Traditional Detectives

When an elderly, world-famous magician is found dead in his Cherringham mansion, there is nothing suspicious about the passing. According to the doctor,...

Editor Susan Ryeland has left her Greek island, her hotel and her Greek boyfriend, Andreas, in search of a new life back in England.

Ten strangers are lured to an isolated island mansion off the Devon coast by a mysterious "U.N. Owen." At dinner a recorded message accuses each of them in turn of having a guilty secret....

In late Victorian England, private enquiry agents Cyrus Barker and Thomas Llewelyn find themselves in the middle of the deadly chaos when powerful forces align to take over London's criminal underworld.

Joanna Blalock's keen mind and incredible insight lead her to become a highly skilled nurse, one of the few professions that allow her to use her finely tuned brain....

For years the boglands of Northern Europe have given up bodies of the long-deceased. Bodies that are thousands of years old, uncannily preserved. Bodies with strange injuries that suggest ritual torture and human sacrifice.

For fans of Anthony Horowitz and Lucy Foley, a wonderfully original, genre-breaking literary debut from Ireland that’s an homage to the brilliant detective novels of the early twentieth century, a twisty modern murder mystery, and a searing exploration of grief and loss.

We are 40 years into the future, and London is a city in decay. John Watson has returned from medical service in the war in Afghanistan and lives by himself in a run-down part of ​town.

Slough House is a dumping ground for British intelligence agents who've screwed up cases in any number of ways....

In a daring and chilling debut, Brad Thor draws us into a sinister labyrinth of political intrigue and international terrorism, serving up an explosive cocktail of unrelenting action....

The famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times....

Somewhere out there, in the darkness, a black wolf is feeding.

Welcome to winter in Three Pines, a picturesque village in Quebec, where the villagers are preparing for a traditional country Christmas, and someone is preparing for murder....

Colorado's Redstone Ridge is a place of extraordinary beauty, but this rugged mountain wilderness harbors a horrifying secret. When a charred body is discovered in a shallow grave on the ridge, officer Mattie Cobb and her K-9 partner, Robo, find this is no ordinary crime....

At last, a single volume that gathers together all of the short stories featuring Agatha Christie's most famous creation, Hercule Poirot....

When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, Mrs. Quine just thinks her husband has gone off by himself for a few days - as he has done before - and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home....

January 1905: Holmes and Watson are summoned by Holmes' brother Mycroft to undertake a clandestine investigation. An agent of the British Secret Service has been found floating in the Thames, carrying a manuscript smuggled into England at the cost of her life....

Featuring his famous literary detective Atticus Pund and Susan Ryeland, hero of the worldwide bestseller Magpie Murders, a brilliantly complex literary thriller with echoes of Agatha Christie from New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz....

It is the height of summer, and Armand and Reine-Marie Gamache are celebrating their wedding anniversary at Manoir Bellechasse, an isolated, luxurious inn....

Here in one recording is every Sherlock Holmes story ever written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle....

Welcome to Three Pines, where the cruelest month is about to deliver on its threat. It's spring in the tiny, forgotten village; buds are on the trees. But not everything is meant to return to life....

It’s Gamache’s first day back as head of the homicide department, a job he temporarily shares with his previous second-in-command, Jean-Guy Beauvoir. Flood waters are rising across the province....

When an intricate old map is found stuffed into the walls of the bistro in Three Pines, it at first seems no more than a curiosity....

While the residents of the Québec village of Three Pines take advantage of the deep snow to ski and toboggan, to drink hot chocolate in the bistro and share meals together, the Chief Inspector finds his holiday with his family interrupted by a simple request....

Chaos is coming, old son. With those words the peace of Three Pines is shattered. Everybody goes to Olivier's Bistro - including a stranger whose murdered body is found on the floor....

A group of friends gather at an Airbnb on New Year’s Eve. It is Benjamin’s birthday, and his sister Abigail is throwing him a jazz-age Murder Mystery themed party. As the night plays out, champagne is drunk, hors d’oeuvres consumed, and relationships forged, consolidated or frayed. Someone kisses the wrong person; someone else’s heart is broken. In the morning, all of them wake up—except Benjamin. As Abigail attempts to wrap her mind around her brother’s death, an eminent detective arrives determined to find Benjamin's killer.

When famed mystery author Imelda Bywater turns up dead during her annual seaside writing retreat, recently retired police detective Mike Atwell can't resist the chance to solve one more case. Teaming up with his quirky ex-wife, Sharon, and genius teen hacker, Dexter, Mike finds himself pulled into the glitzy world of writers, agents, and obsessive fans on the hunt for Imelda's killer. Everyone's a suspect—from Imelda's cuckolded publisher husband, the kooky married writers next door, and even the arrogant guest upstairs. The list keeps growing as secrets and lies unravel.

Justin thought he had the perfect plan. After killing his wife, he attempts to frame a serial killer terrorizing their town, confident the police will follow the breadcrumbs he’s carefully laid. But secrets have a way of surfacing, and Justin’s isn’t the only one. The serial killer has haunted the community, abducting women and leaving their bodies in public parking lots—a grim signature that has kept the town in fear. As the detective races to connect the dots, the killer’s perspective reveals a mind as methodical as it is monstrous. Told through four gripping perspectives: ...

An Unexpected Death. A Powerful Inheritance. A Deadly Game of Deceit. What begins as a fluff piece quickly spirals into a treacherous web of suspicion and buried family secrets. Leopoldo Bonavista’s career is hanging by a thread. The disgraced socialite journalist’s reputation has been shattered by scandal. His last shot at redemption? A lucrative offer to write a glowing profile on Silvia Domenech, the iron-fisted matriarch of the Fonseca family—one of the wealthiest and most influential clans on the Costa Blanca. The catch: He must spend a week at their opulent summer estate. Lies. ...

Lord Peter Wimsey investigates the sudden appearance of a naked body in the bath of an architect at the same time a noted financier goes missing under strange circumstances. As the case progresses it becomes clear that the two events are linked in some way.

Book 1: The Icehouse A Murderer on the Loose. A Detective Haunted by the Past. A Race Against Time. DCI Jonathan Walker is a senior detective for the Lancashire Constabulary in North West England. He’s haunted by events of the past and hell bent on redemption.

Ambrose Chitterwick is in the lounge of the Piccadilly Palace Hotel, away from his overbearing aunt, to enjoy some afternoon refreshments when he witnesses a murder. It looks like suicide but he saw something being put into the lady’s coffee cup. He is Scotland Yard’s chief witness but he also conducts an investigation of his own. Despite his diffidence and self-deprecation, his sleuthing is not to be sniffed at. There are plenty of twists and turns in this journey to enjoy, especially with master narrator David Timson in the driving seat.

Holmes se enfrenta a un enigma peculiar cuando una joven desesperada, Mary Sutherland, busca su ayuda para resolver la misteriosa desaparición de su prometido. A medida que Holmes desenreda la compleja red de engaños y disfraces, revela un oscuro secreto que pone en juego la identidad y la astucia.

A Study in Scarlet is an 1887 detective novel by Scottish author Arthur Conan Doyle. The story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would become the most famous detective duo in popular fiction. The book's title derives from a speech given by Holmes, a consulting detective, to his friend and chronicler Watson on the nature of his work, in which he describes the story's murder investigation as his "study in scarlet": "There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.

An upside down intriguing kidnapping.

Sherlock Holmes se ve envuelto en la desaparición del caballo favorito para la Copa Wessex y el asesinato de su entrenador, en la apacible zona de Dartmoor. Con su fiel compañero Watson, Holmes es arrastrado al corazón de este misterio, que captura la atención de toda Inglaterra. A medida que investigan, Holmes utiliza su característica agudeza para desentrañar una trama llena de pistas falsas y descubrimientos intrigantes.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. It was first published on 14 October 1892; the individual stories had been serialised in The Strand Magazine between July 1891 and June 1892. The stories are not in chronological order, and the only characters common to all twelve are Holmes and Dr. Watson. The stories are related in first-person narrative from Watson's point of view. In general the stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes identify, and try to correct, social injustices.

Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson werden von Scotland Yard um Hilfe gebeten: In einem Londoner Nobellokal wurde der Chefkoch ermordet. Wirklich irritierend ist allerdings die Vorgehensweise des Täters, die an Perfidie und Grausamkeit kaum zu überbieten ist.

La casa dei Krull è al margine estremo del paese, e loro stessi ne vengono tenuti ai margini. Benché naturalizzati, restano gli stranieri, i diversi. E quando davanti all'emporio viene ripescato il cadavere di una ragazza violentata e uccisa, i sospetti cadono fatalmente su di loro. In un magistrale crescendo di tensione, e con un singolare rovesciamento, vediamo montare l'ostilità della popolazione francese verso la famiglia tedesca, e l'avversione per una minoranza, che rappresenta un perfetto capro espiatorio, degenerare progressivamente in odio e violenza.

Alberta Mansbridge sets the table with teacups, mulling over the guests who will be arriving within the hour: her accountant and the ex-jailbird Barry; her nephew and his ghastly new wife; the Italian playboy, the family doctor, the manager of her father’s company and dear old Myra, with whom she had so recently fallen out. . . Alberta returns upstairs to get herself ready. Alberta returns upstairs to get herself ready. Yet the guests' knocking goes unanswered, and they soon discover that their host has been murdered - worse still, that the killer must be among them, let in early.

A thrilling tale from the author of the popular 'Reverend Shaw' series of Golden Age mysteries! London, 1930: When aspiring film actress Evelyn Parks is found strangled late one night at Hampstead underground station, Scotland Yard detectives begin a desperate manhunt across the fog-shrouded city. Evelyn's neighbour Clarice Thompson begins to suspect that the killer was someone she knew —perhaps even a fellow resident at the Lovell Villa Private Hotel, the down-at-heel boarding house in which Evelyn rented a room.

Dr. Watson wird unerwarteter Weise von seiner Cousine Aethel Gastrell um Hilfe gebeten. Kurzerhand reist er zu ihr nach Sheffield, natürlich nicht ohne Sherlock Holmes Begleitung zu erbitten. Schnell stellt sich heraus, dass Aethels Mann Godric bereits seit sechs Tagen wie vom Erdboden verschluckt zu sein scheint. Holmes und Watson nehmen die Ermittlungen auf und landen noch am selben Tag in Godrics Lieblingskneipe bei seinem besten Freund Berry. Doch dieser ist am nächsten Tage tot.

El primer título de la serie Inspector Kurt Wallander, un personaje imprescindible del género policiaco. En este histórico primer encuentro con sus lectores, el inspector Wallander debe resolver un caso casi tan complicado como su vida personal.

This is a 1913 collection of ten short detective stories by a not well known writer. Jack Lanagan is a police reporter for a daily newspaper in San Francisco, who has the confidence of the chief of police and access to all sorts of levels of city life.

Артур Конан Дойл вошел в мировую литературу прежде всего как непревзойденный мастер детективного жанра, автор множества произведений о гениальном сыщике Шерлоке Холмсе и его верном друге докторе Ватсоне. В сборник вошли повести Красное по белому и Знак четырех, а также Записки о Шерлоке Холмсе. Обладая острым умом и необыкновенной наблюдательностью, используя свой знаменитый дедуктивный метод, сыщик решает самые запутанные головоломки

When love hit Cutler, it knocked him down. That’s when life kicked him in the teeth. Police officer John Cutler knew better than to fall in love. He should have walked away because she was dangerous. Cutler instinctively understood why, yet he couldn’t say no. That only led to him begging her to stay. When his world fell apart, Cutler lost everything—his job, his friends, and his self-respect. Now, he’s getting a chance to rebuild, and he’s making the most of it. John Cutler isn’t the man he wants to be, but he’s working on it.

Eine gefährliche Protestbewegung. Eine Leiche in der Isar. Und eine junge Ermittlerin mit einer besonderen Fähigkeit. Als eine Gruppierung junger Frauen Deutschland mit Aktionen erschüttert, wird LKA-Ermittlerin Obalski ins Münchner Jugendamt eingeschleust. Sie soll heimlich Informationen über die Bewegung, ihre Methoden und Ziele beschaffen. Obalski scheint perfekt geeignet für diesen Auftrag, denn sie verfügt über eine besondere Fähigkeit: Sie kann Menschen und ihre Verhaltensweisen lesen.

Dies ist der dritte Band von den neuen Abenteuer des Sherlock Holmes: Über Jahre hinweg begleitete Dr. John H. Watson seinen Freund und Kompagnon Sherlock Holmes bei der Aufklärung einer Vielzahl von Verbrechen und Geheimnissen. Beginnend mit den 1880er Jahren und in das 20. Jahrhundert hineinragend, stellte Holmes seinen Status als brillantester und erfolgreichster Detektiv der Welt immer wieder unter Beweis. Davon zeugen die schriftlichen Notizen Watsons, die dieser gewissenhaft angelegt hat, und in denen von den Abenteuern von Sherlock Holmes erzählt wird.

Eigentlich wollen Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson im Zuge ihres Wien-Aufenthalts einen geruhsamen Nachmittag im Tiergarten Schönbrunn verbringen, doch es kommt anders: Im Reptilienhaus wird eine Leiche gefunden - und die Täter sind nicht die Krokodile.

Inspector Malletts erster Fall. Ein Klassiker aus dem goldenen Zeitalter der Detektivliteratur. Am Rande Londons liegt das ruhige Wohnviertel Daylesford Gardens. Hier kennt man sich, schätzt Ruhe und Privatsphäre. Das ändert sich, als zwei junge Makler eine grausige Entdeckung machen: Im Wohnzimmer eines kleinen Mietshauses liegt eine Leiche! Der Tote ist niemand Geringerer als der berüchtigte Börsenspekulant Lionel Ballantine, der nicht wenige Londoner um ihre Ersparnisse brachte. Was mag ihn nach Daylesford Gardens geführt haben?