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The Great Detective: His Further Adventures: A Sherlock Holmes Anthology

by Marvin Kaye & Gary Lovisi

Sherlock Holmes! That magical name conjures up all that is thrilling and exciting about the classic mystery short story. The Great Detective, created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is without doubt the most well-known...


A Gift of Gold

by Jacquelynn Luben

Lucia is a voluptuous beauty, so who could imagine she would fall for Happy Jack, a middle-aged gambler and racketeer, with a wife and children? But fall she does, into a relationship going nowhere. After 20...


The Problemist: The Complete Adventures of Thornley Colton, Blind Detective

by Clinton H. Stagg

Clinton Stagg created a fascinating character in detective fiction before being killed in a car crash at the age of 26. We are left with only 8 short stories and one novel (all collected in this volume) of Thornley...


Baroness Orczy's Old Man in the Corner: The Old Man in the Corner / The Case of Miss Elliott

by Emma Orczy

Baroness Orczy, well-known as the creator of the Scarlet Pimpernel, also wrote some wonderful detective fiction. One of her most popular sleuths was the anonymous Old Man in the Corner, who shared his theorized...


November Joe: Detective of the Woods

by H. Hesketh-Prichard

Hesketh Vernon Hesketh-Prichard's November Joe is a fantastic collection of stories involving a young man with keen investigative skills who helps the police track down thieves and murderers in the back country....


Bone Dance: A Ladies Killing Circle Anthology

by Joan Boswell & Sue Pike

Music may soothe the savage breast, but in this fifth collection of witty and wicked crime fiction from the Ladies' Killing Circle, music provides the background for tales of murder and mayhem.


Time for Murder: Macabre Crime Stories

by Sydney J. Bounds

When Chalmers decides to attend one of Dr. Lanson's nightly séances, it's not because he has any belief in the occult, but simply to find somewhere warm to rest his weary feet. It's a decision he soon regrets....


The Face in the Mirror

by Rhys Bowen

Molly Murphy—Molly Sullivan, now that she and Daniel are finally married—is bored. Having given up her detective agency when she married, she now finds that her life is much less exciting, her days an endless...


Triple Threat

by Jeffery Deaver

From Jeffery Deaver--the New York Times bestselling author of the upcoming Lincoln Rhyme novel THE KILL ROOM (on sale June 4, 2013)--come three powerful new short stories.

In "Fast", Kathryn Dance races against...


Bruno and the Carol Singers: A Christmas Mystery of the French Countryside

by Martin Walker

Martin Walker has created a delightful, internationally acclaimed series of mysteries featuring Bruno, chief of police of the small French village of St. Denis.

 

“A gentle reminder to slow down and smell...


Murder with All the Trimmings

by Lesley A. Diehl

It's always difficult to have a happy Thanksgiving the year after a loved one dies. It's especially hard when you have to sit at the same table as the murderer...and a poor turkey substitute. This story appears...


Any Taint of Vice

by Dana Stabenow

In this terrific story from New York Times bestselling author Dana Stabenow, PI Kate Shugak is pulled into the mean streets of the Anchorage underworld to find Alyeska University president Victor Boatright's...


The Dead Shall Not Rest

by Tessa Harris

The brilliant anatomist Dr. Thomas Silkstone returns in Tessa Harris's vivid and compelling mystery series set in 1780s London. . .

It is not just the living who are prey to London's criminals and cutpurses....


Tickled to Death and Other Stories of Crime and Suspense

by Simon Brett

Ranging from stark psychological suspense to frothy frolic, this stunning collection of twelve short stories demonstrates Simon Brett's astonishing versatility. In TICKLED TO DEATH, a lover of practical jokes...


Crime Writers and Other Animals

by Simon Brett

In this collection of ten short stories, each with a surprising twist, Simon Brett covers all seven of the deadly sins, with supremely entertaining results. In THE MAN WHO GOT THE DIRT, two Angry Young Men have...


The Friend

by Mary Jane Clark

Like a billion people on earth, aspiring actress Piper Donovan is a fervent Facebook follower. But what she doesn't know is that a "friend" is following her. Possibly . . . stalking. A fan who starts by using...


Risk

by Jamie Freveletti

When biochemist Emma Caldridge applies for kidnapping insurance, it's denied. Sebastian Ryan, the risk analyst for the insurance company, takes one look at her history of winding up in the wrong place at the...


An Ensuing Evil and Others

by Peter Tremayne

Peter Tremayne is one of the best loved writers of historical mysteries, his novels and stories published in over a dozen countries around the world. An Ensuing Evil collects for the first time fourteen of...


Hearts Made of Stone

by Arthur C. Carey

Breaking up is hard to do. So why not get someone else to do it for you? Better still, why not capitalize on romantic failure and turn it into a profitable business? That's the plan Aaron Felting and Dana Larson...


Cathedral Windows: A Someday Quilts Mystery (A Penguin Special from Plume)

by Clare O'Donohue

It’s the holiday season, but things are heating up in Archers Rest

Christmas is just around the corner in the Hudson Valley. Nell and her friends at the Someday Quilts shop should be making eggnog and finishing...