 | Slight Mourning (Rue Morgue Vintage English Mysteries)
Publication Date: October 2010| Series: Rue Morgue Vintage English Mysteries When Bill Fent dies in a car crash, the post mortem reveals a lethal dose of barbiturate. And the poison must have been administered by either his family or by a fri end at his dinner party. Inspector C.D. Sloan has a murderer to uncover. ' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
 |  | Henrietta Who?
Publication Date: February 15, 2008Larking was a typical English village and like the thousand other villages it resembled Larking had its secrets, as Inspector C.D. Sloan was to discover after the postman found the murdered body of Grace Jenkins in the road that led to her thatched cottage. But the real mystery involved Grace's daughter Henrietta since no one could really explain exactly who Henrietta really was. ...
|  | A Daughter's a Daughter and Other Novels: A Mary Westmacott Omnibus
Release Date: December 12, 2001| Series: Mary Westmacott Omnibus Finally Available Again--Three Classic Novels by Agatha Christie writing as Mary WestmacottFirst published between 1930 and 1956, the six novels written by Agatha Christie under the name Mary Westmacott, regarded by some as the writer's finest work, show a very different side of her talent.What they share with her other fiction is Christie's gift for sharp observations about people, the ambitions that drive them, their relationships, and the conflicts that erupt between them.This omnibus edition brings together three of the Wes...
|  | A Very Private Enterprise (Felony & Mayhem Mysteries)
Publication Date: November 15, 2007To his colleagues, co-workers and friends (did he have any real friends?), Hugo Frenchman was the consummate British civil servant. A bit dull, perhaps; a bit fussily fastidious, a bit of a stickler for protocol. But in the right position, even dullness can be a virtue. And as Her Majesty's "Head of Chancery" in India, Frenchman was the ideal man to make up the numbers at a diplomatic dinner party, keep the junior officers in line, and represent solid British values in Delhi.Indeed, Frenchman,s life was such a model of propriety that its two areas of untidi...
|  | Her Royal Spyness (A Royal Spyness Mystery)
Release Date: July 3, 2007| Series: A Royal Spyness Mystery (Book 1) The Agatha Award winner debuts a 1930s London mystery series, featuring a penniless twenty-something member of the extended royal family. Her ridiculously long name is Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie, daughter to the Duke of Atholt and Rannoch. And she is flat broke. As the thirty-fourth in line for the throne, she has been taught only a few things, among them, the perfect curtsey. But when her brother cuts off her allowance, she leaves Scotland, and her fiancŽ Fish-Face, for London, where she has: a) worked ...
|  | They Came to Baghdad
Release Date: June 14, 2011 Baghdad is holding a secret superpower summit, but the word is out, and an underground organization in the Middle East is plotting to sabotage the talks. Into this explosive situation appears Victoria Jones, a young woman with a yearning for adventure who gets more than she bargains for when a wounded spy dies in her hotel room. The only man who can save the summit is dead. Can Victoria make sense of his dying words: Lucifer…Basrah…Lefarge.…...
|  | Service for Two (A Pennyfoot Hotel Mystery)
Release Date: May 1, 1994| Series: A Pennyfoot Hotel Mystery Keeping guests comfortable and entertained at the Pennyfoot is no easy matter when foul play is afoot. During the funeral of Dr. McDuff, chaos breaks loose when it's discovered that a stranger's murdered body is in the casket. Cecily Sinclair must straighten things out before the hotel's reputation is ruined. ...
|  | A Highland Christmas (Hamish Macbeth Mysteries, No. 16)
Publication Date: October 2003Celebrate the Holidays with M. C. Beaton, The Queen of The Cozy Mystery. In the dark, wintry highlands of Lochdubh, Scotland, where the local Calvinist element resists the secular trimmings of Christmas, the spirit of Old St. Nick is about as welcome as a flat tire on a deserted road. Nor is crime taking a holiday, as Constable Hamish Macbeth soon finds himself protecting an unhappy girl, unlocking the secrets of a frightened old woman, and retrieving some stolen holiday goods. Now the lanky lawman must use all his Highland charm and detective skills to make thi...
|  | Tightrope Walker
Release Date: October 12, 1986"A superb book."THE HOUSTON CHRONICLEWhen quiet, shy Amelia Jones reads a desperate message that has fallen out of a barrel organ in the antique shop she just bought, she can't forget the words, "They're going to kill me soon..." Armed only with the woman's first name and the note written years before, Amelia begins a journey into the past, a search that takes her from the protective cocoon she's wrapped herself in to a precarious world where nothing is the way it seems, where fear is second nature, and dark secrets just might uncover murder--her own.... ...
|  | The Cruellest Month
Publication Date: April 19, 2010Widow Sheila Malory has been looking forward to her stay at the Bodleian Library in Oxford as a chance to research wartime women writers and catch up with old friends from her college years, the one “purely happy” time in her whole life. Her relaxing idyll is interrupted when a librarian, Gwen Richmond, is crushed to death beneath collapsed bookshelves. After the “accident” proves to be murder, Mrs. Malory’s godson Tony, who also works in the library, asks her to help investigate. Gwen was manipulative and unpleasant, so ther...
|  | The Five Bells and Bladebone
Release Date: June 1, 2002When a dismembered corpse is found in the compartments of an antique secretaire a abattant, Marshall Trueblood, recipient of the precious piece of furniture, is the first to protest: "I bought the desk, not the body, send it back." Who would want to kill Simon Lean, the greedy nephew of the wealthy Lady Summerston?Leave it to Superintendent Richard Jury of Scotland Yard to suggest a connection to the murder of brassy Limehouse lady named Sadie Driver, found dead near Wapping Old Stairs...if that stone-cold body on the slipway is really Sadie. Not even her brother, T...
|  | The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: War of the Worlds
Release Date: November 17, 2009| Series: The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Sherlock Holmes, Professor Challenger and Dr. Watson meet their match when the streetsof London are left decimated by a prolonged alien attack. Who could be responsiblefor such destruction? Sherlock Holmes is about to find out...Manly and Wade Wellman’snovel takes H.G. Wells's classic story of Martian invasion and throws Holmes into the mix, with surprisingand unexpected results.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s timeless creation returns in a new series of handsomelydesigned detective stories. From the ea...
|  | Bones and Silence (Dalziel and Pascoe Mysteries)
Release Date: June 1, 1991| Series: Dalziel and Pascoe Mysteries One woman dead and one threatening to die set Yorkshire's police superintendent Dalziel and Inspector Pascoe on a chilling hunt for a killer and a potential suicide. A drunken Dalziel witnesses the murder that others insist is a tragic accident. Meanwhile the letters of an anonymous woman say she plans to kill herself in a spectacular way...unless Pascoe can find her first. Dalziel has been picked to play God in a local Mystery Play, but can he live up to his role by solving this puzzling psychological thriller...or unveiling t...
|  | The Golden Ball And Other Stories (Agatha Christie Mysteries Collection)
Release Date: August 7, 2012| Series: Agatha Christie Mysteries CollectionIs it a gesture of goodwill or a sinister trap that lures Rupert St. Vincent and his family to a magnificent estate? How desperate is Joyce Lambert, a destitute young widow whose only recourse is to marry a man she despises? What unexpected circumstance stirs old loyalties in Theodora Darrell, an unfaithful wife about to run away with her lover? In this collection of short stories, the answers are as unexpected as they are satisfying. The Queen of Mystery takes bizarre romantic entanglements, supernatural visitatio...
|  | Mrs. Malory Investigates (Mrs. Malory Mystery ; no. 1)
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|  | Death on a Pale Horse: Sherlock Holmes on Her Majesty's Secret Service
Publication Date: March 13, 2013"Donald Thomas is the all-time best at Sherlockian pastiche."—Ellery Queen Mystery MagazineIna momentous period of British history, Donald Thomas’s latest SherlockHolmes adventure pits the Great Detective and his faithful biographer,Dr. John Watson, against an international conspiracy led by a disgracedEnglish officer. Colonel Hunter Moran bears upon him “The Mark of the Beast”; his satanic ingenuity leaves a spectacular trail of devastation. Itruns from the annihilation of a British armored column by Zulutribesmen ...
|  | The Inspector and Mrs. Jeffries (Victorian Mystery)
Release Date: March 2, 2004| Series: Victorian Mystery While Inspector Witherspoon receives accolades and kudos for hisScotland Yard successes, his housekeeper, Mrs. Jeffries, does a lion'sshare of the detection work....
|  | A Dangerous Mourning: A William Monk Novel (Mortalis)
Release Date: May 26, 2009| Series: Mortalis No breath of scandal has ever touched the aristocratic Moidore family–until Sir Basil’s beautiful widowed daughter is stabbed to death in her own bed, a shocking, incomprehensible tragedy.Inspector William Monk is ordered to investigate in a manner that will give the least possible pain to the influential family. But Monk, brilliant and ambitious, is handicapped by lingering traces of amnesia and by the craven ineptitude of his supervisor, who would like nothing better than to see Monk fail. With the help of nurse Hester Latterly, a pr...
|  | The Sirens Sang of Murder
Release Date: September 9, 1990Young barrsiter Michael Cantrip has skipped of to the Channel Islands to take on a tax-law case that's worth a fortune -- if Cantrip's tax-planning cronies can locate the missing heir. But Cantrip has waded in way over his head. Strange things are happening on these mysterious, isolated isles. Something is going bump in the night -- and bumping off members of the legal team, one by one. Soon Cantrip is telexing the gang at the home office for help. And it's up to ...
|  | The Trouble with Harry
Publication Date: September 11, 2011"As engaging a tale as I have encountered in months of looking forsomething really amusing to read.”—Kelsey Guilfoil, Chicago Tribune“A pleasantly muted mystery that is genuinely funny fantasy as well.”—NewYork TimesOn the outskirtsof a small English town, young Arnie discovers the bodyof amiddle-aged man in the woods. Three people are convinced they are responsible for the death: the captain thinks he accidentally shot themanwhile hunting rabbits; the local spinster thinks she may have donemore damagethan she intended wh...
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