Mystery & Detective / Traditional British

Four Faultless Felons

by , G. K. Chesterton

Journalist Asa Lee Pinion pursues the elusive Count Raoul De Marillac, on the way he encounters four of the Count's friends calling themselves "The Club of Men Misunderstood". The men tell of their black and...

The Corpse on the Court

Fethering #14

by Simon Brett

The genteel game of Real Tennis takes a murderous twist in Simon Brett's witty and entertaining new Fethering mystery - Jude's life has been turned upside-down thanks her new mant, Piers Targett, who's keen...

The Valley of the Shadow

Cornish Mysteries #3

by Carola Dunn

A cryptic message spurs Eleanor, Megan, and Nick Gresham on a frantic search for a refugee's missing family

While out on a walk, Eleanor Trewynn, her niece Megan, and her neighbor Nick spot a young, half-drowned...

From Doon with Death: The First Inspector Wexford Novel

Inspector Wexford #1

by Ruth Rendell

When Margaret Parsons disappears, Inspector Burden tries to reassure her frantic husband that she will be back by morning. Privately, though, he is certain Margaret has run off with another man. But then the...

Master of the Moor

by Ruth Rendell

Stephen Whalby loves to walk the moor. He considers it his, although he and his young wife Lyn are merely tenants in a flat nearby. But the senseless and frightening murder of a young woman invades Stephen's...

Speaker of Mandarin

Inspector Wexford #12

by Ruth Rendell

Chief Inspector Wexford is in China, visiting ancient tombs and palaces with a group of British tourists. After their return to England, one of his fellow tourists is found murdered. As he questions other members...

Wolf to the Slaughter: An Inspector Wexford Novel

Inspector Wexford #3

by Ruth Rendell

It was better than a hotel, this anonymous room on a secluded side street of a small country town. No register to sign, no questions asked, and for five bucks a man could have three hours of undisturbed, illicit...

The Art of Deduction: A Sherlock Holmes Collection

by Hannah Rogers

The Game is Afoot! A collection of art, poetry and writing from fans of the great detective Sherlock Holmes and his companion Doctor Watson. From the deadly Moriarty to domestic life of Holmes and Watson, The...

The Private Eye: Classic Crime Stories

by Ernest Dudley

Ernest Dudley, creator of that superb pair of sleuths, Dr. Morelle and Miss Frayle, here introduces another vivid character, Nat Craig, whose methods as London's foremost private investigator are utterly different...

The Detective, The Woman and the Winking Tree: A Novel of Sherlock Holmes

by Amy Thomas

Irene Adler is enjoying a quiet, undisturbed life in Sussex when the mysterious disappearance of a local farmer named James Phillimore throws her world into turmoil and forces her to enlist the aid of her friend...

Sherlock Holmes and Young Winston - The Jubilee Plot

by Mike Hogan

June 1887. As the climax of her Golden Jubilee celebrations, Queen Victoria will join more than fifty foreign monarchs and heads of state, her peers of the realm and her ministers in a service of thanksgiving...

The Mousetrap and Other Plays

by Agatha Christie

On an isolated island, ten people have been brought together to be killed off. An evil old woman has a rendezvous with death in the desert heat of Jerusalem. A scheming wife testifies against her husband in...

Cold Death

by Michael Fowler

Taking a well-earned break from the 'Dearne Valley Demon' case, Detective Sergeant Hunter Kerr's rest is suddenly shattered when he witnesses a violent argument involving his father, shortly followed by a murderous...

Heart of the Demon

by Michael Fowler

Detective Sergeant Hunter Kerr and his partner DC Grace Marshall are called to the scene of a brutal slaying; the victim is a 14 year-old girl. The killer has been disturbed but he has left behind a puzzle....

Smile of the Viper

by Harry Dunn

London private investigator Jack Barclay is on the trail of financier Tom Stanton who has disappeared with £1million of clients' money, leaving his desperate wife and children behind. Stanton's Parisian mistress,...

Just Whistle

by Alfie Robins

My name is John Osbourne, well It was before I started writing this bloody book, now I'm not sure who the hell I am. If you think you know me, please telephone 01482 21... Unemployed and recently divorced, John...

Sherlock Holmes in The Adventure of The Magic Umbrella

by Dan Andriacco

Sherlock Holmes undertakes one of the strangest adventures of his career when he agrees to investigate the mysterious disappearance of Mr. James Phillimore, who stepped back into his house to get his umbrella...

Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Cricketers

by Tony Reynolds

This title, the second of 'The Lost Stories of Sherlock Holmes' is a short story set in the worlds of Victorian cricketing and bare-knuckle fighting.

The Uncommon Appeal of Clouds

Isabel Dalhousie #9

by Alexander Mccall Smith

ISABEL DALHOUSIE - Book 9

Nothing captures the charm of Edinburgh like the bestselling Isabel Dalhousie series of novels featuring the insatiably curious philosopher and woman detective.  Whether investigating...

To Fear a Painted Devil

by Ruth Rendell

Gossip in tiny Linchester is raised to new heights when young Patrick Selby dies on the night of his beautiful wife's birthday party. The whole neighborhood was there, witness to the horrible attack of wasps...