Traditional Detectives

Agatha Christie’s most famous characters—including Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple—solve even the most devilish of conundrums as the sun beats down in this all-new summer themed collection from the Queen of Mystery....

Ten strangers are lured to an isolated island mansion off the Devon coast by a mysterious "U.N. Owen." At dinner a recorded message accuses each of them in turn of having a guilty secret....

There's a serial killer on the loose, working his way through the alphabet and the whole country is in a state of panic....

This inventive mystery stars a fictional version of the author himself as the Watson to a modern-day Holmes, investigating a case involving buried secrets, murder, and a trail of bloody clues....

A reluctant ex-spy with demons of her own, Elinor finds herself facing down one of the most dangerous organized crime gangs in London, ultimately exposing corruption from Scotland Yard to the highest levels of government....

When two young sisters disappear from a strip mall parking lot in a small Pennsylvania town, their devastated mother hires an enigmatic bounty hunter, Alice Vega, to help find the girls....

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes tales are rightly ranked among the seminal works of mystery and detective fiction.

When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, Mrs. Quine just thinks her husband has gone off by himself for a few days - as he has done before - and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home....

Here is the world's first ever fully dramatised Sherlock Holmes canon: 56 short stories and 4 novels, all made by the same team of directors, producers, dramatists and leading actors, and packed with the high production qualities of a film or TV drama that set it apart....

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns in the eighteenth audiobook in #1 New York Times bestseller Louise Penny's beloved series.

Bury Your Dead is a novel about life and death—and all the mystery that remains—from #1 New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny....

Slough House is a dumping ground for British intelligence agents who've screwed up cases in any number of ways....

Psychologist and investigator Maisie Dobbs unravels a profound mystery from her past in a war-torn nation grappling with its future....

Miss Marple: The Complete Story Collection gathers together in one magnificent volume all of Agatha Christie’s short stories featuring her beloved intrepid investigator, Miss Marple....

For lovers of the supernatural and the macabre comes this collection of ghostly and chilling stories from legendary mystery writer Agatha Christie....

Here in one recording is every Sherlock Holmes story ever written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle....

“I’m sorry but the answer’s no.” Reluctant author, Anthony Horowitz, has had enough. He tells ex-detective Daniel Hawthorne that after three books he’s splitting and their deal is over. The truth is that Anthony has other things on his mind....

It’s Gamache’s first day back as head of the homicide department, a job he temporarily shares with his previous second-in-command, Jean-Guy Beauvoir. Flood waters are rising across the province....

With A Trick of the Light, Louise Penny takes us back to the deceptively peaceful village of Three Pines in this brilliant novel in her award-winning, New York Times bestselling series featuring Chief Inspector Armand Gamache....

Welcome to winter in Three Pines, a picturesque village in Quebec, where the villagers are preparing for a traditional country Christmas, and someone is preparing for murder....

When Brian Foley is charged with the murder of his next-door neighbour, the fastidious Arthur Cranham, it seems the case against the blustering showman...

When ex-detective inspector Daniel Hawthorne and his sidekick, author Anthony Horowitz, are invited to an exclusive literary festival on Alderney, an idyllic island off the south coast of England, they don’t expect to find themselves in the middle of murder investigation....

When a peculiar letter arrives inviting Armand Gamache to an abandoned farmhouse, the former head of the Sûreté du Québec discovers that a complete stranger has named him one of the executors of her will....

In All the Devils Are Here, the 16th novel by number one best-selling author Louise Penny finds Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Quebec investigating a sinister plot in the City of Light....

Welcome to Three Pines, where the cruelest month is about to deliver on its threat. It's spring in the tiny, forgotten village; buds are on the trees. But not everything is meant to return to life....

The Mystery of the Blue Train is a detective novel written by Agatha Christie, first published in 1928. It features Christie's famous Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, who investigates a murder that occurs aboard the luxurious Blue Train traveling from Calais to Nice. The story revolves around the murder of Ruth Kettering, a wealthy American heiress, whose valuable ruby necklace is also stolen. As Poirot delves into the case, he encounters a cast of characters with motives ranging from financial gain to personal vendettas. Suspects include Ruth's estranged husband, her lover, and other passengers aboard the train.

The Sherlockian, the magazine that the indefatigable Holmesian, Kelvin I. Jones, edited in the mid-1980s for publication by Magico Magazine, is re-published in one volume. New material includes essays and stories by leading Sherlockians in the UK, USA and Canada.

In a Paris newspaper, there appears a report of an extraordinary crime committed on the Rue Morgue. The police are unable to solve the case. Intrigued, Dupin decides to conduct his own investigation.

For the staff of the library at the center of The Widening Stain, it's easy enough to dismiss the death of a woman who fell from a rolling ladder as nothing more than an unfortunate accident. It's more difficult, however, to explain away the strangled corpse of a man found inside a locked room, surrounded by rare and obscure erotica.

Artists are singularly passionate people. Some are so intense, they commit suicide. Some commit murder. A popular French artist living in London has an appointment to see Sherlock Holmes. He fails to appear. Why? Because he is dead. Suicide? Or murder? Holmes is asked to investigate. He quickly learns that nothing in the world of art is what is seems. Two thousand years ago, Aristotle said that all art was mimesis, a representation of reality. It seems that artists themselves, and their wives, are also not what they appear to be. This new mystery takes Holmes and Watson into the world of ...

Holmes is visited by Mrs. Merrilow, a landlady from South Brixton who has an unusual lodger who never shows her face. She saw it once accidentally and it was hideously mutilated. This woman, formerly very quiet, has recently taken to cursing in the night, shouting "Murder, murder!" and "You cruel beast! You monster!" Also, her health has taken a turn for the worse, and she is wasting away.

Head trainer John Mason from Shoscombe Old Place, a racing stable in Berkshire, comes to Holmes about his master, Sir Robert Norberton. Mason thinks he has gone mad. Sir Robert's sister, Lady Beatrice Falder, owns Shoscombe, but it will revert to her late husband's brother when she dies. The stable has a horse, Shoscombe Prince, who Sir Robert hopes will win the Derby. He would be out of debt if that actually happened.

Sherlock Holmes is hired by a retired art supply dealer from Lewisham, Josiah Amberley, to look into his wife's disappearance. She has left with a neighbour, Dr. Ray Ernest, taking a sizeable quantity of cash and securities. Amberley wants the two tracked down.

Holmes is enjoying his retirement in Sussex when one day at the beach, he meets his friend Harold Stackhurst, the headmaster of a nearby preparatory school called The Gables. No sooner have they met than Stackhurst's science teacher, Fitzroy McPherson, staggers up to them, clearly in agony and wearing only an overcoat and trousers. He collapses, manages to say something about a "lion's mane", and then succumbs. He is observed to have red welts all over his back, possibly administered by a flexible weapon of some kind, for the marks curve over his shoulder and round his ribs.

In January 1903, at Baker Street, James M. Dodd sees Holmes about a missing friend, Godfrey Emsworth. Dodd and Emsworth served together in the Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa during the Second Boer War, which has only just ended. Emsworth was wounded during this war. Dodd has not seen him since the report of his injury leading Dodd to believe something is amiss.

Anarchists, assassins, kidnappers, fraudsters and jealous lovers. All of these nasty people appear in these new stories of Sherlock Holmes. Holmes, along with Dr. Watson, must apply the science of deduction, foil their plans and bring the evil doers to justice. These five new adventures of the world's most famous detective are perfect for those of you who enjoy historical mysteries and love Sherlock Holmes. The stories in this collection are: The Adventure of the Appalling Anarchists, The Adventure of the Un-Assassinated Queen, The Baffling Adventure of Baby Jesus, The Adventure of the ...

Schools for rich girls attract creepy men. Two hundred girls from wealthy families boarded at St. Elizabeth’s College for Girls in Oxford. On 23 October, 1903, Miss Edlyn Ferenci, an upper sixth form student, returned to her room in the senior dormitory after the Vespers Service. As she was preparing for bed, she looked out her window. Perched in the large oak tree and looking directly at her was a man, a very vile looking man. He was almost naked and grinning. She pulled down the blind and ran to the room of her closest friend. A fortnight later, Miss Edlyn lay dead at the base of the ...

SAVE 40% WHEN YOU BUY THE COLLECTION. Collection Four includes the following stories: The Silver Horse, Braised, The Box of Cards, The Yellow Farce, and The Three Rhodes Not Taken. All are original Sherlock Holmes mystery stories that are inspired by and tributes to the parallel stories in the original Canon. Save money and enjoy more of them.

COLLECTION TWELVE OF NEW SHERLOCK HOLMES MYSTERIES. SHERLOCK HOLMES is the world’s most famous detective. For over 100 years, his adventures have been read by millions of people like you—people who care about seeing evildoers brought to justice, seeing a brilliant mind at work, and knowing that, in the end, good will triumph. Return to London in one of the most fascinating eras of history. The Victorian world abounds with murderers, cheat, swindlers, imposters, lost souls seeking revenge, villains wanting illegal profit from inheritance, and those who are falsely accused and in ...

SHERLOCK HOLMES is the world’s most famous detective. For over 100 years, his adventures have been read by millions of people like you—people who care about seeing evildoers brought to justice, seeing a brilliant mind at work, and knowing that, in the end, good will triumph. Return to London in one of the most fascinating eras of history. The Victorian world abounds with murderers, cheat, swindlers, imposters, lost souls seeking revenge, villains wanting illegal profit from inheritance, and those who are falsely accused and in desperate need of help from Sherlock Holmes. These entirely ...