Classic crime and mystery fiction

Inspector Pitt is charged with murder in this "e;gripping and highly satisfying"e; entry in the New York Times-bestselling Victorian mystery series (Publishers Weekly).

A mystery set in Victorian England by the New York Times-bestselling author whose "e;novels attain the societal sweep of Trollope or Thackeray"e; (Booklist, starred review).

In this classic British mystery starring a sleuth "e;who has her place in detective fiction as surely as Lord Peter Wimsey or Hercule Poirot,"e; Miss Silver investigates a murder that may have its roots in a new romance-or an old family feud (Manchester Evening News).

Governess-turned-detective Miss Silver investigates a deadly conspiratorial ring Charles Moray has come home to England to collect his inheritance.

The British governess-turned-sleuth visits a small village hiding big secrets in this "e;timelessly charming"e; cozy mystery series (Charlotte MacLeod).

In World War II–era England, it seems a noblewoman may have come back from the dead   Anne Jocelyn and a friend were killed trying to escape the first German assault on France.

Members of Parliament are murdered crossing Westminster Bridge, in the New York Times-bestselling series set in Victorian London: "e;A sterling performance"e; (Library Journal).

Someone on posh Callander Square will kill to keep a secret in this "e;superior"e; mystery from the New York Times-bestselling author of Twenty-One Days (The San Diego Union-Tribune).

Exzellent – das ist er im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes: einzigartig, schlagfertig und natürlich auch unangenehm schlagfähig.

Charlie Chan is in San Francisco for one week only he absolutely must leave on Wednesday's boat to get back to Hawaii, where a new son awaits his return.

From the grit of the Australian bush to the tangled traditions of cultivated English society, Under Two Skies is truly a lost literary treasure.

Gladys, a spirited, beautiful girl raised in the heart of the Australian outback by her father, has married into British high society.

The Bradmoor Murder is a wonderful collection of mysteries by a true American master of the detective short story.

Monsieur Jonquelle is no ordinary prefect of police of Paris.

After the death of his wife Robert Turold, a hard and bitter man, is just one step away from proving his noble linage and claim to a great estate.

American detective Grant Colwyn is on a leisurely holiday in a fashionable seaside hotel in Norfolk when one morning during breakfast the strange behavior of one of the other guests catches his attention.

When Kitty's aunt and guardian is mysteriously murdered, the hunt is on for the killer.

When Nurse Vera Dean accepts a comfortable position in a country home in Virginia, she hopes to recover her nerves and health.

I Spy, first published in 1916, is set during the early years of WWI when it seems uncertain whether Allied forces will be able to rescue Europe from German invasion.

In The House Without a Key we are introduced to Chan, a corpulent father of nine, as he uses all his considerable faculties to solve the mystifying case of a murdered father and a missing jewel box.

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When Archer Coe, a collector of Chinese ceramics, is found dead in his bedroom with the door bolted on the inside, everybody from the district attorney to the medical examiner regards it as suicide.

A complicated tale of murder, hidden identities, and buried secrets in London's fashionable neighborhood of Bayswater.

When an elderly man's body is found on the steps of chambers in the Midde Temple, one of the Inns of Court, it falls to newspaperman Frank Spargo and Detective-Sergeant Rathbury to solve the crime.

The 'Canary' Murder Case First published in 1927, The Canary Murder Case is the second book in S.

Uncle Abner, the most famous literary character created by Melville Davisson Post, is a righteous amateur detective, a keen observer of human actions with profound knowledge and love for the Bible.

Playboy stockbroker, Alvin Benson, is found in his brownstone mansion with a bullet through his head.

A mysterious millionaire with a penchant for strange pets takes a flyer on a string of pearls and finds that death is the broker.

First published in 1978, this is a London where the worst has happened.

First published in 1975, A Remarkable Case of Burglary tells the tale of Val Leary, handsome, charming and broke.

A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYRediscover Gladys Mitchell one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L.

When the woman you love may be dead, or worse - unknowable - obsession takes over.

A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYAgatha Christie called her a shining light .

Read the enthralling medieval murder mystery.

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A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYWH Auden, Nancy Mitford and Noel Coward were among his fans.

William Lasco is a self-made multimillionaire who's got an eye for wealth and influence, the ear of the President, and a talent for using both to get what he wants.

He is the first, the sharpest, and the most chillingly modern detective of the Victorian era.

From the mind of Edgar Wallace, the legendary English author known as the master of the classic thriller and fast-paced crime fiction, comes a mystery where the supernatural clashes with cold-blooded logic.

When a Lesley Kinnock buys a lottery ticket on a whim, it changes her life more than she could have imagined .

Offshore, by bestselling crime writer Ann Cleeves, is a striking collection of eight short stories, all set on islands off the coast of the UK, and features cases for both DI Jimmy Perez on Shetland, and DI Willow Reeves on Uist in the Outer Hebrides.

It's three days before Christmas, and the Malworth Amateur Dramatic Society's rehearsal of Cinderella, scripted by GP Carl Bignall, is struggling thanks to a flu epidemic that has hit the production.

From the author of Poldark, the bestselling book and hit television series.

The news that Radio Broadwich is to make a documentary on Twytching for broadcast in America spreads through the small village like wildfire.

Assigned to Russia during the Second World War, Philip Sutherland falls in love with, and marries, Marya, a ballet dancer.

Philip Garve, a journalist on secondment in Jerusalem for a British newspaper, is more than familiar with the perils of the ancient city and the skirmishes between its people, so when he discovers a secret weapons stash by a roadside he begins to sense that an Arab uprising may be imminent.

Llanegwen - on the coast of North Wales - used to be an attractive, healthy place for respectable people.

Marton Manor, in rural Herefordshire, makes a romantic setting even for a hastily organised wedding.

The Middle Temple Murder (1919) is a finely engineered example of the early British detective novel, poised between Victorian sensation fiction and the emerging Golden Age mystery.