Classic crime and mystery fiction

This expansive collection gathers R.

A thrilling tale from the author who inspired Alfred Hitchcock!

The Deep-Lake Mystery is a polished example of Carolyn Wells's Golden Age detective fiction, combining the country-house puzzle with the atmosphere of a secluded lakeside community.

In glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied at the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number merely strange, but none commonplace.

After Sherlock Holmes died in 1893 at the Reichenbach Falls at the end of the story The Final Problem, Arthur Conan Doyle was inundated with pleas from fans around the world to revive him.

With a knock on the door, a stranger enters Sherlock Holmess Baker Street rooms, begging Holmes to solve a ghastly and perplexing mystery.

In a wild, bleak corner of the Kent Coast, a derelict harbour rots beneath the tides.

Ian Laking is pathologically jealous of his beautiful wife, and obsessed with murder.

"e;The year was 1900, the place was London, and the night, an unusually warm one for September, began and ended with horrors.

When financier Emerson Drew's hired killer pushes scientist-inventor Rajek Quinton down an abandoned mineshaft, Drew and his conspirators believe that the way's clear to exploit Quinton's amazing new invention, which will make them millions.

I'm in trouble.

A headline murder.

With each spine-tingling mystery, the legend of Sherlock Holmes comes to life.

A wealthy woman is poisoned at an English country manor and the world of detective fiction is changed forever.

Two bright young characters of the Jazz Age start out looking for adventure and wind up saving England in Agatha ChristiesThe Secret Adversary.

SHERLOCK HOLMES DIDN'T DEAL WITH THE SUPERNATURAL.

Now in ebook format, this is a static, generic epub.

He had three perfect wivesUntil one of them killed him.

'He is master of the detective novel, yes, but also one hell of a writer' Boston GlobeDashiell Hammett is the true inventor of modern detective fiction and the creator of the private eye, the isolated hero in a world where treachery is the norm.

'His name remains one of the most important and recognisable in the crime fiction genre.

How does a man escape from himself.

'A gorgeous mystery read to escape with this summer' - EJ, Amazon Reviewer, 5 starsWhen Penelope Kite swaps her humdrum life in Surrey for a picturesque farmhouse in the south of France, she imagines a simple life of long lunches and chilled ros .

Sunny skies, sleep water.

The first Atticus Pund and Susan Ryeland mystery from bestselling author Anthony Horowitz, and inspiration for the major hit BBC series MAGPIE MURDERS.

Now a major film: Flavia, starring Martin Freeman and Toby Jones!

It all began with that awful business about my mother.

THE GAME IS ON: the greatest adventures of the greatest detective of them all - Sherlock Holmes.

'The best crime novel ever written' - Elmore Leonard'If you haven't read George V.

Madness and murder await you.

'Cain has established a formidable reputation of furious pace, harsh and masterful realism, tough, raw speech right out of the mouths of the people' SATURDAY REVIEWSerenade is the story of the eternal triangle - with a difference.

A true crime masterpiece, and highly acclaimed 1940s movie'DOUBLE INDEMNITY is among the finest of all American novels, regardless of genre or style' LA TIMES'Cain is the master' Tom WolfeDOUBLE INDEMNITY is the classic tale of an evil woman motivated by greed who corrupts a weak man motivated by lust.

Reissue of a true classic - 'One of the toughest crime novels ever' (Newsweek).

Small time America.

With a new introduction by Charlie Higson'Fantastic .

The most famous of all locked-room mysteries - a classic in the crime genre.

Now a major film: Flavia, starring Martin Freeman and Toby Jones!

Summer.

'Recommended to anyone who enjoys Martina Cole and Mandasue Heller' - Amazon reviewWHEN A WOMAN'S LIFE IS ON A KNIFE-EDGE, IT'S KILL OR BE KILLED .

Now a major film: Flavia, starring Martin Freeman and Toby Jones!

Now a major film: Flavia, starring Martin Freeman and Toby Jones!

Now a major film: Flavia, starring Martin Freeman and Toby Jones!

Now a major film: Flavia, starring Martin Freeman and Toby Jones!

Now a major film: Flavia, starring Martin Freeman and Toby Jones!

Fans of Kathy Reichs, Karin Slaughter and Patricia Cornwell will love this hard-hitting and riveting forensic thriller by bestselling author John Macken.

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID PEACEThis volume collects together Sherlock Holmes's most memorable and intriguing cases, including adventures with mysterious masked strangers, ingenious heists, murderous plots and hidden jewels, which take the famous detective and his faithful sidekick Dr Watson from the streets of London and the English countryside to a chilling encounter at the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland.

The nineteenth book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford.

Another magnificently gripping and compelling thriller from multi-million copy and SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author Ruth Rendell full of twists and turns and the odd red herring!

Fans of PD James, Ann Cleeves and Donna Leon will devour this captivating and compelling thriller from multi-million copy and SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author Ruth Rendell.