At approximately eight o'clock private detective Harry Baker stumbled onto something big. At exactly one minute past eight, Baker was dead. The local police had figured that out for themselves. Now they wanted to know the rest from Jeff Lane. But...
One night, in a private boarding house in Scarborough, a railwayman vanishes, leaving his belongings behind. A reluctant Jim Stringer is sent to investigate. It is March 1914, and Jim Stringer, railway detective, is uneasy about his next...
The beautiful maid with the shadowy past was dead, strangled in her bed. Everyone in the elegant Maxie household from Stephen Maxie, son and heir, to Martha, the respectable housekeeper, had a reason to hate her. Detective Chief-Inspector Adam...
A forged check... a runs way wife... a curiously lazy lover... these tantalizing and elusive clues lead PERRY MASON and DELLA STREET to one of their most baffling cases ever— It all began when the first check for $2500 arrived. It was made out to...
In this gripping prequel to his Edgar Award finalist and New York Times bestseller The Deep, Deep Snow, Brian Freeman takes us on Rebecca’s dark journey to reveal the truth about the Ursulina... a journey that ultimately leads to an excruciating...
Everyone in Athena, Mississippi, knows Charlie Harris, the librarian with a rescued Maine coon cat named Diesel. He's returned to his hometown to immerse himself in books, but a celebrated author's visit draws an unruly swarm of fanatic mystery...
Small-town librarian Kathleen
Paulson gets plenty of
entertainment from her
extraordinary cats, Owen and
Hercules. But when a theatre
troupe stumbles into more tragedy than it bargained for,
it’s up to Kathleen to play
detective....
With her...
Two intriguing tales of criminal strategy that feature The Saint at his best. In The Pastor’s Problem, Father Bernardo, pastor of St. Jude’s church, has a dilemma: the church owns a three-hundred-year-old jewel-encrusted silver chalice,...
On the loose in the shadowy, gaslit streets of London’s East End — Jack the Ripper.
Baffled by the horrific series of murders in Victorian London, Detective Inspector Frederick Abberline is struck by the fact that all the killings have taken...