Sherlock Holmes may have been the most famous detective of the 19th century, but he had many worthy rivals.... ... Read More

ISBN:  N/A
Author:  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ,  Robert Barr ,  Baroness Orczy

Sister Mary Helen leaves her San Francisco convent and her job at the college for a week`s retreat in the Santa Cruz mountains, hoping for a little R & R.... ... Read More

ISBN:  1-57270-187-0
Author:  Sister Carol Anne O`Marie

Young Ricky Alleyn had come to the island to try to write, but village life was tedious, until he saw the stable-hand in the ditch.... ... Read More

ISBN:  0-7540-0816-9
Author:  Ngaio Marsh

The 1895-96 season promises to be an exceptional one for Amelia Peabody... ... Read More

ISBN:  0-7861-9643-2
Author:  Elizabeth Peters

Wrightsville is a typical American town, buried in the great American heartland, up to its neck in good old... ... Read More

ISBN:  07861-1292-1
Author:  Ellery Queen

It was a horrible death - Maurice Questing was lured into a pool of boiling mud and left there to die. Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn... ... Read More

ISBN:  0-7861-9837-0
Author:  Ngaio Marsh

It began as an entertainment: eight people, many of them enemies, gathered for a winter weekend by a host with a love for theatre.... ... Read More

ISBN:  0-7540-0697-2
Author:  Ngaio Marsh

Amelia Peabody, archaeologist and woman extraordinaire, should have greeted the approaching excavation with transports of joy.... ... Read More

ISBN:  0-7887-6141-2
Author:  Elizabeth Peters

The Continental Op (an operative in a detective agency) is called out to the grim mining town of Personville, customarily referred to as Poisonville and corrupt from top to bottom.... ... Read More

ISBN:  1-856957-07-1
Author:  Dashiell Hammett

The joys of home and hearth are about to drive Victorian gentlewoman Amelia Peabody Emerson mad... ... Read More

ISBN:  0-7861-9518-5
Author:  Elizabeth Peters

A witty, intelligent, and delectable mystery from Georgette Heyer.... ... Read More

ISBN:  1-57270-202-8
Author:  Georgette Heyer

After an evening of friendly darts and vintage brandy, a distinguished, although amorous, barrister is in no condition to drive - or walk. The poor fellow`s expired, leaving one less lawyer in the wor ... Read More

ISBN:  0-7861-1075-9
Author:  Ngaio Marsh

A missing Member of Parliament is found dead, pressed in a bale of wool... ... Read More

ISBN:  0-7861-0999-8
Author:  Ngaio Marsh

When Gloria Guild, the singing "Glory" of the 1930s and millionairess wife of Count Carlos Armando, is murdered... ... Read More

ISBN:  0-7861-0969-6
Author:  Ellery Queen

Listen to mystery stories by today`s top writers and the masters who inspired them. The idea for this collection... ... Read More

ISBN:  0-7871-2279-3
Author:  Stephen King ,  Tony Hillerman ,  WF Harvey