Mystery

Martin Edwards - Resorting to Murder : Holiday Mysteries ( British Librray Crime Classics ) - PB

A collection of 14 vintage mysteries from the likes of Arthur Conan Doyle, GK Chesterton, Anthony Berkeley, Phyllis Bentley among others. Editor(s): Edwards, Martin. Series: British Library Crime Classics. Num Pages: 320 pages.  Holidays offer us...

Victoria Laurie / Doom with a View ( A Psychic Eye Mystery )

Professional psychic Abigail Cooper is used to dealing with skeptics, but even she's ready to cry "uncle!" when she's forced to work with a true non-believer bent on proving her a fraud.Business has been frustratingly slow for Abby who needs any new...

M.E. Rabb / Missing Persons : Case 1 - The Rose Queen

Sophie and Sam Shattenberg are two Jewish sisters from Queens, New York. Both love knishes and kosher pickles. Both have said ''I'm wawkin' here!'' to cab drivers and meant it. When the unthinkable happens and their father dies, the girls are devastated...

Tom Hindle / Murder on Lake Garda

One happy couple.Two divided families.A wedding party to die for.On the private island of Castello Fiore - surrounded by the glittering waters of Lake Garda - the illustrious Heywood family gathers for their son Laurence's wedding to Italian influencer...

Victoria Laurie / Killer Insight ( Psychic Eye Mystery - Book 4)

When her relationship with FBI agent Dutch Rivers skids to a halt, Abby Cooper is fully aware that a wedding isn't the best post-breakup scenario. But when a friend from the Mile High City finds herself short one bridesmaid, it doesn't take a...

Hugh L Nelson - Dead Giveaway - Vintage HB Crime - 1951

First UK EDITION, 1951, the first edition was published in the US in 1949. Classic noir era crime fiction A Captain Steve Johnson mystery set in San Francisco. Steve, now a Captain, has the half promise of becoming head of homicide if he stays clear of...

Alexander McCall Smith / Double Comfort Safari Club (Large Paperback) ( No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency - Book 11 )

Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi are called to a safari lodge in Botswana's Okavango Delta to carry out a delicate mission on behalf of a former guest. The Okavango makes Precious appreciate once again the beauty of her it is a paradise of teeming...

Amelia B. Edwards / All Saints' Eve

Over half a century before the rise of the great Queens of Crime , Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers, Amelia B. Edwards was an expert practitioner of crime fiction and murder mysteries, of which the best dozen are included in this volume. These...

Carolyn Haines / Sticks and Bones ( A Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery - Book 17 )

Can Sarah Booth Delaney read between the lines and uncover the truth about this real-life murder mystery?Private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney and her friends are celebrating New Year’s Eve at the party of the year, a smashing Winter Garden...

Alys Clare / The Chatter of the Maidens ( Hawkenlye Mysteries - Book 4 )

The serenity of Hawkenlye Abbey has been disturbed by the arrival of a new nun and her two young sisters. Recently orphaned, Alba has left her convent in Ely to take her grieving sisters from the scene of their sorrow. Abbess Helewise is not...

Paul Doherty / The Field of Blood ( The Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan - Book 9 )

After the discovery of three savagely murdered bodies in his parish, Brother Athelstan finds himself involved in the hunt for a dangerous killer. It is clear that two of the victims—a whore and a preacher—surprised the assassin, who was...

Margaret Maron / Bootlegger's Daughter ( Imperfect / Deborah Knott Mysteries - Book 1 )

This first novel in Maron's Imperfect series, which won the Edgar Award for best mystery novel in 1993, introduces heroine Deborah Knott, an attorney and the daughter of an infamous North Carolina bootlegger. Known for her knowledge of the region's...

Magdalen Nabb / The Marshal's Own Case ( Marshal Guarnaccia Mystery - Book 7 )

The marshal must leave his snug world at the Pitti Palace to seek a criminal in the shadowy haunts of prostitutes, pimps, and tricks. No one believes that he can navigate in this milieu, much less identify a killer, but once again he confounds their...

Timothy Williams / The Honest Folk of Guadeloupe ( Anne Marie Laveaud Mystery - Book 2 )

April 1990: French-Algerian judge Anne Marie Laveaud has been living and working in the French Caribbean département of Guadeloupe for more than a decade, but her days are still full of surprises. She is only just starting to investigate the...

James Anderson / The Affair of the Thirty-Nine Cufflinks ( Burford Family - Book 3 )

And then there were eight ...Understandably, Lord Burford had some misgivings about hosting another house party at Alderley, his beautiful country mansion. After all, the previous two could at best be described as disastrous, since a couple of their...

Alexander McCall Smith / The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party ( No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency - Book 12 ) (Hardback)

As the countdown to Mma Makutsi's wedding begins, all is not as it should be at the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency. While investigating unpleasant occurrences on a southern cattle-post, Mma Ramotswe, always on the side of the weak against the strong,...

Jeff Crook / The Sleeping and the Dead: A Mystery (Hardback)

A new mystery series starring a Memphis crime scene photographer with ghostly assistanceJackie Lyons, a former vice detective with the Memphis Police Department, is trying to put her life back together. Her husband has served her with divorce papers,...

Anna Dean / A Moment of Silence (Hardback)

1805. An engagement party is taking place for Mr Richard Montague, son of wealthy landowner Sir Edgar Montague, and his fiancee Catherine. During a dance with his beloved, a strange thing happens: a man appears at Richard's shoulder and appears to...

Barbara Nadel / Sure and Certain Death (Hardback) ( A Francis Hancock Novel - Book 4 )

The chilling new World War Two crime mystery by the award-winning author Barbara Nadel; fourth in the highly popular Francis Hancock series. East London, 1940: Francis Hancock finds the brutally eviscerated body of a woman in a derelict house...

David Dickinson / Death on the Holy Mountain (Hardback) ( A Lord Francis Powerscourt Novel - Book 7 )

Praise for the Powerscourt “Fine prose, high society, and [a] complex plot recommend this series.”— Library Journal“One hopes to see more of Lord Powerscourt and his friends in the near future.”— Publishers...

Michael Robertson / The Brothers of Baker Street (Hardback)

The second in a highly original and absolutely marvelous series about two brother lawyers who lease offices on London's Baker Street--and begin receiving mail addressed to Sherlock HolmesWhen brothers Reggie and Nigel Heath choose 221B Baker Street as...

Arthur Conan Doyle / Sherlock Holmes #3 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Hardback)

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the series of short stories that made the fortunes of the Strand magazine, in which they were first published, and won immense popularity for Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. The detective is at the height of his...

James Crumley / The Mexican Tree Duck (Hardback)

A blood-encrusted ceramic figure is at the center of private investigator C. W. Sughrue's search through the American West for the missing mother of his Vietnam buddy. By the author of The Wrong Case.     All of our books are second...

Alanna Knight / The Inspector's Daughter (Hardback)

Rose McQuinn returns to Edinburgh from the American wild west of 1895. Her baby has died while her husband Danny, working with Pinkerton’s Detective Agency in Arizona goes missing. She has little time to grieve before she unwittingly takes on a new...

Deborah Grabien / Rock & Roll Never Forgets (Hardback)

The last thing the members of Hall of Fame rock & roll band Blacklight need to hear is that ruthless tabloid biographer Perry Dillon is planning a tell-all history of their group. The issue hits hardest for English ex-pat guitarist JP Kinkaid; with...

John F. Rice / The Death Detective and the Skeleton (Hardback)

The unearthing of a skeleton with a ligature around its neck by a hungry fox brings the Death Detective - Sherlock Holmes's descendant DI Essach Wangdula - and his assistant DS Flora L. Hughes to Southfield to investigate.      All of our...

Roger Johns / River of Secrets (Hardback)

When a controversial politician is murdered in cold blood, Baton Rouge Police Detective Wallace Hartman struggles to find the killer amid conspiracies and corruption in River of Secrets, a gripping new mystery from Roger Johns.Herbert Marioneaux, a...

Stephen Greenleaf / Southern Cross (Hardback)

A John Marshall Tanner Mystery When a racist hate group, the Alliance for Southern Pride, sentences an old friend to die, John Marshall Tanner's investigation leads to South Carolina along a trail of prejudice spanning generations.   All of our...

Joan Broadhead / The Secret of World's End Cottage - Girls Mystery Stories (Hardback)

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Hugh C. Rae / The House at Balnesmoor (Hardback)

Summer on the moors, and Norman Land makes a gruesome discovery near his country retreat. The bodies of two Glasgow schoolgirls are buried in the heather - and Inspector McGraig's investigation into the lives of this remote Highland community leads him...

Lawrence Sanders / McNally's Gamble (Hardback)

While investigating a wealthy widow's possible purchase of an Imperial Faberge egg, the strange behavior of family advisors, her children, and an aged antiques dealer plunges Archy McNally into a mess of greed, passion, and murder.   All of our...

Caroline Lawrence / The Slave-girl from Jerusalem ( (The Roman Mysteries - Book 13 ) Hardback)

This exciting adventure recreates the siege of Masada and reveals important developments in Jonathan's struggle with his guilt over past events. Also, there's terrific insight into the workings of the Roman legal system in a page-turning court room drama...

Toni L.P. Kelner / Wed and Buried: A Laura Fleming Mystery (Large Print) (Hardback)

Since the birth of her six-month-old daughter, Laura Fleming has wanted to do nothing but camp out in her Boston apartment and dream of having one good night's sleep. But then her Aunt Nora calls to say there's trouble brewing back home in Byerly, North...

David Housewright / Like to Die (Hardback)

A seemingly simple investigation, done as a favor for a friend, takes McKenzie down a dark and twisted path in the next mystery in David Housewright's award-winning series.Once a police detective in St. Paul, Minnesota, Rushmore McKenzie has become an...

Kinley Roby / Death In a Hammock (Hardback)

Nonfiction author Kinley Roby makes an assured mystery debut with this powerful novel, in which a retired Florida park ranger gets drawn into a tangled Southern mystery of lies and murder.     All of our books are second hand, and while you may...

Hank Early / Echoes of the Fall (Hardback)

Earl Marcus has faced a litany of demons in his time, but a grisly murder sends him spiraling into a vortex of long-buried secrets.After losing a hotly contested sheriff's race to the lackey of corrupt politician Jeb Walsh, Earl Marcus has had the worst...

Cara Black / Murder in the Latin Quarter (Hardback)

When a Haitian woman arrives at the Paris office of Leduc Detective and announces that she is P.I. Aimée Leduc’s sister, Aimée must dig into her father’s past to solve a murderA virtual orphan since her mother’s desertion...

Harlan Coben ( Editor) / The Best American Mystery Stories (Hardback)

HARLAN COBEN PICKS THE YEAR'S BEST CRIME WRITINGHand-picked by number one bestselling author Harlan Coben, this definitive anthology showcases the best of this year's crime-writing, from the masters of modern suspense and the stars of the future alike...

Michael Sims / The Dead Witness: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Detective Stories (Hardback)

The greatest ever anthology of Victorian detective stories, The Dead Witness gathers the finest police and private detective adventure stories from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including a wide range of overlooked gems. 'The Dead...

Sarah Matthias / Tom Fletcher and the Angel of Death (Hardback)

When Brother Benedict is found dead in Saint Wilfred's beast House, eaten by Delilah, the lion he kept to terrorise the people of St Agnes-next-the-Sea, there is no shortage of suspects. Young novice Tom Fletcher has no choice but to investigate...

Carole Nelson Douglas / Irene At Large (Hardback)

When a stranger in Asian garb is poisoned at the feet of Nell Huxliegh, Irene Adler does a little investigating, discovering that the Asian was actually an Englishman and that Dr. Watson's life is in danger.     All of our books are second...

Philip Cooper / Whodunnit at Wishgrove Farm? (Large Paperback)

''My name is Jerrol Buckner. I am a retired cop. I continued working alongside my pension to solve crime. A man was arrested by the newly passed out CID for charges of rape. By the time the case got to me from the aunt of man it was well on its way to...

Ed Gorman ( Editor) / The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 2: Second Annual Collection (Large Paperback)

It’s not easy to collect, in a single volume, the finest mystery and suspense fiction the world has to offer, but The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Second Annual Collection rises to that challenge, inviting you to discover what Kirkus...

Richard Zimler / The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon (Large Paperback)

A gripping literary mystery in the tradition of "The Name of the Rose", set among secret Jews living in Lisbon in the sixteenth century. The year is 1506, and the streets of Lisbon are seething with fear and suspicion when Abraham Zarco is found dead, a...

Nero Blanc / A Crossword To Die For (Large Paperback)

When Belle's deadbeat father drops dead of an apparent heart attack, she and Rosco become suspicious about the timing of his demise and set out to investigate her late father's strange past, in an entertaining whodunit that also features six crossword...

Jasper Fforde / One of Our Thursdays Is Missing (Large Paperback)

IT IS A TIME OF UNREST IN THE BOOKWORLD.Only the diplomatic skills of ace literary detective Thursday Next can avert a devastating genre war. But a week before the peace talks, Thursday vanishes. Has she simply returned home to the RealWorld or is this...

Mary Devlin Lynch , Debbie Devlin Zook / The Missing Quilter (Large Paperback)

Her best friend, Olivia, is missing! Zoey Hathaway calls her mom and amateur sleuth, Miranda, to come to Boston and help them find her. But before they can get her back, Miranda goes missing! A frantic Zoey contacts Gabe Downing, her mother’s...

Larry D. Sweazy / See Also Murder (Large Paperback)

1964: Life on the North Dakota farm hasn't always been easy for Marjorie Trumaine. She has begun working as a professional indexer to help with the bills which have only gotten worse since the accident that left her husband, Hank, blind and paralyzed...

Carrie Bebris / The Suspicion at Sanditon (Or, The Disappearance of Lady Denham): A Mr. and Mrs. Darcy Mystery (Large Paperback)

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S.G. MacLean / The Seeker (Large Paperback)

The Seeker' was Winner of the 2015 CWA Endeavour Historical Dagger. London, 1654. Oliver Cromwell is at the height of his power and has declared himself Lord Protector. Yet he has many enemies, at home and abroad. London is a teeming warren of spies and...

Colin Cotterill / Love Songs From A Shallow Grave (Large Paperback)

Three young Laotian women have died of fencing sword wounds. Each of them had studied abroad in an Eastern bloc country. Before he can complete his investigation, Dr. Siri is lured to Cambodia by an all-expenses-paid trip. Accused of spying for the...

S.J. Parris / Prophecy (Large Paperback)

A Tudor thriller featuring Giordano Bruno, renegade monk, philosopher and heretic, for fans of C. J. Sansom and The Name of the Rose     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our...