Even if Hercule Poirot had been born a Frenchman, not a Belgian, he would have to take second place in detection to Joseph Rouletabille, the brilliant young sleuth created by Gaston Leroux. Here, in his first and most baffling case, the eighteen...
A recipe to delight every gourmet of mystery fiction...
Take a proxy fight and a series of mysterious phone calls from an unknown female who said her name was Rosalind.
Add a couple of guns and a very dead blonde in a bare hotel room.
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The man who beats crooks at their own games... Follow the adventures of Paul Pry, a sophisticated, urbane genius whose greatest talent lies in uncovering the plots of criminals and snatching their booty when they least expect it. Pry and his cohort,...
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson traverse the British Isles and the Italian Peninsula in a rousing series of new adventures
After a thrilling jaunt in the Far East, Holmes and Watson return to England to address an inheritance left by...
Young Derek Lestrange, Mrs. Bradley's grandson, is in need of a scrapbook to complete a school assignment, and finds just the thing in the form of a heavy diary that belonged to an earlier tenant of the house his grandmother has rented. Asking...
When Columba and Janetta Pilgrim think it unwise to leave their ancestral home after their brother suffers a fatal fall only days after talk of selling it, and Roger Pilgrim barely escapes two nearly fatal "accidents," Miss Maud Silver is called...
Lara McClintoch’s professional pride is hurt when a writing cabinet she thought was a genuine antique turns out to be a fake.
When the antique dealer who sold it for a million dollars is murdered and the money goes missing, Lara follows the...
Ellery Queen’s subtle attack on his longest and most complicated ease to dale developed out of a baffling series of murders in New York City. Victim followed victim with no apparent connection except that each was found strangled by a cord of...
In Gangway! Gabe Beauchamps was a shake down man in New York, a city he loves more than anything. After shaking down the relative of a powerful mob player, Gabe is given a one way train ticket to San Francisco and told he will be watched to make...
The most engaging new detective of the year — Tecumseh Fox! Meet him in a neatly dovetailed mystery which is right up to the unbeatable standard of Rex Stout’s best.
Two shots in the dark and a silent figure sprawled on the floor of Ridley...