Traditional Detectives

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

On a beautiful October morning in rural Maine, a homicide investigator from the state police pulls into the hard-luck town of Copper Falls. The local junkyard is burning, and the town pariah Lizzie Oullette is dead - with her husband, Dwayne, nowhere to be found....

“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....

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....

Train journeys through rolling countryside and cruises across the open ocean might sound like paradise, but when murder strikes mid-journey, they’re anything but....

This collection of 25 Hercule Poirot adventures is compiled from short stories written by Agatha Christie for The Sketch magazine in 1923 from March to December....

Two bestselling Agatha Christie novels in one great audiobook: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and The Hollow.

At last, a single volume that gathers together all of the short stories featuring Agatha Christie's most famous creation, Hercule Poirot....

In The Man in the Brown Suit, a young woman makes a dangerous decision to investigate a shocking “accidental” death she witnesses at a London tube station. In They Came to Baghdad, a bright young adventure seeker in the Middle East finds more excitement than she bargained.

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....

The famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times....

Featuring his famous literary detective Atticus Pund and Susan Ryeland, hero of the worldwide bestseller Magpie Murders, a brilliantly complex literary thriller with echoes of Agatha Christie from New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz....

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....

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....

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....

At a Hallowe'en party, Joyce - a hostile thirteen-year-old - boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no one believes her, she storms off home....

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....

No outsiders are ever admitted to the monastery of Saint-Gilbert-Entre-les-Loups....

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

When Ellie and Ash move into a beautiful old house in rural Norfolk, England, they believe they’ve found their perfect home. Intrigued by the people next door, Ellie befriends shy but sweet Benjamin and, as time goes by, becomes ever more curious about his elusive sister, Virginia....

A dying millionaire hires private eye Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters, and Marlowe finds himself involved with more than extortion. Kidnapping, pornography, seduction, and murder are just a few of the complications he gets caught up in....

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....

Chaos is coming, old son. With those words the peace of Three Pines is shattered. Everybody goes to Olivier's Bistro - including a stranger whose murdered body is found on the floor....

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....

Christmas is approaching, and in Québec it's a time of dazzling snowfalls, bright lights, and gatherings with friends in front of blazing hearths. But shadows are falling on the usually festive season for Chief Inspector Armand Gamache....

Jagad av en mördare ... En tid efter dotterns födelse inser Theresa att mannen hon har gift sig med är en kallblodig seriemördare. Theresa tar fram bevisen som hjälper polisen att sätta maken, Jim Beckett, bakom galler. I fängelset svär Jim att han ska hämnas och trots hård bevakning lyckas han fly. Theresa vet att han kommer att söka upp henne, var hon än befinner sig. Jim Beckett är en ond man – utan samvete.

Jillian, Carol och Meg har alla överlevt en våldtäktsmans vidriga övergrepp. När mannen som förstört deras liv hittas mördad precis före rättegången vänds polisens intresse mot de tre kvinnorna, som tillsammans kallar sig ”De överlevandes klubb”. Snart är de polisens huvudmisstänkta. De har haft både möjlighet, motiv och styrka att döda Eddie Como, alias College Hill-skändaren. Men när polisen går vidare med sin utredning händer något oväntat.

Step into the world of classic mystery with The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie, now available as an enthralling audiobook. Join the brilliant detective Hercule Poirot as he faces one of his most perplexing cases yet. Summoned to France by a wealthy businessman, Poirot arrives only to find his client brutally murdered on a golf course. What follows is a masterful tale of intrigue, deception, and red herrings, where everyone is a suspect and nothing is as it seems.

Claire måste få veta sanningen för att kunna rädda sin son. Hon anar inte vilka starka krafter hon kämpar mot … Claire, som är läkare och ensamstående mamma till Noah, flyttar från storstaden till den lugna lilla badorten Tranquility. Plötslig spricker idyllen. En av skolans elever öppnar eld i klassrummet och skjuter sin lärarinna till döds. Händelsen följs snabbt av fler fruktansvärda våldsbrott och staden invånare drabbas av panik. Claire misstänker att det finns en gemensam nämnare hos förövarna.

Den unga, ambitiösa läkaren Abby DiMatteo har med en kombination av skicklighet och järnhård vilja lyckats få fast anställning som kirurg på det ansedda Bayside Hospital i Boston. Och hon är nära att nå sina drömmars mål – att få ingå i sjukhusets berömda transplantationsteam. Men så inträffar något som äventyrar hennes utnämning, hela hennes karriär. Ett trafikoffer, en hjärndöd kvinna, kommer en kväll in till sjukhuset, där en sjuttonårig pojke väntar på hjärttransplantation.

Jabez Wilson, a pawnbroker, consults Holmes about a job, gained only because of his red hair, which took him away from his shop for long periods each day; the job for to simply copy the Encyclopædia Britannica. After eight weeks, he was suddenly informed that the job ended. After some investigation at Wilson's shop, Holmes contacts a police inspector and the manager of a nearby bank. With Watson, they hide in the bank vault and catch two thieves who had dug a tunnel from the shop while Wilson was at the decoy copying job.

Neville St. Clair, a respectable businessman, has disappeared and his wife claims she saw him at the upper window of an opium den. Rushing upstairs to the room she found only a beggar who denied any knowledge of St. Clair – whose clothes are later found in the room, and his coat, laden with coins, in the River Thames outside the window. The beggar is arrested, but a few days later St. Clair's wife receives a letter from her husband. Holmes concludes, then proves, that the beggar is actually St. Clair in disguise; he confesses that he has been leading a double life as a beggar, making more money that way than in his nominal work.

John Openshaw tells Holmes that in 1883 his uncle died two months after receiving a letter inscribed "K.K.K." with five orange pips enclosed, and that in 1885 his father died soon after receiving a similar letter; now Openshaw himself has received such a letter. Holmes tells him to do as the letter asks and leave a diary page, which Holmes deduces is connected to the Ku Klux Klan, on the garden sundial. Openshaw is killed before he can do so, but Holmes discovers the killers have been travelling on a sailing ship, and sends the captain a letter with five orange pips. The ship is lost at sea.

The King of Bohemia engages Holmes to recover an indiscreet photograph showing him with the renowned beauty, adventuress and opera singer Irene Adler – the revelation of which would derail his marriage to a daughter of the King of Scandinavia. In disguise, Holmes witnesses Adler marry the man she truly loves, then by means of an elaborate stratagem discovers the photograph's hiding place. But when Holmes and the king return to retrieve the photo, they find Adler has fled the country with it, leaving behind a letter for Holmes and a portrait of herself for the King. The king allows Holmes to retain the portrait as a souvenir.

Against the wishes of her stepfather, Mary Sutherland has become engaged to Hosmer Angel. On the morning of their wedding Hosmer elicits a promise that Mary will remain faithful to him "even if something quite unforeseen" occurs, then mysteriously disappears en route to the church. Holmes deduces that Hosmer was Mary's stepfather in disguise, the charade a bid to keep Mary a spinster and thus maintain access to her inheritance. Holmes does not reveal the truth to Mary because "There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman".

Das Tal des Grauens (Originaltitel: The Valley of Fear) ist der vierte Roman von Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in welchem die Figuren Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson auftauchen. Die Geschichte wurde erstmals zwischen September 1914 und Mai 1915 im englischen Strand Magazine veröffentlicht und erschien als Buchausgabe in London und New York 1915. Inhalt: Das Werk ist aus zwei Teilen aufgebaut: Teil 1: Der Mord in Birstone ; Teil 2: Die Rächer.

This is the 25th story from The Art of Sherlock Holmes project and first appeared in The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories, Part VI.

The chin tattoo confirms the victim is Maori. The whorls of ink from her lower lip to her chin - the moko - is worn only by Maori women. So her ethnicity is a given. Finding who murdered her and dumped her body in the pool at the base of Mason's Rock waterfall is DI Nyree Bradshaw's latest case.

Der Hund von Baskerville (Originaltitel: The Hound of the Baskervilles, in neueren Übersetzungen auch Der Hund der Baskervilles) ist der dritte Roman mit Sherlock Holmes und eine der bekanntesten Detektivgeschichten Arthur Conan Doyles. Der Roman spielt im England des späten 19. Jahrhunderts in der Region Dartmoor. Auf der Familie Baskerville lastet ein dämonischer Fluch, wie aus einem Familiendokument aus dem Jahre 1742 hervorgeht.

This classic murder mystery uses elements that have since become very common in crime literature - an abandoned house, a fugitive figure fleeing from the scene, and a dead body. In the house at Whispering Pines, which is supposed to be closed, the narrator discovers a dead body. On closer inspection, and much to his horror, he discovers that the corpse is that of his fiance. The figure fleeing the scene appears to be that of her sister. Unfortunately, when the police arrive and find the narrator still in the house they suspect that he is the murderer....

Ese detective que vivía en Baker Street y al que los lectores ingleses convirtieron prácticamente en un icono de toda la flema y la inteligencia británica, nunca sospechó que en el siglo XXI, en una de las ciudades más pintorescas y heterogéneas de ese Nuevo Mundo conquistado por ellos y los españoles a la par, le nacería un rival de peso... ¡PABLO SANPEDRO, el primer detective del Exilio Cubano en Miami, que tal vez no viva en Baker Street, pero sí campea por su respeto en los bares de West Flagler, los parques de Hialeah, y la no menos insigne Calle 8!

Сборник рассказов Приключения Шерлока Холмса и доктора Ватсона, написанных знаменитым английским писателем Артуром Конан Дойлем, включает: Внезапное исчезновение "Сильвер-Блэза" ; Мёсгрэвский обряд ; Рейгэтские помещики ; Грек-переводчик ; Морской договор ; Последнее дело ; Арстократ-холостяк ; Берилловая корона ; Усадьба "Под буками" ; Собака Баскервилей ; Приключение шести Наполеонов ; Убийство в Окзотте.

Meet Francine Witt: successful blogger, influencer, and wine expert. Not quite the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalism she envisioned, but successful nonetheless. When an auction for a long-lost bottle of 1943 Margaux—a rumoured key to Queen Nefertiti’s hidden treasure—takes place, Francine covers the event. But things take a thrilling turn when she witnesses two men steal the precious bottle from renowned Egyptologist Hermione Radcliffe, the auction winner. As prominent Egyptologists are murdered one by one, Francine finds herself thrust into the story of a lifetime.

This blend of fact and fiction sheds light on a virtually unexplored dimension of the Great Detective’s exploits. It is a perspective Sherlock Holmes — who elevated “true, cold reason … above all things” — would probably not appreciate. But for all its warmth and irrationality, there is just as much truth in the heart.

История голубого алмаза — увлекательный рассказ английского писателя Артура Конан Дойла из серии "Приключения Шерлока Холмса". Впервые опубликовано Strand Magazine в январе 1892 года. Голубой алмаз из шкатулки графини волею судьбы попадает в обитель Шерлока Холмса вместе с рождественским гусем.

Этюд в багровых тонах — детективная повесть знаменитого английского писателя Артура Конана Дойла, опубликованная в 1887 году. Именно в этом произведении впервые появляется Шерлок Холмс. В пустом доме убит американец по имени Енох Дреббер. На стене рядом с его телом полиция обнаруживает странное послание...

Edward Alexander Crowley was born on 12th October 1875 to wealthy parents in Royal Leamington Spa in Warwickshire. He was educated at Malvern College, Tonbridge School, Eastbourne College and finally Trinity College, Cambridge where he focused on his passions of mountaineering and poetry and published several volumes. His literary works were both prolific and covered many topics. In the early part of his career he published many poetry books, even plays, before his darker and more forceful works came to dominate his output.

Последнее дело — один из 56 рассказов английского писателя Артура Конана Дойля о сыщике Шерлоке Холмсе, включённый писателем в сборник рассказов "Воспоминания Шерлока Холмса". Впервые опубликован в 1893 году. Легендарный Шерлок Холмс берется за разоблачение самого опасного преступника из всех, с которыми ему доводилось иметь дело —профессора Мориарти. Он готов заплатить любую цену, чтобы избавить общество от этого злодея. Но Холмс еще не знает, что это дело будет стоить ему жизни.

Обряд дома Месгрейвов — захватывающий рассказ английского писателя ирландского происхождения Артура Конан Дойля. Реджинальд Месгрейв застает своего дворецкого за чтением старинного семейного документа под названием Обряд дома Месгрейвов. Дворецкий умоляет хозяина позволить ему уволиться самому, получает согласие, но на следующий день исчезает без предупреждения, даже не забрав свои вещи. Вслед за ним исчезает и служанка, с которой у дворецкого когда-то был роман. Мейсгрейв просит Шерлока Холмса разгадать тайну загадочных исчезновений.

DCI Suzanna McLeod is a fighting fit and highly intelligent detective with brilliant analytical talents, who’s been favourably compared to Sherlock Holmes. Her Edinburgh-based team is legendary for being the UK’s best, so she has a reputation to live up to and a team to lead. Suzanna’s under pressure to catch the armed robbers before their success tempts them to more ambitious and dangerous missions. But she has to juggle two investigations when her magnifying glass is stolen. The Glass is a cherished heirloom entrusted to her care by her late great-great-uncle.