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.

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.

The Murder at the Vicarage is Agatha Christie's first novel featuring the mild-mannered but brilliantly incisive Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living a quiet life in the little village of St. Mary Mead who often steps in to assist the local constabulary in solving their most baffling cases.

Voilà cinq ans que le monstrueux chien des Baskerville et son maître, le naturaliste Jack Stapleton, sont morts. Sir Henry Baskerville vit heureux dans son manoir ancestral avec son épouse Audrey et leur fils. Du moins jusqu'au jour où l'on retrouve sur la lande le corps exsangue d'Audrey. Une nouvelle créature démoniaque hanterait-elle le Dartmoor ? Lorsqu'on les appelle à la rescousse, Sherlock Holmes et le Dr Watson sont confrontés à une véritable créature de cauchemar. Il semblerait que Jack Stapleton ait survécu et qu'il soit décidé à se venger...

Nie hätte der Fischer gedacht, dass er eines Tages selbst im benachbarten Frillensee in einem dieser Netze enden würde. Auch Hauptkommissar Tischler und die gesamte Brunngrieser Dienststelle hätten ihren Betriebsausflug lieber anders als mit dieser unliebsamen Entdeckung verbracht. Erste Untersuchungen bringen ans Licht, dass Lorenz bei den anderen Fischern nicht gern gesehen war. Als Tischler noch tiefer in die Vergangenheit des Toten eintaucht, stellt sich immer mehr heraus, dass er zu Lebzeiten auch an Land mächtig für Ärger sorgte.

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 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.

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.

Hercule Poirot er på rejse i Irak, da han bliver tilkaldt til at hjælpe i en besynderlig mordsag ved en arkæologisk udgravning. Louise Leidner, som er gift med den svenske arkæolog dr. Erich Leidner, er blevet slået ned med et stumpt objekt og er død af sine kvæstelser. Der hersker ingen tvivl om, at mordet er udført af en i Louises omgangskreds, og Poirot giver sig nu til at undersøge menneskene i Louises liv for at finde ud af, hvem der kan have haft et motiv. Hercule Poirot Hercule Poirot er Agatha Christies belgiske privatdetektiv, der er lige så genial, som han er sær.

Et anonymt brev fører til en retssag mod Ellinor Carlisle, der står anklaget for et mord, som hun resolut erklærer sig uskyldig i. Nøglen til sagen ligger i brevet, som har lokket Ellinor og hendes forlovede langt ud på landet til hendes døende tantes store, forfaldne hus, hvor den smukke unge Mary Gerrard ifølge brevet forsøger at fedte sig ind hos den gamle for at komme med i hendes testamente. Da Mary findes død, falder mistanken straks på Ellinor. Hercule Poirot bliver sat på sagen, og han er langt fra overbevist om, at politiet har fundet den rigtige morder.

Im Hafen von Portsmouth wird der Spielbank- und Hotelbesitzer Robert Sullivan tot aufgefunden. Die beiden ungleichen Brüder, Inspector Gerald Peargram und Sergeant Thomas Peargram nehmen die Ermittlungen auf.

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.

Das ehrwürdige Londoner Bankhaus Holder & Stevenson lebt von seinem guten Ruf – und risikoreichen Kreditgeschäften. Als der Mitinhaber Alexander Holder als Sicherheit für einen kurzfristigen Kredit das weltberühmte Beryll-Diadem akzeptiert, kommt es zur Katastrophe.

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.

The master detective Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson explore a mysterious cornfield and stumble upon the trail of a gigantic conspiracy. Find out more about the Freemason Society in this new chapter of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

Before Shetland and Vera, Ann Cleeves wrote the Inspector Ramsay series featuring a talented, brilliant detective—now available for the first time in the US. Marilyn Howe and her mother Kathleen are an inseparable duo, until one night Kathleen doesn’t come home . . . Fifteen-year-old Marilyn...

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...

An evil stalks London, blown in from the tropics. A group of merchants are dying one by one. The elementary choice to investigate these mysterious deaths is, of course, the team of Holmes and Dr. Watson. But the unique gifts of their housekeeper, Mrs. Hudson, and her orphaned assistant Flotsam, will also be needed to solve the case.

When a priceless ruby known as the Malabar Rose vanishes while being guarded by Sherlock Holmes and his assistant, Dr. Watson, the formidable Mrs. Hudson sets out to give a lesson in criminal deduction for her most famous and logical of tenants, the master sleuth himself.

A mysterious cipher brings Holmes a chilling warning, just moments before a man named Douglas is found murdered at his country estate. Join Holmes and Watson as they unravel a deadly plot filled with secrets, danger, and a cunning mind behind it all. Will you uncover the truth before it's too late?

Kehren Sie zurück in die Baker Street, wo der berühmteste Detektiv der Welt auf sechs neue Fälle trifft, die seine Expertenhand erfordern. Londons Meisterdetektiv Sherlock Holmes macht sich mit dem langmütigen Watson auf den Weg, während die Detektive von Scotland Yard wieder einmal ratlos sind. Wie zu erwarten war, taucht bald das böse Genie – der Napoleon des Verbrechens – Professor Moriarty wieder auf. Trotz Moriartys Intrigen wird Sherlock die Wissenschaft der Deduktion nutzen, um Mysterien von Diebstahl, Entführung, politischen Intrigen und Mord aufzuklären.

Mr. Ferguson is convinced his Peruvian second wife is harming their baby, claiming she has been sucking his son's blood. As Holmes untangles the strange behavior, hidden motives, and family secrets, the truth reveals a cunning twist that is far more shocking than any superstition.