Detective and mystery stories
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The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime: Forgotten Cops and Private Eyes from the Time of Sherlock Holmes
$20.00 Add to cartA wonderfully wicked new anthology from the editor of The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime
It is the Victorian era and society is both entranced by and fearful of that suspicious character known as th- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Sims, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 25 2011
- ISBN10: 014310621X
- Language: English
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Watching the Dark
$18.99 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author Peter Robinson brings back Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks and his colleague DI Annie Cabbot in a case riddled with corruption.
A decorated policeman is murdered
- Series: Inspector Banks Novels #20
- Author: Robinson, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 02 2017
- ISBN10: 0062283979
- Language: English
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The Saturday Morning Murder: A Psychoanalytic Case
$19.99 Add to cartFrom award-winning and internationally acclaimed author, Batya Gur, comes a hair-raising mystery in which Israeli investigator Michael Ohayon’s detective skills are put to the ultimate test.
When Dr. E
- Series: Michael Ohayon #1
- Author: Gur, Batya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 28 2020
- ISBN10: 0060995084
- Language: English
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Standalone: A Dickie Cornish Mystery
$16.00 Read more“Top 25 Mystery Novels of 2022” –The Strand Magazine
“Chambers makes the smell and harrowing vibe of the mean streets of the nation’s capital come alive.” –Publishers Weekly
Dickie Cornish, Washington,
- Author: Chambers, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1953103235
- Language: English
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A Study in Terror
$18.00 Add to cartBased on the Sherlock Holmes film: Ellery Queen matches wits with the Baker Street sleuth to unmask Jack the Ripper.
Ellery Queen is struggling over his latest book when a friend brings him a mystery- Author: Queen, Ellery
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1504069080
- Language: English
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Dead Letters from Paradise
$19.95 Add to cartTwo-time Lambda Literary Award-winning author Ann McMan introduces readers to a spinster postal investigator for the Winston-Salem Dead Letter Office who finds herself enmeshed in the mystery of solvi
- Author: McMan, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 1612942350
- Language: English
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Death Row Breakout: And Other Stories
$16.99 Add to cartSeven stories from the papers of one of America’s finest crime authors
Roger doesn’t mean for the preacher and his wife to die. Released less than a year earlier from San Quentin, he’s trying to make- Author: Bunker, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 182
- Publish Date: April 09 2013
- ISBN10: 1453236732
- Language: English
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Deadly Dance
$22.00 Add to cart“Previously published as Agatha Raisin and the deadly dance in 2004.”
- Author: Beaton, M. C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: January 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1250124514
- Language: English
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The Real Cool Killers
$19.00 Add to cartThe book that Walter Kirn said was like “Hieronymus Bosch meets Miles Davis” (The New York Times). – Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones get personally involved in a gang dispute in one of the mo… [more below]
- Series: Harlem Detectives #2
- Author: Himes, Chester
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 28 1988
- ISBN10: 0679720391
- Language: English
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The Winner
$33.00 Add to cartA rags-to-riches deal for single mother LuAnn Tyler is deadlier than she ever could have imagined in this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller from David Baldacci.
THE DREAM
She is twenty, beautiful,- Author: Baldacci, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 29 2005
- ISBN10: 0446522597
- Language: English
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The Princess of Burundi: A Mystery
$24.00 Add to cartWinner of the Swedish Crime Academy Award for Best Crime Novel, The Princess of Burundi introduces American readers to Kjell Eriksson–a crime writer who has quickly become an international sensation.
- Series: Ann Lindell Mysteries #1
- Author: Eriksson, Kjell
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 06 2007
- ISBN10: 0312327684
- Language: English
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The Doomsters
$18.00 Add to cartHired by Carl Hallman, the desperate-eyed junkie scion of an obscenely wealthy political dynasty, detective Lew Archer investigates the suspicious deaths of his parents, Senator Hallman and his wife A… [more below]
- Series: Lew Archer #7
- Author: MacDonald, Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 04 2007
- ISBN10: 0307279049
- Language: English
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The Chinese Bell Murders
$18.99 Add to cartMeet Judge Dee, the detective lauded as the “Sherlock Holmes of ancient China”
Fans of Alexander McCall Smith’s No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series will thrill to this reissue of the first volume in
- Series: Judge Dee Detective Story
- Author: Van Gulik, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: August 03 2004
- ISBN10: 0060728884
- Language: English
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The Plain Old Man
$18.99 Add to cartMurder upstages a Kelling family theatrical production–and Boston’s art sleuths are on the case. “The screwball mystery is Charlotte MacLeod’s cup of tea” (Chicago Tribune).
Producing a Gilbert & Su… [more below]- Series: Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn Mysteries #6
- Author: MacLeod, Charlotte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 201
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 150406772X
- Language: English
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A Study in Scarlet
$12.99 Add to cartNow, as in this lifetime, cab drivers, statesmen, academics, and raggedy-assed children sit spellbound at his feet. No wonder, then, if the pairing of Holmes and Watson has triggered more imitators t
- Series: Mint Editions (Crime, Thrillers and Detective Work)
- Author: Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: November 22 2020
- ISBN10: 1513220535
- Language: English
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Calypso, Corpses, and Cooking
$28.99 Read moreIt’s time for a savory soir?–but something sinister is stewing–in Raquel V. Reyes’s second delightful Caribbean Kitchen mystery, perfectly delicious for fans of Mia P. Manansala.
Fall festivities ar- Series: A Caribbean Kitchen Mystery
- Author: Reyes, Raquel V.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1639101063
- Language: English
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Lying in Wait: A J.P. Beaumont Novel
$9.99 Add to cartAn electrifying story of vengeance and the sins of a nightmarish past featuring Seattle detective J.P. Beaumont.
The sky above Puget Sound blazes orange, as a burning fishing boat fills the air with ac
- Series: J. P. Beaumont Novel #12
- Author: Jance, J. A.
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 27 2011
- ISBN10: 0062086405
- Language: English
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Man in the Queue
$16.99 Add to cartA long line had formed for the standing-room-only section of the Woffington Theatre. London’s favorite musical comedy of the past two years was finishing its run at the end of the week. Suddenly, the … [more below]
- Author: Tey, Josephine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 04 2016
- ISBN10: 0684815028
- Language: English
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The Best American Noir of the Century
$24.99 Add to cart“Well worth its impressive weight in gold, it would be a crime not to have this seminal masterpiece in your collection.”–New York Journal of Books
In his introduction to The Best American Noir of th- Series: Best American Series (R)
- Author: Penzler, Otto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: October 04 2011
- ISBN10: 0547577443
- Language: English
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The Night of the Wolf
$34.99 Add to cartThe ruthless reign of Henry IV and the clerical tyranny of Archbishop Arundel keep Brother Chandler and his friends under constant threat in this gripping medieval mystery featuring friar-sleuth Rodri
- Series: A Brother Chandler Mystery #3
- Author: Clark, Cassandra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1448306663
- Language: English
