When a man is found dead in a freshly dug grave adjacent to a golf course, Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings arrive on the scene only to be met by a hostile local police detective who is unwilling to share information. But Poirot'Ä...

Inspector Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings travel to Merlinville-sur-Mer, France, to meet Paul Renauld, who has requested their help. Upon arriving at his home, the local police greet them with news that Renauld has been found dead...

One morning at an Essex country manor, the household wake to the discovery that the owner, elderly Emily Inglethorp, has been poisoned. Upon his arrival, inspector Hercule Poirot is faced with a mystery of how poison was administered ...

p The Queen of Mystery has come to Harper Collins! Agatha Christie, the acknowledged mistress of suspense—creator of indomitable sleuth Miss Marple, meticulous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and so many other unforgettable charac...

In a remote house in the middle of Dartmoor, six shadowy figures huddle around a table for a seance. Tension rises as the spirits spell out a chilling message: "Captain Trevelyan . . . dead . . . murder." Is this black mag...

The Queen of Mystery has come to Harper Collins! Agatha Christie, the acknowledged mistress of suspense—creator of indomitable sleuth Miss Marple, meticulous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and so many other unforgettable characte...

Martyr is the first installment in Rory Clements' acclaimed and bestselling John Shakespeare series of Tudor spy thrillers. Clements, winner of the Ellis Peters Historical Fiction Award, "does for Elizabeth's reign what CJ Sansom...

When Lord Montbarry dies suddenly in his Venice palace, and his courier goes missing, suspicion is instantly thrown on his new wife, the beautiful Countess Narona, who has collected his life insurance and fled to America. Montbarry's ...

Loose lips sink ships…and result in murder. When Myrtle and her friend Miles set out for adventure on the high sea, they assume most of the trip's excitement will result from shore excursions to charming Alaskan villages. They f...

How acute are your powers of perception? Do they begin to match those of Gervase Fen, Oxford don and sleuth supreme?These fourteen* short stories are classic examples of Fen's mastery of his art-solving the most insoluble cries where ...

Gervase Fen--the eccentric Oxford don with a knack for solving "impossible" crimes--made his debut in The Case of the Gilded Fly, which Edmund Crispin (in reality, composer Bruce Montgomery) wrote to win a bet. With Holy Dis...

Professor Gervase Fen is happy to step in when his old friend, the headmaster of the exclusive Castrevenford School, needs a guest speaker for the school's annual Speech Day. (Though the headmaster, it must be said, has his doubts as ...

Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder That is the case. Alison has been murdered. His blazing body was seen running about the battlements of Castle Skull. And so a dark shadow looms over the Rhineland where Inspe...

John Dickson Carr lays on the macabre atmosphere again in this follow up to It Walks by Night in which Inspector Bencolin attempts to piece together a puzzle involving a disappearing street, a set of gallows which mysteriously reveals...

The disappearance of Mike Bowditch’s beloved mentor reveals an ominous connection to a 15-year-old cold case in One Last Lie, the new thriller from bestselling Edgar Award finalist Paul Doiron.“Never trust a man without s...

The last twelve stories written about Holmes and Watson, these tales reflect the disillusioned world of the 1920s in which they were written. Some of the sharpest turns of wit in English literature are contrasted by dark images of ps...

Terror stalks the Devonshire moors as a long-forgotten horror reawakens to haunt the last remaining heir of Baskerville Manor. Widely considered to be Conan Doyle's finest work, The Hound of the Baskervilles features the famous detect...

The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of thirteen detective stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous literary creation.

"Dunn's second cozy set in 1960s Cornwall (after Manna from Hades) is a delightful romp." —Library JournalEleanor Trewynn is a recently retired widow who has moved to the small village of Port Mabyn in Cornwall. Neither fr...

The Daisy Dalrymple series continues in Heirs of the Body--when one of four potential claimants to the title of Lord Dalrymple dies a sudden, nasty death, the question on everyone's mind is, "was it murder"?In the late 1920'...

In England in the late 1920s, The Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher, on a convalescent trip to the countryside, goes to visit three old school friends in the area. The three, all unmarried, have recently bought a house together. The...

The House of Lords will never be the same again. Disinclined to watch her language or moderate her manners, "Jack" Troutbeck, assisted by her old friend Robert Amiss, plots vigorously with others to scupper an anti-hunting b...

"No observer, ignorant of the situation, would have guessed that death lurked nearby, and that only a little distance from the glitter of silver and glass and the hum of voices, two victims lay silent on a studio floor." On...

In what promises to be a breakout in Charles Finch\'s bestselling series, An Extravagant Death finds Sir Charles Lenox traveling to Gilded Age Newport and New York to investigate the death of a beautiful socialite.\r\nLondon, 1878. Wi...

In what promises to be a breakout in Charles Finch's bestselling series, Charles Lenox travels to the New York and Newport of the dawning Gilded Age to investigate the death of a beautiful socialite. London, 1878. With faith in Sco...

A death in the family brings gentleman sleuth Charles Lenox back to the country house where he grew up―just in time to confront an odd, unsettling crime in a nearby village.It's London in 1876, and the whole city is abuzz with the e...

A death in the family brings gentleman sleuth Charles Lenox back to the country house where he grew up―just in time to confront an odd, unsettling crime in a nearby village.It's London in 1876, and the whole city is abuzz with the e...

It's Christmas, 1866, and amateur sleuth Charles Lenox, recently engaged to his best friend, Lady Jane Grey, is happily celebrating the holiday in his Mayfair townhouse. Across London, however, two journalists have just met with viol...

A mysterious bequest of money leads to a murder in this new novel in the critically acclaimed and bestselling series whose last installment The New York Times called "a sterling addition to this well-polished series."Charles...

A USA TODAY BESTSELLERA mysterious bequest of money leads to a murder in this new novel in the critically acclaimed and bestselling series whose last installment The New York Times called "a sterling addition to this well-polishe...