 | 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 Skeleton in the Closet (St. Martin's Minotaur Mysteries)
Publication Date: March 15, 2002| Series: St. Martin's Minotaur Mysteries Ever since the death of his father, poor Fellworth Dolphin has slaved away as a waiter to support his miserly, cold-hearted mother. When his mother suddenly dies, Fellworth is shocked to discover that she has left him a sizable inheritance. confused, Fell teams up with Maggie, a plain girl with a similar background, to investigate the source of the riches. But what they find is a closet full of skeletons...Is it really possible Fell's father was involved in a long-ago train robbery? Who's the mysterious woman in the po...
|  | 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. ...
|  | Death Is Now My Neighbor
Release Date: January 21, 1997Oxford, England. A shot rings out in the early morning on Bloxham Drive. A young woman is murdered while having breakfast in her apartment.At nearby Lonsdale College, the peaceful quadrangle seems insulated from the everyday realities of the entire outside world, let alone this recent murder. Yet Lonsdale is not as tranquil as it appears. The Master of the college is about to retire, and two senior dons, Denis Cornford and Julian Storrs, are discreetly competing to succeed him. Meanwhile, their wives are involved in a ...
|  | The Case Has Altered
Release Date: November 1, 1998The thirteenth mystery for Richard Jury finds the detective investigating the murder of two women in the Lincolnshire fens. Both victims are connected to the wealthy owner of the Fengate estate: one a kitchen maid, and the other, the owner's ex-wife. But Jury has more at stake than just catching a killer, as the prime suspect is a woman who's presence in his life is becoming meaningful in a way he can't explain.... ...
|  | Thou Shell of Death (Nigel Strangeways Mysteries)
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|  | A Spoonful of Poison (Agatha Raisin Mysteries, No 19)
Release Date: September 1, 2009Agatha Raisin’s detective agency has become so successful that now all she wants is some R&R. But as soon as she cuts back her hours, Agatha remembers that when she has too much quality time, she doesn’t know what to do with it. So it doesn’t take much for the vicar of a nearby village to persuade her to help publicize the church fête—especially when the fair’s organizer, George Selby, happens to be a gorgeous widower. Problem is: Several of the offerings in the jam-tasting booth turn out to be poisoned…and the festi...
|  | Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (Agatha Christie Mysteries Collection)
Release Date: March 13, 2012| Series: Agatha Christie Mysteries Collection While playing an erratic round of golf, Bobby Jones slices his ball over the edge of a cliff. His ball is lost, but on the rocks below he finds the crumpled body of a dying man. The man opens his eyes and with his last breath says, "Why didn't they ask Evans?" Haunted by those words, Bobby and his vivacious companion, Frankie, set out to solve a mystery that will bring them into mortal danger. . ....
|  | 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.... ...
|  | 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...
|  | 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...
|  | Incident at Badamya
Release Date: February 28, 1990"Gilman keeps you turning the pages."UPIAfter Gen Ferris's missionary father commits suicide in 1950, it is up to her to get out of Burma alone. She has one hundred dollars in her knapsack, a slingshot, a magical Burmese puppet, and the New York City address of an aunt she doesn't know. But Gen is captured by Red Chinese forces and imprisoned with six other lost travelers. She vows to escape, not believing that her destiny lies in captivity, never dreaming of the forces that will finally come to her aid.... ...
|  | The Mind Readers: Albert Campion #18
Publication Date: April 16, 2011| Series: Albert Campion (Book 18) Sam Ferris is an ordinary English schoolboy. Well, except for a few things. One: His father is an eminent scientist, based on a military research island off the English coast. Two: Sam is about to be interviewed by a solicitor, giving evidence, in a serious legal matter, against one of his favorite teachers. And three: Sam can read minds. But there's a four: Sam's uncle is Albert Campion. And Sam's story, in all its seemingly unrelated elements, gives his Uncle Albert quite a lot to be curious about. ...
|  | 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....
|  | With Intent to Deceive (Tommy Hambledon)
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|  | Eleven Pipers Piping: A Father Christmas Mystery (Father Christmas Mysteries)
Release Date: October 30, 2012| Series: Father Christmas Mysteries The welcome return of C. C. Benison’s delectable series featuring Father Tom Christmas—“an irresistible addition to the ranks of clerical sleuths” (Julia Spencer-Fleming) Father Tom Christmas, the recently widowed vicar adjusting to life in the English village of Thornford Regis, would do almost anything to avoid attending the annual Robert Burns Supper at the local hotel. But as chaplain to a traditional Scottish pipe band, Father Tom must deliver the grace—and contend with wailing bagpip...
|  | 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. ...
|  | Hercule Poirot's Greatest Cases - 28 Audio CD's (BBC Dramatization)
Publication Date: November 14, 2007Collected in one fabulous set, Agatha Christie's peerless detective in fourteen of his greatest cases, presented by a full cast! Agatha Christie's greatest sleuth in fourteen of his greatest cases, including Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile, and Evil Under the Sun. Drawn from Christie dramas that originally aired on BBC Radio 4, John Moffatt stars as the unruffled Poirot. The perfect present for any Poirot aficionado! The complete title list: Murder on the Links; The Murder of Roger Ackroyd; The Mystery of the Blue Train; Peril at End House; ...
|  | Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders
Release Date: October 25, 2005The Rumpole renaissance continues to build, and now the beloved barrister’s many followers have a special reason to rejoice: a sensational full-length Rumpole novel that at last relates the oft-mentioned but never revealed story of Rumpole’s first case, the Penge Bungalow affair. Looking back half a century into a very different world, Rumpole recalls a man accused of murdering his father and his father’s friend with a pistol taken from a dead German pilot. It was this trial and its outcome that put Rumpole on the map and shaped him into the ca...
|  | 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...
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