peace and goodwill prevail.Until two...

Julia Chapman / Date with Deceit

The Dales Detective - Book 6   A woman in tears in the Dales Detective Agency is never the best way to start the week and when it's the town mayor's wife, asking the detective to investigate whether her husband is having an affair, Samson...

Arthur Conan Doyle / The Final Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

For decades it has been generally accepted that the complete canon of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes adventures consists of fifty-six stories and four novels. But there have also been persistent rumors of a number of additional items that Conan...

Richard Coles / Murder at the Monastery

Canon Clement #3   Daniel Clement has suffered a secret humiliation and to recover, takes respite at the monastery where he was a novice. But the monastery doesn't allow Daniel a break, for there are tensions building there too, as the...

Alice Bell / Displeasure Island

Professional medium turned detective Claire, her best friend Sophie (a 17-year-old ghost) and their pals are enjoying a much-needed cheap holiday in an unfinished hotel on Spike Island off the coast of Ireland. Claire is flattered to be asked by the...

M.C. Beaton / Agatha Raisin : Killing Time

Agatha Raisin #35   Life is never, ever dull in Agatha Raisin's sleepy Cotswolds village!Agatha Raisin's private detective agency is working flat out on a series of burglaries which take a violent turn when a friend of Agatha's is murdered...

Edgar Wallace - Again the Three - Vintage Pan PB

A vintage Pan paperback, published in this edition 1968, originally published in 1928. Previous bookshop stamp to the front endpage, prebvious owners name also on same page, covers clean, light tanning to page, very light creasing to covers.  Pan...

S.W. Hubbard / Another Man's Treasure (Large Paperback)

Palmyrton Estate Sale Mystery #1 On a snowy Christmas Eve, a beautiful young mother goes out to buy a few last minute gifts...and never returns. Thirty years later, her daughter picks up her trail.What really happened to Audrey Nealon’s...

Susan Knight / Death in the Garden of England (Large Paperback)

A Mrs Hudson Mystery After the excitement of her recent adventures in Paris, Mrs Hudson goes to stay with her married daughter Eleanor in Bilbourne, a little village in Kent, the Garden of England. It is September, and the hop-harvest is in full swing at...

Gretchen Altabef / Sherlock Holmes: Five Miles Of Country (Large Paperback)

    FIVE MILES OF COUNTRY is the third novel in her Rachel Holmes series. The story brings Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson to Thomas Edison’s “Imagination Factory” in New Jersey to solve the murder of a famed...

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar & Anna Waterhouse / Mycroft and Sherlock (Large Paperback)

The novel by NBA All-Star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, starring brothers Mycroft and Sherlock Holmes.It is 1872, and a series of gruesome murders is the talk of London. Mycroft Holmes--now twenty-six and a force to be reckoned with at the War Office--has no...

Betty Rowlands / Murder on the Clifftops

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain...

Agatha Christie - Murder is Easy - Vintage Pan PB

  Sun fade to the spine.  Murder is Easy Luke Fitzwilliam could not believe Miss Pinkerton's wild allegation that a multiple murderer was at work in the quiet English village of Wychwood - or her speculation that the local doctor was next in...

Melvin R. Starr / A Trail of Ink (Large Paperback)

The Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon - Book 3 A Trail of Ink 'I had never seen Master John Wyclif so afflicted. He was rarely found at such a loss when in disputation with other masters. He told me later, when I had returned them to him,...

Ellis Peters / The Fourth Cadfael Omnibus (Large Paperback)

Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #10-12 The fourth omnibus edition of Ellis Peters' compulsive and bestselling mediaevel whodunnits.The Pilgrim of Hate: As pilgrims gather at Shrewsbury to celebrate the fourth anniversary of the translation of Saint...

Robert Barnard / Death on the High C's (Large Paperback)

Opera singers are often described as being larger than life, and certainly this is true of Gaylene Ffrench. Her appetites—for men, for food, for attention—are gargantuan, and her ability to irritate is similarly outsized. So when someone...

John Bingham / My Name is Michael Sibley (Large Paperback)

FROM THE INTRODUCTION BY JOHN LE CARRÉ"This novel comprises some of the best work of an extremely gifted and perhaps under-regarded British crime novelist....What gave John Bingham his magic was something we look for in every writer, too often in...

M.J. Trow / Lestrade and the Giant Rat of Sumatra (Large Paperback)

Sholto Lestrade Mystery  Book seventeen (chronologically) in the Inspector Lestrade series.Everybody, they say, has a book in them. Retired Chief Inspector Walter Dew certainly did. And it took him back to the good old days, when coppers lived...

Boris Akunin / The State Counsellor (Erast Fandorin Novels - Book 6) (Large Paperback)

The reactionary Adjutant General Khrapov, newly appointed governor-general of Siberia and soon-to-be minister of the interior, is murdered in his official saloon carriage on his way from St. Petersburg to Moscow. The killer, disguised as Fandorin, boards...

Richard Coles / Murder Before Evensong (Signed by the Author) (Paperback)

This book has been signed by the author to view the signature click on the pictureTo view the book just click on the pictures. These are pictures of the actual book for sale. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If...

Alexander McCall Smith / The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Collection (Brand New) (4 Book Box Set)

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Collection (Brand New) (4 Book Box Set)   The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency tears of the giraffe morality for beautiful girls the kalahari typing school for men

Mammoth Book Publishing /Mammoth Collection of Historical Whodunnits and Historical Detectives (2 Book Box Set)

The Mammoth Collection of Historical Whodunnits and Historical Detectives (2 Book Box Set)

Edward Marston / The Railway Detective Mysteries (5 Book Box Set)

Edward Marston / The Railway Detctive Mysteries (5 Book Box Set)   the iron horse the railway viaduct the excursion train the railway detective  murder on the brighton express

Andrew Pepper / Kill-Devil And Water (Large Paperback)

A Pyke Mystery - Book 3   In London of 1840, the economy is sliding into recession; gangs of unemployed workers roam the streets; and a murderer prowls the capital's poor neighborhoods. Pyke, still grieving over the death of his wife and...

C.L. Miller / The Antique Hunter's Death on the Red Sea (Large Paperback)

The Antique Hunter’s Guide to Murder - Book 2 Join Freya and Aunt Carole for more sluething in the highly anticipated second instalment in your new favourite crime series, The Antique Hunters. The Antique Hunter' Death on the Red Sea is a...

Ruth Downie / Medicus and the Disappearing Dancing Girls (Large Paperback)

  Emperor Trajan is dead, long live Emperor Hadrian! Gaius Petreius Ruso is a divorced and down-on-his-luck army doctor who has made the rash decision to seek his fortune in one of the inclement outposts of the Roman Empire, namely Britannia. His...

Patricia Highsmith /The Tremor of Forgery | Found in the Street | Those Who Walk Away | A Game for the living | Edith's Diary (Atlantic Monthly Press) (5 Book Collection)

Patricia Highsmith: Atlantic Monthly Press (5 Book Collection)   The Tremor of Forgery Found in the Street Those Who walk away A Game for the living Edith's Diary

Jason Goodwin / The Snake Stone (Large Paperback)

Yashim the Eunuch #2 The Snake Stone   Jason Goodwin   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing...

Alex Pavesi / Ink Ribbon Red (Large Paperback)

A group of friends gather in a country house for a birthday party.At their host’s request, they each write a short mystery. They draw names from a in each story, one of the group is the killer, and another the victim.Of course, when given such...

Rose Wilding / Speak of the Devil (Large Paperback)

Seven women stand in shock in a seedy hotel room; a man's severed head sits in the centre of the floor. Each of the women - the wife, the teenager, the ex, the journalist, the colleague, the friend, and the woman who raised him - has a very good...

Clare Whitfield / People of Abandoned Character (Large Paperback)

Marry in haste . . . Murder at leisure? London, 1888: Susannah rushes into marriage to a young and wealthy surgeon. After a passionate honeymoon, she returns home with her new husband wrapped around her little finger. But then everything changes...

C.L. Miller / The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder (Large Paperback)

The Antique Hunter’s Guide to Murder #1 C L Miller's The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder is the start of your new favourite crime series, The Number One Ladies Detective Agency meets The Fellowship of the Puzzle Makers as written by...

Agatha Christie - Agatha Christie Crime Collection- Hamlyn 1970 ( Murder is Easy /Dead Man's Folly / The Man in the Brown Suit ) Omnibus

A hardcover 3 in 1 onmibus edition ( issued as part of the uniform Crime Collection by Paul Hamlyn Publishing, 1970)  Publisher's blood red tint to upper page block, matching red endpages. Edgewear to covers, now in a clear plastic removable jacket...

Agatha Christie - Agatha Christie Crime Collection - Hamlyn 1969 ( Murder on the Orient Express / Death in the Clouds / Why Didn't They Ask Evans ) Omnibus

A hardcover 3 in 1 onmibus edition ( issued as part of the uniform Crime Collection by Paul Hamlyn Publishing, 1971)  Publisher's blood red tint to upper page block, matching red endpages. Edgewear to covers, now in a clear plastic removable jacket...

Agatha Christie - Agatha Christie Crime Collection - Hamlyn 1969 ( 4.50 From Paddington / Lord Edgeware Dies / Murder in Mesopotamia) Omnibus

A hardcover 3 in 1 onmibus edition ( issued as part of the uniform Crime Collection by Paul Hamlyn Publishing, 1969)  Publisher's blood red tint to upper page block, matching red endpages. Edgewear to covers, now in a clear plastic removable jacket...

Agatha Christie - Agatha Christie Crime Collection - Hamlyn 1969 ( The Murder of Roger Ackroyd / They Do it With Mirrors / Mrs McGinty's Dead ) Omnibus

A hardcover 3 in 1 onmibus edition ( issued as part of the uniform Crime Collection by Paul Hamlyn Publishing, 19769)  Publisher's blood red tint to upper page block, matching red endpages. Edgewear to covers, now in a clear plastic removable jacket...

Reverend Richard Coles / A Death on Location (Large Paperback)

In the spring of 1990, we return to Champton, where the characters we've come to love are all aflutter as a glamorous Hollywood movie takes over Champton House as its set location.As the actors and extras hired from the village don their farthingales,...

Adam Shankman, Laura L. Sullivan / Girl About Town (Large Paperback)

Lulu Kelly Mystery #1 “Cinematic pacing, a compelling whodunit, and the glitzy aura of golden age Hollywood combine in this star-studded novel” (Booklist) from acclaimed film producer/director Adam Shankman and co-author Laura Sullivan...

Seymour Cresswell / Nice Weather for a Killing (Large Paperback)

Before dawn on a cold, miserably wet Irish morning, Arthur Cummins arrives absurdly early for his wedding to rich girl, Hilary Fenton. He virtually breaks into the church to get out of the rain and falls over a murdered corpse in the apse. Arthur is...

Angie Rowe / The Seventh Passenger: A Titanic Murder Mystery (Large Paperback)

When the Titanic sinks it takes with it the crime scene, the witnesses and possibly the murderer.The Titanic’s last stop is at Queenstown, Ireland, where seven first-class passengers disembark.Soon after continuing its voyage, the body of a man...

Lawrence Block ( Editor) / Manhattan Noir 2 : The Classics (Large Paperback)

Lawrence Block (Editor/Author), a collection of  classic crime any mystery themed short stories set in New York  Classic reprints from: Edith Wharton, Stephen Crane, O. Henry, Irwin Shaw, Jerome Weidman, Damon Runyon, Evan Hunter, Jerrold...

Kate Atkinson / Death at the Sign of the Rook (Large Paperback)

Jackson Brodie #6 The stage is set. Marooned overnight by a snowstorm in a grand country house are a cast of characters and a setting that even Agatha Christie might recognize – a vicar, an Army major, a Dowager, a sleuth and his sidekick -...

Brendan Gerad O'Brien / Since My Last Confession (Large Paperback)

Tralee, Ireland. September 1948.An arrogant, and highly agitated, priest arrives home after 40 years.Days later he's dead. Suicide?Or, as Guard Eamon Foley believes, murder?But who would want to murder an elderly priest?Could it be related to the time Fr...

Jason Goodwin / The Bellini Card (Hardback)

ISTANBUL, 1840: the young sultan Abdiilmecid believes that Gentile Bellini's vanished masterpiece, a portrait of Mehmet the Conqueror, may have resurfaced in Venice. But it's not Yashim, our eunuch detective, who takes a ship across the Mediterranean...

Paul Johnson / A Deeper Shade of Blue (Hardback)

When Alex Mavros is asked to track down a missing woman, he jumps at the chance to leave the stifling heat of Athens. But after travelling to the small island of Trigono, he realises that there is more than one mystery to be solved...

Ian Morson / Falconer and the Face of God (William Falconer #3) (Hardback)

While scouring the back alleys of Oxford in search of an alchemist, Regent Master William Falconer witnesses a murder within the ranks of a troupe of entertainers and goes on to investigate the crime...       This book is second...