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Author: Agatha Christie

John Moffatt stars as the great Belgian detective in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation. Famous crime novelist Ariadne Oliver, visiting her friend Judith Butler in the little town of Woodleigh Common, is invited to a ...

Author: Robert Goddard

Tristram Abberley was an acclaimed English poet of the 1930s whose legendary reputation was sealed when he died fighting for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War. Nearly fifty years later, his sister Beatrix is bruta ...

Author: G.L. Gick & Harry Dickson

This collection includes the title story, in which the young American Sherlock Holmes teams up with the great occult detective, Sar Dubnotal, to defeat a monstrous creature from beyond, as well as a never before translat ...

Author: Harry Dickson

When inhuman monsters walk the Earth, threatening the good and the helpless, Justice has no stronger defenders than Harry Dickson and his assistant Tom Wills, who fight the forces of evil and cast them back into the Dark ...

Author: M C Beaton

Eager to join the working classes, Lady Rose Summer has abandoned the comforts of her parents' home to become self-supporting. But life as a working woman isn't quite what Rose had imagined---long hours as a typist and n ...

Author: Dorothy L Sayers

"The Wimsey books are literate and delightful mysteries."
--Chicago Tribune

The great Dorothy L. Sayers is considered by many to be the premier detective novelist of the Golden Age, and her dashing sleuth, Lord ...

Author: Elizabeth Peters

Trouble is brewing in Egypt at the close of 1914 and no one will escape the coming tempest. With the world at war, Amelia Peabody and her husband Radcliffe Emerson have returned to Cairo for another season of archaeo ...

Author: Michael Fowler

Detective Sergeant Hunter Kerr and his partner DC Grace Marshall are called to the scene of a brutal slaying; the victim is a 14 year-old girl. The killer has been disturbed but he has left behind a puzzle. What is the s ...

Author: Kate Kingsbury

"The landscape of the Pennyfoot is covered with splashes of rich reds and greens for the holidays. That should not include blood. However, a killer is on the loose, bent on ending some residents' good times..." The Chris ...

Author: Ellis Peters

In her sixteenth chronicle of the medieval monk-detective Brother Cadfael, Ellis Peters throws a variety of puzzles at her hero. In the summer of 1143, Brother Cadfael is torn from his herbarium to investigate the deaths ...

Author: Agatha Christie

Hercule Poirot doesn't need all his detective skillsto realize something is troubling his secretary, MissLemon--she has made three mistakes in a simpleletter. It seems an outbreak of kleptomania at thestudent hostel i ...

Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

"His Last Bow" is a collection of eight detective stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous literary creation, Sherlock Holmes. Contained within this collection are the following tales: The Adventure of Wisteria Lo ...

Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The friends of Mr. Sherlock Holmes will be glad to learn that he is still alive and well, though somewhat crippled by occasional attacks of rheumatism. He has, for many years, lived in a small farm upon the downs five mi ...

Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

His Last Bow is a collection of eight Sherlock Holmes stories including: The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge The Adventure of the Cardboard Box The Adventure of the Red Circle The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans The ...

Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Original Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle which brought him international fame as one of the greatest crime fiction writers. Conan Doyle wrote several volumes of stories featuring detective Holm ...

Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

From the rooms at 221B Baker Street, the mind that strikes fear into heart of London's criminal fraternity turns its attention to some of the strangest and most intriguing cases ever to be set before the great Sherlock H ...

Author: Susan Elia MacNeal

For fans of Jacqueline Winspear, Laurie R. King, and Anne Perry, whip-smart heroine Maggie Hope returns to embark on a clandestine mission behind enemy lines where no one can be trusted, and even the smallest indiscretio ...

Author: M C Beaton

If only the bossy, beloved Agatha Raisin were as lucky at finding the right man as she is at catching killers in M. C. Beaton's "New York Times "bestselling mystery series

Celebrating the twentieth anniversary of ever ...

Author: M C Beaton

Agatha has fallen in love--again. This time it's the local gardener, George Marston, she has her eye on. But competition for his attention abounds. With her shameless determination Agatha will do anything to get her man- ...

Author: Edmund Crispin

Holy Disorders takes Oxford don and part time detective Gervase Fen to the town of Tolnbridge, where he is happily bounding around with a butterfly net until the cathedral organist is murdered, giving Fen the chance to p ...