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From a New York Times–bestselling and Edgar Award–winning author, follow Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes in this next "lively adventure" as they investigate an ancient letter and a puzzling murder (The New York Times Book Review).It is 1923. Mary Russell Holmes and...

When a young woman is found murdered in the Earl of Unsworth’s garden, his loyal secretary, Mr. Quayle, must uncover the truth in this "English country house mystery infused with humor, verve, and plenty of surprises." (Kirkus Reviews)“I do not wish to disturb you,...

From the Edgar Award–winning author, a tale of a missing woman and a crime ring, featuring the lawyer and detective who inspired the HBO limited series.Defense lawyer Perry Mason needs a temporary typist, but the one he hires turns out to be more temporary than...

Gentleman sleuth Albert Campion battles amnesia while trying to save his country during World War II in this mystery from a Golden Age Queen of Crime. "If I had to vote for the single best detective story, this would be it."—A.S. Byatt Celebrated amateur detective...

Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder'The lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.... Think of the deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go...

Illustrated edition of book 1 in award-winning Anna Kronberg & Sherlock Holmes series.She's London's most brilliant bacteriologist. She's also not supposed to exist.By day, Dr Kronberg cuts through corpses in Guy's Hospital's gaslit laboratories, hunting microscopic...

The inspector digs into a cold case on a New Zealand sheep farm in this "well-sustained crime story" from the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master (Kirkus Reviews).Flossie Rubrick, a highly opinionated and influential member of the New Zealand Parliament, was last...

After a distinguished scientist dies under suspicious circumstances at an archaeological dig in Tuscany, Darren Priest and Alana Weber are called in to investigate.They discover that the now-deceased scientist's work was focused on Italy's earliest history, and the...

A daring lord and a young woman find themselves in peril, igniting a possible romance as they escape to stay alive.A clean historical suspense romance, about a lord who agrees to help his friends with their quest to solve a murder. Now he must fend for himself while...

Oxford is full of memories—and threats of murder—for Harriet Vane and Lord Peter Wimsey in this mystery that "stands out even among Miss Sayers's novels" (The Times Literary Supplement).Since she graduated from Oxford's Shrewsbury College, Harriet Vane has found fame...

A quirky amateur sleuth attempts to protect a judge from a vicious crime boss in this classic mystery by "one of the finest golden-age crime novelists" (The New York Times).Judge Crowdy Lobbett is a marked man. After fighting the Simister gang all his life, the...

New York Times Bestseller"As authentically, irresistibly gripping as anything Conan Doyle ever wrote…Don't miss it." —CosmopolitanMarch 1895. London. A month of strange happenings in the West End. First there is the bizarre murder of theater critic Jonathan McCarthy....

Minutes before twelve on a night in 1943, Detective Dan Brady is summoned to a churchyard where a woman has been found strangled. He soon discounts the theory that the woman was killed during a mugging, and an interview with her widowed husband yields more questions...

A local busybody is silenced for good in this tale by "a peerless practitioner of the slightly surreal, English-village comedy-mystery" (Kirkus Reviews).In their Dorset village, neither Miss Campanula nor her friend Miss Prentice are known as lovable little old...

Get ready for the first adventure in the fabulous Thomas the Falconer Tudor mystery series from John Pilkington. A must-read for fans of C. J. Sansom and Andrew Taylor. ‘A truly fine historical series’ - Library JournalBE YE HUNTER OR PREY?Introducing Thomas Finbow –...

Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, now streaming on Netflix, starring Essie Davis as the honourable Phryne Fisher"Anyone who hasn't discovered Phryne Fisher by now should start making up for lost time." —BooklistPhryne Fisher is doing one of her favorite things—dancing...

The gripping first British police procedural in the award-winning and addictive George Gideon of Scotland Yard series.“AMONG THE BEST POLICE PROCEDURALS EVER”—James EllroyA corrupt policeman.A ruthless drug dealer.Armed robbers terrorising innocent people.And a...

A bloody murder on a train yields impossible questions for a police superintendent in this Golden Age classic—"An excellent straight detective story" (Dashiell Hammett, New York Post).When the 10:35 local train from Horston arrives at Kempsford Junction, the porter is...

The head of Scotland Yard probes the suspicious death of a Shakespearean scholar with a collection of secrets in this classic British mystery.Lewis Packford, an Elizabethan scholar, is found shot in his library. It was rumored Packford recently acquired a book...

"A taut, suspenseful, and complex murder mystery with gorgeous period detail."—Susan Elia MacNealThrough her exquisite prose, sharp observation and deft plotting, Mariah Fredericks invites us into the heart of a changing New York in her remarkable debut adult novel, A...

Inspired by shocking true events, "The Midwife’s Remedy" is a haunting exploration of desperation, courage, and the deadly lengths one woman will go to protect those who cannot protect themselves...Some cures are more deadly than the disease…In the quiet Hungarian...

While ringing in the New Year, Lord Peter Wimsey discovers some old crimes: "A rattling good mystery" ( Kirkus Reviews ). Lord Peter Wimsey and his manservant Bunter are halfway across the wild flatlands of East Anglia when they make a wrong turn, straight into a...