Traditional Detectives

The streets are frozen, the days are short, and Constable Tyler Neish is entirely out of his depth. Fresh out of training, Tyler is desperate to make a good impression. He wants to seem capable, commanding, and professional. Unfortunately, he’s mostly known for falling over in the snow and being terrified of his own shadow. But when sixteen-year-old Laura Wilder goes missing, the job suddenly gets personal. To the weary brass at Burnett Road Police Station, Laura is just a low-risk repeat runaway who’ll be home by dinner time.

Graham Blanks is having a very bad day. With his daughter’s life hanging in the balance, Graham finds himself in a race against time to get her the help she so desperately needs. But in the bustling city of York, Graham is faced with setback after setback and he’s beginning to lose his patience. As Graham becomes more out of control, his frustration and violence increases. And soon his victims begin to mount. Can anyone end his desperate and deadly spree? DI Paul Riddick is a man who understands a father’s desperation all too well.

Eine wichtige Mitarbeiterin des Premierministers verschwindet spurlos, und ausgerechnet Claude Whelan, ehemaliger MI5-Chef und als solcher Erzfeind seiner Nachfolgerin Diana Taverner, soll sie finden. Doch die Spur führt ihn direkt zurück zum Hauptquartier im Regent's Park – und über Umwege und etliche Gehässigkeiten zu Jackson Lamb. Mit ihrer unvergleichlichen Mischung aus tiefschwarzem Humor, nerdigem Narzissmus und Chaos bringen die Slow Horses eine instabile Situation endgültig ins Wanken.

Strane lettere anonime con istruzioni per una caccia al tesoro stuzzicano la curiosità di Montalbano. Il gioco però si fa tenebroso e «sprofonda in abissi cupi e sordidi». Una storia inquietante, cruenta, con un commissario più incline alla riflessione e che questa volta rischia davvero grosso.

1979 tauchte der leblose Körper einer Blumenhändlerin in den ruhigen Gewässern von Dyes Inlet auf, einer bezaubernden Flussmündung, die mit dem riesigen Puget Sound verbunden ist. Vierundvierzig Jahre später wiederholt sich die Geschichte, als innerhalb von 48 Stunden nicht nur ein, sondern zwei weitere Opfer gefunden werden, die alle genau dieselbe makabere Schnitzerei im Fleisch tragen. Da kommt Thomas Austin ins Spiel, ein Privatdetektiv mit einer Vergangenheit, die er endlich hinter sich lassen möchte.

Detective Inspector Joe Plantagenet returns in the new book in Kate Ellis's gripping crime series set in Yorkshire. The quaint Yorkshire village of Eaglethorpe was a sanctuary for famous TV personality, Lexi Verity, away from prying eyes and camera flashes. But a life led in the spotlight can...

Before Shetland and Vera, Ann Cleeves wrote The Sleeping and the Dead, a vivid standalone psychological suspense novel—now available for the first time in the US. Detective Peter Porteous is called to Cranwell Lake where the body of a teenager has been discovered. After trawling through the...

One of the greatest locked-room murder mysteries of all time, hailing from 1938, returns to baffle a new bevy of armchair detectives. James Answell, visiting his father-in-law Avery Hume in his locked study, has the misfortune to wake up from a drugged-Whisky swoon to find his host dead, skewered with an arrow. He is, of course, prime suspect.

It is spring in Baker Street, and London is preparing itself for the wedding of the year. It will be an international spectacle in which the young and popular Count Rudolph Absberg, a political exile from his native land, will take the hand of the beautiful and accomplished Princess Sophia Kubinova. A lot depends on the marriage, for it is hoped that the union will ensure the security and independence of their homeland. When the princess subsequently disappears in dramatic circumstances, members of the British establishment are quick to call on Mr. Sherlock Holmes.

Hunted Down: The Detective Stories of Charles Dickens gathers Dickens’s most incisive explorations of crime and character, led by the haunting tale of Mr. Julius Slinkton—a man whose impeccable manners and professional respectability conceal a chilling capacity for manipulation.

Tagsüber leitet Sven Christiansen einen Restpostenmarkt, doch nach Feierabend führt er ein anderes Leben. Eines, das aus Luxus und amourösen Abenteuern besteht. Als Christiansens schrecklich zugerichtete Leiche gefunden wird, sieht es nach klassischem Raubmord aus. Aber schnell wird klar, dass alle in seinem Umfeld etwas zu verbergen haben. Ausgerechnet jetzt muss Michis mürrischer Chef Kruse ins Krankenhaus – und will auch von dort den Fall leiten –, was die Sache nicht einfacher macht. Ist Michi so weit, ohne ihn zu ermitteln?

Es gibt mehr im Leben, als nur ein Teezimmer zu führen und leckere Köstlichkeiten zu backen. Als das Wetter kühler wird und weniger Touristen vorbeischauen, beschließt April, ein neues Hobby auszuprobieren. In einem Malkurs findet sie neue Freundinnen und genießt ihr aufblühendes Sozialleben. Doch als sie beobachtet, wie etwas – oder jemand – aus einem Flugzeug ins Meer stürzt, glaubt ihr zunächst niemand. Erst als eine Leiche an Land gespült wird, nimmt man sie ernst – und der Tote ist ausgerechnet der Ehemann einer ihrer neuen Freundinnen.

Step into the darker side of Victorian crime fiction with My Friend the Murderer, a gripping short story by Arthur Conan Doyle that explores guilt, betrayal, and the inescapable weight of past crimes.

Uncover one of Sherlock Holmes’s most unsettling cases in The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot by Arthur Conan Doyle. Set against the stark, windswept coast of Cornwall, this 1910 mystery follows Holmes and Dr. Watson as they investigate a series of inexplicable deaths and sudden madness afflicting a single family.

Step into the darker, international side of Sherlock Holmes with The Adventure of the Red Circle, a suspenseful short story by Arthur Conan Doyle. When a worried landlady reports a mysterious tenant who pays double rent yet never shows himself, Holmes uncovers a far more dangerous truth: a woman hidden in terror, communicating through coded candle signals from behind a sealed room.

Brilliant detective Sam Spade is the quintessential private eye, with his own code of ethics. When a standard stakeout goes wrong and Spade’s partner is killed, he finds himself drawn into the hunt for a fantastic treasure of dubious origin—a golden bird encrusted with jewels. But he’s not the only one on the trail of the falcon. Hot on his heels are Joel Cairo, a perfumed grifter; an oversized adventurer named Gutman; and Spade’s new client Brigid O’Shaughnessy, a beautiful but treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at the drop of a hat.

Step into one of Sherlock Holmes’s most chilling investigations in The Adventure of the Cardboard Box, a classic mystery by Arthur Conan Doyle first published in 1893. When Miss Susan Cushing receives a horrifying parcel containing two severed human ears packed in salt, Scotland Yard hastily dismisses the incident as a tasteless prank. Sherlock Holmes, however, immediately recognizes the signs of a far more sinister crime.

Step into one of Sherlock Holmes’s most suspenseful cases in The Adventure of the Dying Detective, a gripping short story by Arthur Conan Doyle first published in 1913. When Dr. Watson is summoned urgently to Baker Street, he finds Holmes seemingly on his deathbed—ravaged by a mysterious and fatal tropical disease. Refusing medical treatment and behaving with alarming cruelty, Holmes insists instead on confronting Culverton Smith, a man linked to a suspicious and unresolved death.

De nygifte beslutter at tilbringe hvedebrødsdagene i ro og mag fjernt fra venner og bekendte på en landejendom "et sted i England". Alt ånder fred og idyl – indtil de når deres bestemmelsessted. Her venter dem en række overraskelser, nogle komiske, andre mere ubehagelige. Og da de finder et lig i kælderen, begynder begivenhederne for alvor at tage fart. Peter Wimseys hvedebrødsdage udkom første gang i 1937 og foreligger nu på dansk i en sprogligt revideret oversættelse.

Der Erfinder Coolbros bittet Sherlock Holmes um Beistand, da auf ihn schon zwei Mordanschläge verübt wurden. Er vermutet seine wirtschaftsschädliche Erfindung als Ursache der Feindlichkeit. Der Fall scheint Holmes interessant genug, um sich seiner anzunehmen. Dr. Watson ist ihm natürlich wie immer behilflich.

The main character, Lord Arthur Savile, is introduced by Lady Windermere to Mr Septimus R. Podgers, a chiromantist, who reads his palm and tells him that it is his destiny to be a murderer. Lord Arthur wants to marry, but decides he has no right to do so until he has committed the murder.

Noch immer sitzen Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson in London wegen der kommenden Gerichtsverhandlung fest. Da wird auf den Staatsanwalt ein Anschlag verübt. Dieser wendet sich an den Meisterdetektiv, um den Attentäter zu entlarven.

In this book, a range of contemporary authors explore 'what happens next' when the Great Detective confronts mysteries which question reason. A summons from Irene Adler’s daughter; a chance encounter with one of Houdini’s fraud investigators; the enigma of Dr John Silence. Mysterious events at Mary Morstan’s old school, and a threat to Queen Victoria. The return of the German agent Von Bork, somewhat changed, and a desperate hunt for a killer through the alleys of London with none other than Professor Van Helsing.

From 1913 to 1934, mystery readers were treated to Carrados' published adventures in the form of twenty-six short stories and one full-length novel. In his time, Carrados was one of the most popular detectives in literature. The July 1924 issue of The Strand contained a new Sherlock Holmes story - but it was the announcement of a new Carrados adventure that decorated the magazine's cover.

Under the light of the full moon, a quiet rural lane becomes the scene of a shocking crime that may be the work of a mythical monster in the latest entry of this USA Today bestselling mystery series. When a dead body turns up along a lonely country byway in rural Wisconsin, rumors of The Beast...