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The Under Dog and Other Stories

by Agatha Christie

A beautiful heiress has been found dead on a train. A playboy has been stabbed through the heart during a costume ball. An elderly woman suspects that she is being slowly poisoned to death. A prince fears for...


Bullet From Nowhere

by Robert Leslie Bellem

The cameras are set, the scene has already been rehearsed; "Shoot!" the director says. . . . What happens is stark tragedy-not of the movie, play-acting variety, but like a chapter out of the deeper drama of...


Atom Boy

by Ray Cummings

Retired and rusticating Pete McLean, former policeman, sees something new in crime-fighting in a rural setting! Note: short story


The Kiss of Death

by Victor J. Banis

Her husband was dead. That was the price he had paid for that one, foolish kiss. Now, someone else must pay, too - and she had vowed that the price would be the same. A short story.


Confidence Tricks

by Hamilton Waymire

Private investigator Benson Keirstad agrees to check out Cybil, Mrs. Drummond's long-lost daughter. Tailing the young woman through Anaheim's Downtown Disney district, he discovers an unsavory confidence scheme....


One True Love

by Laura Lippman

New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has been hailed as one of the best crime fiction writers in America today, winning virtually every major award in the genre. The author of the enormously popular...


The House of Silk: A Sherlock Holmes Novel

by Anthony Horowitz

For the first time in its one-hundred-and-twenty-five-year history, the Arthur Conan Doyle Estate has authorized a new Sherlock Holmes novel.

Once again, THE GAME'S AFOOT...

London, 1890. 221B Baker St. A fine...


Yellow Iris

by Agatha Christie

An alarming telephone call, in which the phrases “it’s life and death” and “the table with the yellow irises” are whispered, causes Hercule Poirot to rush to the luxuriant restaurant Jardin des Cygnes,...


Triangle at Rhodes

by Agatha Christie

October on the island of Rhodes is a veritable paradise of privacy, beauty, and calm—or so Hercule Poirot has imagined. The reality is quite different, as the arrival of famed Chanel beauty Valentine Chantry...


The Under Dog

by Agatha Christie

Pretty Lily Margrave is not convinced that Hercule Poirot is needed in the matter of Sir Atwell’s murder. At the request of her employer, Lady Atwell, she has already recounted what happened ten days ago in...


Father's Day

by Arthur C. Carey

Children, it is said, are a joy forever. However, that's not necessarily true if one you've never known shows up on your doorstep mentally unhinged and bent upon revenge. District Attorney Preston Ives, fresh...


The Lincoln Park Horror: A Richard Dick Mystery

by Wade J. McMahan

Private investigator Richard Dick encounters his most challenging case yet when a prospective client unexpectedly appears in his office. Percival J. Buttersnipe is a multi-millionaire, an incorrigible snob,...


Tales of Thubway Tham

by Johnston McCulley & John Betancourt

Thubway Tham is a small, short-tempered gnome of a man, a professional pickpocket with an annoying lisp. But he is no mere thief . . . he is the king of his chosen profession, a master "dip" who works only in...


Foggy Mountain Breakdown and Other Stories

by Sharyn Mccrumb

"In an earlier life, McCrumb must have been a balladeer, singing of restless spirits, star-crossed lovers, and the consoling beauty of nature. . . . The overall effect is spellbinding."

--The Washington Post...


Dead Men Kill

by L. Ron Hubbard

Detective Terry Lane is a standout cop—as tough as Eliot Ness of The Untouchables—who thought he’d seen it all…until now.  But he’s never seen a murder spree like this.  The evidence is clear: the...


Dead Giveaway

by S. Furlong-Bolliger

Upon returning for her father's funeral, Julie finds that not much has changed in her hometown-including her evil stepmother, Rose. Suspicious of the circumstances surrounding her father's death, Julie embarks...


Requiem for a Slave

by Rosemary Rowe

The eleventh book in the Libertus Mystery of Roman Britain series - Libertus has an important order to fulfil for Quintus Severus, who has commissioned a new mosaic. But when Lucius, the pie-maker, is found...


Blackstone and the New World

by Sally Spencer

The new Inspector Sam Blackstone mystery - July 1900: Sam Blackstone has gone to New York to pick up a prisoner, but he soon finds himself drafted in to investigate the murder of Inspector O'Brien who is famed...


Paddy Whacked

by S. Furlong-Bolliger

Inspector Helmes and his trusty sidekick, Watkins, know they have their work cut out for them in solving the murder of Paddy O'Toole, the Grand Leprechaun. However, nothing can prepare them for the strange lineup...


Six Easy Pieces: Easy Rawlins Stories

Easy Rawlins #8

by Walter Mosley

Walter Mosley's bestselling and award-winning novels -- from Gone Fishin' to Devil in a Blue Dress, named one of the "100 Favorite Mysteries of the Century" by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association...