A thief making his get-away from a jewelry store heist runs into an antiques shop and hides a priceless loose-cut diamond in one of the little drawers of an old slant-front desk, unaware that he has been observed by the store’s mascot, Murfy the...
A run-down Victorian to renovate, a past to leave behind--who has time for romance...or murder? Patricia Amble, Tish to her friends, has gotten her life together. She's renovating an old, rambling Victorian house in a small town outside of...
The prizewinning debut mystery from one of Japan’s best-loved crime writers.
The K Apartments for Ladies are occupied by over a hundred unmarried women, once young and lively, now grown and old—and in some cases, evil.
Their residence...
In the blistering, dry summer, the waters of Thornfield Reservior have been depleted, revealing the ruins of the small Yorkshire village that lay at its bottom, bringing with it the unidentified bones of a brutally murdered young woman. Detective...
Here, for the first time in one volume, are the best stories of the year from Mike Shayne's Mystery Magazine — featuring the incomparable Mike Shayne himself. Whether you prefer your crimes brutal, clever, daring or disastrous... whether you...
In the Pathology Department it was always night. This was one of the things Quirke liked about his job…it was restful, cosy, one might almost say, down in these depths nearly two floors beneath the city's busy pavements. There was too a sense...
Jim Qwilleran and his cats Koko and Yum Yum try to solve a haunting mystery in a historic farmhouse in this New York Times bestseller in the Cat Who series. When Mrs. Cobb heard unearthly noises in the antique-filled farmhouse, she called Jim...