Mystery Books

After losing his wife to cancer, Nicks tries to steadily drink himself to death and discovers it takes longer than he thought but then a mysterious encounter one evening sets his life on a completely unexpected path. Taking over his new desk at the Major Investigation Team, DCI Thurstan Baddeley...

When Osmun Vail came back, at sixty-one, to the Berkshire farm that had been his father’s until the mortgage was foreclosed, he was worth something more than five million dollars. His life-battle had been fought and won. His tired soul yearned unspeakably for the peace and loveliness of the...

In The House of the Arrow we once again meet French Inspector Gabriel Hanaud. Hanaud is a towering figure in the history of genre mystery fiction as he is the obvious inspiration for Hercule Poirot. Hanaud is called in to investigate when the wealthy widow Mrs. Harlowe dies suddenly and her...

A dark green Rolls-Royce limousine slid round the corner of Sydney Place and, proceeding a few hundred yards along the Fulham Road, drew up in front of St. Christopher's Hospital. It had scarcely stopped before the door opened and its solitary occupant—a tall, well-dressed man of about...

“Oh Virg, are we really to arrive at your desert home this morning?” Betsy Clossen exclaimed the first moment that she opened her eyes on the fifth day after their departure from the Vine Haven Boarding School. “Not until nearly noon,” Virginia, who was dressing in the lower berth, smiled...

The House of a Thousand Candles by Meredith Nicholson

World supply of crude oil is upended by a madman, ex-KGB officer nicknamed Vlad the Impailer.

Dick is on the hunt for Kris Amar, the ghoul of Banaras. He tracks him to northern Thailand and hopes to kill him. But it's not that easy.

Disappeared From Her Home: A Novel by Catherine Louisa Pirkis

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.