Mystery

Colin Cotterill / Curse Of The Pogo Stick

The fifth Dr. Siri Paiboun mysterySeven female Hmong villagers kidnap Dr. Siri on orders from the village elder who hopes that Yeh Ming, the thousand-year-old shaman who shares the doctor's body, will consent to exorcise the headman's daughter. He fears...

Elly Griffiths / The Great Deceiver (The Brighton Mysteries - Book 7)

Magician Max Mephisto, now divorced and living in London, is on his way to visit daughter Ruby and her new-born baby when he is hailed by a voice from the past, fellow performer Ted English, aka the Great Deceiver. Ted's assistant, Cherry, has been found...

Steven Saylor / A Murder on the Appian Way (Roma Sub Rosa - Book 5)

In a Rome torn by riots and pulled apart by rival factions, Gordianus the Finder must uncover the truth about the murder of Publius Clodius, a populist politician whose assassination threatens to destroy the Republic. The fifth in the highly praised...

John Dickson Carr - The Demoniacs - Vintage Penguin Crime - PB

Handsome young Jeffrey Wynne has just rescued pretty young Peg Ralston from a "fate worse than death"; she thought she was going to attend a French acting school, but soon learns that it is the "school for the French King's private brothel". Wynne was...

Kate Sedley / The Three Kings of Cologne (Hardback)

The new Roger the Chapman novel When the remains of Isabella Linkinhorne, who disappeared twenty years earlier and was known to have had three secret lovers, are discovered on nunnery land, Roger the Chapman is called in. Faced with the task of tracking...

Lisa Hall / The Case of the Singer and the Showgirl

A gripping, twisty, time-hop mystery     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain...

Faith Martin / A Fatal End ( Ryder and Loveday Series - Book 8 )

There is so much to love about A Fatal End… Another nail-biting mystery awaits.’ The Lancashire Post Oxford, 1963In a backstreet club, people dance the night away to their favourite band. But behind the scenes there is trouble...

Ada Moncrieff / Murder at the Theatre Royale

It's Christmas at London's Theatre Royale and journalist Daphne King is determined to solve an extraordinary mystery...December 1935. Director Chester Harrison's production of A Christmas Carol has had a troubled run on its tour of regional theatres...

T.A. Williams / Murder in Tuscany

A remote retreat… Nestled high in the Tuscan hills lies Villa Volpone, home to renowned crime writer Jonah Moore and his creative writing course. It’s also the last place retired DCI Dan Armstrong expected to spend his retirement!...

John Russell Fearn / The Lonely Astronomer (Large Print Paperback)

The great Metropolitan Observatory is the pride of 22nd century engineering and science. When the astronomer Dr. Henry Brunner is found there, battered and strangled to death, there are four suspects present with reason to hate him: his immediate...

Marie Anders / The Finnish Sock (Large Paperback)

During an International Medical Congress in Salzburg, a well-known surgeon and scientist, Doctor Thomas Steinmetz, is mysteriously killed. When Inspector Quentin Neuner examines the corpse, he notices something he has never seen before. The victim's...

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...

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...

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...

Ann Granger / The Dead Woman of Deptford (Hardback) ( An Inspector Ben Ross Mystery)

THE DEAD WOMAN OF DEPTFORD is the sixth Inspector Ben Ross mystery set in Victorian London from much-loved crime writer Ann Granger.On a cold November night in a Deptford yard, dock worker Harry Parker stumbles upon the body of a dead woman. Inspector...

John Gardner / The Revenge of Moriarty (Hardback) ( A Professor Moriarty Novel)

With riches accumulated from an American crime spree, Professor Moriarty proceeds to annihilate his enemies. He murders the leaders of Europe 's underworld one by one, then prepares his most hideous revenge for his arch-enemy, Sherlock Holmes. Will...

Jill Paton Walsh / The Bad Quarto (Hardback) ( An Imogen Quy Novel)

Jill Paton Walsh has created a Miss Marple for the 21st century' - Mirror'A jewel in the traditional English detective mode . . . Ms. Morse has arrived' - ObserverAnother foolhardy Cambridge college night climber has died attempting...

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...

Alexander McCall Smith / Morality for Beautiful Girls ( No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency - Book 3) (Large Paperback)

The third book in the multi-million copy bestselling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency seriesThe one with the boy who might have been raised by lionsFacing financial trouble, the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is obliged to move into the same premises as...

Edgar Wallace / The Face in the Night (Large Paperback)

The green face hangs in the Room of Horror and around it grows a living, baffling legend of mystery and murder. At 2.00 a.m. the Embankment fog is thick and black. Men are gathered round a body. The dead man was clubbed and then thrown into the...

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...

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...

K.J. Larsen / Liar, Liar ( Cat DeLuca Mysteries - Book 1)

Liar, Liar, the first book in the Cat DeLuca Mysteries, has it all: a strong plot, memorable characters, and an astonishing finish.Cat DeLuca’s short, stormy marriage to run-around Johnnie Ricco was a crash course in infidelity. It taught her...

Ann Granger / Bricks and Mortality ( A Campbell and Carter Mystery )

The third Cotswold village mystery featuring Inspector Jess Campbell and Superintendent Ian Carter reveals a ruthless killer and a case of mistaken identity.In the cold light of dawn, a dead body is found entombed in the smouldering remains of a...

Derek Raymond / How the Dead Live ( Factory Series - Book 3 )

“A sulphurous mixture of ferocious violence and high-fl own philosophy.”— Prospect.  The third novel in the acclaimed Factory crime series sees Derek Raymond’s nameless detective leave London for a remote village, where...

Paige Shelton / The Cracked Spine ( Scottish Bookshop Mystery - Book 1)

Wanted: A bold adventurer who wants to travel the world from a comfortable and safe spot behind a desk that has seen the likes of kings and queens, paupers and princes. A humble book and rare manuscript shop seeks a keenly intelligent investigator...

Sofie Kelly / Final Catcall ( Magical Cats Mystery - Book 5)

Small-town librarian Kathleen Paulson gets plenty of entertainment from her extraordinary cats, Owen and Hercules. But when a theatre troupe stumbles into more tragedy than it bargained for, it’s up to Kathleen to play detective.... With her...

Holme Timothy / The Devil & The Dolce Vita ( Inspector Peroni Mystery - Book 3)

The hot Neapolitan blood of Commissario Achille Peroni runs chill in anticipation of the clammy, fog-bound Venetian winter. Seconded to the Venice Questura, the ‘Valentino of the Italian police’ feels he is no more than a museum attendant!...

Karen Kijewski / Katwalk ( Kat Colorado - Book 1)

When private eye Kat Colorado accepts a routine assignment investigating one man's finances, she never dreams that she will become embroiled in the elaborate, illegal, and dangerous scheming of a madman.      All of our books are second...

Michael Jecks / The Leper's Return ( Knights Templar - Book 6 )

When a local goldsmith, Godfrey of Harwood, is found brutally murdered in his home, Furnshill and Puttock are called on to investigate. But when rumors begin spreading that patients from a local leper hospital might have been involved in Godfrey's...

Edward Marston / The Ravens of Blackwater ( Domesday - Book 2 )

In this novel, Edward Marston continues his colorful, historically fascinating series of mysteries set in England, just after the Norman Conquest, during the reign of William the Conqueror. Each novel draws upon an actual entry in the Domesday Book,...

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,...

Aaron Elkins, Charlotte Elkins / On the Fringe (Hardback)

A Lee Ofsted mystery. Lee Ofsted and Graham Sheldon, her ex-cop fianc?, have decided to take advantage of the glorious setting of the historic Royal Mauna Kea Golf and Country Club to have a quiet wedding ceremony. But from the start things go awry,...

Deborah Crombie / No Mark Upon Her (Hardback) ( A Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James Novel)

New York Times bestselling author Deborah Crombie makes her mark with this absorbing, finely hued tale of suspense - a deeply atmospheric and twisting mystery full of deadly secrets, salacious lies, and unexpected betrayals involving the mysterious...

Lilian Jackson Braun / The Cat Who Went up the Creek (Hardback)

While vacationing in the nearby town of Black Creek at the Nutcracker Inn, James Qwilleran is gathering plenty of material for his book, "Tall and Short Tales". His two companions, Koko and Yum Yum, who much prefer the spaciousness of their home, at...

Jacqueline Winspear / Maisie Dobbs (Hardback)

Young, feisty Maisie Dobbs has recently set herself up as a private detective. Such a move may not seem especially startling. But this is 1929, and Maisie is exceptional in many ways. Having started as a maid to the London aristocracy, studied her...

Aaron Elkins / Good Blood (Hardback) (A Gideon Oliver Novel - Book 11 )

Even on an Italian holiday, anthropologist Gideon Oliver and his wife can't seem to find any R & R. They're guests of Mrs. Oliver's colleague on an idyllic island. But the breathtaking view and sumptuous food come at a price. The padrone's only...

Arthur Conan Doyle / Sherlock: The Essential Arthur Conan Doyle Adventures (Hardback)

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a...

Margaret Frazer / The Outlaw's Tale (Hardback) ( A Sister Frevisse Novel - Book 3 )

ACT OF MERCY, ACT OF MURDERLeaving the safety of her nunnery walls behind, Dame Frevisse is drawn into an unholy web of treachery and deceit. Waylaid on the King's Highway by a band of outlaws, Frevisse is shocked to discover that their leader is her...

Alison Bruce / Cambridge Black (Hardback) ( A DC Gary Goodhew Mystery )

A cold case waits to be solved . . . and a killer waits in the wings.Amy was seven years old when her father was arrested for murder. His subsequent trial and conviction scarred her childhood and cast a shadow over her life until,...

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...

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...